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“Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell suggested that Wednesday’s larger-than-expected interest rate cut may have a limited effect on the presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, because the decision’s impacts will ripple into the economy slowly,” CNBC reports.

A new Pan Atlantic Research poll in Maine finds Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump statewide, 50% to 41%.

Semafor: “The former president announced Tuesday that he’d seek to eliminate the limit on state and local tax deductions that he himself imposed in his signature 2017 tax law. That was the fifth separate new tax break he’d supported in three months; he wants to eliminate tax on tips, overtime pay, and Social Security benefits, plus lower the corporate tax rate to 15%.”

Trump Media closed Wednesday at a new post-merger low, on the eve of the expiration of “lockup” restrictions that have barred the Truth Social owners’ insiders, like majority shareholder Donald Trump, from selling their stakes, CNBC

— George Clooney, on Jimmy Kimmel Live, responding to Donald Trump’s call for him “to get out of politics.”

“West Coast Teamsters announced their endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday, just minutes after national Teamsters leadership declined to issue a presidential endorsement,” Politico reports.

“A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a former independent candidate for president, to have his name removed from Michigan’s Nov. 5 ballot,” the Detroit Free Press reports.

“Iranian hackers sent unsolicited information they stole from Donald Trump’s presidential campaign to people who were affiliated with Joe Biden’s campaign over the summer,” CNN reports.

September 18, 2024 at 7:19 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments

Nancy Pelosi blasted Mitch McConnell, accusing the Senate GOP leader of failing to hold Donald Trump accountable for attempting to overturn the 2020 election, Semafor reports.