Morning Report

Hurricane Milton, which regained Category Five strength on Tuesday, is barreling toward the Gulf Coast of Florida early this morning and is expected to strike much of the state in darkness tonight. The storm has sustained winds of one hundred sixty miles per hour and is centered on a diagonal trajectory about three hundred miles southwest of Tampa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vice President Harris today will appear on ABC’s “The View,” Howard Stern’s Sirius XM radio show and CBS’s “Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” seeking to expand her support among younger, college-educated supporters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Election Day is twenty-nine days away and polls continue to suggest a breathtakingly close race nationally and a margin-of-error contest in key states in which Vice President Harris and former President Trump fly in and out, spend campaign advertisement money and focus their rhetorical appeals during rallies and interviews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conflict in the Middle East is heading toward a tipping point, and Washington is scrambling for de-escalation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vice President Harris, in the final few weeks of her presidential bid, has been pressed by events to juggle dual roles in governance and politics amid domestic and international crises. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The presidential contest featured plenty of convivial rhetorical flourishes Tuesday between vice presidential candidates Minnesota Governer Tim Walz Democrat and Ohio ’s Republican Senator JD Vance on big issues that divide the electorate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vice presidential debates in contemporary election cycles have tended to be the opposite of bruising cage matches and often duller affairs for live TV than the faceoffs between presidential nominees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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With four months left in his term, President Biden is zeroing in on two key foreign policy issues: ensuring aid to Ukraine and brokering a cease-fire in the Middle East. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shutdown averted — for now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congress is almost at the finish line for this month’s spending fight, but lawmakers are kicking the proverbial can down the road until December. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former President Trump couldn’t miss the headline in his hometown paper, The New Times, Monday. “Trump’s best poll results in weeks. … He leads in three Sun Belt battleground states. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No one knows this morning how this presidential election will end in forty-three days. Not voters, candidates or paid political advisers. Pollsters greet daily survey results with head shakes and eager calls for fresh polls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lawmakers in the House are launching plan B to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) funding gamble didn’t pay off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Forty-seven days remain until Election Night, but the 2024 election is already underway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is impossible to gauge this morning whether an assassination attempt in July and an apparent thwarted attempt Sunday directed at former President Trump will change the presidential race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former President Trump said he was uninjured Sunday after the Secret Service disrupted what the FBI described as an “apparent assassination attempt” at a Florida golf course where he was playing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No debate rematch, former President Trump announced Thursday in response to the urging of Vice President Harris, through her campaign, to stage another televised faceoff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two days after Vice President Harris and former President Trump faced off in their first presidential debate, one question looms large: Will it move the needle? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vice President Harris stuck to her debate strategy Tuesday with former President Trump by shaking his hand at the outset and then luring him into defensive outbursts that let her accuse him of being mired in the past while touting her own “plan” to bolster the finances of average Americans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The last presidential debate of the summer upended the race and spelled the end of President Biden’s political ambitions. Tonight’s faceoff between Vice President Harris and former President Trump could tip the scales in a contest essentially impossible to predict, at least according to the neck and neck battleground polls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump and Harris are locked in what the latest polls indicate is a pitched battle nationally and in swing states. Despite the hoopla and enthusiasm voters have shown for Harris, Trump’s standing has not eroded nationally since the summer and could be on the cusp of edging past her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Watch your mailboxes, the 2024 election is officially underway. That’s right: North Carolina, which leads the pack for early ballot distribution, is scheduled to dispatch ballots as early as today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Former President Trump’s lawyers will argue to the Supreme Court this week that he can do just about anything he desires and be immune from prosecution, based on the perks of the high office he held and lost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices