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8:40 AM ET, October 26, 2022

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David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
House Overview: 10 Rating Changes as Democrats' Blue State Problems Grow  —  Two weeks out, Republicans have the momentum in the race for House control.  Last week, the GOP regained the lead in FiveThirtyEight's generic ballot average for the first time since August amid worsening economic news.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Hill
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Punchbowl News:
THE TOP … THERE ARE 13 DAYS UNTIL ELECTION DAY. … CLF WILL PUT MORE RESOURCES INTO SEVEN DISTRICTS THAT PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN WON BY DOUBLE DIGITS.  HERE ARE THE RACES ITS TARGETING: … PORTER IS FACING A STIFF CHALLENGE FROM REPUBLICAN SCOTT BAUGH IN THE LOS ANGELES AREA.
Discussion: The Hill, MLive.com and Political Wire
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Two-thirds of Republicans still don't believe Biden was elected legitimately  —  Just 5% of “Trump-first” Republicans view Biden's election as legitimate almost two years after the 2020 race concluded.  —  Almost two years after President Joe Biden won the presidential election …
Discussion: Politico, NPR and Raw Story
Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The House: GOP Hits 218 in Ratings as Battle Rages Across Big Playing Field  —  Five rating changes, all benefiting Republicans  —  KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE  — We now rate 218 House seats — the magic number for winning a majority — as at least Leans Republican in our House ratings.
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Democrats, on Defense in Blue States, Brace for a Red Wave in the House
Axios:
Fetterman's painful debate … Capitol Hill's reaction to the Pennsylvania Senate debate was brutal for Democratic nominee John Fetterman, from Democrats and Republicans alike. … Fetterman struggled at times to respond to the moderators' questions, even with the assistance of a closed captioning device.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: How much will John Fetterman's rocky night matter?  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Let's state the obvious:JOHN FETTERMAN struggled to effectively communicate during his one and only Senate debate with MEHMET OZ Tuesday in Harrisburg.
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Fetterman struggles during TV debate with Oz  —  PHILADELPHIA — John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz sparred over abortion, fracking and other hot-button issues during their Senate debate Tuesday night, with the Democrat who suffered a stroke more than five months ago struggling at times …
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Fetterman, Showing Stroke Effects, Battles Oz in Hostile Senate Debate
CNN:
DOJ asks judge to force Trump White House lawyers to testify in Jan. 6 probe  —  ‘Deep trouble’: Consultant during Trump's impeachment gives his take on DOJ move  —  Ex-GOP adviser examines the ‘Marjorie Taylor Greene phenomenon’  —  Woman confronts armed man near ballot drop box
Discussion: New York Times and Raw Story
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Rolling Stone:
‘Absolutely F—ing Not.’ Trump's Team Scrambled to Talk Him Out of Jan. 6 Testimony  —  The former president saw a chance for a live televised spectacle.  His advisors saw a fast-track to perjury charges … Even the idea of it sent Trump's advisers scrambling to convince him it would be a disaster.
David Weigel / Semafor:
Bernie Sanders: House progressives were wrong on Ukraine  —  Dave is a Political Reporter for Semafor, joining us from the Washington Post.  Sign up for Americana to get his coverage of the national political scene in your inbox twice a week.  —  THE SCOOP
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HuffPost:
How A Progressive Bid To Shape Ukraine Policy Imploded
Politico:
House progressives retract Russia-diplomacy letter amid Dem firestorm
Semafor:
Senator Robert Menendez is under investigation again  —  Kadia is a Political Reporter for Semafor, joining us from BuzzFeed News.  Sign up for the daily Principals newsletter to get our insider's guide to American power.  —  Senator Robert Menendez, D-N.J. faces a new federal investigation …
Lisette Voytko / Forbes:
Billionaire No More: Kanye West's Antisemitism Obliterates His Net Worth As Adidas Cuts Ties  —  The superstar rapper no longer has a place on the Forbes Billionaires' list now that his lucrative deal with Adidas is over.  —  Just days ago, the rapper-cum-fashion entrepreneur Kanye West challenged Adidas …
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Fox News:
Pennsylvania debate or political charade?  Voters weigh in ahead of Oz-Fetterman showdown  —  Dr. Oz, Fetterman prepare for first and only debate, but will it influence Pennsylvania voters?
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Sheila Dang / Reuters:
Exclusive: Twitter is losing its most active users, internal documents show  —  “Is Twitter dying?” billionaire Elon Musk mused in April, five days before offering to buy the social media platform.  —  The reality, according to internal Twitter (TWTR.N) research seen by Reuters …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
No, Latinos aren't abandoning the Democratic Party  —  LAS VEGAS — Is the Latino voter abandoning Democrats, as this year's incessant media narrative would have it?  —  Not on Catherine Cortez Masto's watch.  —  At the East Las Vegas Community Center, the Nevada Democrat …
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Miami Herald:
‘My son has never voted’: Mom rejects Rubio's claim that politics motivated Hialeah attack  —  Diana Rosa Lopez isn't sure exactly what started the fight between her son and an ex-white supremacist canvassing for Sen. Marco Rubio outside her home in Hialeah Sunday.
New York Times:
A Secret Deal, Wishful Thinking: How the U.S.-Saudi Relationship Ruptured  —  Ahead of President Biden's trip to Saudi Arabia this summer, his administration thought it had secured pledges of increases in oil production throughout the year.  The opposite happened.
Max Bearak / New York Times:
Climate Pledges Are Falling Short, and a Chaotic Future Looks More Like Reality  —  With an annual summit next month, the United Nations assessed progress on countries' past emissions commitments.  Severe disruption would be hard to avoid on the current trajectory.
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Associated Press
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Dems hit Republicans from the right with “Trump traitor” ads  —  Democrats are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars attacking Republican House candidates from the right, with efforts to boost spoiler Libertarian candidates and portray a Republican who voted to impeach Donald Trump as a traitor to the former president.
Jon Wiener / The Nation:
Mike Davis: 1946-2022  —  A brilliant radical reporter with a novelist's eye and a historian's memory.  —  Mike Davis, author and activist, radical hero and family man, died October 25 after a long struggle with esophageal cancer; he was 76.  He's best known for his 1990 book about Los Angeles, City of Quartz.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Justice Alito says leak of abortion opinion made majority ‘targets for assassination’  —  Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said Tuesday that the leak of his draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade made his colleagues in the majority on the U.S. Supreme Court “targets for assassination.”
Josh Kraushaar / Axios:
Scoop: National Republicans jump back into New Hampshire Senate race  —  The National Republican Senatorial Committee is recommitting resources into the New Hampshire Senate race, according to an NRSC official, just days after the Senate GOP's top super PAC cancelled its spending on behalf of nominee Don Bolduc.
 
 
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Nikki Carvajal / CNN:
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Brittany Bernstein / National Review:
Why Some Trump-Country Pennsylvanians Still Aren't Sold on Dr. Oz
Congressman Jamie Raskin:
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Remembering Ashton Carter
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Russia's Recruiting Afghan Commandos
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Biden Job Approval Back Down to 40%
Discussion: The Hill and Newsbusters
 

 
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Tom McArthur / BBC:
RSF publishes its World Press Freedom Index and places Norway, Denmark, and Sweden in the top three, the US down 10 spots at 55, and Eritrea in last place

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A look at news publishers' conflicting approaches toward AI companies, and how the lack of a data marketplace makes it hard for buyers and sellers to set rates

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