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Libby Cathey / CBS News:
DNC projects message tying Trump to Hitler on Madison Square Garden during rally — The Democratic National Committee is projecting digital messages on Madison Square Garden's exterior during former President Donald Trump's campaign rally on Sunday about recent reports that he once praised Adolf Hitler …
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump's New York homecoming sparks backlash over racist and vulgar remarks — A pro-Trump comedian's racist diatribe drew widespread condemnation. — NEW YORK — Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden, billed as a triumphant homecoming, instead turned into a political fiasco …
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Erica L. Green / New York Times:
A Trump Rally Speaker Trashed Puerto Ricans. Harris Reached Out to Them. — Her campaign moved swiftly to highlight that even as a speaker at Donald Trump's rally in New York made offensive remarks about Puerto Rico and Latinos, she was visiting Puerto Rican voters in Philadelphia.
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Sabrina Rodriguez / Washington Post:
Anti-Puerto Rico comments at Trump rally spur outrage as Bad Bunny supports Harris — The artist's gesture of support came as a number of speakers at a Trump event in New York made racist and disparaging comments about Puerto Ricans and other Latinos. — Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican recording artist …
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New York Times:
Trump at the Garden: A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism — The inflammatory rally was a capstone for an increasingly aggrieved campaign for Donald Trump, whose rhetoric has grown darker and more menacing. — Donald J. Trump's closing rally at Madison Square Garden …
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David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump's Racist NYC Rally Was Vile. It Was Also Political Suicide — FINAL ACT — The Madison Square Garden rally, operatic in its repulsive bigotry, will almost certainly alienate more voters who might have voted for Trump. — OPINION — To all those Republicans …
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Trump Campaign Scrambles to Disavow Racist MSG Rally Joke — The line about Puerto Rico is the only one Trump's campaign is trying to distance itself from. — DNC Trolls Trump With a Projector During His MSG Rally — ‘TRUMP PRAISED HITLER’ — Slogans plastered on the exterior …
Alex Thompson / Axios:
MAGA speakers unleash ugly rhetoric at Trump's MSG rally
MAGA speakers unleash ugly rhetoric at Trump's MSG rally
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Alec Hernández / NBC News:
As Trump courts their vote, comedian at his rally makes racist jokes about Latinos and Puerto Rico
As Trump courts their vote, comedian at his rally makes racist jokes about Latinos and Puerto Rico
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Bad Bunny shares Kamala Harris's video on Puerto Rico on Instagram
Bad Bunny shares Kamala Harris's video on Puerto Rico on Instagram
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump's Madison Square Garden rally overshadowed by his allies' crude and racist remarks
Trump's Madison Square Garden rally overshadowed by his allies' crude and racist remarks
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The Guardian:
Puerto Rican stars Bad Bunny and Ricky Martin back Kamala Harris after racist comments at Trump rally
Puerto Rican stars Bad Bunny and Ricky Martin back Kamala Harris after racist comments at Trump rally
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Alex Galbraith / Salon:
Trump-supporting comedian opens MSG rally by calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage”
Trump-supporting comedian opens MSG rally by calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage”
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Speaker at Trump rally compares Puerto Rico to ‘island of garbage’
Speaker at Trump rally compares Puerto Rico to ‘island of garbage’
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Speakers at Trump MSG rally insult Dems, minorities
Speakers at Trump MSG rally insult Dems, minorities
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John L. Dorman / Business Insider:
2 new polls show Harris leading Trump as the election nears. Women continue to propel the VP's candidacy. — Kamala Harris' strength with female voters is fueling her overall leads in two new national polls. — A CBS News poll showed Harris up by one point, while an ABC News poll had her ahead by four points.
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Rebecca Morin / USA Today:
Harris, Trump locked in dead heat in battleground Wisconsin, new exclusive poll says — Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are locked in a dead heat in the battleground state of Wisconsin, according to an exclusive new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll.
ProPublica:
“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader's Plans for a New Trump Agenda — Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought's “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants. — Co-published with Documented — Reporting Highlights
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Washington Post:
Some billionaires, CEOs hedge bets as Trump vows retribution — With the race tight, some business elites are toning down past criticism of the former president. — At a five-star resort in California last week, Wall Street executives, fast-food CEOs, a few dozen other industry titans …
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New York Times
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
Extremists inspired by conspiracy theories pose major threat to 2024 elections, U.S. intelligence warns — Candidates, elected officials, election workers, members of the media and judges involved in election cases are among those U.S. intelligence officials identified as targets.
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Billionaire media bootlickers obey in advance — The owners of the LA Times and Washington Post give the finger to their readers and democracy. … 🗞️ Subscribe to Public Notice 🗞️ — Both the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post are refusing …
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
The right is projecting irrational confidence about a Trump win. That could aid an effort to steal the election. — RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM JANE LEE & HELENA HIND — Right-wing media figures are displaying irrational levels of confidence in Donald Trump's chances of winning the presidential election.
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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The billionaire-media complex — Jeff Bezos is the second-richest person in the world, with a net worth of approximately $211 billion. Most of Bezos' wealth is derived from his 9% stake in Amazon, the company he founded. Bezos also founded and owns Blue Origin, a private space exploration company worth billions.
Adam Wren / Politico:
Trump ad depicts country ‘gone to hell’ — during Trump's presidency — Donald Trump's two-minute ad that aired during Sunday's Philadelphia Eagles game and said the country had “gone to hell” during the Biden and Harris administration featured an image from a protest during Trump's presidency, not Biden's.
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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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Wall Street Journal:
How a Splintered Left Is Preparing for a Possible Trump Victory — After the former president's 2016 victory, they marched. Now, Democrats wrestle with how to mount an uprising—and whether to even do so. — By now America is well versed in the predictions of the political right's potential response …