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Male Pollsters Shocked — Shocked!! — When a Woman Pollster Discovers Women Voters — On Friday, Nate Silver tweeted and substacked a piece declaring that there must be herding going on in the casino. — His substack analysis didn't acknowledge, however, that this herding was going on in his casino.
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Breitbart, Silver Bulletin, HotAir, Digby's Hullabaloo and Raw Story
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Michael Lee / Fox News:
Major pollster drops final battleground poll numbers — Harris hold slim leads in four of the seven main battleground states — The final New York Times/Siena College Battleground poll of the 2024 race shows a razor-tight election in the battleground states just days before the election.
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The Hill, New York Post, RedState, New York Times, ABC News, Forbes and Townhall
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Kari Lake is struggling to match Trump's numbers in Arizona. She doesn't believe the polls. — Polls show Donald Trump is running neck-and-neck with Kamala Harris in the state but Lake has fallen significantly behind Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego. (Her AI modeling says otherwise.)
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Raw Story, The Atlantic and CBS News
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Final NBC News poll: Harris-Trump race is neck and neck, with significant gender gap
Final NBC News poll: Harris-Trump race is neck and neck, with significant gender gap
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Emerson Polling, Boston Herald, Mother Jones, Fox News and Forbes
Al Weaver / The Hill:
Final Senate rankings: 5 seats most likely to flip
Final Senate rankings: 5 seats most likely to flip
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CNN, CBS News, Fox News and New York Times
Business Insider:
Kamala Harris' new lead in top Iowa poll could bode well for her in some key swing states
Kamala Harris' new lead in top Iowa poll could bode well for her in some key swing states
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Some Surprises in Last Battleground Polls, but Still a Deadlock
Some Surprises in Last Battleground Polls, but Still a Deadlock
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New York Post, Semafor, Fortune, Axios, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller, The Hill and Bloomberg
Associated Press:
Trump talks about reporters being shot and says he shouldn't have left White House after 2020 loss — Donald Trump gave a profane and conspiracy-laden speech two days before the presidential election, talking about reporters being shot and suggesting he “shouldn't have left” the White House after his 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
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Wall Street Journal, Metro.co.uk, Fox News, The Independent, HuffPost, NPR, Townhall and East Bay Times
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Politico:
Trump returns to his grievances for his closing argument — It was Trump at his most aggrieved and discursive on Sunday, as Election Day nears. — LITITZ, Pennsylvania — Donald Trump barreled through Sunday in a state of seeming rage from which nothing and no one appeared safe.
Washington Post:
Trump says he doesn't mind someone shooting at journalists at rally
Trump says he doesn't mind someone shooting at journalists at rally
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The Atlantic, ABC News, The Independent and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
Politico:
Trump says he doesn't ‘mind’ if someone has to ‘shoot through’ the media
Trump says he doesn't ‘mind’ if someone has to ‘shoot through’ the media
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RedState, IJR, New York Post, Deadline, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story, CBS News, The Hill and Must Read Alaska
New York Times:
Trump Tells Supporters He 'Shouldn't Have Left' the White House
Trump Tells Supporters He 'Shouldn't Have Left' the White House
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USA Today, NPR, Washington Times and New York Post
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Trump Says 'I Don't Mind' if the Media Gets Shot
Trump Says 'I Don't Mind' if the Media Gets Shot
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Salon, Fox News, TMZ.com, UPI, Pennsylvania Capital-Star, Raw Story, Axios, Daily Mail, Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Harris campaign: The Iowa poll is exciting, but... Democrats were giddy Saturday when a gold-standard poll found Kamala Harris narrowly leading Donald Trump in deep-red Iowa. But Harris' senior campaign officials are cautioning against getting too excited about the Des Moines Register survey.
