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Dueling rallies for Don and Ron?

The DeSantis campaign has booked a hall in Hillsborough County (with a capacity of about 700 people) for Sunday, Nov. 6, the same day that Trump is holding a rally 250 miles away in Miami-Dade. nytimes.com/live/2022/10/1…

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We're finally back on the trucking beat.

Tracy Alloway and I talked Rachel Premack about the legal mess facing the trucking industry, including the fight over AB5, and the legal liability of freight brokerages. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Obama plans to highlight threats to democracy and Democrats' actions on 'helping to get costs under control,' per adviser; and contrast with a GOP 'agenda of cutting taxes for the wealthy, impeaching President Biden and chasing wild conspiracy theories.'

nbcnews.com/politics/obama…

MORE:

The assailant who attacked Paul Pelosi was in search for the Speaker of the House.  

Before the assault occurred, the intruder confronted Mr. Pelosi in their home shouting “where is Nancy, where is Nancy?”

The weapon used against Paul Pelosi was a hammer, two sources briefed on the matter told NBC's Haley Talbot and jonathan dienst

Speaker Pelosi's husband 'violently assaulted' during overnight home invasion. He is hospitalized but expected to make “full recovery,” her office says nbcnews.com/politics/congr…

BREAKING — ⁦Nancy Pelosi⁩’s husband was “violently assaulted” in the couple’s San Francisco home, her office says.

Schumer to Biden on the midterms:

'It looks like the debate didn't hurt us too much in Pennsylvania as of today, so that's good...we're picking up steam in Nevada...The state where we're going downhill is Georgia. It's hard to believe that they will go for Herschel Walker.'

Dinesh D'Souza, who wants you believe he's uncovered massive voter fraud (he hasn't), falls for a parody of a news website.

Also the only reason this is UNACCEPTABLE!!!1! is to create the impression that there's some danger of fraud in counting votes, which has been proven wrong innumerable times. twitter.com/AaronBlake/sta…

Katie Hobbs when asked about the campaign office burglary & what items were taken/if there’s reason to believe it was politically motivated:

“I’m not talking about it.”

In PA, Republicans are complaining about how long it will take to count ballots, but state law -- which the Republican controlled legislature has not amended -- does not allow mail-in ballots to be processed before election day:
mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-…

Just in: Liz Cheney just endorsed Elissa Slotkin for re-election in her tossup race against Tom Barrett, the first time Cheney has ever endorsed and campaigned with a Democrat. She'll be in Michigan with Slotkin on Tuesday.

In AZ—>

Phoenix PD says an arrest has been made in this alleged commercial burglary on Monday night.

The Hobbs campaign/PHXPD are not providing details as to what they believe may have been stolen. Police have not said that they have evidence this was politically motivated.

'Four sources told CNN that West had originally suggested the title 'Hitler' for his 2018 album that eventually released as 'Ye.'' cnn.com/2022/10/27/ent…

News: Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is backing Katie Hobbs’ bid for Arizona governor after not endorsing the Democratic candidate in 2018.

huffpost.com/entry/kyrsten-…

WASHINGTON (AP) — US economy returned to growth in July-September period after 2 straight negative quarters, expanding at a 2.6% rate.