memeorandum: Harris keeps Biden at a distance in the final stretch (Alex Thompson/Axios)

8:25 PM ET, October 27, 2024

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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 …

Discussion: Billboard, Rolling Stone 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, Axios, Washington Post, Scripps News, Associated Press, TMZ.com, Mediaite, DNyuz, Deadline, Consequence and PoliticusUSA

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.

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

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

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: USA Today, New York Post, New Jersey Online, WAVY.com, Breitbart, Mediaite and UPI

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 or disparaging comments about Puerto Ricans and other Latinos. — Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican recording artist …

Discussion: Reuters, Associated Press and DNyuz

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 …

Discussion: RedState, Raw Story, Associated Press, Breitbart, The Independent, The Gateway Pundit and New York Post

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.

Discussion: Twitchy and RedState, more at Mediagazer »

Lily Mae Lazarus / The Daily Beast:
Ex-WaPo Editor: This Is a Straight Bezos-Trump ‘Quid Pro Quo’

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

New York Times:
Inside The Washington Post's Decision to Stop Presidential Endorsements

Discussion: Vanity Fair, New Yorker 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: Washington Post, OutsideTheBeltway, The Wrap, Mediaite, DCReport.org, New York Post, Power Line, Salon, Filosofa's Word and JONATHAN TURLEY, 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, Daily Caller News Foundation, Bloomberg, USA Today, The Independent, Washington Examiner and Forbes

CBS News:
CBS News Harris-Trump poll has closer look inside gender gap as Trump, Harris draw even

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

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

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: Power Line and Althouse

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.

Discussion: 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.

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

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

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

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.

Emily Goodin / Daily Mail:

Melania Trump stuns Madison Square Garden with her first rally appearance ever to introduce husband Donald — Elon Musk announced the former first lady, who was not on the list of speakers — Appearance came as Trump and Harris are running even in the polls

Discussion: CBS News, The Hill, One America News Network and The Independent

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 …

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 …