Outside Spending Eclipses $1 Billion In Presidential Race

“Outside groups have poured an astounding $1.1 billion into the presidential race with less than two weeks to go before Election Day,” NBC News reports.

“Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a linchpin of U. S. space efforts, has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “The discussions, confirmed by several current and former U. S., European and Russian officials, touch on personal topics, business and geopolitical tensions.” “At one point, Putin asked the billionaire to avoid activating his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favor to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, said two people briefed on the request.”

“A Republican organization with ties to Elon Musk has produced an apparently fake manifesto meant to look like Vice President Kamala Harris’ version of the conservative policy initiative Project 2025,” the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. “The document, called Progress 2028, contains contradictions and distortions of Harris’ positions on issues such as gun control, fracking, and immigration.”

A new national University of Massachusetts Amherst Poll finds Kamala Harris holds a two-point lead nationally over Donald Trump, 48% to 46%. A new TIPP poll shows Harris leading 50% to 47%.

Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) said in a newly unearthed interview from 2022 that women who have abortions “hate the country” and “hate that baby” because they know if they carried their pregnancies to term, it would mean responsibility, the HuffPost reports. Said Schweikert: “Llife means nothing, self means everything. It’s about self.

“A secretive Democratic super PAC has been quietly running a massive Spanish-language ad campaign in support of Vice President Kamala Harris, pumping tens of millions of dollars into trying to reach persuadable Latino voters,” NBC News reports.