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10:55 AM ET, October 28, 2024

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David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump's Racist NYC Rally Was Vile.  It Was Also Political Suicide  —  FINAL ACT  —  The Madison Square Garden rally, operatic in its repulsive bigotry, will almost certainly alienate more voters who might have voted for Trump.  —  OPINION  —  To all those Republicans …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
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New York Times:
Trump at the Garden: A Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism  —  The inflammatory rally was a capstone for an increasingly aggrieved campaign for Donald Trump, whose rhetoric has grown darker and more menacing.  —  Donald J. Trump's closing rally at Madison Square Garden …
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
October 27, 2024  —  I stand corrected.  I thought this year's October surprise was the reality that Trump's mental state had slipped so badly he could not campaign in any coherent way.  —  It turns out that the 2024 October surprise was the Trump campaign's fascist rally at Madison Square Garden …
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump unveils the most extreme closing argument in modern presidential history  —  Donald Trump anchored his bid to win a second White House term next week on searing anti-migrant fear at a rally at Madison Square Garden, doubling down on his promise for a massive deportation program on Day 1 to reverse an “immigrant invasion.”
Discussion: Billboard and Eschaton
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Trump's MSG Rally Incited MAGA To Do Whatever It Takes To Seize Power  —  A lot of things happened.  Here are some of the things.  This is TPM's Morning Memo.  Sign up for the email version.  —  Madison Square Garden Redux  —  The narcissism, the rancid “jokes,” the racism, the misogyny …
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Trump Campaign Scrambles to Disavow Racist MSG Rally Joke  —  The line about Puerto Rico is the only one Trump's campaign is trying to distance itself from.  —  DNC Trolls Trump With a Projector During His MSG Rally  —  ‘TRUMP PRAISED HITLER’  —  Slogans plastered on the exterior …
Discussion: HuffPost and ABC
Adam Wren / Politico:
Who won the day?  Harris  —  If Donald Trump loses on Nov. 5, the racist carnival he curated at Madison Square Garden could be remembered as the day that cost him this margin-of-error election.  As Kamala Harris visited a Puerto Rican restaurant in Pennsylvania, talking about her …
Seth Masket / Tusk:
Race is the theory of the campaign  —  The MSG rally makes it all plain as day  —  It is said that once is happenstance, twice is a coincidence, and three times is a pattern.  The Trump campaign has now provided many, many more data points than that demonstrating their theory of the campaign …
Discussion: Mediaite
Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
Kamala Harris says she'd take a cognitive test; challenges Trump “to take the same one”
Discussion: Axios and Washington Examiner
Rebecca Morin / USA Today:
Harris, Trump locked in dead heat in battleground Wisconsin, new exclusive poll says
Discussion: The Hill, Fox News and tippinsights
Libby Cathey / CBS News:
DNC projects message tying Trump to Hitler on Madison Square Garden during rally
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
A Trump Rally Speaker Trashed Puerto Ricans. Harris Reached Out to Them.
The Guardian:
Puerto Rican stars Bad Bunny and Ricky Martin back Kamala Harris after racist comments at Trump rally
John L. Dorman / Business Insider:
2 new polls show Harris leading Trump as the election nears. Women continue to propel the VP's candidacy.
Alec Hernández / NBC News:
As Trump courts their vote, comedian at his rally makes racist jokes about Latinos and Puerto Rico
Alex Galbraith / Salon:
Trump-supporting comedian opens MSG rally by calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage”
Tara Suter / The Hill:
Bad Bunny shares Kamala Harris's video on Puerto Rico on Instagram
ProPublica:
“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader's Plans for a New Trump Agenda  —  Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought's “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.  —  Co-published with Documented  —  Reporting Highlights
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Some billionaires, CEOs hedge bets as Trump vows retribution  —  With the race tight, some business elites are toning down past criticism of the former president.  —  At a five-star resort in California last week, Wall Street executives, fast-food CEOs, a few dozen other industry titans …
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
A Hatefest at the Garden  —  Lots of good stuff coming down the pike: Sarah will be going live tomorrow evening at 9 p.m. ET in the Substack mobile app for a chat with Dan Pfeiffer, former White House communications director and now author of the Message Box to discuss the last week of the race.
Discussion: The Times of Israel
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
Extremists inspired by conspiracy theories pose major threat to 2024 elections, U.S. intelligence warns  —  Candidates, elected officials, election workers, members of the media and judges involved in election cases are among those U.S. intelligence officials identified as targets.
Discussion: Wired
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
Billionaire media bootlickers obey in advance  —  The owners of the LA Times and Washington Post give the finger to their readers and democracy. … 🗞️ Subscribe to Public Notice 🗞️  —  Both the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post are refusing …
Wall Street Journal:
How a Splintered Left Is Preparing for a Possible Trump Victory  —  After the former president's 2016 victory, they marched.  Now, Democrats wrestle with how to mount an uprising—and whether to even do so.  —  By now America is well versed in the predictions of the political right's potential response …
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New York Times:
Republicans Cling to Slim Leads in Nebraska and Texas Senate Races  —  In Nebraska, Dan Osborn, an independent, is in a tight race with Senator Deb Fischer, and in Texas, Representative Colin Allred is four percentage points behind Senator Ted Cruz.  —  Dan Osborn, a union leader …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The billionaire-media complex  —  Jeff Bezos is the second-richest person in the world, with a net worth of approximately $211 billion.  Most of Bezos' wealth is derived from his 9% stake in Amazon, the company he founded.  Bezos also founded and owns Blue Origin, a private space exploration company worth billions.
Michael Isikoff / The Daily Beast:
Trump Campaign Worker Blows Whistle on ‘Grift’ and Bugging Plot  —  ‘GREEDY AND WRONG’  —  A bombshell email claims millions were funneled from campaign to “overcharging” firms—and some went to a top Kamala Harris donor.  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  A Trump campaign worker has been fired after trying …
Discussion: Alternet.org and Political Wire
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
The right is projecting irrational confidence about a Trump win.  That could aid an effort to steal the election.  —  RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM JANE LEE & HELENA HIND  —  Right-wing media figures are displaying irrational levels of confidence in Donald Trump's chances of winning the presidential election.
Discussion: Blaze Media
 
 
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David French / New York Times:
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