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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Embattled Iowa Lawmaker King Says Ted Cruz Expressed His Support  — GOP campaign leader renounced King after attack in Pittsburgh  — Cruz is in a close race; his campaign says call was ‘personal’  —  Representative Steve King of Iowa, who has been abandoned by Republican leaders …
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BuzzFeed News:
Steve King Is Beginning To Lose Support After Years Of Racist Statements.  Republicans Still Expect Him To Win.  —  Donors and some Republicans are moving away from Steve King.  But “it would take a tidal wave to knock him out.”  —  After making racist statements for years …
The Hill:   Trump's attack on Ryan seen as advance scapegoating
New York Times:
Inside What Even an Ally Calls Trump's ‘Reality Distortion Field’  —  From nonexistent riots to conspiracy theories about migrants to false claims about his popularity and job-creating record, the president has offered a litany of falsehoods in the midterm campaign.
Discussion: Florida Politics and HuffPost
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Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Republicans Getting Borked on Healthcare
Discussion: Eschaton and New York Magazine
New York Times:
How Vilification of George Soros Moved From the Fringes to the Mainstream  —  WASHINGTON — Hours after he was informed last week that an explosive device had been delivered to his suburban New York home, George Soros, the billionaire investor and Democratic donor, got on a call with colleagues …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:   Soros Has Given $1 Million To Group Linked To Fusion GPS For Trump-Russia Investigation
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump approval remains high in Senate battleground states  —  A new round of Fox News battleground state polls proves we don't call them battlegrounds for nothing.  With six days until the election, three of the five U.S. Senate races could go either way …
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Mark Murray / NBC News:   Poll: Indiana Senate race is a dead heat
Kansas City Star:
Out-of-state political consultants helped direct Josh Hawley's Missouri AG office  —  Josh Hawley pledged to Missouri voters in 2016 that he was not the kind of career politician who would use “one office to get to another.”  —  But within weeks of Hawley's swearing in as the state's top …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
Democrats More Hopeful About Unseating Montana's Body-Slamming Lawmaker
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Shepard Smith can't redeem Fox News  —  A header on Brian Stelter's nightly media newsletter reads, “Fox under pressure,” a reference to the growing concerns that Fox News's rhetoric is driving conspiracy theories.  “Modern Family” co-creator Steve Levitan has signaled that he won't …
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Joe Concha / The Hill:
Fox News tops CNN and MSNBC combined in October cable news ratings
Discussion: twitchy.com and TVNewser
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
U.S. Senate panel investigates former Trump aide Bannon: sources  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee is pursuing a wide-ranging investigation into former White House adviser Steve Bannon's activities during the 2016 presidential campaign, three sources familiar with the inquiry told Reuters.
David Crook / DCReport.org:
Human Rights Group Calls for Investigation of Giuliani, Trump Money-Laundering Scheme  —  Prosecutors Asked to Probe Dutch Middlemen Washing Billions in Dirty Kazakh Cash for Real Estate Deals in US and Europe  —  By David Cay Johnston, DCReport Editor-in-Chief
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ProPublica:   Rudy Giuliani's Mystery Trips to Russia, Armenia and Ukraine — “Trump, Inc.” Podcast
The Daily Beast:
‘Homeland Security’ Ignores White Terror, DHS Veterans Say  —  As far-right terror attacks mount, DHS is concentrating on a migrant caravan 1000+ miles away—and some FBI veterans say the bureau isn't taking white supremacy seriously enough.  —  On Tuesday, just days after a white supremacist gunned …
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Laura Strickler / NBC News:
Trump admin will apparently not renew program to fight domestic terror
Discussion: Daily Kos
Lawfare:
The Watergate Road Map Unsealed  —  The National Archive has released the famed—and long mysterious—Watergate “Road Map,” which Special Prosecutor sent to Congress in 1974.  For background on the Road Map, and our litigation to get it released, see here and here.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Political Wire
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CNN:
National Archives releases draft indictment of Richard Nixon amid Mueller probe
Discussion: Law & Crime and Lawfare
Newsweek:
Migrant Caravan Troop Deployment Could Cost U.S. $50 Million Despite No Evidence of Terrorists, Major Criminal Gang Presence  —  The Trump administration is preparing for the most dangerous, and unlikely, scenario as it sends thousands of troops to the border to intercept a carvavan …
Discussion: The Intercept
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
‘We have to have a wall of people’: Trump defends military presence on border  —  President Donald Trump said that the increased military presence on the border is going to help stop the “invasion” that is coming in the migrant caravan.  —  “We have to have a wall of people,” Trump said …
Discussion: Mediaite
Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News:
Florida mayor solicited sex for speed bumps, ethics panel finds  —  David Stewart has been the mayor of Lantana, Florida, since 2000.  —  A Florida mayor is accused of soliciting sex from a constituent in exchange for speed bumps, according to the Florida Commission on Ethics and local reports.
