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“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.”

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.” “But polling this year, which suggests that some conservative-leaning voters in critical states are rejecting Republican candidates for Senate even as they support the party’s presidential nominee, seems to indicate important pockets of the country where it is very much alive and could boost Democrats’ uphill battle to hold their majority in the Senate.”

“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. “When the montage ended, Mr.

“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.

“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. “On the other side, Kamala Harris and her allies continued to put money into ads focused on taxes, character and health care, while lowering their investment in spots about abortion rights.