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10:50 AM ET, October 13, 2024

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Mark Murray / NBC News:
‘Dead heat’: Trump pulls even with Harris in NBC News poll  —  A close election has never looked more tightly divided, with Harris' popularity declining from its previous high and abortion atop voters' issue list.  —  Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are deadlocked …
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Economic discontent, issue divisions add up to tight presidential contest: POLL  —  Harris has 50% support to Trump's 48% among likely voters, the poll finds.  —  Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, left, and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris during …
Discussion: Forbes and Axios
CBS News:
CBS News Trump-Harris poll shows one election, two worlds: How information, beliefs shape tight campaign  —  The 2024 presidential contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is more than just two ideologies competing over what should happen.  It's two groups of voters that look …
Discussion: New York Times
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Why Is Trump Gaining With Black and Hispanic Voters?  —  Five possible explanations for the increases in support, particularly among young men.  —  In 2016, Donald J. Trump became the Republican nominee and ultimately won the presidency after calling many Mexican immigrants rapists …
Washington Post:
Trump suggests heckler should ‘get the hell knocked out of her’ after rally  —  The remarks were part of a dark speech at a California rally where Trump called the U.S. an “occupied country.”  —  COACHELLA, Calif- Former president Donald Trump suggested that a heckler would later get …
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Tensions rise between Harris and Biden teams as election nears … - “They're too much in their feelings,” one close Harris ally said of the president's team — a sentiment shared even by some White House aides. … - Biden gave an impromptu press conference in the White House briefing room Friday …
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Kevin Manahan / New Jersey Online:
Harris vs. Trump analyst tells panicky Dems: GOP is creating fake polls | ‘Desperate, unhinged, Trumpian’
David Thompson / The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump's Niece Says He Is Now ‘Owned’ by Elon Musk  —  'DEVIL'S BARGAIN'  —  Mary Trump described the Tesla CEO, who also owns X, formerly Twitter, as “the world's richest fascist” and a “South African jumping bean.”  —  Donald Trump is now “owned” by MAGA super-fan Elon Musk …
Discussion: Newsweek
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emptywheel:
Machine for Fascism: The Two Stephens  —  When I saw the news that Trump is planning a rally at Madison Square Garden — as the Nazis did in 1939 — I checked the date to see whether that was before or after Steve Bannon gets out of prison.  —  Bannon is due to get out on October 29; the rally is two days earlier, on October 27.
Kellen Browning / New York Times:
Harris Campaign to Fly Ads Over N.F.L. Games in Swing States  —  Fans at games in four swing states will see skywriting or banners over their stadium on Sunday.  The vice president's campaign would like men in particular to look up.  —  As the Harris campaign continues to court male voters …
David Strom / HotAir:
California Denies Launching Rights to SpaceX Because Musk Supports Trump—Really  —  The Commissars of California are so concerned about enforcing political uniformity that they are denying the military's right to launch from Vandenburg Air Force Base using SpaceX rockets.  —  Why?
Discussion: @amuse, The Gateway Pundit and The Hill
The Hill:
Here are the states we could be waiting on to declare a Harris-Trump winner  —  Voters are increasingly likely to have to wait past Election Day to find out who will become their next president.  —  Among the battleground states, Georgia could be the first to be called, even as early as midnight, some experts predict.
David McAfee / Raw Story:
‘As serious as it gets’: Trump ally stuns with ‘petrifying’ answer about executing enemies  —  Former Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, the controversial figure Donald Trump named to be his White House national security adviser, stunned observers with his answer to a question about potentially executing political enemies.
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
America First Policy Institute, a group advising Trump, says its systems were breached  —  A group helping to lay the groundwork for a future Donald Trump administration said its computer systems were breached, marking the second known instance that people supporting the former president have been the target of a cyberattack.
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Washington Post:
Trump-aligned group believed to have been attacked by Chinese hackers
Discussion: TechCrunch and MLex Market Insight
Wall Street Journal:
Mystery Drones Swarmed a U.S. Military Base for 17 Days.  The Pentagon Is Stumped.  —  U.S. officials don't know who is behind the drones that have flown unhindered over sensitive national-security sites—or how to stop them
Axios:
Podcasts become politician magnets … - “We all have insane information overload, so if you try to spread yourself too thin and you're saying 10 different things to appeal to everyone, people are just going to forget about it,” Lulu Cheng Meservey, founder of strategic comms firm Rostra told Axios' Eleanor Hawkins last year.
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Is Ron DeSantis secretly preparing an effort to block Florida's abortion measure?  —  Late Friday, the Florida Department of State's office released a report alleging fraud relating to petition circulation and collection for the abortion rights measure that will be Amendment 4 on this fall's ballot in the state.
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David Brooks / The Atlantic:
Confessions of a Republican Exile
Savannah Kuchar / USA Today:
Voter registration deadlines hit, focus shifts to actually getting people to vote
Discussion: NPR
Slate:
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Where Is the Fierce Urgency of Beating Trump?
Discussion: Althouse and Raw Story
BBC:
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Discussion: New York Post
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Spotify releases a ranking of the top audiobooks on the platform for the first time, showing A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas was 2024's top book

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CBS News plans CBS Evening News Plus, a 30-minute continuation of its overhauled flagship newscast that will stream online and air on some CBS-owned stations

 
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