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Zeteo:
Venues Start Canceling on Vivek Ramaswamy Over His Disgusting Ad: 'People Don't Want Him There' — Businesses have begun pulling out of Vivek Ramaswamy's bus tour with other GOP candidates. 'It's that damn ad,' a top Ohio Republican tells Zeteo. — ∙ Paid
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Bloomberg and Washington Post
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Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
How Ohio Trump Voters Reacted to Vivek's Attack Ad — He spent millions smearing Amy Acton, prompting national criticism. But how low is too low for Trump voters? — BY NOW, YOU'VE SURELY HEARD about the ad Vivek Ramaswamy is running against his opponent in the Ohio gubernatorial election …
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CNN
Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
The Republicans' Remarkably Bad Midterm Campaigns — The midterm campaigns have been going badly enough for the Republicans that they have inspired in White House principals some rare candor. “You don't turn the Titanic around overnight,” Vice-President J. D. Vance said on the trail earlier this year, in Toledo.
Washington Post:
These are the midterm deciders: They voted for Trump and now disapprove of him — They're a small but crucial piece of the electorate. Here's what they say about how they'll vote — decisions that will strongly shape the GOP's fortunes this year. — SummaryLoading...
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Introducing a New Way to Understand the Election: Times Voter Trends — A timely demographic story we've never been able to tell before. — When the dust settles on election night, the story won't simply be about who won, but who decided the outcome: Which demographic groups shifted the most …
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
The educational divide could spell trouble for Republicans — Republicans tend to run better among voters without a college degree than those with one, which has battered Democrats in recent presidential elections. But that same pattern could give Democrats a potentially decisive boost in next month's midterms.
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Fox News
New York Times:
Latinos Are Now America's Most Important Swing Voters — Latinos helped fuel President Trump's return to the White House. But Democrats have won back the trust of many Hispanic voters over the past two years. — In the 1990s, politicians fought for the support of soccer moms.
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Washington Examiner and The Daily Texan
Stephen Fowler / NPR:
In Arkansas, Democrats see an opening at the edge of the competitive midterms map
Wall Street Journal:
Obama Storms Onto Campaign Trail With Harsh Words for Trump — The former president, typically circumspect when criticizing Trump, gave an unusually sharp rebuke at an Ohio rally — Former President Barack Obama harshly criticized President Trump and Republicans in an Ohio rally Saturday …
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CBS News, Al Jazeera, Politico, NewsNation, The Gateway Pundit, Associated Press, The Hill, Signal Ohio, Washington Post, The Guardian, PolitiFact and Fox News
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Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Obama describes Trump as an agent of ‘chaos and cruelty’ in midterm elections pitch
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Bloomberg, Agence France-Presse, HuffPost, MS NOW, Reuters, RedState, Newsweek, Washington Examiner, The Gateway Pundit, The Hill, Mediaite and New York Times
CNN:
Economic woes transform the Midwest into a massive midterms battleground — Donald Trump US elections Biden's cabinet Congressional news — Democrats could be poised for a revival in the heartland, as furor over high costs and doubt about President Donald Trump's willingness to change …
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Gregory S. Schneider / Washington Post:
A Black Democrat has a chance to win in Mississippi's Senate race
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HuffPost
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Republicans Are Crude, Craven, Cruel. It's Not Working Anymore.
Republicans Are Crude, Craven, Cruel. It's Not Working Anymore.
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Los Angeles Times and Mediaite
New York Times:
A New Level of Threat and Fear Risks Pushing the U.S. and Iran Back to Full War — With new intelligence and the possibility of all sides seeking pretexts for action, the war in Iran is entering a dangerous phase ahead of elections in the United States and Israel.
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NewsNation, Daily Mail, Al Jazeera and Fox News
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Reuters:
Iran has ramped up efforts to target US personnel, intelligence memo warns
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Washington Examiner, American Greatness, CNBC, Financial Times, NewsMax.com and NBC News
NBC News:
Democrats ask judge to dismiss Trump administration's challenge to Alaska Senate race — The Justice Department filed suit against Alaska election officials Thursday seeking to block the election results from being certified if GOP Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses.
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Clarissa-Jan Lim / MS NOW:
Democrats take legal action against Trump bid ‘to rig’ Alaska Senate race
New York Times:
Democrats Have Edge Across Four Key House Races in Pennsylvania, Polls Find — Democratic candidates are ahead in two, hold a narrow edge in a third and are tied in a fourth, new polling shows. The seats embody the fights playing out nationwide in the midterms.
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NewsNation and Political Wire
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Barton Gellman / New Yorker:
The State Officials Defending the Midterms from the President — Donald Trump has tried to purge voter rolls nationwide. Deidre Henderson, the Republican lieutenant governor of Utah, is among the chief election officers standing in his way. — Now and then, not often …
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Aleks Phillips / BBC:
Musk says SpaceX restricted Ukraine's Starlink connection as service restored — Elon Musk has said his company SpaceX restricted Ukraine's Starlink internet service, after Ukrainian officials said connectivity issues appeared to have been resolved. — The tech billionaire accused Ukraine …
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Townhall, Stories Framing the Globe, NewsMax.com, Associated Press and Bloomberg, more at Techmeme »
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Associated Press:
Musk says he was behind Starlink speed restriction after service in Ukraine is restored
Musk says he was behind Starlink speed restriction after service in Ukraine is restored
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NewsMax.com, RedState, Fox News, Axios, NewsNation, The Guardian, TechCrunch, Politico, Stars & Stripes, NPR, Mediaite, Associated Press, Scripps News, CNBC, The Hill, Reuters, Washington Examiner, New York Times and Diplomatic,
David A. Lieb / Associated Press:
Massachusetts and Idaho put guns on the ballot. One seeks to restrict them, the other to honor them — Parked in his truck along a rural Idaho highway on his way to an elk hunt, Neill Goodfellow pondered a question that will appear on his November ballot: which of six historic firearms to choose as the official state gun?
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The Daily Caller
New York Times:
An Iowa Republican's Unusual Connection to the Kochs (and Kansas) — In his campaign for governor, Zach Lahn has pitched himself as a self-made businessman. His backstory is more complicated. — If there is one thing that Zach Lahn, the Republican nominee for governor of Iowa …
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Newsom amasses fundraising machine that could power 2028 bid — If California Gov. Gavin Newsom enters the 2028 presidential race, as many Democrats expect, he'll walk in with an asset other White House hopefuls will inarguably envy: A small-dollar fundraising and organizing machine powered …

