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1:30 PM ET, October 21, 2024

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New York Times:
Kamala Harris Has an Unexpected Ally  —  Bret Stephens: Please don't tell me you're going to ask how I'm going to vote.  —  Gail Collins: Well, Bret, why would you imagine such a thing?  Just because I keep getting stopped by people on the street, demanding to know whether you're going to support Kamala Harris.
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Harris leads Trump 2-1 among the earliest voters, many driven by abortion access: new poll  —  Democrat Kamala Harris has a sweeping lead over Republican Donald Trump − among voters who have already cast their ballots, that is.  —  A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll shows …
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
NYT's Bret Stephens explains why he's backing Harris  —  New York Times conservative columnist Bret Stephens said he will cast his vote for Vice President Harris, in the latest iteration of “The Conversation” published on Monday.  —  “Kicking and screaming, I'll cast my ballot for Harris …
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
“I started to learn what patriarchy was”: How Donald Trump pushed Republican women out of the GOP  —  Former Republican women explain why they finally broke with Trump: “I was ashamed”  —  PHILADELPHIA — Melanie Barton-Gauss, a retired teacher from Florida, traveled to the City of Brotherly Love …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Julie Zauzmer Weil / Washington Post:
Trump proposals could drain Social Security in 6 years, budget group says  —  The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget predicts many of Trump's policies could hasten the looming depletion of the Social Security Trust Fund.  —  A new report projects that the Social Security Trust Fund might run …
Discussion: Raw Story and Democrats
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:   New analysis shows Trump would devastate Social Security's finances, debunking MAGA talking point
Washington Post:
Trump serves McDonald's fries to supporters in stage-managed campaign stop  —  Trump didn't answer a question on the minimum wage, instead promoting his unsubstantiated claim that Kamala Harris never worked at the burger chain.  —  Trump works fry station at McDonald's in Pennsylvania
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Piers Morgan / New York Post:
Trump's genius McDonald's stunt will fry Kamala at the ballot box
Daniela Sirtori / Bloomberg:
McDonald's Tells Workers It Doesn't Endorse Political Candidates After Trump Visit
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Republicans set stage for PA vote counting shenanigans  —  If you can't beat 'em, destroy the system. … 🍟  —  There's no question that for the 2024 election, Pennsylvania is currently ground zero, so it's unsurprising that both campaigns are campaigning hard in the state.
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Vox:
Why Wisconsin Democrats are campaigning in places they can't win
Discussion: Washington Post
Peter Stone / The Guardian:
Trump allies spending millions to dissuade voters in key states from polls
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Viral attack on Walz features fake former student making false claim  —  Hawaii man who attended a school where Walz taught — but says they never met — was dismayed to see person in video using his name to make a false allegation against the vice presidential candidate  —  Using a stolen identity to attack Tim Walz
Discussion: Raw Story
Deidre McPhillips / CNN:
Infants died at higher rates after abortion bans in the US, research shows  —  In the year and a half following the Supreme Court Dobbs decision that revoked the federal right to an abortion, hundreds more infants died than expected in the United States, new research shows.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
State of the Race: A Slight Shift Toward Trump but Still No Clear Favorite  —  The polls are not precise enough for a 0.2-point edge to convey meaningful information.  —  With two weeks to go, the polls of the presidential election are starting to run out of room to get any closer.
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Steven Shepard / Politico:   Where are the polls?  —  Just by looking at the polls, you wouldn't know Election Day is 16 days away.
Michael Kransz / MLive.com:
Gerald Ford's daughter endorses Kamala Harris for president  —  GRAND RAPIDS, MI - The daughter of Michigan's only president, Gerald R. Ford, has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.The youngest child of the late Republican president, Susan Ford Bales, issued the endorsement Monday, Oct. 21 …
CBS News:
“Election protection” activist says he plans to flag voters with “Hispanic-sounding” names as “suspicious”  —  In a video obtained by CBS News, the leader of an “election protection” activist group of 1,800 volunteers in North Carolina is seen instructing attendees at a virtual meeting to flag voters with …
Sarah Rainsford / BBC:
Moldova says ‘Yes’ to pro-EU constitutional changes by tiny margin  —  BBC Eastern Europe correspondent, Chisinau  —  People in Moldova have backed the Eastern European country's proposed changes to its constitution and commitment to joining the EU by the thinnest of margins in a referendum.
Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Trump Faces Defamation Suit From Exonerated ‘Central Park Five’  — Trump is sued over comments he made in presidential debate  — Five teenagers wrongfully convicted in 1989 jogger rape case  —  Donald Trump is facing a defamation lawsuit over comments he made during …
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court rejects Michael Cohen's civil rights claim against Trump  —  The justices turned away Cohen's appeal over his claim that Trump and other officials put him in solitary confinement in order to silence him.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected disbarred lawyer Michael Cohen's …
Tom D'Angelo / Palm Beach Post:
Arnold Palmer's daughter on what he would think of Donald Trump today: 'I think he'd cringe'  —  Donald Trump's opening at his rally Saturday in Latrobe, Pa., birthplace of the late Arnold Palmer, was a boast about how close he was to the legendary golfer.  —  But that relationship …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
TD Bank executives oversee $670 million drug money laundering scheme, avoid jail  —  On March 7, 2024, Attorney General Merrick Garland, speaking at the American Bar Association's 39th Annual White Collar Institute, gave an impassioned soliloquy on the importance of criminally prosecuting …
John Della Volpe / New York Times:
Trump's Bro-Whispering Could Cost Democrats Too Many Young Men  —  Generation Z is poised to flex its growing political muscle in the 2024 presidential election, and in my surveys and focus groups with these voters, I'm seeing the strong potential for a turning point in American political alignment.
Marita Vlachou / HuffPost:
JD Vance Defends Trump's Alarming Remarks Yet Again: ‘He Speaks From The Heart’  —  The former president has described those who oppose him politically as “the enemy from within.”  —  LOADING  —  GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance on Monday defended Donald Trump's description …
CBC News:
Musk, putting up over $70M US to help Trump, raises legal questions with million-dollar giveaways  —  It is a federal crime to pay people with intention to induce them to cast a vote or register to vote  —  Pennsylvania's Democratic governor Josh Shapiro is among those calling for an investigation …
CBS News:
A statement from 60 Minutes  —  Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.  That is false.  —  60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes.
 
 
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The thin veneer over Trump's fascistic rhetoric
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
AS ATTACKS INTENSIFY, TRUMP BECOMES MORE POPULAR.  It's hard to measure the intensity …
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Biographers Call Out All The Signs Of His Possible Cognitive Decline
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Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
October 20, 2024  —  I had hoped to write tonight about the farm bill, which Eric Hovde …
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
The big political shift that explains the 2024 election
Discussion: The Guardian
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Let President Fire Agency Leaders
Discussion: The Hill, CBS News and NPR
Chandelis Duster / NPR:
Biden administration proposes a rule to make over-the-counter birth control free
Russell Contreras / Axios:
1 in 5 Republicans want Trump to call election invalid if he loses
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