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Last night, Donald J. Trump attended the Al Smith dinner as the former President casually chatted with the political elite, who knew he was a threat to democracy. He also complained about how badly he was treated during his presidency at the ritzy Catholic event. Poor Donald:(

While Donald Trump seems to be dissolving into dementia or some other insanity that makes him unfit for campaigning, much less for the presidency, J.D.

The Trump's God Bless the USA bibles are made in China. CNN traced Trump's luxury $100,000 watches to a shady Wyoming strip mall next to a daycare. The high-end watch brand has ties to a Montenegro lobbying group and a 'male enhancement" honey.

“Over the first half of October, Donald Trump and his allies poured more than $21 million into television ads attacking Kamala Harris over her past support of certain rights for transgender people – a message they have spread during nationally televised NFL games, college football broadcasts and in battleground states,” CNN reports.

Gallup: “More than half of Americans (52%) say they and their family are worse off today than they were four years ago, while 39% say they are better off and 8% volunteer that they are about the same.”
“The 2024 response is most similar to 1992 among presidential election years in which Gallup has asked the question.”

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump “are neck and neck in the polls. But in one popular betting market, the odds have skewed heavily in Trump’s favor, raising questions about a recent flurry of wagers and who is behind them,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

A federal judge ordered Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ (R) administration to stop threatening television stations with criminal prosecution for airing a political ad in favor of enshrining abortion rights in the state’s Constitution, the New York Times reports.

Donald Trump said Friday that Nikki Haley is helping his campaign in the homestretch of the campaign, but not before reminding “Fox & Friends” viewers of his resounding victory over her in a bitter Republican primary race, the New York Times reports.

“An independent panel reviewing the failures that led to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in July called on the Secret Service to replace its leadership with people from the private sector and focus almost exclusively on its protective mission,” the New York Times reports.

“From a mainstream candidate, I don’t think we’ve seen this kind of tapping into the most vicious, nativist, racial backlash. He doesn’t even really use code words or anything. He’s just all in.”
— Princeton professor Julian Zelizer, quoted by Public Notice, on Donald Trump.