memeorandum: Ballots that arrive after Election Day are invalid, federal appeals court rules (Politico)

5:35 PM ET, October 26, 2024

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Daughter of L.A. Times Owner Says Endorsement Decision Stemmed From Harris Stance on Gaza War — The decision by the owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, to cancel the paper's planned endorsement of Kamala Harris sent shock waves through the organization. It was not the first time he had gotten involved in newsroom affairs.

Discussion: New York Post, The Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap, American Thinker, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, Times of San Diego, The Guardian, L.A. Times Guild and Los Angeles Times, more at Mediagazer »

Hadas Gold / CNN:

The Washington Post is in deep turmoil as Bezos remains silent on non-endorsement — New York CNN — One day after The Washington Post announced it would not endorse a presidential candidate in this year's election or in the future, its billionaire owner remains silent as the newspaper's staff are in turmoil.

Discussion: The Hill, Daily Mail, The Wrap, Fox News, New York Post, New York Magazine, TalkLeft, Breitbart, The Bulwark, Rolling Stone, Advocate and UPI, more at Mediagazer »

Enough Already:

BREAKING: The Washington Post Has Died — Its stunning refusal to endorse Kamala Harris is the end of the venerable newspaper ... D. Earl Stephens ✍️ — 1,021 — I have been a subscriber of The Washington Post for 26 years. — I devoured it each day while riding …

Discussion: CNN, NPR, Townhall, The Joe Cunningham Show, BizPac Review, RedState, Blue Virginia, The Gateway Pundit, Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, Daily Kos, Breitbart, HotAir, CBS News and Bloomberg, more at Mediagazer »

Washington Post:
Post columnists respond

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Harry Lambert / The Daily Beast:
Top Editors Eviscerate Jeff Bezos' Decision to Kill WaPo Endorsement

Discussion: Filosofa's Word, The Hill, The Bulwark and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »

Dan Froomkin / Salon:
Billionaires have broken media: Washington Post's non-endorsement is a sickening moral collapse

Discussion: RedState, Press Watch, New York Post, The Daily Caller, The Wrap, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, HuffPost, Business Insider, The Hill and Instapundit, more at Mediagazer »

Washington Post:

Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally — Investors in Musk's first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa. — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Long before he became one of Donald Trump's biggest donors …

Discussion: Mother Jones, Raw Story, The Guardian, Forbes and Futurism

Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:

October 2024 National Poll: Trump 49%, Harris 49% — Home Polls October 2024 National Poll: Trump 49%, Harris 49% — A new Emerson College Polling national survey of US likely voters finds both former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris with 49% support in the 2024 presidential election.

Discussion: The Independent, New York Post, Forbes, Washington Examiner, tippinsights, Florida Politics and Bloomberg

Juliann Ventura / The Hill:
Rick Perry: Harris ‘wasting her time’ in Texas, non-battleground states

Discussion: Washington Post, UPI, USA Today, Fox News, Associated Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, BizPac Review and Washington Examiner

Michael Dorgan / Fox News:
Harris' polling in NYC is lowest in decades for Democratic nominee: NYT poll

Discussion: New York Post, acecomments.mu.nu, Silver Bulletin, The Independent, Politico, Washington Times and USA Today

John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Harris Seeks Suburban Swing to Offset Trump Gains

Discussion: Associated Press and Wide World of News

Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Trump's Gains in New York City Offer Clues to a Shifting Electoral Map

Discussion: Mother Jones

The Barbed Wire:

‘I See You, and I Am With You.’ Texas Women Needed That Harris Rally. — The vice president's boisterous, joyous, and emotional Houston event Friday night proved the value of representation. Abortion rights weren't just discussed — they were the whole point. — Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)

Discussion: Alternet.org and Associated Press

Francesca Chambers / USA Today:
Bring in the closer: Michelle Obama lends her popularity to Kamala Harris

Discussion: The Hill, Washington Examiner, New York Times, Associated Press, Daily Mail, The Guardian, Ned Hamson's Second Line View … and MLive.com

Lauren Gambino / The Guardian:
Beyoncé brings star power to Harris rally in Texas with abortion law in the spotlight

ABC News:
Trump to rally in iconic Madison Square Garden

Discussion: USA Today, New York Times, CNN, New York Post, FOX 32 Chicago, New York Daily News, The Hill, New Jersey Online, Fox News and Politico

The Hill:
Watch live: Harris expected to rally with Beyonce in Houston

Lisa Kashinsky / Politico:

