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Trump trails Democratic rivals in national survey as independents move away — One year out from the 2020 election, President Trump trails some potential Democratic rivals in head-to-head matchups, with his national support level currently fixed at about 40 percent, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump's well-oiled campaign has everything planned — except Trump — President Donald Trump fiddled for months with a 2020 election message that would be ready for primetime. His top two campaign aides — Jared Kushner and Brad Parscale — sought a message that would resonate …
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Washington Times, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, The Hill and Reason
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
The Times' Nate Cohn on Elizabeth Warren's Odds Against Donald Trump — On Monday, the New York Times and Siena College released a poll of how Donald Trump is faring against three leading Democratic Presidential opponents—Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren—in six critical swing states, all of which Trump won in 2016.
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
A year from Election Day, Democratic presidential contenders extend leads over Donald Trump: POLL — A year before the nation votes, top Democratic contenders have extended their leads over President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential race, with broad public concerns about the president's leadership …
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The Daily Caller, Shareblue Media, POLITICUSUSA, Washington Times and The Hill
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Meet the Swing Voters Who Might Decide the 2020 Election — These figures represent all of the registered voters in six battleground states won by President Trump in 2016: Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, Arizona and North Carolina. — But one year ahead of the 2020 election, few of these voters are actually up for grabs.
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New York Times:
Lev Parnas, Giuliani Associate, Opens Talks With Impeachment Investigators — Mr. Parnas could offer Congress a vein of information about a political pressure campaign in Ukraine. — An associate of Rudolph W. Giuliani who was involved in a campaign to pressure Ukraine …
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Aram Roston / Reuters:
Exclusive: Giuliani associate now willing to comply with Trump impeachment inquiry - lawyer — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lev Parnas, an indicted Ukrainian-American businessman who has ties to President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is now prepared to comply with requests …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: We've read the transcripts. Do they help Trump? — DRIVING THE DAY — ASK YOURSELF THIS QUESTION: Since the release of the first two transcripts from the impeachment inquiry Monday, have you seen a single stitch of information that helps President DONALD TRUMP?
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USA Today:
At least 10 members of Mormon family brutally killed in Mexico; about a dozen still missing — Daniel Gonzalez Adrianna RodriguezArizona Republic — MEXICO CITY — At least 10 members of a prominent Mormon family, three mothers and their young children, were killed in a shooting attack …
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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Trump calls for ‘war’ against Mexican drug cartel ‘monsters’ after Americans murdered in shootout — President Trump on Tuesday offered U.S. assistance as he called on Mexico to “wage war” against the country's murderous drug cartel “monsters” in response to the killing of multiple Americans in a shootout.
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Daniel González / Arizona Republic:
Queen Creek woman says at least 10 relatives murdered in an ambush in Mexico
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Breitbart, Bloomberg, Townhall, Slate and American Greatness
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The scope of Trump's corruption is mind-boggling. New developments show how. — At this point, the broad contours of the Ukraine scandal are well understood. President Trump appears to have used hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money appropriated as military aid to extort …
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Adam Schiff / USA Today:
Schiff: Trump betrayed America. Soon the public will hear from patriots who defended it. — The Ukraine call was one piece of a larger operation to redirect US foreign policy to benefit Trump's personal interests, not the national interest. — A little over one month has passed since …
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Nancy Cordes / CBS News:
Republicans consider moving Jim Jordan to House Intelligence Committee
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YouTube:
Sun Comes Up | Pete Buttigieg for President … To stay connected with the campaign: — About Pete: — Pete Buttigieg is a husband, Afghanistan veteran, and the Mayor of his hometown, South Bend, Indiana. — Pete is running for president because this is a now or never moment for our nation.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Attack of the Wall Street Snowflakes
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Josh Fiallo / Tampa Bay Times:
Commissioners call New York Times ‘fake news,’ deny library funding for digital subscriptions — 'I don't agree with it, I don't like ‘em,’ said one Citrus County commissioner who said he agrees with President Donald Trump that the newspaper prints ‘fake news.’
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Politico:
Trump rallied for Kentucky governor, but impeachment was on his mind — The president's speech in Lexington on behalf of Gov. Matt Bevin continually circled back to his own grievances. — President Donald Trump and Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin at a rally Monday.
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Jessica Taylor / NPR:
It's Election Day 2019. Here's What To Watch
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Wall Street Journal and Axios
Jamie Lovegrove / Post and Courier:
Tom Steyer aide stole Kamala Harris' SC volunteer data from 2020 presidential voter file — COLUMBIA — A South Carolina aide for Tom Steyer's 2020 presidential campaign stole valuable volunteer data collected by Kamala Harris' campaign using an account from when he worked with the S.C. Democratic Party …
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HuffPost:
Another Term For Trump's Quid Pro Quo? Extortion. — Former federal prosecutors say the president's interactions with Ukraine also amount to extortion, as defined by the Hobbs Act. — WASHINGTON - While both the president's defenders and critics have settled on the phrase “quid pro quo” …
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Martin Scorsese / New York Times:
I Said Marvel Movies Aren't Cinema. Let Me Explain. — Cinema is an art form that brings you the unexpected. In superhero movies, nothing is at risk, a director says. — Mr. Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning director, writer and producer. — When I was in England in early October, I gave an interview to Empire magazine.
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Alex Roarty / Wichita Eagle:
Trump wants to win even more rural votes in 2020. Democrats are scrambling to catch up — Corey Bauch is eager to explain why he regrets not voting for Donald Trump. — The 44-year old-agreed to meet with me last week in this rural Wisconsin town (population of 1,500), where he has lived most of his life.
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Julián Castro to lay off New Hampshire, South Carolina teams — Julián Castro's campaign will fire its staff in New Hampshire and South Carolina, an official familiar with the campaign told POLITICO. The campaign notified the state teams on Monday and their final day will be next week.
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
Roger Stone's trial could hang on a comedian's drunken texts — WASHINGTON — It was late in the evening of Oct. 1, 2016, and radio talk show host Randy Credico was at London's Heathrow Airport doing what he sometimes did in those days: getting smashed. He ducked into a duty-free shop …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The Idiot's Guide to the Roger Stone trial
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
YouTube Bans Gorka Because He Won't Stop Playing Imagine Dragons — The notoriously combative Trump ally has regularly played Imagine Dragons songs on his radio show, “America First.” — YouTube banned Sebastian Gorka from its platform on Monday, apparently because the former Trump White …
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
One of the most famous incidents of campus outrage was totally misrepresented — A bánh mì sandwich, one of several food items involved in the Oberlin controversy. Greg Powers/Washington Post/Getty Images — How a single article in Oberlin's student paper about food got turned …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
So this is why Trump doesn't want officials to testify — Now we see why the Trump administration doesn't want officials to testify in the impeachment inquiry. — Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) released the first batch of transcripts Monday from the closed-door depositions …
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Rudy Allies Are Spreading Dirt About Bannon Behind the Scenes — Trump's former chief strategist is coming under attack from allies of the president's personal attorney, with one memo calling Bannon “THE FOX IN THE TRUMP HOUSE.” — Allies of President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani …
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