memeorandum: Scoop: What Trump is being told (Mike Allen/Axios)

6:15 PM ET, October 31, 2024

Top Items:

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: Salon, Raw Story, Staten Island Advance and Washington Examiner

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 …

Discussion: Washington Examiner

Ashleigh Fields / The Hill:

Conservatives in furor over Julia Roberts ad — A new Harris-Walz campaign ad voiced by actor Julia Roberts encourages women to vote for Vice President Harris in the presidential election, even if their husbands are backing former President Trump. — The Roberts ad also alludes to abortion rights …

Discussion: New Republic, Washington Examiner, BizPac Review, Townhall, Raw Story, New Jersey Online, Fox News, Megyn Kelly and RedState

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.

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: New York Times, The 19th, RedState, Daily Mail, Raw Story, CBS News, The Hill, 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!’

Discussion: The Wrap and The Independent

Sean Craig / The Daily Beast:
Trump: My Own Staff Beg Me to Stop ‘Inappropriate’ Talk About Women

Elena Schneider / Politico:
Black turnout is lagging in North Carolina, a warning sign for Harris

Discussion: RedState, Axios, HotAir, IJR, Washington Examiner, DNyuz, Carolina Journal and New York Times

Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
More Than Half of U.S. Votes Likely Cast Before Election Day

Discussion: Silver Bulletin, Alternet.org, Business Insider, Washington Times, New York Post, The Hill, New Republic and Daily Kos

Mike Allen / Axios:

Scoop: What Trump is being told … The memo, addressed to “TEAM TRUMP,” has the subject line: “PRESIDENT TRUMP IS ON THE VERGE.” — Fabrizio draws on Real Clear Politics polling averages to argue that Trump's “position nationally and in every single Battleground State is SIGNIFICANTLY better today than it was 4 years ago.”

Discussion: Tusk

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 …

Discussion: Forbes, Digby's Hullabaloo, Alternet.org and Washington Examiner

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.

Discussion: Election Law Blog, NPR, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Fox News, Alternet.org, PBS NewsHour, Twitchy, Associated Press, Breitbart, Daily Mail, CBS News, ComingSoon.net, RedState and Washington Post

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.

Discussion: Raw Story, WTTG-TV, The Guardian, Bloomberg, RedState and The Daily Caller

NBC News:
Trump is campaigning outside of battleground states. Is that confidence or hubris?

Discussion: The Bulwark, Politico, Associated Press, Washington Examiner, RedState, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Post, DNyuz, Alternet.org, Daily Journal and Washington Times

Fox News:

Trump sues CBS News for $10 billion alleging ‘deceptive doctoring’ of Harris' ‘60 Minutes’ interview — EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump is suing CBS News for $10 billion in damages, stating the network practiced “deceptive conduct” for the purpose of election interference in its interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

Discussion: Axios, Townhall, Daily Mail, Metro.co.uk, RedState, The Independent, The Daily Signal, Newsbusters and Twitchy

Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill: Trump sues CBS for $10B over Harris's ‘60 Minutes’ interview

Michael R. Bloomberg / Bloomberg:
Why I'm Voting for Kamala Harris

Discussion: HuffPost, CBS News, BizPac Review, Baltimore Sun, ABC News, Morning Call and New York Times

Nina Golgowski / HuffPost:
The Economist Endorses Harris, Warns Trump Carries ‘Unacceptable Risks’

Discussion: The Economist, Semafor, Mediaite and The Guardian

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 …

Discussion: The Mahablog and Digby's Hullabaloo

James Bickerton / Newsweek:

Video of Donald Trump ‘Struggling’ to Enter Garbage Truck Goes Viral — Social media commentators have raised concerns over — 's health after footage emerged of the — presidential candidate climbing into a campaign-branded garbage truck. — In Wisconsin on Wednesday, Trump was

Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
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

Discussion: PJ Media, Townhall, Breitbart, Washington Examiner, NBC News, CBS News, Fox News, WisPolitics, Metro.co.uk, ABC News, New York Times, Associated Press, HotAir and The Guardian

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: Washington Examiner, No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story and The Hill

Nicole Narea / Vox:

2024 election violence is already happening — Political violence has reached alarming levels in the US over the last few years. — The January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol, the attack on former Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, and multiple assassination attempts …

Discussion: Washington Post and Los Angeles Times

Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
She Saw Jan. 6 Coming. Here's What Worries Her Now.

Discussion: Raw Story

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 …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, USA Today, New Republic, CNN, Vox, Forbes, Mother Jones, Daily Kos, New York Magazine, New York Post, DNyuz, HuffPost, Raw Story, Rolling Stone, IJR and Semafor

Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Why the co-chair of Trump's transition team is raising eyebrows

Discussion: Rolling Stone and New Republic

Zachary B. Wolf / CNN:
Trump's plan to radically remake government with RFK Jr. and Elon Musk is coming into view

Discussion: The Guardian, Wired, Alternet.org, DNyuz, Roll Call, Raw Story, The Independent and Public Notice

David Daley / New Republic:

How John Roberts—Yes, John Roberts—Might Decide Who Won the Election … Last summer, after the Supreme Court appeared to brush aside a fringe theory that would have given gerrymandered GOP legislatures unfettered power over election procedures, progressive activists at Common Cause hailed a “historic pro-democracy decision.”

Discussion: Raw Story

Liz Dye / Public Notice:
Bush v Gore 2: Despotic Boogaloo

Discussion: Roll Call, Forbes and Pluribus News

Brad Raffensperger / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia elections are secure

Discussion: Fox News, PolitiFact, The Federalist, The Hill and Talking Points Memo

Simon Rosenberg / Hopium Chronicles:

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Discussion: The Hill

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

William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Polio in Every Pot; Smallpox in Every Garage

Discussion: CNN and Mediaite

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.

Discussion: New Republic, CNN, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Blaze Media, Fox Business, Axios, The Hill, RedState, Forbes, New York Times, Michigan Advance, Futurism, PoliticusUSA, The Gateway Pundit, CNBC and UPI

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 …

Discussion: The Guardian, Politico, The Hill and Raw Story