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Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• CNN: Biden Will Soon Have To Decide On Whether To Mount 2020 Bid Run.
<#S1>

• Biden Bringing Book Tour To Montana, Vermont Next Month. <#S2>

• Ashley Biden To Deliver Keynote Address At Women’s Leadership Conference.
<#S3>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Final Polls, Pundit Predictions Cautiously Anticipate Democratic House,
GOP Senate. <#S4>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump Says He Will “Probably Not” Meet Putin In Paris. <#S5>

• Trump Calls For Slow Roll-Out Of Reimposed Sanctions On Iran. <#S6>

• Xi Hits Back At Trump In Trade Conference Speech. <#S7>

• US General Backs DMZ Disarmament Steps. <#S8>

• Pentagon Confirms Meeting Between Mattis, Chinese Counterpart. <#S9>

• Pro-Regime Saudis Back Boycott Targeting Amazon In Wake Of Khashoggi
Murder. <#S10>

• Utah Mayor Killed In Insider Attack In Afghanistan. <#S11>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Trump Defends Ad Deemed “Racist” And “Offensive” By TV Networks, Facebook.
<#S12>

• Trump Concludes Campaign Tour With Stops In Ohio, Indiana, And Missouri.
<#S13>

• Election Security Allegations Upset Georgia Gubernatorial Race. <#S14>

• Nielsen: Caravans “Absolutely” Include Individuals From Outside Latin
America. <#S15>

• Trump Suggests Cabinet Shakeup After Elections. <#S16>

• Trump Will Look At Reports On Zinke Allegations. <#S17>

• Vanity Fair: Trump Advisers “Girding Themselves” For Mueller Report.
<#S18>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• Melanoma Skin Cancer Death Rates In Men Increasing In Most Countries, But
Stable Or Declining For Women In Some, Data Indicate. <#S19>

• HPV Vaccine Uptake Remains Low, Report Says. <#S20>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S21>

• Washington Post. <#S22>
Biden in the News
CNN: Biden Will Soon Have To Decide On Whether To Mount 2020 Bid Run.

In an online article for CNN
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(11/5, Saenz), Arlette Saenz wrote that former Vice President Joe Biden’s
“mission over the past week” to “help Democrats make their closing argument
heading into Tuesday’s elections. But his six day, eight-state campaign
swing, which took him to college campuses, union halls, suburb fairgrounds
and even the early nominating state of Iowa, also carried the trappings of
an opening act” in a possible 2020 White House bid, “with chants of ‘Run
Joe Run!’ filling many of his 12 rallies.” When the midterm elections are
over, said Saenz, Biden will soon have to make a decision on 2020. Saenz
said voters she spoke with at Biden’s rallies were divided on whether he
should run, with some repeating “one hesitancy about a Biden candidacy –
his age.”
Biden Bringing Book Tour To Montana, Vermont Next Month.

On its website, KPAX-TV
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Missoula, MT (11/5) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden next
month will visit Missoula, Montana, where he’ll speak at the University of
Montana. Biden will discuss “and read excerpts from his best-selling books
about his son’s death on Dec. 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the Dennison Theatre. He is
the author of ‘Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics’ and the #1 New York
Times bestselling memoir ‘Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and
Purpose.’” In online articles, KWYB-TV
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Butte, MT (11/5, Whittle) and KGVO-FM
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Missoula, MT (11/5) similarly reported on Biden’s slated visit to Montana.

The Burlington (VT) Free Press
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(11/5, McCullum) reports that Biden is staled to visit Burlington, Vermont
on “Dec. 9 as part of a tour for his memoir, ‘Promise Me, Dad.’ The Flynn
Center for the Performing Arts announced the booking Monday.” Biden’s “tour
is ‘a series of conversations that will go beyond the 24-hour news cycle
and 140-character arguments to connect friends and neighbors around the
topics that matter most’,’ according to a description of the event on the
Flynn Center website.”
Ashley Biden To Deliver Keynote Address At Women’s Leadership Conference.

Delaware Business Now
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(11/5) reports that Ashley Biden “will be the keynote speaker at the New
Castle County Chamber of Commerce’s Women’s Leadership Conference on Nov.
15. The conference is a successor of the Entrepreneurial Women’s Expo,
which ran for more than a quarter century.” The event offers “a forum in
which women in all levels of business can connect with resources, including
educational and business opportunities, that inspire them to achieve
success in professional and personal goals, a release stated.” Biden serves
as “Executive Director of Delaware Center for Justice.”
Leading the News
Final Polls, Pundit Predictions Cautiously Anticipate Democratic House, GOP
Senate.

The final day of the midterm election campaign was dominated by coverage of
late polls and shifting predictions that give Democrats an advantage –
though not a sure lock – on winning House control, and similar odds for the
GOP to maintain control of the Senate. As of late Monday, FiveThirtyEight
gave Democrats an 87.7% chance
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of winning the House, and Republicans an 81.1% chance
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of winning the Senate. Larry Sabato and Kyle Kondik of Sabato’s Crystal Ball
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(11/5) predict a 52-48 GOP Senate and 229-206 Democratic House, and Henry
Olsen of National Review
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(11/5) – who came closer
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than many prognosticators to calling the 2016 election – also expects a
52-48 GOP Senate but sees a 226-209 Democratic House. The Cook Political
Report
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(11/5), which does not predict every race, shifted nine House seats in the
Democrats’ direction on Monday and said as many as 75 seats are in play.

