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10:35 AM ET, October 31, 2024

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CNN:
‘January 6th is going to be pretty fun’: How MAGA activists are preparing to undermine the election if Trump loses  —  Before Election Day has even arrived, the “Stop the Steal” movement has reemerged in force, with some of the same activists who tried to overturn former President Donald …
Discussion: Raw Story and NCSBE
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Democrats start to point fingers even as they hope for Harris win  —  Vice President Harris could win the presidential election next week.  But fingers in Democratic circles are already being pointed behind the scenes, in the event that she falls to former President Trump.
Discussion: Breitbart, ABC News, Althouse and Townhall
The Hill:
Democrats' commitment to the democracy message could cost them the election  —  Since January, Democrats have sounded the alarm that the number one issue at stake in the 2024 election is the preservation of American democracy.  —  Last week Biden told supporters that Trump is …
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Trump Insists He Has Big Lead Over Harris, Setting Stage for 2024 Doubts  — Trump, allies spin up alternate reality of a sizable lead  — Expectations to stoke anger if Harris wins coin-flip election  —  Donald Trump and his allies are telling supporters that they're on pace …
Discussion: New York Times, Rolling Stone and Axios
Washington Post:
Michigan voters near evenly split between Harris and Trump, Post poll finds
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden's ‘Garbage’ Comment Complicates Harris Campaign, Worrying Insiders
Nick Arama / RedState:
HOT TAKES: Reactions to Trump's Garbage Truck Troll Are Terrific, As Dems Cope and Seethe
NBC News:
In Wisconsin, Trump courts ‘garbage’ outrage while Harris courts students
Associated Press:
Ping! Harris and Trump are blowing up your phones with political texts in campaign's last days
Discussion: Daily Journal
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Swing State Newspaper Slams Trump: ‘Crippled Cognitively’ With ‘Clear Signs Of Mental Illness’
Discussion: Raw Story and Townhall
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Biden ‘Garbage’ Remark Causes Big Stink: Latest Responses
Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone:
Billionaire Trump Awkwardly Dresses Up as a Garbage Truck Driver
Jake Lahut / Wired:
Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk's Get-Out-the-Vote Effort  —  America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they'd have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas.  One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump.
The Hill:
Elon Musk seeks to move $1M swing state voter giveaway case to federal court  —  Elon Musk is attempting to move to federal court a lawsuit challenging his $1 million daily giveaways to registered voters in swing and battleground states, throwing into question a scheduled Thursday hearing in Pennsylvania that Musk is required to attend.
Discussion: Axios, Reuters, CBS News and Forbes
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Elon Musk ordered to attend $1 million voter lottery suit hearing in Philadelphia court … Elon Musk must attend an emergency court hearing in Philadelphia on Thursday morning to address a bid by the city's top prosecutor to stop the Tesla CEO and his political action committee from continuing …
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Elon Musk seeks to move $1 million voter lottery lawsuit to federal court … Elon Musk and his political action committee are seeking to move the Philadelphia District Attorney's lawsuit targeting their $1 million swing state voter lottery to federal court.
Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
Trump: My Own Staff Beg Me to Stop ‘Inappropriate’ Talk About Women  —  ‘SIR, PLEASE’  —  Trump admitted his own team told him to cut back on the strange remarks about women and then boasted that he doesn't care.  —  Former president Donald Trump trumpeted once again Wednesday his unexplained plans to …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
‘Like it or not’: In one quote, Trump distills the 2024 gender gap  —  The former president's comment at a Wisconsin rally was a pithy encapsulation of the concerns that are spurring a lots of women's votes.  —  Wearing a fluorescent orange vest, former president Donald Trump offered attendees …
Discussion: CBS News, The Independent and Mediaite
Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab:
The Washington Post's non-endorsement led to record-breaking weeks at other news orgs  —  The Philadelphia Inquirer had its best week for new subscriptions ever and The Guardian U.S. broke its single-day fundraising record — twice.  —  You may have heard that an eye-watering 250,000 subscribers …
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Steven Waldman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Jeff Bezos Should Donate the Washington Post to a Charity
Greg Ip / Wall Street Journal:
The Next President Inherits a Remarkable Economy  —  The high quality of recent economic growth should put a wind at the back of the White House's next occupant  —  Whoever wins the White House next week will take office with no shortage of challenges, but at least one huge asset: an economy that is putting its peers to shame.
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The Bulwark:
Polio in Every Pot; Smallpox in Every Garage  —  Team Trump isn't quietly enabling RFK Jr.'s vaccine lunacy.  They're enthusiastically embracing it.  —  “Whoever wins the White House next week will take office with no shortage of challenges,” the Wall Street Journal's Greg Ip writes this morning …
Discussion: The Hill, HuffPost, DNyuz and Mediaite
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
“I'm gonna do it whether the women like it or not”: Trump's closing argument is toxic masculinity  —  Nikki Haley is right that “bromance and masculinity stuff” — like wishing Taylor Swift dead — is politically risky  —  Much has been made out of the fact that Donald Trump's campaign did nix one …
Discussion: NBC News
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Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Bush v Gore 2: Despotic Boogaloo  —  SCOTUS, if you're listening ...  👻 Subscribe to Public Notice 👻  —  Picture it!  America, two days after the election.  Neither candidate has reached 270 electoral votes.  Just one or two states have yet to be called …
Discussion: New Republic and Pluribus News
ProPublica:
Exploiting Meta's Weaknesses, Deceptive Political Ads Thrived on Facebook and Instagram in Run-Up to Election  —  Co-published with Tow Center for Digital Journalism  — Deceptive Political Ads: Eight deceptive advertising networks have placed over 160,000 election and social issues ads across …
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
More Than Half of U.S. Votes Likely Cast Before Election Day  —  Voter enthusiasm is high, with Democrats more enthusiastic than Republicans  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fewer Americans intend to vote ahead of Election Day this year than did so in 2020, but the rate is still higher than in election years …
Discussion: The Hill
Bright Eyes / The Daily Beast:
Kim K's Son Deletes YouTube Channel After Anti-Harris Posts  —  The channel mysteriously disappeared Wednesday, leaving many to believe Kardashian saw the posts and shut it down.  —  Dewan's Fiancé Denies Laughing at Kravitz and Tatum's Split  —  ‘GET A LIFE’
American Compass:
The Young Men Up For Grabs  —  Young non-white men are key swing voters in 2024, but Democrats don't speak to them  —  Executive Summary  —  In Fall 2024, American Compass partnered with YouGov to survey 6,000 Americans about their values and priorities, views on what has gone well and poorly in America …
Discussion: Wide World of News
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Close friend of Clarence Thomas is helping Trump's transition team write policy for DOJ  —  Mark Paoletta, a well-connected conservative lawyer and close friend of Justice Clarence Thomas, is helping Donald Trump's transition team craft the policy playbook for the Justice Department if Trump returns to power …
 
 
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Media Matters for America:
YouTube let right-wing figures undermine the 2024 election results even before any votes were cast
Christine Fernando / Associated Press:
Opponents use parental rights and anti-trans messages to fight abortion ballot measures
Discussion: The Hill
Lauren Peller / ABC News:
Trump campaign distances itself from House speaker's plan for ‘massive reform’ to the ACA
Walter Hudson / HotAir:
Biden's “Garbage” Insult and the Power of Noticing: A Turning Point in Politics
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Brigadier General Buzz Aldrin Endorses Donald J. Trump for President of the United States
Craig Mauger / The Detroit News:
Chinese student to face criminal charges for voting in Michigan. Ballot will apparently count