Two new polls from UMass Lowell/YouGov:
- Michigan: Harris 48%, Trump 43%
- Pennsylvania: Harris 48%, Trump 43%
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Anti-U.S. Axis Divided Over Trump vs. Harris
“Russia and Iran are close partners in Ukraine and in the Middle East, but they’re intervening on opposite sides in the U.S. election,” Axios reports.
“An emerging axis of U.S. adversaries and rivals, including China and North Korea, has moved closer together on a number of fronts in recent years — but not when it comes to partisan U.S. politics.”
Harris Holds Solid Lead in Virginia
A new Emerson College/The Hill survey finds 52% of Virginia voters support Kamala Harris for president in 2024, while 44% support Donald Trump.
Foreign Leaders Seek Meetings with Trump
“Foreign leaders traveling to the United States to attend the U.N. General Assembly this week in New York have also been meeting with former president Donald Trump, as they hedge their bets in case of a Trump victory in the November election,” the Washington Post reports.
Top Senator Targeted in Deepfake Operation
“Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Ben Cardin (D-MD) was recently the target of a sophisticated deepfake operation impersonating a top Ukrainian official,” Punchbowl News reports.
“On Monday morning, the Senate’s security office alerted a select group of leadership aides and security chiefs for various Senate committees about the incident, which occurred earlier this month on the video conference platform Zoom.”
“According to the notice, the individual was impersonating the recently-former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. “Kuleba” was asking questions during the call that the participants thought were bizarre, including: ‘Do you support long-range missiles into Russian territory? I need to know your answer,’ according to the notice sent to senior Senate aides.”
“The impersonator was speaking in the voice of Kuleba, which sources said they believed was likely recreated using artificial intelligence. The notice stated that the impersonation effort had ‘technical sophistication and believability.’”
Bonus Quote of the Day
“I can put up another controversial post tomorrow if you want me to. I mean, we do have freedom of speech. I’ll say what I want… It’s not a big deal to me. It’s like something stuck to the bottom of my boot. Just scrape it off and move on with my life.”
— Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), quoted by CNN, digging in after deleting a post calling Haitian migrants “thugs” and “slapstick gangsters.”
Eric Adams Indicted
“Eric Adams, a retired police captain who was elected as New York City’s 110th mayor nearly three years ago on a promise to rein in crime, has been indicted following a federal corruption investigation,“ the New York Times reports.
“The indictment remained sealed on Wednesday night, and it was unclear what charge or charges Mr. Adams will face. But when they are made public, he will become the first New York City mayor to be criminally charged while in office.”
“The indictment promised to reverberate across the nation’s largest city and beyond, plunging Mr. Adams’s embattled administration further into chaos just months before he is set to face challengers in a hotly contested mayoral primary.”
Kamala Harris Casts Herself as Pro-Business Pragmatist
“Vice President Kamala Harris laid out a broad vision of her economic plan on Wednesday as she sought to bridge the political divide between the progressive senator who ran for president in 2019 and the pragmatic, pro-business candidate she is presenting herself as now,” the New York Times reports.
“During a speech in Pittsburgh in which she declared ‘I am a capitalist,’ Ms. Harris promised to protect and expand U.S. manufacturing as she tried to convince voters that she will defend and lift up the middle class.”
Harris to Visit the Southern Border
Vice President Kamala Harris is planning to travel to the southern border on Friday, making a trip to Douglas, Arizona, the Washington Post reports.
GOP Lawmaker Demanded ‘Wild’ Haitians Leave Country
Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) deleted the following tweet after he was confronted by Congressional Black Caucus Chair Steven Horsford (D-NV) on the House floor, Punchbowl News reports:
“Lol. These Haitians are wild. Eating pets, vudu, nastiest country in the western hemisphere, cults, slapstick gangsters… but damned if they don’t feel all sophisticated now, filing charges against our President and VP. All these thugs better get their mind right and their ass out of our country before January 20th.”
On the House floor, Horsford later said Higgins has brought “discredit and disgrace” to Congress by his tweet and moved to censure the Louisiana Republican.
House Passes Short-Term Bill to Avert a Shutdown
“The House on Wednesday passed a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown just ahead of the November elections, punting a bigger funding fight to the end of the year,” the New York Times reports.
“Speaker Mike Johnson again turned to Democrats to supply the bulk of the votes to keep federal funding flowing through Dec. 20, after conservatives in his own conference said they would not support the legislation because it would not cut spending and did not include a measure imposing new proof-of-citizenship requirements on voter registration.”
Washington Post: “Already, congressional leaders are bracing for an uglier end-of-year funding fight. The balance of power in both chambers of Congress may change, based on polling in House and Senate races, and a president-elect may well weigh in on the nation’s spending priorities for the 2025 fiscal year.”
Project 2025 Is Severely Unpopular
A new NBC News poll finds about 57% of voters report feeling negatively about Project 2025, with 51% saying they see the proposal “very” negatively and another 7% saying they view it “somewhat” negatively.
Just 4% of voters reported viewing the conservative policy plan positively.
Trump Questions Legitimacy of Overseas Votes
“Donald Trump this week claimed without evidence that anyone living overseas can get a ballot mailed to them, even if they are not eligible to vote, falsely accusing Democrats of subverting a 1986 law to win in November,” the AP reports.
Said Trump: “The Democrats are talking about how they’re working so hard to get millions of votes from Americans living overseas. Actually, they are getting ready to CHEAT!”
Another Poll Shows Pennsylvania Is Close
A new Susquehanna poll in Pennsylvania finds Kamala Harris and Donald Trump tied in the presidential race among likely voters, 46% to 46%.
Trump to Return to Site of Assassination Attempt
“Donald Trump’s campaign has officially announced that the former president plans to return to Butler, Pennsylvania – the location of the first assassination attempt on his life this year – for a rally on October 5,” CNN reports.
Top Aides in Mark Robinson’s State Office to Resign
“Brian LiVecchi, a top adviser to North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, is resigning from his post as chief of staff and general counsel in the office of the lieutenant governor — the biggest move in a new wave of coming departures following allegations that Robinson made racist and lewd comments on a pornographic website more than a decade ago,” WRAL reports.
“In addition to LiVecchi, Director of Communications John Wesley Waugh, Policy Director Jonathan Harris, and Director of Government Affairs Nathan Lewis have stated their intention to resign.”
Ocasio-Cortez Says Adams Should Resign
“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Wednesday said Eric Adams should resign as mayor of New York City, becoming the most prominent Democrat to push for his ouster amid federal corruption investigations involving his administration,” the New York Times reports.
Quote of the Day
“On every significant piece of legislation, we have surrendered to the White House and to the Democrat-controlled Senate… We don’t have anything to show for having controlled the House for two years.”
Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), quoted by Politico.
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