USA Today
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(11/5, Cummings) reports that a late-breaking CNN poll
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shows Democrats favored 55%-42% in the generic House ballot, though ABC
News/Washington Post and NBC News/Wall Street Journal polls released over
the weekend showed a slimmer Democratic advantage. The New York Post
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(11/5, Moore) reports that a Politico poll
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released Monday gave Democrats a lead of just three points – 43%-40% – on
the generic ballot, and Nate Cohn of the New York Times
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(11/5) “The Upshot” writes that “even modest late shifts among undecided
voters or a slightly unexpected turnout could significantly affect
results.” (A final Hill. TV American Barometer poll
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gave Democrats a six-point 43%-37% advantage.)

Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight
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(11/5) wrote Monday, when his site’s odds were slightly different, “An 86
percent chance might seem like a sure thing, but it isn’t – would you board
a plane that had a 14 percent chance of crashing? But an 86 percent chance
(or around 6 in 7) – which is the chance that Democrats have of winning the
House, give or take a bit in the various versions of the FiveThirtyEight
forecast model – is nonetheless a pretty good chance. (Republican odds of
keeping the Senate are also just north of 80 percent in a nice bit of
symmetry.)” Silver points out that “an 86 percent chance is closer to
Barack Obama’s odds of winning in 2012 than Hillary Clinton’s in 2016,”
when FiveThirtyEight gave her “a 71 percent chance of winning the Electoral
College in our final forecast.”

The Daily Caller
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(11/5, White) writes, “The Democratic poll surge looks similar to that of
Hillary Clinton’s before she lost” in 2016. However, Stuart Rothenberg
writes at CQ Roll Call
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(11/5), “The apparent shift of white, college-educated women, especially in
the suburbs, away from the Republicans and toward the Democrats seems to
have fundamentally changed the arithmetic of American politics, at least
for 2018.” Aaron Zitner of the Wall Street Journal
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(11/5) writes that white males, who have tended to vote Republican in the
past, are also no longer a certainty for the GOP: those with college
degrees favor Democratic House candidates by 15 points in the Journal’s
latest poll, though those without favor Republicans by more than two to
one.

The Washington Post
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(11/5, Viser) reports, “Democrats were optimistic” about winning the House
on Monday, “and Republicans remained cautiously hopeful about maintaining
control of the Senate. ... But dozens of key races across the country were
toss-ups or close to it. And few analysts were willing to definitively
predict the outcome.” The Washington Examiner
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(11/5, Nelson) also says “the nation’s leading political pollsters and
forecasters are playing it safe with this year’s midterm elections,
highlighting uncertainty instead of offering bold projections.” Politico
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(11/5, Calderone, Schwartz) quotes CNN Washington bureau chief Sam Feist
saying, “I have no idea what’s going to happen. We’re ready for every
outcome.”

The AP
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(11/5, Peoples) reports, “There are indications that a modest ‘blue wave’
of support may help Democrats seize control of at least one chamber of
Congress. But two years after an election that proved polls and
prognosticators wrong, nothing is certain on the eve of the first
nationwide elections of the Trump presidency.” Julie Pace of the AP
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(11/5) writes that “on the cusp of Tuesday’s vote, many Democrats,” stung
by their confidence two years ago, “are as anxious as they are hopeful.”

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(11/5, story 6, 1:50, Glor), “In the Senate, there are 35 seats up for
grabs. Democrats need a net gain of two to take control, which is not as
easy as it sounds. That’s because 26 of those seats are already controlled
by Democrats. So they have to protect all of those seats and then pick up
two of the only nine seats that are currently controlled by Republicans.
... In the House where everyone is up for reelection, Democrats have a lot
of avenues they believe to pick up the 23 seats that they need. ... That’s
because there are about 66 seats that we believe are in play tomorrow, and
all but six of them are controlled by Republicans right now.”

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(11/5) on Monday morning, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said, “I have never
seen Republicans more united than [we are] now. I think we are going to
kick butt in the Senate, and the House is too close to call. The last 30
days have been a nightmare for Trump-state Democrats, between Kavanaugh,
the caravan, and a growing economy.”

McClatchy
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(11/5, Roarty, Glueck) and CQ Roll Call
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(11/5, Pathé) examine some of the tightest House races.

*WPost Analysis: Pelosi Could Face Democratic Opposition To
Becoming Speaker Again. *The Washington Post
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(11/5, DeBonis) reports that House Minority Leader Pelosi “could complete a
monumental comeback” this week, but “to do so, Pelosi won’t only have to
overcome Republicans. She’ll also have to outmaneuver” members of her own
caucus who want new leadership. Pelosi “is preparing to make her case to
extend a 16-year stint as the top House Democrat – a tenure that included
four years as speaker.” She told the Post, “My argument’s been about what
needs to be done and who’s the best person to get it done. Nobody is
indispensable. But I do think that I am best qualified to take us into the
future, protect the Affordable Care Act, to do our infrastructure bill, and
the rest.”

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(11/5, story 6, 1:10, Muir), “Democrats are going to put the Trump
Administration under an intense microscope. ... They are going to demand to
see President Trump’s tax returns. They’re going to dig into conflicts of
interest to questions about possible Russia collusion. ... Democrats are
likely to take steps to try to protect the special counsel.”

*Some Critics Say Senate Needs “Playbook” Different From Schumer’s.
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(11/2, Terris) looks at the future of Senate Minority Leader Schumer, who
would be expected to keep that job if the GOP holds the Senate. While his
backers say he is “the right man for the job” of keeping the Senate “from
slipping further from Democratic control,” his critics say that if Trump
“is willing to break all the rules, Democrats should not be using the same,
tired playbook.”
Foreign Policy
Trump Says He Will “Probably Not” Meet Putin In Paris.

