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12:30 PM 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
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden's ‘Garbage’ Comment Complicates Harris Campaign, Worrying Insiders
Elizabeth Weibel / Breitbart:
CBS's Norah O'Donnell Accuses Trump ‘and His Supporters’ of ‘Giving No Grace’ to Biden over ‘Garbage’ Comments
Nick Arama / RedState:
HOT TAKES: Reactions to Trump's Garbage Truck Troll Are Terrific, As Dems Cope and Seethe
Scott Dworkin / The Dworkin Report:
No, Corporate Media. This Isn't the October Surprise You've Been Waiting For
NBC News:
In Wisconsin, Trump courts ‘garbage’ outrage while Harris courts students
Charisma Madarang / Rolling Stone:
Billionaire Trump Awkwardly Dresses Up as a Garbage Truck Driver
Walter Hudson / HotAir:
Biden's “Garbage” Insult and the Power of Noticing: A Turning Point in Politics
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 …
Discussion: Rolling Stone
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Polio in Every Pot; Smallpox in Every Garage  —  “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, “but at least one huge asset: an economy that is putting its peers to shame”:
Discussion: New Jersey Online and Mediaite
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.
Discussion: New York Daily News and CNBC
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 …
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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Nina Golgowski / HuffPost:
The Economist Endorses Harris, Warns Trump Carries ‘Unacceptable Risks’  —  “Americans would be gambling with the economy, the rule of law and international peace” by electing Trump, the newspaper said.  —  LOADING  —  The Economist has weighed in on the presidential race …
Discussion: Semafor, Raw Story and The Guardian
The Economist:
Why The Economist endorses Kamala Harris  —  Our daily political update, featuring the stories that matter
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Swing State Newspaper Slams Trump: ‘Crippled Cognitively’ With ‘Clear Signs Of Mental Illness’
Discussion: Raw Story and Townhall
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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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 …
Washington Post:
Michigan voters near evenly split between Harris and Trump, Post poll finds
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Trump Insists He Has Big Lead Over Harris, Setting Stage for 2024 Doubts
Discussion: New York Times, New Republic and Axios
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 …
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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Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Bros Are Freaking Out Because So Many Women Are Voting  —  'IT'S OVER'  —  “Unless this changes, Kamala Harris takes PA and it's over,” tweeted right wing gadfly Mike Cernovich.  —  Two of former president Donald Trump's most prominent backers in the right wing influencer sphere fretted Wednesday …
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Politico
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 …
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 …
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 …
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Georgia secretary of state: Election is secure, and here's why  —  Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) reassured the state's voters that the upcoming election is secure and that voters' ballots will be counted.  —  Raffensperger said that no matter which presidential candidate triumphs …
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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CNN:
Election officials are outmatched by Elon Musk's misinformation machine
Discussion: Minnesota Reformer, NPR and ABC News
Mike Gonzalez / Washington Examiner:
Barack Obama, divider in chief
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
More Than Half of U.S. Votes Likely Cast Before Election Day
Discussion: The Hill and New Republic
American Compass:
The Young Men Up For Grabs
Discussion: Wide World of News
Associated Press:
Ping! Harris and Trump are blowing up your phones with political texts in campaign's last days
Discussion: Daily Journal
Christine Fernando / Associated Press:
Opponents use parental rights and anti-trans messages to fight abortion ballot measures
Discussion: The Hill
 Earlier Items: 
Lauren Peller / ABC News:
Trump campaign distances itself from House speaker's plan for ‘massive reform’ to the ACA
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Close friend of Clarence Thomas is helping Trump's transition team write policy for DOJ
Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
Speak Out Now Republicans, Or You'll Regret It
Discussion: Alternet.org and Raw Story
Buzz Aldrin Ventures, LLC:
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
Steven Waldman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Jeff Bezos Should Donate the Washington Post to a Charity
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B
 
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