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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
13 former Trump administration officials sign open letter backing up John Kelly's criticism of Trump — Kelly told the New York Times that Trump meets the definition of a fascist and also said he observed the former president on multiple occasions praising Adolf Hitler.
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Ex-Trump aides emerge to back Kelly's harsh warnings — The letter from former White House officials comes as Harris is leaning into her closing argument that Trump is a threat to democracy. — More than a dozen former Trump administration officials on Friday came out in support of former chief …
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Dems fear they're blowing it … Trump and allied committees raised about half Harris' total, $92 million, from Oct. 1 to 16, the N.Y. Times reports this morning (gift link). — And this is after Trump's cringy 40-minute onstage sway to '80s music, his threats to target …
Mia McCarthy / Politico:
Vance: “Everything that John Kelly said is not true.”
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Don't Blame Kamala — At a rally in Michigan last night, JD Vance waved off John Kelly's warnings …
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Only Guardrail Left Is Us
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ABC News:
Trump denies making positive comments about Hitler
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ABC News:
Half of Americans see Donald Trump as a fascist: POLL
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Peter Navarro / Blaze Media:
Trump's four-star bully chief of staff John Kelly was a traitor within
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
‘Washingon Post’ won't endorse in White House race for first time since 1980s — Even though the presidential race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris remains neck and neck, The Washington Post editorial page has decided not to make a presidential endorsement …
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William Lewis / Washington Post:
On political endorsement — A note from the publisher: — William Lewis is publisher and chief executive officer of The Washington Post. — The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election.
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
‘Washington Post’ won't endorse in White House race for first time since 1980s — Even though the presidential race between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris is neck and neck, The Washington Post has decided not to make a presidential endorsement for the first time in 36 years …
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Parker Molloy / The Present Age:
Playing It Safe Is Risking Democracy: Media's Silent Endorsement of Authoritarianism — I woke up this morning thinking about authoritarianism. — In his 2017 book On Tyranny, historian Timothy Snyder introduced the concept of “anticipatory obedience,” warning that “most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given.”
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Oliver Darcy / Status:
Turbulence at the Times — Amid the current upheaval, the Los Angeles Times has notably refrained from publishing any coverage of the chaos enveloping its own newsroom … One day after opinion boss Mariel Garza resigned in protest of Soon-Shiong blocking the outlet's editorial board …
Hannah Miller / Bloomberg:
Washington Post Will No Longer Endorse Presidential Candidates
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Wall Street Journal:
Elon Musk's Secret Conversations With Vladimir Putin — Regular contacts between world's richest man and America's chief antagonist raise security concerns; topics include geopolitics, business and personal matters — Elon Musk, the world's richest man and a linchpin of U.S. space efforts …
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Diego Mendoza / Semafor:
Exclusive: NASA head says report of Elon Musk talking to Putin should be investigated — The News — NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told Semafor's Burgess Everett Friday that a Wall Street Journal report about calls between SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Russian President Vladimir Putin “should be investigated.”
Peter Jukes / Byline Times:
X - Marks the Spot: Russia's Second Front
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Atlantic Council and New York Times
New York Times:
Harris and Trump Deadlocked to the End, Final Times/Siena National Poll Finds — The electorate has rarely seemed so evenly divided. The latest New York Times/Siena College poll found Harris and Trump tied 48 to 48. — Kamala Harris and Donald J. Trump are locked in a dead heat for the popular vote …
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Harvard University:
Harvard Youth Poll — Introduction — Young Americans strongly favor Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race, but their decision to cast a ballot may depend more on their friends than their politics, according to a new Harvard Youth Poll released today by the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Could Trump Win the Popular Vote but Lose the Electoral College?
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Freedom Caucus leader says North Carolina should consider giving Trump its electors before votes are counted — Rep. Andy Harris said the damage caused by Hurricane Helene in pro-Trump counties would justify the extraordinary maneuver. — The chair of the conservative House Freedom Caucus …
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
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Jessica Glenza / The Guardian:
Stacey Williams says Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein ‘coordinated’ groping incident — Former model said of incident at Trump Tower in 1993: ‘I was rolled in there like a piece of meat in some kind of twisted game’ — The former model Stacey Williams said she thought Donald Trump groped …
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
“Daddy's home”: Tucker Carlson's bizarre troll distills Trump's false promise to male voters
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Raw Story
CNBC:
Judge blocks Virginia from purging voter rolls of alleged noncitizens … A federal judge on Friday blocked Virginia from purging its voter rolls of alleged noncitizens and ordered the state to reinstate more than 1,600 people who had already been bounced from those voter lists.
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Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
‘Big lie’ 2.0: How Trump's false claims about noncitizens voting laid the groundwork to undermine the election
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Denver Post, The 19th, Iowa Capital Dispatch and Issue One
New York Times:
New ‘RBG PAC’ Spending $19 Million From Secret Donors to Aid Trump on Abortion — A new Republican super PAC is running ads invoking the name of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to help Donald Trump win over voters who favor abortion rights. — A new Republican super PAC is invoking the name …
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Bryan Metzger / Business Insider:
Elon Musk has spent more than $130 million on Trump and the GOP this year
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Politico, Forbes, Bloomberg, CNN and New York Times
New York Post:
The Post endorses Donald Trump for president — the clear choice for a better future — Voters carry a heavy responsibility in this election — one of the most consequential in the history of this great nation. — The choice will have reverberations for decades, deciding …
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HuffPost, The Hill, RedState, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Kamala Harris for president | Endorsement — Voters face an easy but tectonic choice in the race for the White House.Will they choose the first woman or the oldest man to be the next president? Will they choose the prosecutor or the convict? Will they choose the candidate …
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The Hill
Juliann Ventura / The Hill:
30M early votes cast ahead of Election Day — More than 30 million early votes have been cast so far in the general election, according to the University of Florida's Election Lab. — Nearly 15 million of those ballots were cast in person, data from the lab showed.
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Progressives warn Harris must change her closing message as the election looms — Progressive Democrats warn Kamala Harris risks losing the support of a small but significant portion of her political base unless she changes her campaign's closing message — and its messengers — immediately.
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