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Harris seeks to distance herself from Biden’s ‘garbage’ comment

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Vice President Kamala Harris sought to distance herself Wednesday from comments in which President Joe Biden used the word “garbage” when criticizing former president Donald Trump and his supporters.

15 min ago

Why North Carolina is a battleground state

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North Carolina might be the most surprising swing state in 2024. It’s the only one of the seven we’re focusing on that favored Donald Trump in 2020, and Democrats haven’t won it since 2008.

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46 min ago

Analysis: The vast majority of early voters were probably going to vote anyway

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Elon Musk approaches information about the 2024 election with the passion of a new convert: enthusiastic about what he sees, even if he doesn’t entirely understand it. This tendency overlaps with his businessman’s instinct to hype whatever he’s investing in which, at this point, is votes for Donald Trump.

So we get declarations on X, the social media platform he owns, where he celebrates what to a layperson would seem like good news for the former president.

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59 min ago

Trump touts Post, L.A. Times decisions to not endorse in presidential race

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Donald Trump on Wednesday touted the decisions by The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times not to endorse in the 2024 presidential race.

“Do you notice The Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times and all these papers? They’re not endorsing anybody,” Trump said at his North Carolina rally. “You know what they’re really saying? Because they only endorse Democrats. They’re saying this Democrat’s no good, they’re no good, and they think I’m doing a great job. They just don’t want to say it.”

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12:30 p.m. EDT

Elon Musk says X users fight falsehoods. The falsehoods are winning.

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When Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, he laid off swaths of workers tasked with moderating the platform and embraced an experimental approach: asking users to fact-check one another.

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12:17 p.m. EDT

Analysis: Did Biden call Trump supporters ‘garbage’? It comes down to an apostrophe.

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For years, Republicans have strained to recreate the political magic that was Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment. This was when Clinton in September 2016 decided to label as many as half of Donald Trump’s supporters racist, sexist, Islamophobic and/or xenophobic. She soon walked it back, but the damage was done. Voters overwhelmingly rejected the characterization, and Clinton herself later wagered it helped cost her the 2016 election.

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11:52 a.m. EDT

Arnold Schwarzenegger says he’ll reluctantly vote for Kamala Harris

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, the movie star and former Republican governor of California, said Wednesday that he would vote for Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

In a morning post on X, Schwarzenegger wrote that the only way to move forward and better the country, despite his many disagreements with Harris, is to vote for her.

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11:35 a.m. EDT

Election Day poses test for Justice Department monitors in GOP-led states

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The Justice Department’s ability to monitor local jurisdictions for voting rights irregularities on Election Day, already curtailed by the Supreme Court, is facing a new hurdle: opposition from Republicans who are seeking to block federal authorities from polling sites.

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11:19 a.m. EDT

Filipino voters could be key to swaying Nevada for Republicans

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LAS VEGAS — At a recent rally, Drew Johnson joked that he still hasn’t earned “street cred” among the Filipino voters he has spent months courting in his run for Congress.

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10:40 a.m. EDT

Supreme Court allows Virginia effort to strike possible noncitizen voters

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A divided Supreme Court cleared the way Wednesday for Virginia officials to remove about 1,600 voters from the state’s registration rolls less than one week before the presidential election.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) asked the justices to intervene after two lower courts blocked his efforts to cancel the registrations of voters who could be noncitizens — an issue Republican officials have seized on nationally to energize supporters even though noncitizen voting is extremely rare.

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9:56 a.m. EDT

Analysis: They look like Harris ads. Trump backers bought them.

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A pro-Trump organization partly funded by Elon Musk has ramped up a campaign of misleading Facebook ads, posing as a pro-Harris group called “Progress 2028” to present false claims about the Democratic candidate’s platform.

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9:13 a.m. EDT

Trump’s New York rally reflects a party where hate speech has become mainstream

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Hate speech was woven through the fiery words and crude jokes of Donald Trump’s rally Sunday at Madison Square Garden, an event that analysts say showcased how bigoted language has infused the Trump campaign and the messaging of many Republicans.

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8:33 a.m. EDT

U.S. economy grew at 2.8 percent pace, slowing slightly ahead of the election

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The U.S. economy continued its expansion in the third quarter, growing at an annualized rate of 2.8 percent, offering good news for Vice President Kamala Harris just days before the election.

The latest gross domestic product report offers a snapshot of an economy that has slowed slightly from a 3 percent reading in the previous quarter, according to data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis released Wednesday morning.

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8:28 a.m. EDT

More than 52 million Americans have voted so far

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Millions of Americans have already cast a ballot in the 2024 elections through mail and in-person early voting, according to the latest tally from the Associated Press.

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8:14 a.m. EDT

Analysis: Meet the Trump voters who support abortion rights

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Vice President Kamala Harris is betting that abortion is a winning issue just as it was for Democrats in the midterm elections, and the party hopes it will help Democrats win in 2024. Democrats also hope ballot initiatives to codify abortion rights in two presidential battleground states — Nevada and Arizona — will juice Democratic turnout.

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7:46 a.m. EDT

They’re coming after you, Trump says. But who are ‘they’?

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Four letters, one syllable, everywhere and undefined:

“They,” Donald Trump says, “want to silence me because I will never let them silence you.”

“They” are not coming after me, the Republican nominee stresses in a campaign ad. “They’re coming after you.”

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7:17 a.m. EDT

These women are all in for abortion rights — and for Donald Trump

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When her mail-in ballot arrived earlier this month, Emily Jones couldn’t wait to vote to enshrine abortion rights in Arizona’s state constitution — and to fight back against the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.

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6:58 a.m. EDT

White House, Trump campaign clash over whether Biden called Trump supporters ‘garbage’

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A single apostrophe — or lack thereof — caused an uproar in the presidential race Tuesday night after President Joe Biden criticized former president Donald Trump during a virtual event and later denied he was referring to Trump’s supporters as “garbage.”

Biden was speaking on an evening call to rally Latino voters when he brought up a Trump rally speaker’s racist insult of Puerto Rico over the weekend.

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6:45 a.m. EDT

Mike Johnson vows major changes to Affordable Care Act if Trump wins election

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House Speaker Mike Johnson pledged “massive reform” of the Affordable Care Act if Donald Trump is elected president, reopening a politically sensitive policy issue for Republicans a week before Election Day.

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6:30 a.m. EDT

Majority of swing-state voters say they fear violence if Trump loses

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A majority of swing-state voters are concerned that supporters of former president Donald Trump will respond with violence if he doesn’t win the presidential election next month and do not believe he will accept defeat. Significantly fewer voters across those key states feel the same is true about Vice President Kamala Harris and her backers, according to a Washington Post-Schar School poll.

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6:15 a.m. EDT

Harris holds rally at Ellipse warning of Trump’s threat to democracy

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Vice President Kamala Harris delivered the closing argument of her campaign against Donald Trump on Tuesday, arguing that as president she would focus on delivering for everyday Americans while he would fixate on exacting revenge. She spoke before a large crowd at the same site where Trump rallied his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

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