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(11/5) reported President Trump said Monday that he does not expect to meet
Russian President Vladimir Putin during his upcoming visit to Paris. Trump
told reporters, “We haven’t set anything up yet. We don’t know that that’s
going to be the right place. I’m going to be in Paris for other reasons.
But we will be meeting at the G20” summit in Argentina at the end of
November, Reuters
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(11/5, Rampton) reports. “I’m not sure we’ll have a meeting in Paris.
Probably not,” he added. Russia’s RIA news agency quoted Kremlin spokesman
Dmitry Peskov as saying “that Putin and Trump were bound to meet, but will
not hold ‘substantive’ talks.”

“There had been speculation that the two leaders might meet this
weekend when Mr. Trump travels to Paris for ceremonies commemorating the
100th anniversary of the end of World War I,” the Washington Times
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(11/5, Boyer) reports, adding that Trump and Putin “last met in June, in a
closely watched one-on-one summit in Finland.” Calling Trump’s relationship
with Putin “a contentious topic,” USA Today
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(11/5, Jackson) says that the President “was criticized after a meeting in
Helsinki in July after he appeared to side with Putin’s denials over the
conclusions of U.S. intelligence officials who said Russia interfered in
the 2016 election to benefit Trump.”

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(11/5) reported the US Navy has released “harrowing video” of US aircraft
“being intercepted” by a Russian SU-27 “at high speeds” over the Black Sea.
The US EP-3 Aries aircraft was flying in international airspace at the
time. The Navy “calls this Russian action irresponsible.” Barbara Starr
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(11/5) that “the Americans reported that this encounter lasted for 25
minutes. On one pass, the Russian aircraft caused the Americans to feel
turbulence. ... This is something that the US does not like to see,
obviously.”
Trump Calls For Slow Roll-Out Of Reimposed Sanctions On Iran.

The Administration’s renewed sanctions on Iran went into effect on Monday,
with President Trump hinting at a slow roll-out and Administration
officials reiterating the US goal of changing Iran’s malign behavior.
Coverage focused on the expected impact of the Administration’s move, but
at the same time outlined the various concessions that the US has made.
Coverage also cast Iran’s response as defiant, and Europe’s reaction as one
of disappointment.

Reuters
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(11/5) reports the sanctions target “Iran’s oil, banking and transport
sectors and threatened more action, part of a wider effort to curb Tehran’s
missile and nuclear programs and diminish the Islamic Republic’s influence
in the Middle East, notably its support for proxies in Syria, Yemen and
Lebanon.” The moves also “target Iran’s main source of revenue, its oil
exports, as well as its financial sector.” En route to a campaign event
Monday, the President “said he wants to impose sanctions on Iran’s oil
gradually, citing concerns about shocking energy markets and causing global
price spikes.” He told reporters, “With the oil, it’s very interesting. We
have the toughest sanctions ever imposed, but on oil we want to go a little
bit slower because I don’t want to drive (up) the oil prices in the world.”
Trump added, “This has nothing to do with Iran... I could get the Iran oil
down to zero immediately but it would cause a shock to the market. I don’t
want to lift oil prices.”

Secretary of State Pompeo on Monday “told journalists in Washington
the sanctions already had cost Iran the sale of over 1 million barrels of
crude oil a day,” the AP
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(11/5, Karimi, Gambrell) reports. Said Pompeo, “Our objective is to starve
the Iranian regime of the revenue it uses to fund violent and destabilizing
activities throughout the Middle East and, indeed, around the world.” Fox
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(11/5) broadcast Pompeo warning that Iran’s “regime can have a choice: It
can do a 180-degree turn...and act like a normal country, or it can see its
economy crumble.”

Calling the Administration’s move “the largest ever single-day
action targeting the Iranian regime and a crucial step in President Trump’s
pullout from the Iran nuclear deal that was announced in May,” the Washington
Times
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(11/5, Miller) reports Treasury Secretary Mnuchin said the “imposition of
unprecedented financial pressure on Iran should make clear to the Iranian
regime that they will face mounting financial isolation and economic
stagnation until they fundamentally change their destabilizing behavior.”
Mnuchin urged Iranian leaders to immediately cease this behavior, warning
that the “maximum pressure exerted by the United States is only going to
mount from here. We are intent on making sure the Iranian regime stops
siphoning its hard currency reserves into corrupt investments and the hands
of terrorists.”

Reuters
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(11/5) reports National Security Adviser Bolton “said there will be
additional U.S. sanctions on Iran after the Trump administration on Monday
re-imposed oil and economic sanctions, but gave no other details.” Bolton
is quoted as telling Fox Business Network, “We’re going to have sanctions
that even go beyond this. We’re not simply going to be content with the
level of sanctions that existed under Obama in 2015. More are coming.”

The Washington Free Beacon
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(11/5, Kredo) says that a “package of concessions granted by the Trump
administration to Iran and European allies as a bevy of new U.S. sanctions
go back into effect” not only allow Iran to continue certain nuclear
projects, but also walk back the Administration’s “vow to cut Iran’s oil
exports to zero and fully disconnect Tehran from the international banking
system.” The “Iran hawks on Capitol Hill and elsewhere” are “riled” by the
“many loopholes in the recently announced sanctions reimposition,” which
they “have criticized as being too weak.” The AP
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(11/5, Lee) says the Administration “was caught between allies at home and
abroad and the reality of global economics as it reinstated sanctions
Monday on Iran, forced to carve out exemptions for important allies and
back off on measures that could have been even more punishing for Tehran.”
The US “granted waivers to allow China and seven close U.S. partners and
allies to continue importing Iranian crude and other petroleum products
without penalty, bowing to concerns that a complete end to Iran’s exports
would cause a major spike in world oil prices and cause other economic
disruptions.”

