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Washington Post: “Now, with less than two weeks until Election Day, some of Trump’s most senior former advisers are warning Americans to take his militaristic impulses seriously. His longest-serving chief of staff, John Kelly, told the New York Times that he feels Trump meets the definition of ‘fascist,’ expected personal loyalty from military leaders and spoke admiringly of Adolf Hitler.”
“In running to retake the White House, Trump has named his unfulfilled demands to deploy the military against civil unrest as one of his top regrets — and one he aims not to repeat.
“Barack Obama is trying hard to make Kamala Harris seem cool,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“With raucous rallies, freewheeling podcasts and rapping Eminem lyrics, the former president is making an all-out push on behalf of the vice president. The Harris campaign is hoping some of Obama’s popularity rubs off as they try to repeat what worked for him in 2008 and 2012 while avoiding the mistakes that doomed Hillary Clinton’s bid in 2016.”
“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.