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This is the same radical Christian nationalist who doesn't want women to vote or to wear pantsuits.

Donald Trump responded to some video questions while he joined FOX and Friends on Friday morning for another softball interview. One of the funnier questions was from a very cute little farm boy who asked Trump what his farm animal is.
Now, most politicians would welcome the chance to show their softer side, especially when talking to kids. You know, make it light hearted. Talk about animals, how they love them, memories as a kid, etc.

On Friday evening, Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin met Eric Hovde in a debate. Overall, the debate was a massacre. Hovde came unprepared and ill-informed on almost every issue. Hovde's entire debate strategy was to try and bully Baldwin into a Gotcha moment, even though he kept failing miserably even at that.

“In the first two weeks of October, Donald Trump and his allies directed about a third of all their spending on broadcast TV advertisements to ads about transgender health care, a significant increase reflecting a major tactical shift from previous months’ ad expenditures,” CNN reports.

“Vice President Kamala Harris will travel through several suburban battlegrounds on Monday with Liz Cheney, the former Republican congresswoman who has become her most prominent conservative surrogate,” the New York Times reports.

“Donald Trump turned his back to the crowd and stared up at the screen. Ominous music rang out. For the next minute and a half, the former president and his audience in Atlanta stood and silently watched clips of news reports of undocumented immigrants committing horrific crimes,” the New York Times reports.

New York Times: “Ticket-splitting, in which voters choose candidates of different parties for different offices up and down the ballot, has for years been on the wane in the United States, as partisan polarization has consumed American politics.”

“More than 353,000 ballots were cast in North Carolina on Thursday, a state record for the first day of early voting, signaling intense enthusiasm in a battleground state still reeling from the devastation of Hurricane Helene and where 16 presidential electoral votes are up for grabs,” the New York Times reports.

But early insights into the significance of such high voter turnout were unclear.”

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Balancing the incredible achievements of SpaceX and Tesla with Elon Musk’s politics. And Kamala Harris and Donald Trump had a couple of contentious interviews this week.

“Two farmers from western Wisconsin are speaking out after a meeting last month on agricultural policy with Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden was derailed by the congressman when he and his staff interrupted and yelled at them, taking issue with the farmers’ apparent political affiliations,” the Wisconsin Independent reports.