The Wall Street Journal
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(11/5, Talley, McBride) reports Pompeo said the waivers – which were
granted to China, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and
Turkey – will allow those countries to continue “temporary” Iranian crude
imports without facing penalties. Asked about the reaction from Europe,
Pompeo cited broad support for the US approach, even as “more than three”
European nations – France, Germany, and the UK, which did not receive
waivers – have pushed to preserve the nuclear deal.

The New York Times
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(11/5, Erlanger) says European governments generally “consider the 2015
Iran nuclear deal crucial to their national interests, and say they intend
to keep honoring it. But to date, they have not managed to put in place a
mechanism for sidestepping the sanctions without antagonizing the Trump
administration.” The Times adds, “the Europeans have found it difficult to
set up an alternative payment mechanism to sidestep the American-dominated
banking system and allow Iran to continue selling its oil and goods.”

The AP
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(11/5, Karimi, Gambrell) says the Administration “insists it does not seek
‘regime change’ in Iran through the sanctions,” even though both “Trump’s
personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and [Bolton] have given speeches advocating
overthrowing Iran’s theocratic government.”

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(11/5, story 7, 1:15, Glor) reported, Iran has responded with
“belligerence” to the reimposed sanctions. State television is
“broadcast[ing] pictures of military air defense exercises,” while “an
anti-American rally on Sunday was a sea of hostile signs and banners.”
Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer said the reactions were meant to send the
message that “Iran is going to shrug off these sanctions,” but “even at
this conservative rally, not everyone looks convinced. Iran’s leaders,
along with the hardline Revolutionary Guards are under pressure.”

The Washington Post
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(11/5, Morello) reports that as “Iran’s military and its powerful
Revolutionary Guard Corps staged joint war drills in the northern and
western parts of the country,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani “defiantly
vowed Monday to ‘break’ U.S. sanctions on oil sales that were reimposed at
midnight, as Tehran resisted a Trump administration pressure campaign aimed
at isolating the country economically.” Rouhani asserted in televised
remarks, “We have to make Americans understand that they cannot talk to the
great Iranian nation with the language of pressure and sanctions.” He
added, “What the Americans are doing today is putting pressure merely on
the people.”

The AP
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(11/5, Karimi, Fattahi) reports ordinary “Iranians already struggling to
get by amid spiraling prices fear even more hardship is on the way with
Monday’s restoration of crippling U.S. sanctions.” The national currency,
the rial, has already “plummeted for months and is now trading at 150,000
to one U.S. dollar, compared to around 40,500 a year ago.” The new US
sanctions “will likely undermine the rial even more since they target
Iran’s oil industry, a crucial source of hard currency,” and “push the
financial sector deeper into isolation.” As a result, prices are
“skyrocketing” for “everything from clothes and transportation to food.”

A Washington Times
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(11/5, Boylan, Taylor) analysis says with “Trump finally pulling the
trigger on tough economic and financial sanctions, Iran is gearing up to
revive a black-market oil export operation that kept the regime afloat the
last time Washington engineered an international embargo on Iranian crude.”
This “battle of wills could determine a critical piece of the Trump foreign
policy as the U.S. seeks to impose its will on Iran and on its leading
international partners to force a major change of behavior in Tehran.”
Regional analysts have warned “that the sanctions may take a smaller bite
than the administration predicts.” Iran, the analysts say, “has been
subjected to energy-sector sanctions so often over the past three decades
that it has developed highly refined techniques to sell bootleg oil and
launder the profits – despite Western efforts to stop such activities.” The
Times adds, “Without vigilant global enforcement, including potential ship
interdictions on the high seas, the sanctions will fall short of stripping
the Iranian regime of its cash.”

The Wall Street Journal
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(11/5) says in an editorial that Rouhani’s defiant reaction Monday to the
reimposed US sanctions was to be expected, but the real person to watch in
Tehran is Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Force, which supports
terror proxies worldwide. The Journal says Soleimani will ultimately decide
how and when to retaliate against the US – and he may do so violently, so
the Administration must be ready to respond.
Xi Hits Back At Trump In Trade Conference Speech.

Bloomberg News
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(11/5, News) reports that in a speech at the inaugural China International
Import Expo, Chinese President Xi Jinping “hit back against President
Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ policies.” Using “some of his most pointed
language yet,” Xi denounced “law of the jungle” and “beggar-thy-neighbor”
trade practices, although he stopped “short of naming Trump or the U.S. in
the speech.” Xi sought “to cast himself as one of the world’s chief
defenders of globalization.”

According to the New York Times
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(11/5, Bradsher), “Despite months of energetic efforts by China to persuade
foreign leaders to attend, only about a dozen presidents and prime
ministers” attended Monday morning, and many were from countries “that have
borrowed heavily from Beijing as part of Mr. Xi’s Belt and Road Initiative,
which is lending money for infrastructure projects across Asia, Eastern
Europe and East Africa.” The Times adds, “Notably absent were the leaders
of major trading nations like Germany, Britain, South Korea and Japan.”

Reuters
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(11/5, Martina, Zhou) reports that Xi promised “to lower tariffs, broaden
market access and import more from overseas.” However, the speech “largely
echoed previous promises,” saying the country “would accelerate opening of
the education, telecommunications and cultural sectors, while protecting
foreign companies’ interests and punishing violations of intellectual
property rights.” Reuters goes on to say that “foreign business
groups...have grown weary of Chinese reform promises, and while opposing
Trump’s tariffs, have longed warned that China would invite retaliation if
it didn’t match the openness of its trading partners.”

