The Morning Dispatch: Goodness Gracious, a Useful Debate!

Plus: Will the Trumps bail out the Trump campaign's financial woes?

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Happy Friday! We will miss you, presidential debate season. Only 31 months (give or take) until the first ones of the 2024 cycle!

Quick Hits: Today’s Top Stories

  • The United States confirmed 74,040 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday per the Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 Dashboard, with 6.5 percent of the 1,139,419 tests reported coming back positive. An additional 1,010 deaths were attributed to the virus on Thursday, bringing the pandemic’s American death toll to 223,000. According to the COVID Tracking Project, 41,010 Americans are currently hospitalized with COVID-19.

  • All 12 Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Thursday to advance Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court; all 10 Democrats on the committee boycotted the vote in protest. The 12-0 vote sets the stage for a full Senate confirmation next week.

  • Initial unemployment claims fell by 55,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 787,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Slightly more than 23 million people claimed some form of unemployment benefits during the week ending October 3.

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    Julie from Texas

    I voted on Friday, but nothing would have changed my presidential choice. I've had years and years of watching our two candidates in public life and know, more or less, what I'm getting with each.

    But in the last 2-3 weeks, I watched the political arena more broadly to help me decide about down-ballot races. All in all, I voted 60% Democratic and 40% Republican, which is flipped from my usual lean toward Republicans.

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    rlritt

    Absolutely did happen on at three occasions. I told my brokerage company that I was done trading short term S&P options until he was out of office after I got burned.

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    GREG BROWN

    No offense, but what kind of effing m*ron takes the word of the WSJ news pages as dispositive regarding the Biden families 'business' dealings, who believes their tax returns? - none of them is overly bright, but NO one is dumb enough to put evidence of dirty dealing in official documents or tax returns. The e-mails demonstrate clearly that they knew this and even tried to cover up what they were doing in personal communications

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    P. Kenny

    Good to you quote some of the fundraising messages from the Trump brothers! I’ve been getting stuff—crap! like that from the Trump people from last May. And not just from the dynamic duo of Don JR and Eric: some use the names of (presumed?) Republican stars of different venues, e.g. Karl Rove, McCarthy of the House, “star” candidates like McSally, various others I can’t recall right now. With lots of ALL CAPS! And promising 300, 500, 800 percent matches to my contribution as a TRUMP PATRIOT, but before midnight! But not to worry, deadline is often EXTENDED! For we have to stop the evil Nancy Pelosi!
    I guess it’s for my sins, or for some contribution or online comment from which I can be considered an easy mark. And since it costs almost nothing to send texts to a list they never bother to note that I have never ponied up with a contribution.

    Do evil libs have to endure the same kind of annoying nonsense? Just wondering.

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      Kmregan7

      Yes. I get fundraising texts from BOTH sides and yes they are all annoying "Give money or else evil Pelosi will win!" "Give money or evil Trump will win." I've donated to my preferred candidates as I want and in general ignore and erase the texts otherwise.

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      Mudskipper

      Yes. If you donate to 𝘢𝘯𝘺 candidate through ActBlue, you are rewarded for your generosity by a flood of donation requests from other Democratic candidates. I've actually had people running for judgeships in a completely different state hitting me up for donations.

      What I can say is that the requests from the Biden campaign aren't quite as sleazy as the stuff I get from the Trump campaign, which rely on the most transparent flattery or fear. How I ended up on the Trump mailing list is a mystery to this evil lib. Perhaps my punishment for being evil?

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    Angie

    I voted on the 15th, and deposited it the next day...couldn't change it if I wanted to...but, at this point nothing would, I can't remember a time in 45 years of voting where anything that happened this close to election day made any difference to the reasons I was voting for who I was voting for

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  6. Pohl

    Amazingly, I must be one of the few undecided. I find Biden to be a mendacious, horribly mediocre, life-long pol who made a horrible VP pick and is too frail and undeserving to be leader of the free world. But then there is Trump who I did not vote for. I may hold my nose and vote for Biden, but he is something like the man who lost his clothes and was naked than the man who was always naked, or the corruption of the best is the worst. Someone convince me, please!

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      Ed P

      Please consider how Trump has unraveled rule of law to protect himself and his cronies from much deserved prosecution, that he has demanded the prosecution of his enemies (in the case of McCabe, Barr appears to have tried and failed to convince a grand jury to bring charges), has minced words about guaranteeing a peaceful transfer of power, has undermined our elections nonstop, trolled half the nation relentlessly for 4 years, and ignored a bold attack on our sovereign elections.

      Whatever you might feel about Biden, it is my estimation that our Republic as we know it cannot withstand 4 more years of this leadership.

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      Angie

      I believe and I am hoping it won't be as bad as you fear

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  7. Bob Lebenson

    Making that Giants' play even more absurd is the fact that they CAN actually win the division. Or actually in this case, fail to lose it. Any one of the 4 teams is in that positions, especially since it now appears that Dallas is likely to go winless for most of the season's remainder.

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  8. Jackson

    It wasn't until I saw the video of last night's live event that I realized how much Steve looks like Paul Hollywood these days.

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    Santos Berrios

    “ LIMITED-TIME … 800%-MATCH.” But it’s only for “a few TOP supporters, like YOU, Friend. Do not share this.” This is hilarious! I’ve seen Nigerian Prince emails that were more subtle than this.

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      Mudskipper

      I get emails from the Trump campaign all the time calling me friend and a top supporter and all-around special VIP. It's amusing because I'd vote for a potato before I'd vote for Trump.

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    Jesse R.

    Look, if there’s anything that’s going to change my mind at this point about whom I’m voting for, it’s NASA’s big reveal set for Monday the 26th. #octobersurprise

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