ABC: “A proposed personnel roster circulating within Donald Trump’s campaign and transition operation lists Aileen Cannon, the federal judge who threw out Trump’s classified documents case, as a possible candidate for attorney general, multiple sources familiar with the matter have told ABC News. Cannon’s name appears on a document reviewed by ABC News titled “Transition Planning:…

WaPo: “The Georgia Supreme Court has declined to reinstate an array of rules approved this year by a pro-Trump majority of the state’s election board that a lower court judge had tossed last week after calling them unconstitutional and void. The decision all but ensures that the rules will not be in effect for the November vote.”

NY Times: “There is a palpable anxiety wailing on the winds of American life right now. More than in any other election in my lifetime, I’ve been consistently asked by people of all stripes and creeds: “Can Kamala Harris win this thing? Are we going to be OK?” This sentiment is heard over and over from sweaty Democratic…

Political Wire: The 19th: “Across multiple Republican-controlled states, state officials have waged legal battles and other efforts to thwart abortion rights measures from getting on the ballot or to influence the language.” “But Florida stands out for how DeSantis is deploying multiple levers of power within his administration to discredit the amendment and even block…

NY Times: “Two weeks ago, an influential group of 15 Muslim religious and business leaders convened at an office space in Dunwoody, Ga., a suburb north of Atlanta, to discuss Vice President Kamala Harris. Most were wary of her. In Georgia, as elsewhere, her standing among Arab American and Muslim voters, a traditionally Democratic bloc,…

Why Harris (With Beyoncé in Tow) Is Heading to Solidly Red Texas “Vice President Kamala Harris might have traveled on Friday to Philadelphia or Milwaukee for the umpteenth time, but motivating tuned-out voters in battleground states required something different. So her campaign engineered a trip to Houston — the largest city in Texas, decidedly not…

Lawyer says DeSantis’s office pressured him to send abortion ad letters to TV stations “Attorney John Wilson said that he resigned as general counsel for the Florida Department of Health rather than “complying with the directives” of DeSantis’s executive staff to send more cease-and-desist letters to TV stations running the ad. “I did not draft…

Politico: “Hundreds of thousands of voters in the mountains of western North Carolina are still reeling after the Sept. 27 storm destroyed homes and communities, obliterated roads and water systems and left at least 95 people dead in the critical swing state. But the presidential race here is now very much back on, after conventional…

Charlotte Observer: “Protesters from across the mountains are demanding that Gov. Roy Cooper and other North Carolina officials put in place an eviction and foreclosure moratorium. The demands came after Helene destroyed much of the region last month, tore apart infrastructure and left many without homes. News outlets on the ground first reported a protest…

the Assembly: “When Aran Shetterly’s new book was released this month, he had no illusions about how it would be received in Greensboro. Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City’s Soul, re-opens a dark chapter of the city’s history many have struggled to definitively close. “I fully expect that a lot of…