Voting technology firm Smartmatic, conservative outlet Newsmax reach settlement in 2020 election defamation case
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Barrons.comThe Dow Has Predicted 22 of the Past 24 Presidential Elections. What It Says About Trump and Harris’ Odds of Winning.
The stock market’s performance bodes well for Harris. While the stats are tantalizing, history isn’t necessarily predictive.
- The Canadian Press
Elon Musk makes his first appearance at a Trump rally and casts the election in dire terms
Billionaire tech executive Elon Musk cast the upcoming presidential election in dire terms during an appearance with Donald Trump, calling the Republican presidential nominee the only candidate “to preserve democracy in America.”
- The Daily Beast
Corey Lewandowski Sent Home to New Hampshire After Trump Campaign Coup Fails
Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has been exiled to New Hampshire after parachuting onto this year’s campaign in August and suggesting to people he was plotting a coup, according to a report in The Guardian.After the abrasive Lewandowski returned to the Trump orbit as an unpaid senior adviser, he told people he had been brought back to “run the campaign,” sources told the newspaper. That was false, those sources said, noting Trump merely asked people to find “something for
- The Daily Beast
Donald Trump Goes Off the Rails With Claim That Some Races Have Murder Gene
Donald Trump revealed an unhinged eugenics theory Monday, claiming during a morning rant that some migrants have “bad genes” that make them predisposed to committing murder. Trump spent a good chunk of an interview on the The Hugh Hewitt radio show slamming the policies of his political opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, and baselessly accused her of wanting to install a communist government.“She wants to [do] government housing. She wants to go into government feeding. She wants to feed pe
- The Independent
Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates
Here’s what the latest polls say about the 2024 presidential election, from The Independent’s data correspondent
- The Independent
Nostradamus pollster predicts how an October surprise could impact election
Allan Lichtman has correctly predicted the result of nine out of 10 presidential elections since 1984
- The Daily Beast
Philly Restaurant Bans GOP Candidate After Being Told Campaign Stop Was Autism Event
“You’re not welcome back.”That’s the message the manager of Philadelphia cheesesteak joint Max’s Steaks had for Pennsylvania Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick, after his campaign held an event outside the restaurant Friday that the eatery was told would be about autism awareness.Mike Sfida—who agreed to hold the event because his niece and nephew have autism—was alarmed when he saw Donald Trump signs being hung outside the beloved North Philly spot on Friday, the Philadelphia Inqui
- HuffPost
John Oliver Scorches ‘Colossal Dips**t’ JD Vance Following ‘Civil’ Debate Talk
The “Last Week Tonight” host turned the Ohio senator’s words against him.
- The Daily Beast
Trump Suggests Voting Mandate in Rambling Wisconsin Rally Speech
During the middle of yet another rambling rant about how the 2020 election had been stolen from him, Donald Trump claimed on Sunday that one path to a victory over Kamala Harris is to establish a voting mandate in battleground states.“The only way to avoid this miserable thing for America is if Wisconsin and the entire Midwest turn and, I mean, turn out in record numbers,” the former president told rally goers in Juneau, Wisconsin.“We need a mandate in the vote,” he said. At one point during the
- The Daily Beast
How Trump’s Speeches Are a Red Flag for Mental Decline: Experts
An increasingly incoherent and profane former president Donald Trump, 78, is rambling at his rallies at previously unheard-of lengths and showing signs of confusion that could indicate mental decline, according to a New York Times analysis.An average rally speech by the elderly Republican nominee for president—who has promised to release his medical records and cognitive tests and then refused to do so—lasts 82 minutes this election cycle, nearly double the 45 minutes he averaged in 2016, a comp
- The Daily Beast
‘Fox & Friends’ Ainsley Earhardt Worries Kamala Harris Sounded Too Good on ‘Call Her Daddy’
Fox & Friends’ Ainsley Earhardt fretted Monday that Kamala Harris sounded too good during her appearance on the podcast Call Her Daddy, which she feared could lead to women voting for the Democratic presidential nominee.“Over the weekend she was on this podcast with [Call Her Daddy host] Alex Cooper and I was listening to that and, if you don’t know the issues, you really think ‘okay, she’s selling herself,’” Earhardt said during a segment on the Fox News morning chat show. “She’s talking about
- The Independent
Embattled Mark Robinson losing by double digits in North Carolina gubernatorial race
Scandal-hit Republican candidate is trailing Democrat Josh Stein and faces an uphill battle in North Carolina
- Wichita Eagle
How great Kansas Republicans Bob Dole and Dwight Eisenhower would view Trump’s GOP | Opinion
William Allen White wrote: “The pretension that a candidate’s utterances are omniscient when everyone (knows) he is talking damned nonsense is one of the large reasons why the American people lose faith in democracy.” | Opinion
- The Hill
Trump transition team co-chair warns prospective appointees must prove ‘loyalty’
Howard Lutnick, former President Trump’s transition team co-chair, said prospective appointees will only be tapped for future roles in a hypothetical Trump administration if they prove “loyalty” to the former president and his policies. Lutnick, who also heads the investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald, indicated in a Financial Times interview published Monday that he would try…
- The Hill
Supreme Court declines to resuscitate Georgia Republican’s racketeering suit against Fox News
The Supreme Court will not revive a Georgia Republican’s far-fetched lawsuit against Fox News accusing the conservative news company of racketeering and conspiring to elect his opponent in a 2022 bid for Congress. Wayne Johnson, now the Republican candidate for Georgia’s 2nd Congressional District, finished third in a 2022 primary election for the same House…
- The Canadian Press
Supreme Court rejects Republican-led challenge to ease voter registration
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- The Daily Beast
Trump Would Take a Chainsaw to Planned Parenthood, Vance Confirms
Donald Trump would slash funding for Planned Parenthood if he wins the election next month, according to his running mate. “On the question of defunding Planned Parenthood, look, I mean our view is we don’t think that taxpayers should fund late-term abortions,” JD Vance said on Saturday, according to NBC News. “That has been a consistent view of the Trump campaign the first time around. It will remain a consistent view.”Vance has said before that he believes that the organization should be parti
- HuffPost
NBC’s Kristen Welker Grills GOP Senator On Whether He’ll ‘Definitively’ Say Trump Lost In 2020
The “Meet the Press” host pointed to a “big” moment from the vice presidential debate before questioning Tom Cotton.
- HuffPost
Mike Johnson Claims ‘Who Won The 2020 Election’ Is A ‘Gotcha’ Question
The House speaker declining to say Trump lost the election echoes JD Vance's "damning non-answer" during last week's vice presidential debate.
- NY Daily News
Pro-Trump Republicans gearing up for fresh effort to undermine 2024 presidential election
Get ready for Stop the Steal 2.0 — Republican supporters of former President Trump are gearing up for a fresh effort to undermine the vote count in 2024 if he loses to Democrat Kamala Harris. In some battleground states, notably Georgia, MAGA extremists are pushing for new rules that could permit them to delay ballot counts or even invalidate votes from Democratic-leaning areas. The GOP also ...