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• Jack Smith’s blockbuster court filing on Defendant Trump’s criminality leading up to the January 6th insurrection includes revelations about the election night chaos at Detroit’s counting center
  
• The Trump campaign is all-in on lying in paid advertising as well as at his increasingly boring rallies
  
• Republicans for Harris officially launches with Mark Cuban one of the national leaders, and former GOP Congressman David Trott co-chairing the Michigan chapter
  
• JD Vance leaves open the possibility a Trump administration would pull the plug on federal support for a major GM plant in Lansing
  
• The FBI reports crime rates continue to plunge, so the Trump campaign (of course) continues to claim crime is out of control
  
• You can add The Boss – Bruce Springsteen – to the A-List of big name celebrities backing Harris-Walz. All of them are people so well known that they are identified with a single name: Taylor, Beyoncé, Magic, Barbra and Oprah.
  

OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST TO THE POLITICAL WORLD…

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• Employers added 254,000 jobs in September, reflecting strong gains as election nears – The Washington Post
  
• Trump Promised to Release His Medical Records. He Still Won’t Do It. – The New York Times
  
• Trump initially refused to give California wildfire aid because it’s a blue state, ex-aide says – E&E News by POLITICO
  
• Trump and GOP Make BS Migrant Claim Amid FEMA Hurricane Shortfall – The Daily Beast
  
• Slotkin reports $18M fundraising haul for U.S. Senate bid – Detroit News
  
• Mike Rogers’ support for ‘fetal personhood’ could threaten access to IVF and contraception – The Michigan Independent
  

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