5 things a tardy Trump said in Traverse City — Donald Trump was three hours late to his Friday night rally in Traverse City, Michigan. We still watched it. Here's what you missed: Trump apologized for being tardy to his event ... by telling the crowd in this critical battleground state …

Discussion: Michigan Advance, New York Post, The Independent, Alternet.org and Washington Examiner

Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Trump lashes out at Cheney, calls her a ‘Muslim-hating warmonger’

Discussion: Washington Examiner

HuffPost:

Man In MAGA Hat Arrested For Allegedly Punching Election Worker — Officials called the episode “ugly” and urged calm. — LOADING — A man wearing a pro-Trump hat repeatedly punched an elderly election worker in San Antonio, Texas, Thursday evening, according to police …

Discussion: The Hill, Alternet.org, KSAT-TV, lonestarlive.com, Associated Press, Mediaite, Ned Hamson's Second Line View … and The Texas Tribune

ABC News:
Texas man arrested for allegedly punching poll worker who told him to remove political hat

Discussion: UPI and The Independent

KENS:
BCSO: Voter punches poll worker when reminded Texas law requires removal of MAGA hat at election site

Discussion: Raw Story and The Texas Tribune

Brett Samuels / The Hill:

5 takeaways from Trump's 3-hour interview with Joe Rogan — Former President Trump sat with Joe Rogan Friday for a three-hour interview, marking the GOP nominee's debut on one of the most popular podcasts in the country. — The two men appeared to show a mutual admiration for one another …

Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:

Obeying in advance — Greetings from Oklahoma. Here are a few thoughts from here on video about the decisions of the owners of the Washington Post and the LA Times to suppress their editorial boards' decisions to endorse Kamala Harris. — A problem with the very wealthy is that, alas …

Politico:

Ballots that arrive after Election Day are invalid, federal appeals court rules — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that votes in federal elections must be received by state officials by the time polls close, striking down a Mississippi law that allowed ballots to arrive after Election Day.

Discussion: HotAir, Slate, NPR, CNN, Mississippi Today, NBC News, USA Today, Washington Times, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story, Washington Examiner, Associated Press, Bloomberg, New York Times, Washington Post and The Hill

Lulu Garcia-Navarro / New York Times:

John Fetterman Fears Trump Is Stronger Than Ever — Philip Montgomery for The New York Times — Whatever the result of this election, Democrats will be in a moment of transformation afterward. For nearly a decade, the party's energies have been devoted to defeating Donald Trump.

Discussion: RedState, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, Fox News and Althouse

Sebastian Murdock / HuffPost:

Trump Praises Chinese President For Controlling Citizens ‘With An Iron Fist’ — In an interview with Joe Rogan, Donald Trump praised Chinese President Xi Jinping as “a brilliant guy.” — LOADING — Former President Donald Trump heaped praise on authoritarian Chinese President Xi Jinping during …

Discussion: Breitbart, RedState, The Federalist and Washington Examiner

Li Zhou / Vox:

The massive gender gap in the election, in 2 charts — Women could deliver this election for Vice President Kamala Harris. … A massive gender gap has been evident in poll after poll of this election — a significant trend that underscores the pivotal role women could play this November.

Discussion: USA Today

Hanna Trudo / The Hill:

RFK Jr.'s presence on Michigan, Wisconsin ballots raises concerns for Trump — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presence on the ballot in the swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin is raising concerns that he could inadvertently draw crucial votes from former President Trump.

Discussion: Daily Caller News Foundation, Michigan Advance, Michigan News Source, Washington Times, Washington Examiner and USA Today

John F. Harris / Politico:

Ben Bradlee's Posthumous Advice to Jeff Bezos: You Need to Sell The Washington Post. — A spiked editorial puts the owner's conflicts in a sharp light. And the uproars are only going to keep coming. — In the summer of 2013, the then-owner of POLITICO, Robert Allbritton …

Discussion: AMERICAN HERITAGE, Raw Story and Ned Hamson's Second Line View …

Brandi Buchman / HuffPost:

Mike Johnson Can't Stop The House From Certifying The Election — But He Can Try — The conditions of the 2024 electoral certification don't hinge on Mike Johnson, but if Republicans take the House, he will be a formidable ally to Donald Trump. — When he was slinging french fries …

Discussion: The Dispatch

New York Times:

The Only Patriotic Choice for President — It is hard to imagine a candidate more unworthy to serve as president of the United States than Donald Trump. He has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the nation above self-interest.