Midterms could cement Florida’s status as a red state

BY MAX GREENWOOD

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ORLANDO, Fla. – Democrats fear that 2022 could be the year Florida cements itself as a red state.

With little more than a week to go before Election Day, Republicans appear poised to once again dominate the state. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is running well ahead of his Democratic rival, former Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.), while Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) is struggling to break through in her bid to unseat Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). 

Of course, one election isn’t indicative of a trend, in and of itself. But a strong Republican showing next month would add to the GOP’s winning streak in Florida at a time when many Democrats are already questioning their future prospects in a state that was once seen as the nation’s premier battleground.

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Paul Pelosi attack highlights era of heightened political violence

BY MIKE LILLIS AND MYCHAEL SCHNELL

Friday’s brutal attack on the husband of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) shocked Congress and the country, pulling the nation’s gaze away from the looming midterm elections — if only briefly — and placing it squarely on the plague of political violence that’s risen dramatically in recent years.

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Biden connects ‘despicable’ Paul Pelosi attack to Republican talk of stolen elections

BY BRETT SAMUELS

President Biden on Friday called the attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) husband at their San Francisco home “despicable” and suggested it was a natural progression from lies Republicans have spread about the 2020 election.

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Biden appeals for 2022 support in Pennsylvania: ‘Everything’s at stake’

BY BRETT SAMUELS AND ALEX GANGITANO

President Biden and Vice President Harris on Friday made a rare joint appearance on the campaign trail to boost the Democratic ticket in Pennsylvania, where Senate candidate John Fetterman’s race could determine control of the chamber for the next two years.

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Eastman appeals court order to turn over emails to Jan. 6 committee

BY REBECCA BEITSCH

John Eastman, an attorney for the Trump campaign who helped craft its strategy to buck the certification of the 2020 election results, has appealed to a federal appeals court after he was ordered to turn over emails to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.

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Five takeaways on Musk’s Twitter takeover

BY ALEJANDRA O'CONNELL-DOMENECH

Tesla CEO Elon Musk officially took over Twitter in a $44 billion deal late Thursday night.  

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Rettig out as IRS commissioner

BY TOBIAS BURNS

The Treasury Department on Friday announced the departure of IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, an appointee of former President Trump whose term is set to end in mid-November.

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Tax gap rises as IRS finds amount of unpaid taxes is increasing

BY TOBIAS BURNS

The amount of taxes owed but not paid to the government is increasing, an IRS report released Friday has found.

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Flu season hits early with record high hospitalizations

BY NATHANIEL WEIXEL

Flu-related hospitalizations for this time of the year are the highest they’ve been in a decade, according to new government figures, an ominous sign about the months to come.

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Biden to attend COP27 global climate summit

BY RACHEL FRAZIN

President Biden will attend a global climate change summit taking place in Egypt, the White House confirmed on Friday evening. 

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Disinformation’s next frontier: your texts and private messages

BY INGA TRAUTHIG

OPINION | This election season, disinformation on various platforms and in various languages is spreading yet again.

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Before winter sets in, the Biden administration can cool heating prices

BY BERNETA HAYNES

OPINION | With temperatures dropping and energy prices rising, the forecast is for an expensive winter.

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AP: Musk now gets chance to defeat Twitter’s many fake accounts

BY MATT O'BRIEN

Twitter’s unending fight against spam accounts is now a problem for new owner Elon Musk, who pledged in April to defeat the bot scourge or “die trying!”

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WSJ: Economic Pressures Weigh on Voters in Final Midterms Campaign Stretch

BY JOHN MCCORMICK

Sean Belveal, a 44-year-old assistant high-school principal in suburban Cleveland who voted for President Biden, thinks his middle-class family shouldn’t be struggling so much to pay the bills. It is one reason he is leaning slightly toward voting for Republicans in the midterm elections.

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NYT: In Ohio, G.O.P. Sees a Clean Victory as Democrats Predict an Upset

BY TRIP GABRIEL

CLEVELAND — When Tim Ryan speaks to Democratic crowds in the closing days of the Ohio Senate race, his biggest applause line is about the other team.

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WaPo: At 10, Caitlyne Gonzales survived Uvalde’s school shooting. Then she became a voice for her slain friends.

BY JOHN WOODROW WILCOX

She had clipped a white bow into her hair and slipped on a yellow shirt embellished with a butterfly, and now, an hour before meeting her fifth-grade teachers for the first time, Caitlyne Gonzales sat cross-legged on her living room couch, watching YouTube videos about other school shooting survivors.

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