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PBS NewsHour – October 28, 2024 (05:00)
In the final full week before Election Day, there’s no indication of who has the edge in the race for the White House. Former President Trump, Vice President Harris and their running mates each campaigned at full-throttle in swing states today. Much of their focus was on controversial remarks made by speakers at a Trump rally Sunday night. Laura Barrón-López reports.
A speaker at former President Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally compared Puerto Rico to “a floating island of garbage,” drawing backlash from the Harris campaign, Puerto Rican celebrities and some Republicans.
Why it matters: Puerto Ricans are an important part of the growing Latino electorate, especially in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania.
Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s controversial remarks came the same day that Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled a new policy platform for Puerto Rico, which was devastated by Hurricane Maria in 2017.
Puerto Rican celebrities Bad Bunny, JLo and Ricky Martin, who collectively have hundreds of millions of followers, shared Harris’ announcement.
Monday on the News Hour, Donald Trump faces criticism for his hours-long rally at Madison Square Garden that was rife with racist and sexist rhetoric. The head of the nation’s cybersecurity agency warns of efforts to sow doubt and chaos before and after Election Day. Plus, Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha processes the current war in Gaza through his latest poetry collection.
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Smerconish, CNN et al – October 28, 2024
AXIOS
Behind the Curtain: The big media era is over
The big picture: When we speak around the country, we often tell audiences that when you’re sitting at a table of people of different ages and politics, several of them probably get their information on platforms you’ve never visited … from popular influencers you’ve never heard of … on topics that might seem exotic or totally new.
Big, traditional media still has its moments — presidential debates, town halls and sit-down interviews. But even then, most of the narrative-shaping is done in quick-twitch video bites or reinterpretation on podcasts, social platforms or YouTube.
SMERCONISH.COM
Revenge Tour Goes Off the Rails, U.S. News & World Report
Trump’s MSG rally featured false claims, vulgar language, and harsh attacks, with a comedian calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” and labeling Harris “the Antichrist.”
Harris Stiff-Arms President Biden, Axios
Harris’ campaign rejected President Biden’s offers to join her on the trail, viewing him as a political risk amid his low approval ratings, while quietly navigating his ego to maintain distance.
Another Poll, Same Results, ABC News
Vice President Harris regained a narrow lead among likely voters nationally, but with the race still too close to call, the election outcome hinges on the Electoral College.
Here Are the Counties To Watch, NPR
Counties like Montgomery, PA, Waukesha, WI, Wayne, MI, and more could decide 2024, as Harris tries to replicate Biden’s 2020 wins while Trump targets key Democratic groups.
Is Hamas Open to a Gaza Deal?, The Times of Israel
Hamas official Husam Badran said the group is open to a deal with Israel as talks resume in Doha, hinging on prior commitments and a potential Egyptian-brokered ceasefire.
October 26, 2024 Poll Results
CNN
- Presidential race
Most voters think former President Donald Trump will not concede if he loses the 2024 presidential election, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, with a sizable minority of his backers saying losing candidates have no obligation to do so. - Days after The Washington Post announced it would not endorse a presidential candidate, its billionaire owner remains silent. Jeff Bezos has so far declined to comment, even as his own paper’s journalists reported that he was the one who ultimately spiked the planned endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Is discrimination always unjustified? Danny Ghosen, Hajar Alariachi and others go in search of an answer to the question: To what extent can and must you treat people equally?
In this 5-part series, Harvard Professor Michael Sandel challenges participants with difficult moral dilemmas, asking: What’s the right thing to do?
For those who expect American politics to conform at least somewhat to the past two and a half centuries of history, the 2024 campaign cycle seems unsettling, an even stranger and more radical break than we’ve seen before. But if you look at what’s driving these changes — a transformed media landscape, the increasingly tenuous link between policy and public sentiment, a sea change in how pollsters track the American public — you can see that it’s not quite a break, but the emergence of a future that some have been living in for years.
James Pethokoukis, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of “The Conservative Futurist,” compared the state of affairs to that predicted by the writer Alvin Toffler in his 1970 book “Future Shock,” which argued that societies experience profound disorientation when exposed to “too much change in too short a period of time.”
“He basically predicted that the pace of change and information would become so overwhelming that it would psychologically destabilize people,” Pethokoukis told DFD. “Looking at our current campaign, whether it’s social media or three-hour podcasts with candidates, it’s hard not to think Toffler was onto something with his concerns about information overload affecting society’s psychological well-being.”
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