Comment on Trump Doubles-Down on His Base

“A federal judge blocked Alabama election officials from carrying out a last-minute purge of names from lists of registered voters, finding the state ‘blew’ a 90-day nationwide deadline to maintain the status quo ahead of the November election,” Bloomberg reports.

Omarosa Manigault Newman claimed Donald Trump “dictated” what doctors wrote about his medical history, The Hill reports. Said the former Trump aide: “Let’s recall that Donald Trump dictated the letters that went out about his medical history, but doctors weren’t free to write what they want.”

“We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries. If you have a smart president, they can all be handled. The more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis, these people, they’re so sick and they’re so evil.” — Donald Trump, quoted by Axios.

“Donald Trump on Wednesday repeated his false claim that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating their neighbors’ pets, using a town hall with undecided Latino voters to prop up misinformation that has been rejected by local and statewide leaders from both parties,” CNN reports. “Asked by an audience member if he truly believed the story, Trump insisted he was only ‘saying what was reported.'”

“Donald Trump has made courting younger voters — and younger men in particular — a public pillar of his 2024 campaign. But he is conspicuously absent from one platform where they gather in large numbers,” the New York Times reports. “Mr. Trump has not bought a single advertisement on Snapchat, effectively ceding the popular digital messaging platform to Vice President Kamala Harris, whose campaign has spent more than $5.3 million on ads there, according to the company’s disclosures.”

“Kamala Harris is intensifying efforts to convince Republicans to cross the aisle and back her campaign in a bid to expand her electoral appeal with less than three weeks to Election Day,” Bloomberg reports. “The vice president’s campaign has been buoyed by the recent endorsement of former Representative Liz Cheney and the support of other Republicans opposed to Donald Trump, developments her team sees as bolstering their bid to win over more GOP voters in battleground states than prior Democrats.”