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The Economist:
A second Trump term comes with unacceptable risks — If The Economist had a vote, we would cast it for Kamala Harris — Next week tens of millions of Americans will vote for Donald Trump. Some will do so out of grievance, because they think Kamala Harris is a radical Marxist who will destroy their country.
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Swing State Newspaper Slams Trump: ‘Crippled Cognitively’ With ‘Clear Signs Of Mental Illness’ — The Las Vegas Sun also talked about the Republican nominee's “hateful character.” — LOADING — The Las Vegas Sun ― in the 2024 election swing state of Nevada, where polling puts …
Elizabeth Weibel / Breitbart:
CBS's Norah O'Donnell Accuses Trump ‘and His Supporters’ of ‘Giving No Grace’ to Biden over ‘Garbage’ Comments
CBS's Norah O'Donnell Accuses Trump ‘and His Supporters’ of ‘Giving No Grace’ to Biden over ‘Garbage’ Comments
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Nick Arama / RedState:
HOT TAKES: Reactions to Trump's Garbage Truck Troll Are Terrific, As Dems Cope and Seethe
HOT TAKES: Reactions to Trump's Garbage Truck Troll Are Terrific, As Dems Cope and Seethe
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NBC News:
In Wisconsin, Trump courts ‘garbage’ outrage while Harris courts students
In Wisconsin, Trump courts ‘garbage’ outrage while Harris courts students
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Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone:
Billionaire Trump Awkwardly Dresses Up as a Garbage Truck Driver
Billionaire Trump Awkwardly Dresses Up as a Garbage Truck Driver
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Scott Dworkin / The Dworkin Report:
No, Corporate Media. This Isn't the October Surprise You've Been Waiting For
No, Corporate Media. This Isn't the October Surprise You've Been Waiting For
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Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Harris says she will be ‘sadly ready’ if Trump prematurely claims victory Tuesday
Harris says she will be ‘sadly ready’ if Trump prematurely claims victory Tuesday
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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 …
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New York Times:
Why the Right Thinks Trump Is Running Away With the Race — Skewed polls and anonymous betting markets are building up Republicans' expectations. Donald Trump could use that to challenge the result. — The torrent of polls began arriving just a few weeks ago, one after the other, most showing a victory for Donald J. Trump.
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Washington Post:
Michigan voters near evenly split between Harris and Trump, Post poll finds
Michigan voters near evenly split between Harris and Trump, Post poll finds
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Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Trump Insists He Has Big Lead Over Harris, Setting Stage for 2024 Doubts
Trump Insists He Has Big Lead Over Harris, Setting Stage for 2024 Doubts
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New York Times, Rolling Stone and Axios
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 …
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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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Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Trump transition official says RFK Jr. wants to force vaccines off the market — Howard Lutnick, co-chair of the Trump-Vance transition team, said in a Wednesday interview that former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is backing former President Trump, is seeking the federal data …
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.
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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 …
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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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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.
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Elon Musk ordered to attend $1 million voter lottery suit hearing in Philadelphia court
Elon Musk ordered to attend $1 million voter lottery suit hearing in Philadelphia court
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Elon Musk moves $1 million voter lottery lawsuit to federal court — for now
Elon Musk moves $1 million voter lottery lawsuit to federal court — for now
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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 …
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.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden's ‘Garbage’ Comment Complicates Harris Campaign, Worrying Insiders
Biden's ‘Garbage’ Comment Complicates Harris Campaign, Worrying Insiders
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine:
Biden ‘Garbage’ Remark Causes Big Stink: Latest Responses
Biden ‘Garbage’ Remark Causes Big Stink: Latest Responses
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Why the co-chair of Trump's transition team is raising eyebrows — The more billionaire megadonor Howard Lutnick speaks, the more important the rhetoric from the Trump transition team co-chair becomes. — In mid-August, Donald Trump released the names of a five-member transition team …
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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 …
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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 …
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Paige Oamek / New Republic:
Trump Doubles Down After Elon's Shocking “Tank the Economy” Confession — Just hours after Elon Musk admitted Donald Trump's policies will tank the entire economy, the former president confirmed his plans to let Musk be a part of the destruction, claiming that “nobody is going to feel it.”
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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 …
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Tobias Burns / The Hill:
Inflation falls to lowest level since 2021 in Fed's preferred gauge — Price increases have fallen to their lowest level in more than three years in the latest reading of the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge, strengthening the outlook for more interest rate cuts to come.
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The Economist:
Why The Economist endorses Kamala Harris — Our daily political update, featuring the stories that matter
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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 …
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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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