Discussion: Breitbart
Matt Zdun / The Texas Tribune:
Ted Cruz's lead over Beto O'Rourke narrows to 3.6, UT-Tyler poll says  —  The UT-Tyler poll follows a number of other polls which show Cruz's lead over O'Rourke diminishing. … Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz leads challenger U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, by 3.6 percentage points among likely voters …
Discussion: The Week and CBS Dallas
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Lauren McGaughy / Dallas Morning News:
Pipe bomb suspect threatened Beto O'Rourke, campaign says
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Sick and tired of Trump?  Here's what to do.  —  “I am sick and tired of this administration.  I'm sick and tired of what's going on.  I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired, and I hope you are, too.”  —  I'm sick and tired, too.  —  I'm sick and tired of a president who pretends …
Ali Dukakis / ABC News:
Conspiracy theorist becomes key figure as Mueller builds case  —  Self-proclaimed conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi returned to Washington, D.C., again this week for more closed-door meetings with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators, and on Friday is scheduled to make a second appearance …
Economist:
Identity politics are stronger on the right than the left  —  The Republican Party is increasingly unified around whiteness  —  IN THE popular imagination, identity politics is the stuff of queer-studies seminars and Hillary Clinton rallies.  The excesses of intolerant university students raging …
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Sarah Sanders has a knack for lying  —  One can only marvel at the ease with which White House press secretary Sarah Sanders abuses the people in front of her, deflects blame and outright lies.  At Monday's press briefing, her entire bag of tricks was on display.
Los Angeles Times:
Veteran featured in GOP congressman's midterm election ad posted racist rants and violent threats on Facebook  —  On the home page of his campaign website, Rep. Steve Knight of Palmdale has posted a television ad showing a veteran praising the Republican congressman for helping him get a lung transplant.
Discussion: Raw Story
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump shocks with racist new ad days before midterms  —  (CNN)In the most racially charged national political ad in 30 years, President Donald Trump and the Republican Party accuse Democrats of plotting to help Central American invaders overrun the nation with cop killers.
Discussion: KRTV-TV, New Republic and Mediaite
John Eastman / New York Post:
Revoking birthright citizenship would enforce the Constitution  —  President Trump's comments are not even set to air until this weekend, but already they have created a firestorm of commentary, most of it ill-informed.  —  It is not “within the president's power to change birthright citizenship …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump vows to end ‘crazy’ birthright citizenship in closing midterms appeal
Discussion: New Republic
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
'She's A Piece Of S***' — Claire McCaskill Ignites Feud With Missouri Democrat Just Days Before Election  —  Democratic Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill sparked a fierce backlash from a Democratic legislator in her home state after listing her as an example of a “crazy Democrat.”
Brendan Morrow / The Week:
The Obamas might make a TV show about disorder in the Trump administration for Netflix  —  Is former President Barack Obama about to unleash one long subtweet against his successor in the form of a Netflix show?  —  Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama have acquired the rights …
PVA:
Gillum Makes Promises He Can't Keep, “that's not for [voters] to know” Says Campaign Staff in Undercover Video … Empty Promises Exposed: “Fairy tales in the modern day begin with ‘once I am elected.’”  —  Deceiving Voters: “None of the programs that people are hoping for would happen” but “That's not for [voters] to know.”
Washington Post:
Startling new research finds large buildup of heat in the oceans, suggesting a faster rate of global warming  —  The findings mean the world might have less time to curb carbon emissions.  —  The world's oceans have been soaking up far more excess heat in recent decades than scientists realized …
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Democrat says Project Veritas infiltrated her campaign in Va.'s tight 7th District  —  RICHMOND — A conservative group that creates undercover “sting” videos infiltrated the campaign of Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat in a tight race with Rep. Dave Brat in Virginia's 7th District.
Discussion: Political Wire
The Times of Israel:
TV report: Israel silent as Iran hit by computer virus more violent than Stuxnet  —  Tehran strategic networks attacked, Hadashot TV says, hours after Israel revealed it tipped off Denmark about Iran murder plot, and days after Rouhani's phone was found bugged
Discussion: israpundit.org
Josie Duffy Rice / New York Times:
How to Punish Voters  —  The prosecution of individual voters for fraud is a trend that seems intended to intimidate.  —  Ms. Duffy Rice is a lawyer and a criminal justice reporter.  —  Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the chief elections official in the state, is a pioneer of present-day voter suppression.
CNN:
Exclusive: Trump blamed ex-counsel McGahn for Mueller investigation  —  Washington (CNN)Former White House Counsel Don McGahn ended his tumultuous tenure at the White House with one last encounter in which President Donald Trump blamed him for Robert Mueller's appointment, sources close to McGahn tell CNN.
politics.myajc:
Debate canceled: Candidates unable to agree on alternative after Kemp pulls out of Sunday showdown  —  The second and final televised Georgia gubernatorial debate was canceled Wednesday after Republican Brian Kemp pulled out of the initial Sunday event and he and Democrat Stacey Abrams couldn't agree on an alternative.
Bryan Caplan / Econlib:
Socialists Without a Plan  —  If I met a four-star general and he told me he was a socialist, I'd understand where he's coming from.  After all, this is a man who lives and breathes logistics.  He leads for a living.  His job is to make master plans, then carefully monitor his underlings so they actually implement said master plans.
Natalie Allison / The Tennessean:
Corker on migrant caravan: Republicans ‘using fear to stimulate’ midterm voter turnout  —  President Donald Trump says the number of military troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexican border could go as high as 15,000.  Trump said that the move would be aimed at preventing the entry of a caravan of migrants traveling from Central America.
 
 
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Donna Borak / CNN:
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ABC News:
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Discussion: Raw Story
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
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Ruth Wisse / Wall Street Journal:
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New York Times:
Democrats in an All-Hands-on-Deck Scramble to Save Menendez in New Jersey
Discussion: NJ Spotlight and The Daily Caller
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Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Turkish prosecutor says Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered in Saudi Consulate