Melania Trump’s latest video promoting her upcoming memoir asks: “Why do I stand proudly behind my nude modeling work?”
Georgia Officials Strategizing to Undermine 2024 Result
The Guardian reports on “a behind-the-scenes network of county election officials throughout Georgia coordinating on policy and messaging to both call the results of November’s election into question before a single vote is cast, and push rules and procedures favored by the election denial movement.”
Murdoch Family Battles Over Media Empire
Rupert Murdoch and his four oldest children were all seen entering probate court in Reno, Nevada on Tuesday for the second day of a pivotal trial over the family trust, the Daily Mail reports.
Eriq Gardner: “I keep getting asked about the likely outcome of this Murdoch trust trial, which is getting a lot more attention since I detailed the court location in Reno, the name of the judge, and the timeline.”
“Honestly, it’s tough to predict. Most of the substantive legal debate remains sealed, eluding even the most tenacious media efforts. That said, given the challenges of amending an irrevocable trust under Nevada law, and considering Rupert’s peculiar rationale—that he’s protecting James, Elisabeth, and Prudence from their own potential missteps by ensuring his politically aligned eldest son, Lachlan, stays in charge—I’d hardly bet on Rupert prevailing.”
DeWine Wants Lies About Haitians in Springfield to Stop
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) told the PBS NewsHour that the lies about Springfield’s Haitian community are “very hurtful,” and “frankly, they need to stop.”
Billie Eilish and Finneas Endorse Harris
Billie Eilish and Finneas have officially endorsed Kamala Harris for president because she is “fighting to protect our reproductive freedom, our planet and our democracy,” Variety reports.
J.D. Vance Keeps Pushing False Pet Eating Claim
Wall Street Journal: “A Vance spokesperson on Tuesday provided The Wall Street Journal with a police report in which a resident had claimed her pet might have been taken by Haitian neighbors. But when a reporter went to Anna Kilgore’s house Tuesday evening, she said her cat Miss Sassy, which went missing in late August, had actually returned a few days later—found safe in her own basement.”
“Kilgore, wearing a Trump shirt and hat, said she apologized to her Haitian neighbors with the help of her daughter and a mobile-phone translation app.”
111 Former Republican Officials Back Kamala Harris
More than 100 former national security officials from Republican administrations and former Republican members of Congress endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday after concluding that their party’s nominee, Donald Trump, is “unfit to serve again as president,” the New York Times reports.
Trump Supporters See ‘the Hand of God’ in Action
“They wore it on their T-shirts and expressed it in the way they kneeled to pray: At his first event after the Secret Service opened fire on a suspected gunman hiding in the bushes around Trump’s Florida golf club — the second apparent assassination attempt on his life in almost as many months — Trump’s supporters were invoking the divine,” Politico reports.
“Over and over here Tuesday, they asked themselves, who was this lucky? And was it luck, or something more like providence that helped Trump had been able to survive not one but two attempts on his life…”
“That many Trump supporters attribute his survival of what authorities say appeared to be a second assassination attempt to the divine marks a new fervor taking hold in the final weeks of the election — and a digging in of his base, framing the election in stark and apocalyptic terms.”
Trump Media Shares Keep Falling
“Shares of Trump Media closed down 6.6% on Tuesday, 48 hours before the end of restrictions barring its majority shareholder, Donald Trump, and other company insiders from selling their stakes,” CNBC reports.
A U.S. National Debt Crisis Is Coming
William Galston: “Despite intensifying polarization, the Republican and Democratic parties are alike in one important respect: Both now behave as though budget deficits don’t matter. Red and blue politicians alike seem to think we can increase spending, cut taxes indefinitely, and borrow whatever we need to close the gap while running up the national debt—all without paying a price.”
Wall Street Has Its Eye on a Big Rate Cut
“Investors have set their hopes on a big cut in interest rates, an expectation that gave new life to the stock market’s rally and shows how pivotal the Federal Reserve’s decision on Wednesday will be to sentiment in the financial markets,” the New York Times reports.
“The S&P 500 rose for the seventh straight day on Tuesday, bolstered by economic data and rising expectations that the Fed will cut rates by half of a percentage point, double the typical quarter-point adjustment the central bank typically makes.”
Washington Post: Fed poised to cut rates for the first time since 2020, but by how much?
Next Year’s Massive Tax Battle Has Already Started
“Most of the tax cuts included in the 2017 Republican tax law don’t expire until the end of next year — but the battle over renewing them has already started on Capitol Hill and on the campaign trail,” the Washington Post reports.
Trump Has Small Lead in Georgia
A new Atlanta Journal Constitution poll in Georgia finds Donald Trump leading Kamala Harris, 47% to 44%.
Another 7% of voters were undecided.
U.S. Overdose Deaths Plummet
NPR: “National surveys compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention already show an unprecedented decline in drug deaths of roughly 10.6%.”
“That’s a huge reversal from recent years when fatal overdoses regularly increased by double-digit percentages.”
Green Party Candidate Stays on Montana Senate Ballot
“Sen. Jon Tester’s (D-MT) reelection was already difficult. It just got a little harder,” Politico reports.
“The Montana state Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling Tuesday that Green Party candidate Robert Barb can remain on the ballot for this fall’s Senate race, a blow to state Democrats who had fervently tried to block him out of fear he would pull votes away from the highly vulnerable Tester.”
Politico: Control of the Senate is coming down to Montana — and Democrats are struggling.
Majority Supports Mass Deportation of Immigrants
A new Scripps News/Ipsos poll finds broad support for the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.
“A majority of Republicans (86%) support mass deportations, as do a quarter of Democrats (25%). Overall, 54% of voters support the policy proposal, while 42% oppose it. … A third of Americans view securing the U.S.-Mexico border as the country’s top immigration priority.”
Inside Mike Johnson’s Doomed Funding Strategy
Punchbowl News: “Are you having major déjà vu? We are.”
“The House is set to vote today on a short-term funding bill that won’t pass. GOP lawmakers are grumbling about messaging, strategy and yearning to get back home to run for reelection. And Speaker Mike Johnson is being publicly and privately cagey about his next move, frustrating the entire House Republican Conference, which is looking for guidance about the leadership’s plans.”
“In fact, the GOP leadership is even in the dark at most times as to what Johnson is thinking and planning.”
NOTUS: “It’s not that Johnson is going to lose his gavel this Congress. The reality is there are so few legislative days left in the term that an ouster would be meaningless anyway. But he is in trouble next Congress, assuming Republicans hang on to the majority and Johnson even tries to be speaker again.”
Axios: Johnson’s colleagues baffled by his shutdown strategy.
Quote of the Day
“I don’t think I’ve ever said this before. So we do these rallies. They’re massive rallies. Everybody loves, everybody stays till the end. By the way, you know, when she said that, well, your rallies people leave. Honestly, nobody does. And if I saw them leaving, I’d say, and ladies and gentlemen make America great again and I’d get the hell out, ok? Because I don’t want people leaving. But I do have to say so I give these long sometimes very complex sentences and paragraphs but they all come together.”
— Donald Trump, at a campaign event in Michigan.
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