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A ‘fake family’ photo takes center stage in battleground House race

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STAFFORD, Va. — The attack ad in Virginia’s most competitive congressional race starts off like something out of a sitcom. An actor resembling Derrick Anderson, a Republican looking to flip Virginia’s battleground 7th District, comes home to greet life-size cardboard cutouts of a woman and three young girls. The stand-in Anderson eats dinner with the pictures, plays board games across the table from them and then joins them to watch a movie.

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Who is Tony Hinchcliffe, the comedian who performed at Trump’s rally?

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He described Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage in the ocean,” suggested Latinos “loved making babies,” and invoked an antisemitic trope with reference to the Israel-Gaza war.

It was all a joke, a part of his comedy set that was “taken out of context to make it seem racist,” Tony Hinchcliffe said on X of his appearance at Sunday’s rally for Donald Trump.

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4:08 p.m. EDT

Analysis: How immigrants and native-born Americans see the election differently

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Donald Trump’s bid to return to the White House is centered on the idea that nearly everything that’s wrong in the country can be blamed on foreigners. At times, he presents this idea as manifested in offshore manufacturing and the damage done to cities in Midwestern swing states. Usually, though, he focuses on immigrants, people whom he blames for everything from rising crime (which isn’t happening) to limited hurricane relief efforts.

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3:18 p.m. EDT

Democrats spotlight racist Puerto Rico insult at Trump rally amid battle for Latinos

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PHILADELPHIA — Democrats moved quickly Monday to cast a spotlight on the fallout from Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden, where sexist, racist and other demeaning insults were used by opening speakers, including a stand-up comedian who called Puerto Rico an “island of garbage” and broadly disparaged Latinos.

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2:40 p.m. EDT

Ballot drop boxes set on fire in Portland, Oregon, metro area

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Fires were set early Monday in absentee ballot drop boxes in metro Portland, Oregon, resulting in hundreds of ballots being destroyed.

Just outside Portland in Vancouver, Washington, firefighters removed burning ballots from a drop box, according to video and photos from KATU-TV. The footage showed firefighters stamping out a smoldering pile of ballots that appeared to have been reduced to ashes.

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2:22 p.m. EDT

Analysis: Republicans say Puerto Rico ‘island of garbage’ quip doesn’t reflect them. It does.

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A comedian’s quip Sunday at Madison Square Garden that Puerto Rico is an “island of garbage” has led to something rarely seen in the Trump era: the Republican Party — and even the Trump campaign itself — backing away from the divisive content of a Trump rally.

The reaction from Florida Republicans and Trump’s campaign suggests they see at least some real danger in a remark that could alienate a significant swath of the electorate. Repeatedly, they said that this didn’t “reflect” them.

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1:35 p.m. EDT

Analysis: Trump’s hostility to Puerto Rico reemerges at the worst possible time

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According to Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, the comments made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe during the former president’s rally at Madison Square Garden are not reflective of how Trump himself feels.

It’s a tricky defense of Hinchcliffe’s various disparagements, given that the campaign is clearly responsible for who and what appeared on the stage Sunday night. But it’s particularly tricky given how Hinchcliffe’s “jokes” reflect obvious currents in Trump’s own rhetoric.

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1:18 p.m. EDT

Meet the megadonors pumping over $2.5 billion into the election

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The 50 biggest donors this cycle have collectively donated over $2.5 billion into political committees and other groups competing in the election, according to a Washington Post analysis of Federal Election Commission data.

These megadonors skew Republican, though they affiliate with Democrats and third parties as well.

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12:58 p.m. EDT

Could the Trump-Musk bromance force a NASA pivot to Mars?

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NASA has long declared that it intends to send astronauts to Mars, but not right away. First comes landing on the moon, again. Mars remains on the back burner.

That’s not daring enough for Elon Musk, or for his thousands of SpaceX employees who wear “Occupy Mars” T-shirts while cheering the company’s rocket launches. Musk has said on his social media site, X, that it is possible SpaceX will send people to Mars in just four years — and he’s getting a thumbs up from Donald Trump.

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12:41 p.m. EDT

In Rehoboth Beach, political vitriol amid the affection for ‘Joe’

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REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — Local folks in this laid-back seashore town typically call him Joe, as if he and his wife were just regulars, not the 46th president and the first lady of the United States.

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11:58 a.m. EDT

This Arizona border town shows one path to a Trump victory

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SAN LUIS, Arizona — No city in the nation moved more toward Republicans in the last presidential election than this nearly 100 percent Latino, overwhelmingly non-college-educated border town outside Yuma.

