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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 …
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Salon, Raw Story, Washington Examiner and Staten Island Advance
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Rebecca Solnit / The Guardian:
Why are so many women hiding their voting plans from their husbands? — A lot of households are not democracies; they're dictatorships. This may mean voter intimidation and suppression — Lots of memes and tweets and posts and videos are popping up, assuring women that they can keep …
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Washington Examiner
Kathleen Culliton / Raw Story:
‘Not healthy and weird’: Fox News host roasted for threatening wife with ‘D-Day’ over vote — A Fox News host who threatened his wife with marital “D-Day” if she did not vote for former President Donald Trump faced swift backlash from viewers who swiftly roasted the controversial conservative pundit.
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HuffPost and Vanity Fair
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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RedState, The 19th, The Hill, Daily Mail, Raw Story, CBS News, HuffPost, The Independent and Mediaite
David Gilmour / Mediaite:
Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ — Panelists on Fox News show The Five laughed off host Jesse Watters' claim that if his wife were to secretly vote for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris he would see it as “the same thing as having an affair.”
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The Wrap and The Independent
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:
Conservatives in furor over Julia Roberts ad
Conservatives in furor over Julia Roberts ad
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Washington Examiner, New Republic, Raw Story, New Jersey Online, BizPac Review, Townhall, Fox News, Megyn Kelly and RedState
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Black turnout is lagging in North Carolina, a warning sign for Harris
Black turnout is lagging in North Carolina, a warning sign for Harris
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Axios, HotAir, DNyuz, IJR, Washington Examiner, Carolina Journal, New York Times and NCSBE
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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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Major News Media Fall For Fake GOP Outrage Yet Again — INSIDE: Donald Trump ... Elon Musk ... John Roberts … It's An Editorial Choice — In the final week of the presidential campaign, the country's two most prominent newspapers extended into a second day their credulous coverage …
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The Mahablog and Digby's Hullabaloo
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.
Nina Golgowski / HuffPost:
The Economist Endorses Harris, Warns Trump Carries ‘Unacceptable Risks’
The Economist Endorses Harris, Warns Trump Carries ‘Unacceptable Risks’
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The Economist, Semafor, Mediaite and The Guardian
The Economist:
Why The Economist endorses Kamala Harris
Why The Economist endorses Kamala Harris
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The Hill, Raw Story and The Guardian
Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
Biden targeted in GOP resolution condemning ‘garbage’ remark about Trump supporters
Biden targeted in GOP resolution condemning ‘garbage’ remark about Trump supporters
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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PJ Media, Washington Examiner, Townhall, CBS News, Fox News, WisPolitics, Metro.co.uk, ABC News, HotAir, Associated Press, New York Times and The Guardian
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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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Swing State Newspaper Slams Trump: ‘Crippled Cognitively’ With ‘Clear Signs Of Mental Illness’
Swing State Newspaper Slams Trump: ‘Crippled Cognitively’ With ‘Clear Signs Of Mental Illness’
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PoliticusUSA, Townhall and Raw Story
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Trump Would Be Worse for Palestinians
Trump Would Be Worse for Palestinians
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Raw Story, UPI and Press Herald
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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Axios, Raw Story, WTTG-TV, The Guardian, Bloomberg, RedState, The Daily Caller, Tusk and Daily Mail
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Declan Harty / Politico:
The stock market's surprising bet on who will win the presidency — Voters are clamoring for any hints of clarity about the neck-and-neck presidential race, so some are looking beyond public opinion polls. — Wall Street executives, political gamblers and cryptocurrency traders are piling …
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Washington Examiner, Digby's Hullabaloo and Alternet.org
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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Rolling Stone and New Republic
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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 …
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CNN, New Republic, Mother Jones, New York Times, Raw Story, IJR and DNyuz
Emily Singer / Daily Kos:
Make Diseases Great Again: Trump team says they're coming for vaccines
Make Diseases Great Again: Trump team says they're coming for vaccines
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Washington Examiner, HuffPost, Rolling Stone, Mediaite and Raw Story
Zachary B. Wolf / CNN:
Trump's plan to radically remake government with RFK Jr. and Elon Musk is coming into view
Trump's plan to radically remake government with RFK Jr. and Elon Musk is coming into view
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Wired, Alternet.org, New York Post, Roll Call, Raw Story, The Independent and Public Notice
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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Roll Call, Forbes and Pluribus News
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David Daley / New Republic:
How John Roberts—Yes, John Roberts—Might Decide Who Won the Election
How John Roberts—Yes, John Roberts—Might Decide Who Won the Election
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Raw Story
Brad Raffensperger / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia elections are secure
Georgia elections are secure
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Talking Points Memo, The Hill and Fox News
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
More Than Half of U.S. Votes Likely Cast Before Election Day
More Than Half of U.S. Votes Likely Cast Before Election Day
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Silver Bulletin, Business Insider, Washington Times, New York Post, The Hill and New Republic
Jack Queen / Reuters:
Judge declines to block Elon Musk $1 million voter giveaway — A Pennsylvania state judge said on Thursday he would not immediately move forward with a lawsuit that seeks to stop Elon Musk's $1 million voter giveaway ahead of the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election.
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New Republic, CNN, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Gateway Pundit, Axios, RedState, CNBC, PoliticusUSA, Futurism, Forbes, New York Times, Michigan Advance and UPI
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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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New York Daily News and CNBC
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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 …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story and The Hill
Avery Lotz / Axios:
Ex-Trump attorney has N.Y. law license suspended … - “Having concluded that respondent has been convicted of a serious crime, we accordingly suspend respondent from the practice of law in New York on an interim basis,” a New York court ruled. … - It was put on hold earlier …
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The Guardian, Politico, The Hill and Raw Story