Good morning and welcome back to Carnival of Fools, America’s jaunty chronicle of despair! As always, you are invited to subscribe if you’d like to get more of this insanity in your inbox to start off Tuesday mornings — misery loves company, after all. Beyond that, there’s little need for otiose introductions at this point; it’s been another news-heavy week, so much so that we’ll barely be able to get to half of it. And as you might expect in this late stage of a presidential campaign...

Vice President Kamala Harris has a slight edge over Donald Trump in the 2024 race with four weeks to go until election day. Polling and forecasters suggest that Harris is marginally ahead of the former president in terms of national averages. If they translate to election results, Harris will win the popular vote in November. Harris also has a marginal lead in terms of the swing states, which could determine who wins the 2024 election overall. The entire election may...

Monday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Hannity,” Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) excoriated Vice President Kamala Harris for injecting herself into his state’s storm preparation as Category 5 Hurricane Milton approaches the Sunshine State. DeSantis was reacting to comments from Harris, who called the Florida governor “selfish” to reporters. “[F]or Kamala Harris, to try to say that my sole focus on the people of Florida is somehow selfish is delusional,” he said. “She has no role in this. In...

Democrats have privately grown worried about Kamala Harris’s standing among working-class voters in the crucial “blue-wall” states—particularly in Michigan. Donald Trump has assiduously courted union members and noncollege-educated white voters with a message focused on high costs, manufacturing and the threat of China to the U.S. economy. Senior Democrats, including Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, want a sharper economic appeal from Harris and have conveyed those...

All signs suggest that the partisan divide over changing gender roles in society could widen even further in the 2024 election, adding a new source of uncertainty to a contest already on a knife’s edge. Donald Trump’s recent declaration to female voters that “I will be your protector” offered the latest demonstration of the former president’s determination to consolidate the voters most committed to traditional gender roles and family structures – a culturally conservative...

CBS brass reportedly called out morning show anchor Tony Dokoupil on Monday for his tough grilling of author Ta-Nehisi Coates about the controversial author’s pro-Palestinian framing of Hamas’ war with Israel — sparking backlash among staffers over the network’s “commitment to truth.” CBS News boss Wendy McMahon and Adrienne Roark, the president of content development for the news division, claimed the “CBS Mornings” host brought his own bias to the interview with Coates during a...

Voters are now more likely to credit Vice President Kamala Harris than Donald J. Trump with representing change and caring about people like them, as Ms. Harris takes a slim lead nationally in the race for the White House, according to the latest New York Times/Siena College poll. The finding is the first time Ms. Harris has led Mr. Trump in the Times/Siena poll since July, when President Biden dropped out of the race and Democrats rallied behind Ms. Harris as his replacement. It comes...

CBS News leadership is addressing with staff an interview conducted on the network’s flagship morning program by a top anchor that the executives said did not meet its editorial standards. In an editorial call Monday, audio of which was obtained and published by The Free Press, CBS News executives Wendy McMahon and Adrienne Roark said the interview, conducted by anchor Tony Dokoupil of author Ta-Nehisi Coates, fell short of the network’s standards for journalism. “We will still...

CBS News on Monday rebuked one of its star morning anchors, Tony Dokoupil, over an interview that he conducted last week with the author Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which Mr. Dokoupil challenged Mr. Coates’s views about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Top CBS executives, on a newsroom-wide call, described the interview as falling short of the network’s editorial standards. The executives said their critique had been prompted by internal staff concerns, although at least one veteran CBS journalist...

Depending on which media outlets you read, you will either believe one of two things about the 2,000 predominantly Haitian migrants who have moved into small town Charleroi, PA: If you read only outlets AllSides rates as Left or Lean Left, you will take away that Haitian migrants end up in small towns organically via word of mouth and that the issue has been wrongly vilified. You will believe that giving people the opportunity to immigrate from violent and unstable countries is the...