Likewise, the Washington Post
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(11/5, Shih) says that “beyond the promises of boosting Chinese
consumption, which has been a long-standing priority for Beijing, Xi
stopped short of tackling the politically thorny complaints voiced by major
trading partners.” The Post adds, “For instance, the United States, Europe
and Japan have taken issue with aspects of China’s industrial policy that
prop up its domestic industries while blocking foreign firms, such as
high-tech and Internet companies, in its bid for self-reliance. And many
foreign governments have professed frustration with the alleged theft of
trade secrets.”
US General Backs DMZ Disarmament Steps.

Reuters
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(11/5, Smith, Lee) reports Gen. Vincent Brooks, the “outgoing commander of
American troops in South Korea,” on Monday voiced support “for
controversial measures to reduce military activity along the border with
North Korea,” as Secretary of State Pompeo “prepared for talks with North
Korean officials on denuclearization and plans for a second leaders’
summit.” Pompeo has “previously expressed ‘discontent’ with the deal that
created the no-fly zone, which South Korean sources said became a key
sticking point for the United States because it would effectively prevent
close air support drills.” Despite the “private concerns by U.S. officials
that the move could restrict training and the ability to monitor the
border,” the DMZ no-fly zone went into effect last week. Brooks, however,
said the no-fly zone and other steps, including landmine removals and
border disarmament, “demonstrate a shared commitment to positive action and
work to develop the trust essential to the next steps along the road to a
lasting and stable peace.”
Pentagon Confirms Meeting Between Mattis, Chinese Counterpart.

The Washington Times
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(11/5, Muñoz) reports Defense Secretary Mattis’ “highly anticipated,
face-to-face meeting” with “Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe will take
place later this week at the Pentagon, U.S. defense officials confirmed
Monday.” During his two-day visit to Washington, Wei will meet with Mattis
and other high-ranking US defense officials, according to Pentagon
spokesman Col. Rob Manning, who “declined to provide specifics on what
particular issued both defense chiefs plan to address during the visit.”
The Times says the confirmation of Mattis’ meeting with Wei comes a day
after Secretary of State Pompeo “announced plans to meet with Kim
Yong-chol, North Korea’s No. 2 official in New York next week.” It also
comes amid heightened US-China tensions over trade, and “as the White House
opted to grant temporary waivers to Beijing, along with several other
countries, from reimposed economic sanctions against Iran.”
Pro-Regime Saudis Back Boycott Targeting Amazon In Wake Of Khashoggi Murder.

The Washington Post
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(11/5, Taylor) reports that the Saudi government “has come under intense
criticism for the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and some
Saudi social media users have come up with a way to fight back: boycotting
Amazon.com.” According to the Post, “Over the past few days, Saudi Twitter
users have used hashtags such as #BoycottAmazon...to encourage their
compatriots and allies to stop using Amazon as well as Souq, an online
retailer bought by Amazon last year.” The Post says it was reported
elsewhere that “the calls for a boycott topped Twitter’s trending topics in
Saudi Arabia for several hours Sunday.” The Post adds, “It’s unclear how
much the Amazon boycott drive represents popular opinion in Saudi Arabia”
where “the use of pro-government bots is widespread and often designed to
get certain messages onto trending lists.”

*Turkish Official Says Saudi Investigators Actually Covered Up
Evidence Of Khashoggi’s Murder. *The AP
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(11/5, Fraser) reports that a “senior Turkish official” claims that
“members of a team from Saudi Arabia sent to help Turkish authorities
investigate the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi worked instead to
remove evidence of the slaying.” According to the AP, the official “said
Turkey believes that two members of the team ‘came to Turkey for the sole
purpose of covering up evidence’ before Turkish police were allowed to
search the Saudi Consulate, where Khashoggi was killed on Oct. 2 after he
entered to collect a document he needed to marry his Turkish fiancee.” The
AP also reports that the same official “said the fact that a clean-up team
was dispatched suggests that Khashoggi’s killing ‘was within the knowledge
of top Saudi officials.’” The New York Times
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(11/5, Gall) notes that “when the group identified as a cleanup team was in
Turkey, Saudi officials were still insisting that” Khashoggi “had left the
consulate safely, and that they did not know where he was.”

The Washington Post
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(11/5) editorializes that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has
received a “modicum of praise” for his “moral clarity” on the Khashoggi
case, but the “Turkish president could strengthen his credibility by
applying the same principles to his own rule.” While Erdoğan “is rightly
outraged by Mr. Khashoggi’s murder,” the Post says, “he should do the right
thing for his own domain: Free the journalists, scholars and civil
servants, and begin to restore Turkey’s once-vibrant democracy and free
press.”

*Dozens Of High-Profile Saudis Remain Unaccounted For A Year After
MBS Initiated Crackdown. *The Washington Post
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(11/5, Fahim) reports that Saudi Prince Turki bin Abdullah, “a prominent
son of former King Abdullah and a fighter pilot with advanced degrees who
trained in the United States and Britain,” is “among an unknown number of
superwealthy Saudis who remain detained a full year after Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman startled his country by turning Riyadh’s posh
Ritz-Carlton hotel into a 5-star jail for some of the nation’s most
prominent citizens in what he called an anti-corruption sweep.” According
to the Post, “Early this year, the Saudi attorney general said 56 men
remained locked up, some the subject of criminal investigations, with more
than $106 billion in cash, real estate, businesses, securities and other
assets recovered in the Ritz operation.” The Post notes that while MBS said
last month that “only eight men were still detained,” some others “said the
number is much higher, with 45 Ritz detainees still locked up.”

