THE SHOW NOTES: Harris is Imploding, Milton Surges, & The Crumbling Blue Wall

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OUTRAGE: CBS News Brings In a Racist to Help Its Employees - Substack

MILTON: Hurricane Milton is now a category four storm packing 150 mph winds.

THROWBACK: The Case for Biden to Drop Kamala Harris - New York Magazine

PROBLEM: Public pensions have a massive unfunded liability problem. - Reason

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Harris Blasts Florida

Kamala Harris made headlines yesterday when she blasted Ron DeSantis for refusing to take her phone call in preparation for the pending landfall of Hurricane Milton. However, the DeSantis team was already in contact with the White House and was in the process of coordinating the appropriate federal assistance offered during natural disasters. Here’s the DeSantis response.

On the same day, CBS’s 60 Minutes released a devastating interview with Kamala Harris featuring multiple painful exchanges. Watch:

Changing positions:

Bashing Netanyahu:

Refusing to defend Taiwan:

Iran: Harris claimed Iran is our biggest foreign adversary after the Biden-Harris administration lifted sanctions on them:

The Blue Wall

The Harris campaign is increasingly worried about their blue wall in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. This is from The Wall Street Journal (paywall).

Democrats have privately grown worried about Kamala Harris’s standing among working-class voters in the crucial “blue-wall” states—particularly in Michigan.

Donald Trump has assiduously courted union members and noncollege-educated white voters with a message focused on high costs, manufacturing and the threat of China to the U.S. economy. Senior Democrats, including Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, want a sharper economic appeal from Harris and have conveyed those concerns to her campaign, according to people familiar with the conversations. They also would like the vice president to spend more time campaigning in the state.

Michigan Democrats have urged the campaign to make more overt appeals to auto workers and blue-collar workers by emphasizing the administration’s work to grow the industry and build new plants.

AP: States sue TikTok, claiming its platform is addictive and harms the mental health of children

More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia have filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday, alleging the popular short-form video app is harming youth mental health by designing its platform to be addictive to kids.

The lawsuits stem from a national investigation into TikTok, which was launched in March 2022 by a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general from many states, including California, Kentucky and New Jersey. All of the complaints were filed in state courts.

At the heart of each lawsuit is the TikTok algorithm, which powers what users see on the platform by populating the app’s main “For You” feed with content tailored to people’s interests. The lawsuits also emphasize design features that they say make children addicted to the platform, such as the ability to scroll endlessly through content, push notifications that come with built-in “buzzes” and face filters that create unattainable appearances for users.

Full story at The Associated Press.

NYT: The Mideast War Threatens Harris in Michigan as Arab Voters Reject Her

One year after the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, the relentless and escalating violence in the Middle East is threatening the Democratic coalition in the United States. Arab American voters show signs of abandoning the Democratic ticket, while some Jews worry about their future in a party their families embraced for generations.

Nowhere are those tensions more politically important than in Michigan, a crucial battleground state with a significant population of Arab American and Muslim voters.

Full story at The New York Times (paywall)

The Police Helicopter Video Of Vandy’s Goalposts Going In The River

Trending news:

• ‘That son of a bitch’: New Woodward book reveals candid behind-the-scenes conversations of Biden, Trump, Harris and Putin - CNN

• Kamala Harris Will Propose Major Initiative To Help Millions Of Seniors — And Their Caregivers - HuffPo

• Deloitte feels the wrath of Trump world over employee’s leaked JD Vance messages - CNN

• A former aide to New York Mayor Eric Adams is charged with destroying evidence as top deputy quits - AP

• Biden to set 10-year deadline to remove all lead pipes nationwide - CBS

• Robert Saleh shockingly fired by Jets five games into season - NY Post

• N. Korean soldiers 'highly likely' killed in Ukraine - AFP

• Kamala’s Comedown - MSN

• NBC's Kornacki: Major Shift Towards Trump In "Latino Belt Of Pennsylvania" - RCP

• Poll Finds Harris Rising as She Challenges Trump on Change - NYT (paywall)

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