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7:10 PM ET, October 27, 2024

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Brett Samuels / The Hill:

Speaker at Trump rally compares Puerto Rico to ‘island of garbage’ — A speaker at former President Trump's Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday spent a portion of his time attacking Puerto Rico, drawing backlash from Democrats and the Harris campaign. — Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe …

Discussion: Breitbart, Mediaite and UPI

Lauren Irwin / The Hill:

Hochul says Trump's Madison Square Garden rally is a ‘white flag of surrender’ — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said she thinks the Madison Square Garden rally former President Trump is hosting Sunday is a “white flag of surrender.” — “I think he's waving the white flag of surrender,” Hochul said Sunday on MSNBC's “The Weekend.”

Discussion: Fox News, Washington Examiner, USA Today, The Gateway Pundit, NewsNation, RedState, NPR, Raw Story, Los Angeles Times, DNyuz, Associated Press and Breitbart

Tara Suter / The Hill:

Bad Bunny shares Kamala Harris's video on Puerto Rico on Instagram — Puerto Rican rapper and superstar Bad Bunny posted a video from Vice President Harris on his Instagram story Sunday. — In the video, Harris talks to Puerto Ricans, saying that “this election is not just a choice between Donald Trump …

Discussion: Billboard and NewsNation

Alec Hernández / NBC News:

As Trump courts their vote, comedian at his rally makes racist jokes about Latinos and Puerto Rico — Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made crude jokes about Latinos having babies and called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” — As former President Donald Trump courts the community's vote …

Discussion: HuffPost, Rolling Stone, Salon, Scripps News, TMZ.com, Associated Press, Deadline, DNyuz, Consequence, Mediaite and PoliticusUSA

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, RedState, Bloomberg, DNyuz, USA Today, No More Mister Nice Blog and Semafor

Alex Thompson / Axios:
MAGA speakers unleash ugly rhetoric at Trump's MSG rally

Discussion: Raw Story, The Guardian, Daily Mail, NBC New York and USA Today

emptywheel:

The Media Started Capitulating to Trump with Russia Russia Russia — I took a few days to go wander around Paris. — In the meantime (as Nicole and I discussed on Friday), the WaPo has subjugated itself to Donald Trump by spiking an endorsement of Kamala Harris.

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

Discussion: The Bulwark, Breitbart, Politico, Alternet.org, New York Post, Crooks and Liars, Townhall, The Wrap, HuffPost, Scripting News and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »

MSNBC:

‘Betrayal’: Marty Baron, former Washington Post editor, slams paper's non-endorsement — Jeff Bezos' decision to block the Washington Post's presidential endorsement has been met with a lot of strong reactions - including from the paper's own journalists and its legendary former Executive Editor Marty Baron.

Discussion: Twitchy and RedState, more at Mediagazer »

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: Business Insider, USA Today, Daily Caller News Foundation, Bloomberg, The Independent, Washington Examiner and Forbes

CBS News:

CBS News Harris-Trump poll has closer look inside gender gap as Trump, Harris draw even — Amid an election-defining gender gap that is now tied for the largest this year, the already close presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump has become closer still.

Discussion: New York Post, The Hill, RedState, Newsbusters and New York Times

Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Dems' Closing Pitch to Young Men: Stop Being Fascist Oppressors and Vote Kamala

Discussion: Instapundit

Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:

Billionaire cowards at Washington Post, L.A. Times show what life under a dictator is really like — Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked.

more at Mediagazer »

David French / New York Times:

Four Lessons From Nine Years of Being ‘Never Trump’ — I've been wrong about many things, but here are two of the bigger whiffs of my professional life. — I thought Donald Trump wouldn't find any meaningful support in the Republican Party. I watched his strange campaign announcement …

Discussion: Power Line and Althouse

New York Times:

Inside The Washington Post's Decision to Stop Presidential Endorsements — Post owner Jeff Bezos ended the decades-long practice, weeks after a discussion at a meeting in Miami. The move has drawn criticism in and outside the newsroom. — A tropical storm was heading toward Florida's Gulf Coast …

Discussion: New Yorker, Vanity Fair and The Daily Beast, more at Mediagazer »

Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
Bezos faces criticism after executives met with Trump on day of Post's non-endorsement

Discussion: OutsideTheBeltway, Washington Post, The Wrap, Mediaite, DCReport.org, Power Line, Salon, New York Post, Filosofa's Word and JONATHAN TURLEY, more at Mediagazer »

CNN:

More than 1,000 faith leaders endorse Harris as vice president leans on her faith to turn out Black voters — More than a thousand religious leaders endorsed Kamala Harris on Sunday, bolstering the Democratic presidential nominee's push to emphasize how faith is informing her campaign ahead of next week's election.

Discussion: The Guardian and DNyuz

Aaron Pellish / CNN:
Harris makes final push to close gap with male voters

Discussion: freebeacon.com

Associated Press:
Harris calls on the US ‘to turn the page on hatred and division’ as she crisscrosses Philadelphia

Discussion: Fox News, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Daily Mail, Washington Post, RedState, CBS News, WHDH-TV, Florida Politics, NBC News and Washington Times

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.

Laura Thornton / The Hill: How US election deniers have eroded trust in elections everywhere

New York Times:
Voters Are Deeply Skeptical About the Health of American Democracy

Discussion: The Hill and The Independent

Aysha Bagchi / USA Today:
Trump-aligned group is already planning lawsuits over election results

Discussion: Raw Story

New York Times:

Advisers Propose That Trump Give Security Clearances Without F.B.I. Vetting — A memo circulating in Donald Trump's orbit says that if elected he should use private firms to check appointees' backgrounds and give them immediate access to classified secrets after taking office.

Discussion: Raw Story

Molly White / Citation Needed:

I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent” — Listen to a voiceover of this post, subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later. — When a major legacy news publication does something controversial, I sometimes hear my name.

Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:

‘Yes, I was in a cult’: J6 rioter backing Harris after admitting being ‘all in with MAGA’ — As part of interviews with three Donald Trump supporters who headed off to Washington, D.C. to attend the post-election “Stop the Steal” rally, one woman called it the biggest mistake of her life …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal

David A. Graham / The Atlantic:

Donald Trump's Dogwhistles Are Unmistakable — When someone attacks the messenger rather than the message, they're usually revealing something. — Friday night in Austin, Texas, the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, fiercely criticized The Atlantic's editor in chief …

Associated Press:

Biden calls out Musk over a published report that the Tesla CEO once worked in the US illegally — President Joe Biden slammed Elon Musk for hypocrisy on immigration after a published report that the Tesla CEO once worked illegally in the United States. The South Africa-born Musk denies the allegation.

Discussion: Balloon Juice, The Daily Beast, Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit, The Guardian, Bloomberg and CNBC

Alex Thompson / Axios:

Harris keeps Biden at a distance in the final stretch … - It's the latest example of Democrats, and even some of Biden's staff, tiptoeing around the 81-year-old president's ego and feelings. — One person familiar with the situation compared it to a slow-moving break-up …