*Khashoggi’s Sons Appeal For Return Of Slain Father’s Remains.
*The Washington
Post
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(11/5, Fahim) reports that “the sons of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi,”
Salah and Abdullah Khashoggi, “have made a plaintive appeal for the return
of his body, saying he should be buried in the Saudi city where he was born
in a cemetery alongside his relatives.” The Khashoggi siblings’ interview
with CNN on Sunday marked “their first comments to the news media since
their father was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.”
Abdullah Khashoggi called his father’s case “not a normal situation and not
a normal death.” Salah Khashoggi, “who lives in Saudi Arabia” and has
become “the public face of the family’s sorrow,” said King Salman “had
reassured him that ‘everybody involved will be brought to justice’ for the
killing.” The Post says despite the sons’ request for “the speedy retrieval
of his remains, new details from Turkey’s investigation into the case that
were released Monday made that likelihood seem remote.”

*SoftBank CEO: Firm To Maintain Saudi Partnership Despite
Khashoggi’s “Tragic” Killing. *The Wall Street Journal
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(11/5, Negishi, Dvorak) reports SoftBank Group Chief Executive Masayoshi
Son called the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi “a tragic incident that
should not have happened,” but said his company has a duty to honor its
partnership with Saudi Arabia. The Journal explains that SoftBank operates
the massive global technology fund Vision Fund, which received a $45
billion commitment from the kingdom.
Utah Mayor Killed In Insider Attack In Afghanistan.

All three networks continued coverage on the insider attack that left Army
National Guard Major Brent Taylor dead in Afghanistan. ABC World News
Tonight[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(11/5, story 9, 0:20, Muir) reported that Taylor, a father of seven and the
mayor of North Ogden, Utah, “was killed by a member of the Afghan security
forces.” Fox News’ Special Report[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(11/5) said Taylor was “fatally shot by one of the Afghan commanders he was
training.” Miguel Almaguer reported on NBC Nightly News[image: Image
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<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018110601biden&r=email-4541&l=048-9b8&t=c>
(11/5, story 8, 1:20, Holt) that “Taylor knew the dangers. One of six
brothers to enlist after 9/11, he was awarded a Purple Heart and Bronze
Star after four deployments.” Maj. Gen. Jeff Burton, Utah National Guard:
“He was motivated by love, that’s why he wore the uniform and served his
community.” Almaguer: “In his final days, Taylor helped secure elections in
Afghanistan.” The CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(11/5, story 13, 1:50, Glor) mentioned that Taylor “was one of 15,000 US
troops still serving in Afghanistan, a war that has raged for 17 years.”
Domestic Policy
Trump Defends Ad Deemed “Racist” And “Offensive” By TV Networks, Facebook.

President Trump on Monday reacted to a decision by NBC, Fox News, and
Facebook to pull an ad paid for by his campaign that links the migrant
caravan heading toward the US border with Luis Bracamontes, an illegal
immigrant now sitting on California’s death row for killing two police
officers, and accuses Democrats of seeking to bring people like him into
the country. Trump said the ad, which CNN had previously rejected as
“racist,” and which has been called offensive, is effective, and his
campaign manager Brad Parscale, lashed out at the networks for removing it.
The story led two of the three network news broadcasts and was not reported
on the third. Print and online reporting is also relatively light. Coverage
is decidedly negative, highlighting characterizations of the ad as racist
and offensive and saying the President is standing by its message in the
final days of the midterm campaign.

The Hill
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(11/5, Birnbaum) reports the President on Monday responded to criticism
that the ad is “offensive” by saying “a lot of things are offensive.” Asked
by a reporter about the controversy over the ad, Trump said, “I don’t know
about it. We have a lot of ads. And they certainly are effective, based on
the numbers that we’re seeing.” Trump added, “A lot of things are
offensive. Your questions are offensive a lot of times so, you know.” In
the lead story for NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(11/5, lead story, 2:10, Holt), Hallie Jackson described Trump as “under
fire” over the “controversial campaign commercial,” but added that he is
“shrugging it off, saying he hadn’t heard of the uproar about the racially
divisive video he first tweeted to 55 million followers.” As part of its
lead story on the midterm elections, the CBS Evening News[image: Image
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(11/5, lead story 1:50, Glor) reported that Trump “stood by” the ad.

The Los Angeles Times
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(11/5, James) says controversy over the ad, which “many have branded as
racist,” comes “in the run-up to Tuesday’s crucial midterm elections.”
Trump, who “has been campaigning strenuously in recent days,” often “blames
Democrats for the stalemate over immigration reform and has made prominent
mention of the migrants fleeing Central America by making their way through
southern Mexico.”

White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins said on CNN’s Situation
Room[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(11/5) that the “ad’s message is one that the President and the White House
are sticking with to tell voters on their last day of campaigning. That
goes with new CNN reporting that the President hated an ad released by the
campaign last week that focused on an upbeat economic message and was
focused on the economic numbers throughout President Trump’s presidency. He
didn’t like that ad” and “insisted on focusing on this anti-immigration
hardline message in the closing days of the campaigning before the midterm
elections.”

The New York Times
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(11/5, Chokshi, Victor) says that although “critics had denounced the ad as
false and inflammatory,” NBC decided to “put it up during the ratings giant
‘Sunday Night Football.’” It was “a shorter version of an ad that the
president shared on Twitter last week, which falsely claimed that Democrats
let Mr. Bracamontes ‘into our country’ and ‘let him stay.’” The New York
Post
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(11/5, Fredericks) says the ad “was widely condemned as racist after NBC
ran it during an NFL ‘Sunday Night Football’ game,” and the AP
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(11/5, Bauder) reports the ad also aired Monday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

Reuters
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(11/5, Li) reports NBC, Fox News, and Facebook all pulled the ad, that “was
earlier rejected by CNN, which labeled it ‘racist.’” USA Today
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(11/5, Cummings) reports, “The decision to pull the ad followed an
outpouring of social media outrage.” The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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(11/5) says that as “the backlash on social media started to bubble”
Monday, “NBCUniversal announced it wouldn’t air the ad again.” NBC “didn’t
say why it opted to air an ad called racist by people on both sides of the
aisle in the middle of one the network’s most-watched programs in the first
place.”

