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3:50 AM ET, October 28, 2024

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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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.”
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump's Madison Square Garden rally overshadowed by his allies' crude and racist remarks
Discussion: Public, Associated Press and Raw Story
New York Times:   Trump at the Garden: A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Walz compares Trump's Madison Square Garden rally to 1939 pro-Nazi event
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.
Discussion: Silver Bulletin
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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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Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Billionaire cowards at Washington Post, L.A. Times show what life under a dictator is really like
Michael Sainato / The Guardian:
Bezos faces criticism after executives met with Trump on day of Post's non-endorsement
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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Aaron Pellish / CNN:
Harris makes final push to close gap with male voters
Discussion: freebeacon.com and Semafor
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:
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
Gene Weingarten / The Gene Pool:
Courage & Cowardice  —  Hello.  —  I once met Katharine Graham at an intimate dinner party with five or six other people in her Georgetown mansion.  It was early 1992 and the presidential primary season was just beginning.  On the Democratic side, the field was still wide open; there were no obvious front-runners.
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
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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NBC News:
Bernie Sanders to voters skipping presidential election over Israel: ‘Trump is even worse’
Discussion: The Hill
New York Times:
Pro-Harris Super PAC Raises Concerns About Focusing on Trump and Fascism
Discussion: RedState
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Donald Trump's Dogwhistles Are Unmistakable
Trudy Rubin / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Trump says only he will ‘prevent World War III,’ but his record suggests the opposite
Discussion: Twitchy
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
‘Yes, I was in a cult’: J6 rioter backing Harris after admitting being ‘all in with MAGA’
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Amid Talk of Fascism, Trump's Threats and Language Evoke a Grim Past
Discussion: Boston Herald
 Earlier Items: 
Dustin Gardiner / Politico:
Will Rollins was written off in 2022. Now, he could help deliver a Democratic majority.
Discussion: NewsNation
Kate Brumback / Associated Press:
Georgia prosecutor who brought election case against Trump faces rare Republican challenger
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
To understand the U.S. economic success is to love Harris's plan
Discussion: Baltimore Sun
Molly White / Citation Needed:
I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent”
Alexander C. Kaufman / HuffPost:
Florida Democrat Blasts Republican Sen. Rick Scott Over State's Home Insurance Crisis
Donna Ladd / Mississippi Free Press:
Democracy | As Fascism Looms, the Free Press Must Stand and Report in the Breach
 

 
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