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6:45 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 …
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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.”
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 …
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.
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.
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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
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.
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.
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.
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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 …
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Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
Bezos faces criticism after executives met with Trump on day of Post's non-endorsement
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
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Aaron Pellish / CNN:   Harris makes final push to close gap with male voters
Associated Press:
Harris calls on the US ‘to turn the page on hatred and division’ as she crisscrosses Philadelphia
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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Laura Thornton / The Hill:   How US election deniers have eroded trust in elections everywhere
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.
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 …
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
Dustin Gardiner / Politico:
Will Rollins was written off in 2022.  Now, he could help deliver a Democratic majority.  —  Democratic groups are pouring millions into his rematch against Republican Rep. Ken Calvert in the Palm Springs-area district.  —  PALM SPRINGS, California — The last time Will Rollins took …
Discussion: The Hill
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 …
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Associated Press:
‘Take our lives seriously,’ Michelle Obama pleads as she rallies for Kamala Harris in Michigan
NBC News:
Bernie Sanders to voters skipping presidential election over Israel: ‘Trump is even worse’
Discussion: The Hill
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Harris campaigns in Philadelphia neighborhoods
Discussion: NBC News
New York Times:
Pro-Harris Super PAC Raises Concerns About Focusing on Trump and Fascism
Discussion: RedState
Trudy Rubin / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Trump says only he will ‘prevent World War III,’ but his record suggests the opposite
Discussion: Twitchy and Axios
Kate Brumback / Associated Press:
Georgia prosecutor who brought election case against Trump faces rare Republican challenger
Juan Perez Jr / Politico:
Nebraska is in the national spotlight. An obscure education fight could tilt the election results.
Discussion: Iowa Starting Line
 Earlier Items: 
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
To understand the U.S. economic success is to love Harris's plan
Discussion: Baltimore Sun
Alexander C. Kaufman / HuffPost:
Florida Democrat Blasts Republican Sen. Rick Scott Over State's Home Insurance Crisis
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
October 26, 2024  —  Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets …
Donna Ladd / Mississippi Free Press:
Democracy | As Fascism Looms, the Free Press Must Stand and Report in the Breach
Molly Ball / Wall Street Journal:
America Is Having a Panic Attack Over the Election
Discussion: Election Law Blog
 

 
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