Bloomberg News
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(11/5, Smith, Frier) calls the rejection of the ad, “a striking rebuke of a
commercial promoted directly by a U.S. president’s campaign,” while
Breitbart
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(11/5, Caplan) reports Parscale “unloaded” on the networks for removing the
ad. Parscale wrote in a tweet
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“So, @NBCNews @CNN @facebook have chosen to stand with those ILLEGALLY IN
THIS COUNTRY. Instead of standing with LEGAL IMMIGRANTS and those that
follow our laws. The #FakeNewsMedia and #PaloAltoMafia are trying to
control what you see and how you think. STOP THE CARAVAN!”

Politico
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(11/5, Choi) reports that while Facebook declared the ad to be “in
violation of its policies against sensational content,” Another Trump ad
“mentioning both the ‘caravan’ and Bracamontes remained on the social
network Monday.” Facebook “did not immediately respond to a request to
explain the discrepancy.”

Eugene Robinson writes in the Washington Post
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(11/5) that the President and Republicans “have run the most racist
national political campaign since the 1968 presidential bid of
segregationist George Wallace.” Trump, Robinson writes, “is blatantly
encouraging his white supporters to buy into ugly, long-discredited racist
stereotypes about African Americans,” and his “racism toward Latinos is
worse.” Meanwhile, “the Republican Party shamefully goes along without even
a word of protest.”

Van Jones said on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(11/5), “The idea that the President of the United States likes an ad,
loved it, tweets it out, and it is so racist and so offensive that Fox
News, no great friend of civil rights, can’t even run it, we act like
that’s just normal. ... That is horrible. That is really, really bad. And,
you know, we got young people tuning in for the first time in their lives
to try to watch politics and understand what’s going on and this is their
first exposure to American politics. The President of the United States is
such a raving bigot that he likes stuff that cannot be shown to them on
television. There’s something wrong with that.”

Gloria Borger said on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360[image: Image
removed by sender. Video]
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(11/5), “This is the closing ad of a campaign that the President says has
been about him, all about him and networks can’t run it. I mean, just think
about that.”
Trump Concludes Campaign Tour With Stops In Ohio, Indiana, And Missouri.

President Trump wrapped up his campaign tour on behalf of Republican
candidates with events Monday in Ohio, Indiana, and Missouri. David Muir
reported on ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018110601biden&r=email-4541&l=05c-5b6&t=c>
(11/5, lead story, 3:30) that “so many key races [are] razor thin tonight,
and President Trump knows it, telling supporters, ‘Pretend I’m on the
ballot.’ In so many ways, this will be a referendum on the President. The
stakes are enormous.” ABC’s Jonathan Karl: “Urged by party leaders to focus
on what they think is his strongest selling point, President Trump is now
talking up jobs and the economy. ... But the core of the President’s
closing argument is not hope, it’s fear – dark warnings about illegal
immigration.” Trump: “Democrats are inviting caravan after caravan – isn’t
that nice? – of illegal aliens to flood into our country and overwhelm your
communities.” Karl: “There’s no evidence Democrats having anything to do
with the caravans of migrants fleeing violence and poverty, and they are
more than 600 miles from the border.”

On the CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(11/5, story 2, 1:20, Glor), Weijia Jiang reported, “In the past 16 years,
the only president with worse approval ratings heading into a midterm
election than Mr. Trump was George W. Bush in 2006, when Republicans lost
30 seats in the House. Democrats hope to see a repeat, but know it’s not a
done deal.” On NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(11/5, story 2, 1:30, Holt), Andrea Mitchell reported, “The stakes are
huge. If Democrats win the House, they gain control of committees and
subpoena power, the ability to investigate President Trump.”

White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins said on CNN’s Situation
Room[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(11/5), “There is not a lot of confidence inside the White House they are
going to keep the House. So, they are trying to brace the President for
this and temper his expectations ahead of tomorrow. They’re telling him
they don’t feel good about what their chances are with the House, but they
do feel confident about keeping the Senate.” Jim Acosta said on CNN’s
Situation Room[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(11/5), “One top Republican aide up on Capitol Hill told me the worries are
growing up on Congress that the President’s rhetoric has gotten so out of
control, it may turn off suburban swing district voters and tip control of
the House to the Democrats.”

The AP
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(11/6, Lemire, Lucey, Miller) reports, “With the monthslong fight serving
as a testing ground for his nationalist appeals and the strength of the
coalition that powered him to the White House two years ago, Trump closed
out a campaign season that has been defined by his racially charged
rhetoric, hard-line immigration moves and scattershot policy proposals.” USA
Today
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(11/5, Jackson, Fritze) reports that he “warned supporters during a series
of rallies Monday that Democrats would gut his agenda if they win control
of the House and Senate. ... As he has throughout this election season,
Trump accused Democrats of seeking ‘socialism’ through higher taxes, a
government ‘takeover’ of health care, and new ‘job-killing’ government
regulations. He described Democrats as supporting ‘open borders’ for
‘criminal aliens,’ while touting the strong economy and low unemployment of
the past several years.”