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Washington Post:
Harris vows unity in closing message while Trump lashes out — The two candidates offered starkly different final arguments as they each fight for a tiny sliver of undecided voters in seven battleground states. — Vice President Kamala Harris used her campaign stops in Michigan on Sunday …
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Associated Press, Daily Kos, Raw Story, CBS News, ABC News, Breitbart and Washington Times
New York Times:
Election Live Updates: Harris, at Michigan State Rally, Pledges to Be ‘President for All Americans’
Election Live Updates: Harris, at Michigan State Rally, Pledges to Be ‘President for All Americans’
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Associated Press, ABC News, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Post, New York Post and East Bay Times
Tara Suter / The Hill:
FCC commissioner claims Harris on ‘SNL’ violates ‘equal time’ rule
FCC commissioner claims Harris on ‘SNL’ violates ‘equal time’ rule
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New York Post, IJR, NBC News, Mediaite, Deadline, The Guardian, Townhall, UPI, Washington Examiner, Vanity Fair, One America News Network, Fox News, RedState, Breitbart, The Independent, The Daily Caller, Variety, Michigan News Source, The Hollywood Reporter, Washington Times, Politico, Public, The Gateway Pundit, Rolling Stone, Los Angeles Times, Daily Mail and New York Times
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Stefanik on gender voting gap: 'Trump's campaign has strong, intelligent women'
Stefanik on gender voting gap: 'Trump's campaign has strong, intelligent women'
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Washington Examiner, Fox News and The 19th
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Trump Boasts ‘Every Rally Is Full’ as Camera Immediately Pans to Empty Seats, People Leaving — The former president falsely claimed his rallies “do not have any seats that are empty” — A savvy camera operator fact checked Donald Trump live. — During his rally in Greensboro …
NBC News:
Trump doesn't rule out banning vaccines if he becomes president: 'I'll make a decision' — In an interview with NBC News, the former president also said that a push by RFK Jr. to remove fluoride in water “sounds OK to me.” — Former President Donald Trump said that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would have a …
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The Hill, Forbes, HuffPost and The Gateway Pundit
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Jake Lahut / Wired:
Canvassers for Elon Musk's America PAC Were Fired and Stranded in Michigan After Speaking Out — A dozen Black canvassers were tricked, threatened, and driven in seatless U-Haul vans. They were fired after WIRED reported on their plight—some without full pay or a way back home.
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Rolling Stone
A.R. Moxon / The Reframe:
Apology Not Accepted — I woke up yesterday morning to learn that Don Trump—the famed rapist, convicted felon, and white christian presidential candidate—had mimed performing a blowjob on his microphone stand to the clear delight of his crowd. — There's a famous Christian thinker named Jesus H. Christ …
Liz Goodwin / Washington Post:
GOP candidate Tim Sheehy says medical records don't exist for gunshot wound — In May, the candidate said it was “insulting and ridiculous” that he would be asked to provide them. — Tim Sheehy, the Montana Republican nominee for Senate, said in an interview with former Fox News host Megyn Kelly …
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Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Megyn Kelly presses Sheehy on bullet wound story: “So confusing”
Megyn Kelly presses Sheehy on bullet wound story: “So confusing”
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The Independent, Daily Montanan, HuffPost, The Hill and Raw Story
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Ann Selzer: How Could This Be? — Few states are as red as Iowa, and yet the legendary Iowa pollster Ann Selzer found that Kamala has leapfrogged over Trump to take the lead there. The turnaround is due to women—particularly women 65 and older, who previously tilted toward Trump, but now favor Kamala 63% to 28%.
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Des Moines Register and USA Today
KABE-LP:
Univision Poll: More than 60% of Latino voters in Pennsylvania support Kamala Harris amid the controversy over calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at a Trump rally — A Univision and YouGov survey shows that 69% of respondents considered comments defining Puerto Rico as …
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Vanity Fair and Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
James O'Keefe Recruits Election Workers to Secretly Record at the Polls — Mr. O'Keefe has sought volunteers willing to wear hidden cameras and hunt for voting problems. Dozens of election judges and poll monitors responded, records show. — James O'Keefe, the conservative influencer …
Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
CNN Exclusive: Bill Clinton has hopes and fears on what comes after 2024 - for the country, the party and himself — Michigan's West Coast CNN — Rumbling down the road between small towns in western Michigan, Bill Clinton was considering mortality - potentially American democracy's or the Democratic Party's, but also his own.
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The Hill, Mediaite, Digby's Hullabaloo and Fox News