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10:18 a.m. EDT

Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown fights for survival in Trump’s Ohio

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AUSTINTOWN, Ohio — Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown’s political future — and perhaps his party’s chances of holding onto the Senate — could come down to voters like Tom McGuire.

McGuire voted for Barack Obama twice but flipped in 2016 to support Donald Trump. He is planning to vote for Trump again this year — but he is also backing Brown over his Republican challenger, Bernie Moreno.

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9:52 a.m. EDT

Chinese hackers said to have collected audio of American calls

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Chinese state-affiliated hackers have collected audio from the phone calls of U.S. political figures, according to three people familiar with the matter. Those whose calls have been intercepted include an unnamed Donald Trump campaign adviser, said one of the people.

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9:23 a.m. EDT

How would Trump and Harris supporters handle defeat? Here’s what they say.

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The American electorate is deeply divided over its choice in this year’s presidential election, with Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both stressing that the fate of American democracy is on the line. No matter who wins, about half of the country won’t get its way.

But just how upset will the losing side be? Will supporters of the defeated candidate accept the results? Or will they try to overturn them, as Trump and his allies attempted to do in 2020?

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9:10 a.m. EDT

How America’s youngest voters feel about casting their first ballots

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As citizens vote to choose the nation’s 47th president, many will be exercising that right for the first time.

Some high school seniors and college freshmen — among the 8 million newly eligible to vote this year, according to a Washington Post analysis of census data — will be casting ballots at the same time as they’re taking classes about voting rights, elections and democracy.

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8:21 a.m. EDT

Some billionaires, CEOs hedge bets as Trump vows retribution

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At a five-star resort in California last week, Wall Street executives, fast-food CEOs, a few dozen other industry titans and two former presidents gathered for off-the-record conversations.

One subject that inevitably came up, according to two people familiar with the matter: the possibility that former president Donald Trump could return to the White House.

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7:50 a.m. EDT

At Trump’s events, vulgar T-shirts disparaging Harris are in demand

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Craig Dumas didn’t hesitate when asked which one of his T-shirts sells best at Donald Trump’s rallies. It’s the one that calls the first female vice president a “hoe.”

“They love it,” said Dumas, 47, who in Tucson sold shirts insulting Harris with a misspelling of a derogatory term for a sexually promiscuous woman. “I can’t keep up with the count.”

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7:21 a.m. EDT

Harris adopts Trump’s playbook as she targets his age and competence

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The 60-year-old Kamala Harris has flipped the script on her 78-year-old opponent since becoming the Democratic nominee when it comes to questions of aging and acuity — deploying the same playbook that Donald Trump and his allies once used against President Joe Biden before he withdrew from the race this summer and endorsed Harris.

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6:45 a.m. EDT

Anti-Puerto Rico comments at Trump rally spur outrage as Bad Bunny backs Harris

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Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican recording artist and leading Latino rapper, offered his support Sunday for Kamala Harris’s candidacy for president, sharing a video of her plans for Puerto Rico on his Instagram. The move came just moments after a speaker at Donald Trump’s rally in New York City referred to the U.S. territory as a “floating island of garbage.”

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6:20 a.m. EDT

Harris works to boost support from Black and Latino voters in Philadelphia

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PHILADELPHIA — Vice President Kamala Harris spent Sunday crisscrossing Philadelphia, focusing on reaching Black and Latino voters and hoping to boost turnout in the Democratic stronghold just nine days before Election Day.

“Philadelphia is a very important part of our path to victory, and it is the reason I’m spending time here,” she told reporters. “But I’m feeling very optimistic about the enthusiasm that’s here and the commitment from folks of every background.”

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6:10 a.m. EDT

Tim Walz joins AOC to play ‘Crazy Taxi’ and ‘Madden’ on Twitch

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Tim Walz believed in the Sega Dreamcast.

“I thought it would conquer the world,” the Democratic nominee for vice president said Sunday in a Twitch stream with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York). The console was released in 1999 and had been in production for nearly two years before it was swamped by the Sony PlayStation.

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6:00 a.m. EDT

Vance defends Trump on using U.S. military against Americans

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Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) forcefully defended Donald Trump’s vow to use the U.S. military against certain Americans, a group Trump has repeatedly labeled “the enemy within.”

Across several television interviews that aired Sunday, Vance also dismissed former Trump White House chief of staff John F. Kelly’s warnings that the former president meets the definition of a fascist. Vance described Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general, as a “disgruntled employee.”

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