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Alex Thompson / Axios:
MAGA speakers unleash ugly rhetoric at Trump's MSG rally … - The remarks at Trump's rally undermine his campaign's effort to soften the former president's image among voters who may like his policies but dislike his divisive and race-baiting rhetoric.
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Raw Story, The Guardian, Daily Mail, NBC New York and USA Today
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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 …
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New York Post, New Jersey Online, 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.”
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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 …
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Rolling Stone, Billboard, NewsNation and DNyuz
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 …
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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.
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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.
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Twitchy and RedState, more at Mediagazer »
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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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.
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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.
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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
Dems' Closing Pitch to Young Men: Stop Being Fascist Oppressors and Vote Kamala
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Instapundit
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 …
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Power Line and Althouse
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.
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The Guardian and DNyuz
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Aaron Pellish / CNN:
Harris makes final push to close gap with male voters
Harris makes final push to close gap with male voters
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freebeacon.com
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.
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.
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Raw Story
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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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 …
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Wall Street Journal
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.
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 …
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.
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Balloon Juice, The Daily Beast, Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit, The Guardian, Bloomberg and CNBC
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Amid Talk of Fascism, Trump's Threats and Language Evoke a Grim Past … Former President Donald J. Trump at a rally in Las Vegas on Thursday.Kenny Holston/The New York Times — When former President Donald J. Trump's longest serving chief of staff said the other day that his old boss …
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 …
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