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11:15 AM ET, October 27, 2024

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Jack Queen / Reuters:
Republican battleground-state legal blitz falters ahead of election  —  Donald Trump's Republican allies have suffered a string of courtroom setbacks in battleground U.S. presidential election states as Election Day draws closer, losses which could boost voter turnout and speed certification of the eventual winner.
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Aysha Bagchi / USA Today:
Trump-aligned group is already planning lawsuits over election results  —  A Trump-aligned group that has filed lawsuits in several swing states challenging voter registration lists is already planning to sue over this year's election results, one of the group's founders told USA TODAY.
Discussion: Raw Story
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Why Is Trump Holding a Rally at Madison Square Garden?  —  New York is not exactly a battleground state.  Here are five reasons Donald J. Trump is holding a rally there in the final days of the presidential campaign.  —  When former President Donald J. Trump decided to take a day off …
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New York Times:
Donald Trump Will Never Be Done With New York  —  Sunday's rally at Madison Square Garden, the self-styled “world's most famous arena,” is a remarkable gambit, even by the former president's standards — and a show of force.  —  The seven-decade marriage between Donald J. Trump and New York City …
Discussion: CNN
Lily Mae Lazarus / The Daily Beast:
Ex-WaPo Editor: This Is a Straight Bezos-Trump ‘Quid Pro Quo’  —  DIRTY DEAL  —  Robert Kagan tells the Daily Beast that Donald Trump's meeting with Blue Origin executives the day its founder Jeff Bezos killed his paper's Kamala Harris endorsement is proof of a backroom deal.  —  EXCLUSIVE
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John F. Harris / Politico:
Ben Bradlee's Posthumous Advice to Jeff Bezos: You Need to Sell The Washington Post.
Discussion: AMERICAN HERITAGE
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Harris regains slight lead nationally yet Electoral College holds the cards: POLL  —  Harris has regained a slight lead with likely voters nationally, the poll finds.  —  Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at James R. Hallford Stadium, Oct. 24, 2024, in Clarkston, Ga.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Forbes
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
October 26, 2024  —  Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II.  Titled Army Talks, the series was designed “to help [the personnel] become better-informed men and women and therefore better soldiers.”
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president  —  Isn't this what a newspaper is supposed to do?  —  The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election.  (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder …
Alex Lang / The Independent:
A growing number of Americans are concerned with Trump's age, but still not as many who worried about Biden  —  Voters did not have the same concerns about age for Kamala Harris  —  Your support helps us to tell the story  —  This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls.
Discussion: PJ Media, The Hill and New York Times
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Trust, Bewilderment and Billionairedom: Understanding the Backlash Against Bezos  —  It's part of the stock in trade of liberal American discourse: threatening or claiming to cancel a subscription to this or that once-revered journalistic institution in response to bad behavior, bad reporting …
Natalia Contreras / Alternet.org:
Texas poll worker assaulted during early voting  —  An election clerk in San Antonio was allegedly assaulted late Thursday and the suspect, a voter, was arrested, officials said.  —  The suspect was arrested on suspicion of injury to an elderly person, a felony.
Discussion: The Hill, Associated Press and Mediaite
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Adam Wren / Politico:
Who won the day?  Harris  —  For at least a couple hours Friday, Kamala Harris assembled a rally star-studded enough to drown out the growing chorus of doubters in her own party.  Those in the crowd wore light-up bracelets flashing red, white and blue, and the screens above the stage read …
Discussion: Twitchy and Breitbart
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Donna Ladd / Mississippi Free Press:
Democracy |  As Fascism Looms, the Free Press Must Stand and Report in the Breach  — Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)  —  It was a cool, dark night in Berlin on May 10, 1933, as a mob of white Nazi college students pulled thousands of “subversive” …
Molly Ball / Wall Street Journal:
America Is Having a Panic Attack Over the Election  —  Voters see permanent damage to the country if their candidate loses; ‘There are not enough gummies I can take to soothe the angst!’  —  CLARKSTON, Ga.—The sun was shining.  Bruce Springsteen was strumming an acoustic guitar.
Jill Twiss / The Daily Beast:
I'm Voting Harris Not Because She Deserves it But Because I Do  —  WE DESERVE BETTER  —  I deserve many of the things that Kamala Harris is proposing and we all deserve a break from Donald Trump.  —  OPINION  —  I'm not voting for Kamala Harris because she deserves it.  Nobody deserves to be president.
Discussion: Breitbart
Michael Gold / New York Times:
Trump, Who Once Proposed a Muslim Registry, Now Courts Their Votes  —  The former president is reaching out to Muslim and Arab American voters in Michigan, a key battleground state.  —  When he ran for president eight years ago, Donald J. Trump floated the idea of creating a national registry …
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Adam Wren / Politico:
‘Frankenstein coalition’: Can Trump win Barstool and Bible-study Republicans?
Discussion: Raw Story
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Tim Walz and AOC are going to play Madden together on Twitch
Discussion: The Guardian and The Hill
Steven Rosenfeld / Alternet.org:
Leading civil rights lawyer shows 20 ways Trump is copying Hitler's early rhetoric and policies
Associated Press:
Foreign threats to the US election are on the rise, and officials are moving faster to expose them
Discussion: Salon and USA Today
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Timothy Snyder / Thinking about:
Obeying in advance  —  Greetings from Oklahoma.  Here are a few thoughts from here on video …
New York Times:
Daughter of L.A. Times Owner Says Endorsement Decision Stemmed From Harris Stance on Gaza War
 

 
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

New York Times:
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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