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A new Generation Lab poll of college students finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by more than 50 percentage points in the seven swing states, 76% to 24%.
“Near-complete election results are expected from Georgia, North Carolina and Michigan on Tuesday night, but only partial results from Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Arizona, Harris-Walz campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon told reporters in a Monday afternoon briefing,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Dillon predicted additional results from Wisconsin and Pennsylvania will be available earlier in the day Wednesday, with Arizona and Nevada trickling in the rest of the week.”
Said Dillon: “We’re going to continue to see new votes being reported for many days after Election Day.
“They have an expression, I hate the expression actually, but it’s ours to lose. Does that make sense to you? It’s ours to lose.”
— Donald Trump, quoted by The Hill.
“Donald Trump on Monday threatened tariffs as high as 100 percent on Mexico, America’s largest trading partner last year, in yet another escalation of the drastic protectionist promises of his 2024 presidential campaign,” the Washington Post reports.
“Trump said he would impose tariffs on Mexico of between 25 percent and 100 percent until it closed off its border with the United States.
Jon Ralston predicts that Kamala Harris will narrowly win Nevada.
“I have often predicted against my own preferences; history does not lie. I just have a feeling she will catch up here, but I also believe – and please remember this – it will not be clear who won on Election Night here, so block out the nattering nabobs of election denialism.
Franklin Foer: “If Trump prevails on November 5, a version of the partnership he hinted at eight years ago will finally emerge, and in a far more robust form than he could have ever imagined at the time. That’s because many of the wealthiest Americans have reached the cold conclusion that the opportunities presented by Trump outweigh whatever social opprobrium might follow an embrace.”
“There’s a word for this type of cozy arrangement: oligarchy.