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Enten is still over-pimping this per CNN horse race orders as a 'close race' despite the recent state polling (which, while it may or may not be tight in the end, is starting to give off denial vibes a la 2012, and requires them to throw in tons of GOP junk polls to skew it), but he does still have some good material:

Oliver Darcy broods over having to report on a friend. He should get better friends. Non-paywalled link here.

Likely to be shot down in the courts, but yes, awful.

Good work from Bouie, whose Times colleagues must resent him at this point:

From Nuzzi's (former) fiance, sex pest Ryan Lizza:

Meanwhile:

Silver's skewed model finally takes the L:

Not sure if I've said it here before, but I do think it's unfortunate Sam may be going out in such a pedestrian way. I was sure if she died it would be in a hail of bullets or explosion, something action or mob-related given her long history of being in the thick of danger. Sam came on this show as a trained diver and treasure hunter, having her die in PC's local waters taking a dip looking for evidence feels a bit small to me.

This attempt to ignore it won't matter, btw. Nuzzi has enough friends in the Beltway club who are all struggling to report on this right now, but I am willing to bet a lot of other dirt on her has gone underreported til now and will begin coming out more and more (in addition to her existing bad priors). They will attempt to rehab Nuzzi - she will likely crop up as a panelist on CNN or MSNBC or something in the next 6-18 months, she will maybe get a confessional piece in the Atlantic or somewhere. People will signal boost it. But she can't hide what she is anymore or what she's always been. Nuzzi's final destination has always been the right wing fever swamp, just like people like Bari Weiss, Taibbi, etc. I knew she would end up there eventually and she's been trending there for some time, going more and more mask off even in polite Beltway circles. So any rehab won't last. She will be on Newsmax in 5 years, maybe ahead of schedule from what I'd always expected. Lara Loganville.

Unless it turns out Nuzzi was actively involved in policy decisions or something, I will confine the rest of my commentary on her to the Media thread. And yes, I believe she was cozy with Rudy but even I don't think she fucked him.

Not gonna happen.

If you're familiar with her (or my white hot hatred of her) the only thing that comes as a surprise to me is who she cozied up to. I thought RFK was too old/crazy even for her, vs. the 'suave' alt-right/Nazi figures like Richard Spencer or Milo she's been tight with for years. She has always been a fascist socialite/it girl, Eva Braun in Patricia Field. She's also the one who wrote the infamous Biden hit piece several months ago claiming a 'conspiracy of silence' around his mental decline while waxing rhapsodic abut the changed post-assassination Trump. This was in part due to Nuzzi being shut out by the Biden admin when he won. They said flat-out they didn't trust her given her background, including fangurling for Ann Coulter, Milo, etc.

I would never link to National Review. Except now. I think we have a fair shot at keeping the Senate, BTW.

Walz remains the top likable/favorable candidate in the race according to polling. (Harris is now a net positive too and doing well) Don't look it up, because the worst stuff is on Twitter lol. They just kept it out of the CNN report.

There is stuff way, way worse in his Internet history than the sanitized reports, BTW.

A CNN report.

No, their angle is she is a fraud and not a gun owner. Good luck!

Oh, we know. It's in the media thread and it's convinced me that, just like the little boy in that movie said, Heaven is for Real. I have despised Nuzzi for so long. Not since Mark Halperin have I been so sated in this life. Meanwhile, hilariously, GOP accounts think this is somehow going to damage Harris:

WHAT!!!!! @DRW50 this is my Matt Lauer moment. You know what I'm talking about.

Haberman cracks. Incredible.

I thought of that too.

Both ciphers.