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The cowardly billionaires begin to buckle

The billionaire owners at the LA Times and Washington Post have spiked their editorial boards’ endorsements of Harris. This indicates the fear an authoritarian Trump presidency is striking in the media ownership class.

This morning, the opinion polls are trending in Trump’s favor.

538 gives him a 53% chance of winning, while Harris has fallen to 47%. Harris’s lead in the national popular vote is steadily falling and now sits at only 1.4%.

In the swing states, Trump is now ahead in five and Harris only in two. Over the past week, Pennsylvania and Nevada have flipped to Trump:

Arizona Trump (+2.0%)

Georgia Trump (+1.8%)

Michigan Harris (+0.5%)

Nevada Trump (+0.2%)

N. Carolina Trump (+1.5%)

Pennsylvania Trump(+0.3%)

Wisconsin. Harris (+0.3%)

538 says Trump would win in the Electoral College, 275-263. Obviously, this is all within the margin of error and therefore conjecture. But it appears ever more urgent that the Democrats get out their voters and make a last-minute push to overcome what seems at present to be a narrow lead for Trump.

HEADLINES:

• Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports (WP)

• The real problem with the Washington Post and L.A. Times endorsement decisions (SFC)

• Marty Baron on Post endorsement choice: ‘This is cowardice’ (The Hill)

• The Guardrails Are Already Crumpling (The Bulwark)

• Elon Musk’s Secret Conversations With Vladimir Putin (WSJ)

• Can the Media Survive? (New York)

• Harris and Beyoncé ignite a Houston rally with a double-barreled argument against Trump (AP)

• ‘This is who Donald Trump is’: Ex-Trump administration officials sign open letter backing John Kelly’s claims (Independent)

• Some of Trump’s most senior former advisers warn he could deploy troops against Americans (WP)

• ‘Big lie’ 2.0: How Trump’s false claims about noncitizens voting lay the groundwork to undermine the election (NBC)

• Republicans cut into Democrats' early voting edge. What it means for the race. (USA Today)

• Why we may not know the winner of the US presidential election on Nov. 5 (Reuters)

• Abortion bans are top of mind for young women in North Carolina as they consider Harris or Trump (AP)

• Trump signals support for Israeli offensives in call with Netanyahu: ‘Do what you have to do’ (WP)

• Israel strikes Iran as payback for missile attack, risking escalation of Mideast wars (AP)

• ‘Instead of aid, we are receiving tanks’: Key hospital in northern Gaza comes under Israeli fire (CNN)

• Is Afghanistan’s Most-Wanted Militant Now Its Best Hope for Change? (NYT)

• Waymo Closes $5.6 Billion Funding Round From Alphabet, Others (Bloomberg)

• Departing OpenAI leader says no company is ready for AGI (Verge)

• Perplexity CEO Proposes Revenue Deals for Publishers After Lawsuit (WSJ)

• Anthropic’s AI can now run and write code (TechCrunch)

• ‘The Onion’ Officially Endorses Joe Biden For President (The Onion)