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 Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty ImagesOn the same day Vice President Kamala Harris is campaigning in Flint, Michigan, Michael Moore is warning of a fatal "mistake that could be made in these final 4-5 weeks" until Election Day.
"If Harris is advised by her wealthy donors to shun the left and drop her more progressive positions in favor of a ‘move to the center,'" Moore, who grew up in the suburbs of the Midwestern city he made famous in his debut documentary Roger & Me (but has since moved away), writes in a new Substack post, it could "reduce or depress the vote." The Fahrenheit 9/11 director, who also voices his political views on The Michael Moore Podcast, has been a frequent critic of Donald Trump and overall thinks things are looking good for Harris.
"Right now, if you know how to really read the polls, or if you have access to the various private and internal polling being conducted by and shared only amongst the elites, Wall Street, and Members of Congress, then you already know that this election was over weeks ago," he also writes, presuming Harris the winner in several election scenarios. That said, "It is never wise to do a victory dance on the two-yard line when Trump is your opponent." As such, Harris has to walk a fine line to see one of his successful scenarios come to fruition.
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 Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden on Friday expressed concerns about whether Donald Trump and his allies will instigate political violence after the election if he loses to Kamala Harris.
"Two separate questions," Biden said when asked at a White House press conference whether he had confidence the election would be free, fair and peaceful. "I'm confident it'll be free and fair. I don't know whether it'll be peaceful. The things that Trump has said, and the things that he said last time out, when he didn't like the outcome of the election, were very dangerous."
His comments were a clear allusion to the deadly riots at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, when insurrections sought to stop the certification of the election results.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Tom WilliamsA reporter known for having sources embedded deep in Donald Trump's orbit said Friday she believes the former president "would welcome" his wife's newly-revealed stance in favor of abortion rights.
Maggie Haberman, of The New York Times, said on the paper's The Daily podcast that Melania Trump taking a public stance as bold as being in favor of abortion rights while married to Trump would "make him happy."
"I think there is a world in which this is not a hidden attempt to try to soften him," Haberman said. "Although I imagine that he would welcome that and would make him happy, and it was simply a way for her to get her thoughts out and get attention."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Reuters/GettyWelcome to October Surprise, the Daily Beast's daily countdown to the biggest election of our lifetime. It's only 32 days until Election Day and here's what's happening in the race to the White House between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
THE DOWNLOADCNN's senior political data reporter, Harry Enten, warned Friday that Vice President Harris' presidential campaign is in trouble—so much so that he said a win would be "historically unprecedented."
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 ABC/screengrabLiz Cheney has a big fan in one of The View's co-hosts, Alyssa Farah Griffin, whose voice seemed to crack on Friday's show as she lauded the former congresswoman for "doing what's right."
"I watched person after person that I admired and looked up to in politics not speak out and just go along to get along—except for one woman, Liz Cheney," the former Trump White House communications official turned View co-host said, voice shaking. She added that Cheney was "a true leader," and "someone who puts their ambition aside, their career, the money they could make, to do what's right."
After first speaking out against Trump and his role in the attack on the capital, Cheney was expelled from Republican leadership and lost re-election in 2022. This week Cheney began campaigning with Vice President Kamala Harris and made a scathing speech blasting Trump at one of Harris' rallies Thursday, during which she also joked about his "spray tanning." Trump responded with a predictable online rant in which he called Cheney a "low IQ War Hawk," and also attacked her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who has also endorsed H
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 CBS Photo Archive/GettyRepublican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance tried to "throw off" his opponent, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, on Tuesday night's vice presidential debate by greeting him with friendliness and cordiality, an aide to the Ohio senator said in a new report.
Walz was reportedly preparing to debate a much more hostile Republican nominee, sources told Axios—and was expecting "more MAGA mode given what [Vance has] been saying repeatedly on the stump."
"The ‘MN nice' dynamic played out more surprisingly and organically onstage than strategically, in a way maybe neither candidate expected," a Walz campaign aide told the outlet.
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 Reuters/Brian SnyderDuring his final weeks in office in 2020, President Donald Trump considered granting clemency to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the internet's best-known drug market, the Silk Road. On Wednesday, the former president upped the ante and said he would personally "SAVE" the dark web impresario, who is serving a life sentence.
"I WILL SAVE ROSS ULBRICHT!" he wrote, in an all-caps post on his financially embattled Truth Social network.
Ulbricht, who used the online handle "Dread Pirate Roberts," was convicted in 2015 on seven counts including selling narcotics and money laundering, as well as running a "continuing criminal enterprise", a charge usually reserved for kingpins like Gangster Disciples leader Larry Hoover and Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
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