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Raleigh’s CBS affiliate reports: For the second time in two weeks, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson missed a vote to concur with a Hurricane Helene-related request from Gov. Roy Cooper. Records show Robinson was again the only member of the Council of State who did not vote on concurring with the executive order, which Cooper issued Saturday. “When Hurricane Helene was …

The Hill reports: The former head of the Florida Republican Party said he’s supporting Vice President Harris after “trolling” from other Republicans over the federal government’s response to Hurricane Helene. Al Cárdenas said in his appearance Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that natural disasters have “always been a bipartisan issue.” Cárdenas said in his appearance on “Morning Joe” that he …

NBC News reports: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is not taking calls from Vice President Kamala Harris about storm recovery just over a week after Hurricane Helene hammered parts of his state. A source familiar with the situation said he was dodging the Democratic presidential nominee’s calls because they “seemed political,” according to a DeSantis aide. “Kamala was trying to reach …

Fox News reports: New Jersey Senate candidate Curtis Bashaw, a Republican, appeared to freeze on Sunday during his debate against Democrat Rep. Andy Kim. The GOP candidate stopped speaking mid-sentence during his comments about affordability and appeared to look off into space. Kim was the first to rush over and check on Bashaw after noticing something was wrong. The debate …

“Currently, Milton is expected to make landfall as a major hurricane on Florida’s Gulf coast. Milton’s anticipated strong winds, torrential rains, and devastating storm surge are likely to wreak havoc across much of Florida. “Although our state is familiar with the dangers posed by hurricanes, this major hurricane approaches toward Florida’s Gulf coast that recently endured severe impacts from major …

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick on Friday afternoon made a campaign stop outside Max’s Steaks in North Philadelphia, the latest in a series of GOP events aimed at reaching out to Black voters in Philly this year. Mike Sfida, manager at Max’s, said he was told the event was for autism awareness and was surprised …

The Economic Times reports: Tesla CEO Elon Musk is offering $47 to every registered voter who refers others to sign a petition supporting the First and Second Amendments. This initiative, launched by Musk’s Elon’s America PAC, seeks to gather one million signatures from voters in key swing states. These states include Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, and North Carolina. …

Axios reports: House Democrats’ campaign arm is leaning hard into Project 2025 in the final stages of the election, launching billboards in more than two dozen districts blasting the conservative blueprint for a second Trump presidency, Axios has learned. Democrats have increasingly tried to tether Republicans to the plan as their polling shows it to be one of the most …

The Washington Post reports: Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), former president Donald Trump’s running mate, said that Trump, if elected, would seek to end federal money for Planned Parenthood. “We don’t think that taxpayers should fund late-term abortions,” Vance told RealClearPolitics on Saturday night. “That has been a consistent view of the Trump campaign the first time around, it will remain …

Mediaite reports: Maye Musk, the mother of billionaire SpaceX, Tesla, and Twitter CEO Elon Musk, advised voter fraud as a way to beat Democrats in the 2024 election on social media Saturday. The 76-year-old shared a post from her son on his platform and advised Georgians who would like to see former President Donald Trump elected to a second term …

Newsweek reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, said on Sunday that he does not intend to call Congress out of recess to vote on emergency funding for federal agencies assisting in Hurricane Helene recovery efforts. Johnson told Fox News Sunday‘s Shannon Bream that lawmakers will be “back in session immediately after the election” to provide any funding needs …

Politico reports: On Wednesday, a federal judge unsealed special counsel Jack Smith’s 165-page legal brief detailing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s alleged criminal activities related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. On Sunday, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton called the move “a temper tantrum from a deranged fanatic” on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “This is unverified, un-cross-examined hearsay from grand jury …

ABC News reports: Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., declined to definitively answer questions on Republican rhetoric surrounding the election and the results of the 2020 race as former President Donald Trump ramps up attacks on Democrats a month before Election Day. Johnson, in an interview with “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos, refused to call out rhetoric from Trump and his family …

The Meidas Touch reports: Since the abortion ballot initiative was first announced (Amendment 4), Ron DeSantis has been on a crusade to put the thumb on the scale to defeat it. The problem is that he continues to use the power of the state to do it. Now, DeSantis has taking his fascistic leanings to the next level. The Florida …

“Now, you heard the shots. You saw the blood. We all feared the worst. But you knew everything would be okay when President Trump raised his fists high in the air and shouted, ‘fight, fight!’ Now, I believe, as sure as I’m standing here today, that what happened was a true miracle. “And on that day, America felt the truth …

The New York Times reports: Elon Musk, the billionaire head of Tesla and SpaceX, strode onto the stage to cheers at Donald J. Trump’s rally on Saturday night, lifted his arms above his head and jumped into the air — twice — exposing his navel as his shirt rode up. ” As you can see, I’m not just MAGA, I’m …

The Daily Beast reports: Royce White, the 2024 Republican nominee for Senate in Minnesota, wrote in a social media post two years ago that “the bad guys won in WWII.” White’s controversial opinion on World War II, first noted by Heartland Signal, is still up. A former NBA player who whined last year that “women have become too mouthy,” White …

The New York Times reports: One sweltering morning in Phoenix, four workers from a Latino nonprofit stood with clipboards outside a motor-vehicle office to do the grunt work of democracy: persuading reluctant Americans to register to vote. While most people took a voter application or moved on, Vlad Stepanov, a conservative video blogger, stopped when he saw the canvassers. To …

The Advocate reports: Lauren Boebert is refunding over $67,000 in donations after Italian Olympic boxer Angela Carini rejected her anti-transgender fundraising efforts. The right-wing representative launched the campaign on GiveSendGo following Carini’s loss to Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who conservatives were falsely claiming is a transgender woman. Boebert aimed to raise $196,000, equal to Italy’s gold medal prize money, to …

CBS News reports: The political class barely shrugged in August when Corey Lewandowski announced he was back at Trump’s side. But when Trashelle Odom learned that Lewandowski had joined Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign as a senior adviser, it was a gut punch. That’s because a little over three years ago, in 2021, Odom, then the wife of a wealthy Republican …