The Washington Post
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(11/5, Wan) reports that Trump “attacked Democrats and said they would let
undocumented immigrants ‘overwhelm’ communities, in an election-eve pitch
meant to energize his base amid signs of trouble for some GOP candidates.”
The New York Times
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(11/5, Baker, Shear, Rogers) reports that he “closed out an us-against-them
midterm election campaign that was built on dark themes of fear,
nationalism and racial animosity.” The Times says his “fiery,
invective-filled campaigning produced what may be the most polarized
midterm contest in modern times as he played to tribal rifts in American
society in a way that no president has done since before the civil rights
era. ... More than most midterms, this election became a referendum” on the
incumbent president.

The Los Angeles Times
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(11/5, Bierman) reports that since last month, the President “has held two
dozen rallies in nearly as many states.” He “has made the midterm elections
about himself – and his rhetoric to stoke fear and resentment of immigrants
– more than any predecessors in memory.” The Wall Street Journal
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(11/5, Nicholas, Ballhaus) reports that in addition to the polarized
electorate, the President is also facing historic trends in which voters
back the opposition party in midterm elections.

*Trump In Ohio: Democrat Cordray A “Radical Socialist” And “A Bad
Person.” *The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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(11/5, Richardson) reports that Trump “made one last effort on Monday in
Ohio to shift voters’ focus from the prevailing issues of the 2018 midterm
elections to a laundry list of reasons why the public should be afraid if
Democrats win.” The President “embarked on an 11th-hour campaign tour to
states where Republicans running for office might be vulnerable, including
his Monday stop” at the IX Center in Cleveland “to gin up support for GOP
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, who’s locked in a tight race for
governor with Democratic former federal consumer watchdog Richard Cordray.”
Trump called Cordray “a ‘far-left, radical Socialist’ who, along with other
Democrats, would wreck the economy.”

The Cincinnati Enquirer
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(11/5, Balmert) reports that while DeWine “hasn’t built his campaign on
appealing to Trump voters,” in the “tight race...he was fine pitching them
on his version of Ohio’s future. DeWine thanked the president for his
support in the governor’s race, for the tax cuts and for conservative
justices appointed to courts nationwide.”

The Columbus (OH) Dispatch
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(11/5, Rowland) writes that DeWine “got perhaps the best three gifts
possible Monday for his gubernatorial campaign from President Donald Trump:
Effusive praise, condemnation of his opponent, and a few minutes at the
microphone before cheering thousands during an election eve rally in
Cleveland.” Trump said, “Mike DeWine is going to be a great governor, and
Richard Cordray is a bad person who will do a terrible job.” Just before
the Cleveland rally began, the President tweeted
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“Something’s happening America! Get out tomorrow and Vote. GOP so together,
we can KEEP MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!”

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Columbus, OH (11/5, 4:03 p.m. EST) reported Trump “began the rally by
emphasizing that you can not win an election without winning right here in
Ohio, before running down Richard Cordray by calling him a ‘bad guy who
hurt a lot of people.’ Trump added that a vote for Democrats is a vote for
caravans and crime.” WJW-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Cleveland (11/5, 5:00 p.m. EST) reported that Trump “won this state of Ohio
in 2016 and encouraged voters here to support Republican candidates for
Congress and governor.” WEWS-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Cleveland (11/5, 4:03 p.m. EST) called the event “classic Trump.”

Following the event, Trump tweeted
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“Thank you Ohio! When you enter the voting booth tomorrow you will be
making a simple choice. A vote for Republicans is a vote to continue our
extraordinary prosperity. A vote for Dems is a vote to bring this Economic
Boom crashing to a sudden, screeching halt. Vote @MikeDeWine!” DeWine did
not directly tweet after the rally, but retweeted
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a @GOP tweet about it.

The RCP average
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shows Cordray with a 4.7-point lead, and FiveThirtyEight
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gives him a 59.4% chance of winning. Sabato’s Crystal Ball
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is predicting a Cordray victory.

*Trump Warns Indiana Crowd Of “Democrat-Led Assault On America’s
Sovereignty.” *En route to Indiana to campaign for GOP Senate nominee Mike
Braun, the President tweeted
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“Republicans have created the best economy in the HISTORY of our Country –
and the hottest jobs market on planet earth. The Democrat Agenda is a
Socialist Nightmare. The Republican Agenda is the AMERICAN DREAM!” The Fort
Wayne (IN) Journal-Gazette
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(11/5, Francisco, LeBlanc) reports that at Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne,
he “praised his administration and the GOP Congress for their policies and
practices on everything – the economy, trade, taxes, immigration, health
care, crime, Supreme Court appointments – and condemned Democrats for
standing in the way on all of it. His audience regularly cheered or booed
as if on cue.” Trump said, “There’s only one way to stop this Democrat-led
assault on America’s sovereignty. You have to vote Republican tomorrow.”

The Indianapolis Star
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(11/5) reports that Trump “also praised his own trade policies, and the
agreement he pushed for with Mexico and Canada to replace NAFTA” but “made
no mention of Indiana farmers...who have been hit hard by Trump’s tariffs,
as other countries retaliate with their own on America’s soybeans and other
products.” WXIN-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Indianapolis (11/5, 10:05 p.m. EST) described a “fiery eleventh-hour
closing argument” from Trump. WFFT-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Fort Wayne, IN (11/5, 10:01 p.m. EST) reported that Trump’s rally “focused
on achievements the President hopes to build on including the economy,
healthcare, and helping veterans. ... Of course, Trump slammed on Sen. Joe
Donnelly, saying he is a part of the problem.” WBND-TV[image: Image removed
by sender. Video]
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South Bend, IN (11/5, 11:03 p.m. EST) called Trump’s visit “another sign of
how important Indiana is this year.”

Following the Indiana rally, the President tweeted
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“Thank you Indiana! A vote for Mike @Braun4Indiana is a vote to keep your
jobs going up, y