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Let's be transparent here, though: Jain (from above) also said that Harris is in the best position at the moment according to actual numbers, and that he suspects a lot of pollsters are overestimating Trump support and may look very foolish on Election Night. I haven't seen anything change in the last 24 hours. If anything I've seen polling (like Times/Siena upthread) that suggest people are starting to come back down to earth re: the somewhat ersatz Trump 'momentum'.

After an attempt to avoid having to cover itself, the LA Times goes forward while Soon-Shiong triples down in the face of subscription exodus:

Wow. Based on several well-informed accounts, it seems like right wing influencer Scott Presler may have been committing (deep breath) voter fraud with/upon the Amish.

The resignation train begins at the Post, too:

Like I said:

Meanwhile:

Never heard of a single one! Probably good news. Oh wait, I know Timon Durrett from Queen Sugar. He's so fine.

Even Chuck Todd:

This is hysterical:

Pathetic. re: the similar LA Times debacle, from The Guardian: And no, I don't think either billionaire has inside knowledge of the election. Bezos has govt contracts coming up for review and wants to appease Trump in case he wins, and Soon-Shiong is just a Musk pal period. This is not going to go well for either.

Agreed. Once they both got going Anderson lost all control.

I'm happy for Johnny to return to GH. We can cut another five people!

The great Eugene Robinson calls out the media: Media Matters responds to the Times' petulant defense: The full Charlamagne segment last night. I don't think Anderson ever recovered tbh.

Seems obvious Sam will die in this 'routine' surgery because Sidwell the cueballed menace has been going around fúcking with medical equipment, like Lulu's mysterious near-scare the other day. Sidwell will be responsible for Sam's demise after Lucas or whoever else blames themselves, and we'll have to endure another year-plus of the same old tiresome Cyrus/Shiloh/Peter, etc. storylines from a few years ago, only with the names changed and Carlo Rota in their place. Yawn.

That's very interesting as well. What struck me the most is simply the possibility that Times/Siena, after trying to overestimate for Trump for weeks (something many pollsters have done since '16 to avoid looking foolish), is potentially coming back down to reality here. I am not going to even bother with today's laughable "Dems bedwetting" story from Axios which has zero on the record sources, very little factual basis in anxiety or actual critique of Harris beyond typical aides' neuroses about the polls/Nevada EV, and comes from (of course) Alex Thompson.

Now this is interesting. Times/Siena has been very Trump-leaning for weeks. Now this.

Well, there was that stint in the gulag when she exited in the '90s. What happened to that?!

Amazingly, the Times is pissed enough to lash out at Media Matters and send it directly to Semafor, where Max Tani eagerly takes up for them: This would be unheard of a few years ago. But the papers/media of record, etc. have been getting much more thin-skinned in the last 8 years. Criticism is getting to them (for the same reason I expect to see Dana Bash calling out critique of her on-air, which she has done two or three times in the last year since getting dragged on Twitter).

No, Bezos is just being Bezos - hedging his bets. Plus there's Will Lewis.

Print is, at this point, cheap. I don't care if Kelly is a right wing hawk with a long history, if he loves this country and wants this message out he needs to take it to TV. (And I won't be shocked if he does, or doesn't.)

The triple screen with the extremely white Anderson poleaxed between him and Angela Rye while sputtering a bit was priceless, I'll say that. I actually don't think Anderson wants Trump to win; I suspect he detests him. But Anderson, like most media heavyweights, has internalized the idea that we must hold all Dems to a double standard (as Dana Bash admitted last night and endorsed, incredibly) vs. Trump and that only Dems must be held critically to the fire as responsible politicians while Republicans skate. It's the old holdover 'punch the hippies' mentality - Dems must always 'prove' they're serious with more and more detail even when they offer plenty (as Harris has), while also always fending off GOP talking points.