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on their heads, no less. Trump now claiming he was the target of another assassination attempt in which none of it happened nearer than four hundred yards away from him, and there's no video, and the preliminary ID of the suspect shows a career criminal who was posting about his

dream ticket Nikki Hailey and Vivek Ramaswami. And within minutes, Trump was fundraising off the event and trying to erase the memory of a post he had made earlier in the same day, in which he declared, without context or rationality, quote,

I hate Taylor Swift unquote. Meanwhile, his running mate JV Vance has convassed on national television that he quote creates unquote stories like this lie about a city in the state he represents in the Senate, a lie that has led to the evacuation of schools there, of a hospital, of a university and city offices and if he cannot be forced to resign his office, there must be at minimum on the Senate floor today a motion to expel

or at least censure JD. Vance oh and Kamala Harris's lead over this procession of train wrecks, so many train wrecks that some of them wrecked while still at the station, some of them wrecked while still in the train sheds. Kamala Harris's lead has extended to six points among likely voters. Trump first, and for once, it is not me dropping the T word on him. It is his niece Mary. Quote Donald J. Trump is a domestic terrorist unquote fact check.

I thought we had established this in twenty sixteen hens the bombitas in Springfield, Ohio.

ever known when Trump would be playing golf. That is an assassination attempt, according to Trump, and he is a martyr, and this was ordered by the Pope or somebody, and Laura Loomer will be rushing to the scene to serve as an almost human shield and stop any bullets with her six inch thick application of makeup or his. It will never ever ever dawn on any of these people that this is the America they wanted, and that this

is the America they have gotten. Spend a decade telling people in not so veiled words to commit acts of political violence, and you can't suddenly announce. But I didn't mean acts of political violence against me. Twice now somebody, I'll note again the first guy was another MAGA Republican gun nut who just wanted to shoot somebody. Twice. Now somebody wanted to shoot Trump. And still not one of them will entertain the thought of just banning those kinds

of weapons. The shooters had AK forty seven, this time, apparently four days ago in Tucson, Trump literally praised AK forty seven's as if they were beautiful women. There is literally no sin in his or their brains that could tie statements like that to what happened or, more correctly,

what didn't happen yesterday. There is also no synaps in their brains that could correctly answer the question, would you rather ban just AK forty seven's in AR fifteen's and the like just those, or would you rather let somebody else try to shoot at Trump with one of them for a guy whose cheese whiz is sliding off his ritz cracker with ever increasing speed. Trump had an amazingly

busy Sunday. The I Hate Taylor Swift post is actually real, actually fueled by something in his brain that thought it was somehow a good idea. It was followed exactly twenty minutes later by the failing New York Times is a true threat to democracy, which was either about the Times peace on John Roberts customizing Supreme Court rulings to Trump's life kings, or Trump has just joined our cause and

was complaining about the latest in this Ohio diner. Times both sides this nonsense, or and I confess, for just a second I dreamed things that never were and asked why not and thought maybe he's referring to a letter to the editor in The Times, the one with the headline held involuntarily in a psychiatric hospital, which continues to be the best possible compromise here. That will never be because early yesterday morning, Trump also posted, the Democrats are

destroying our country. Reverse deportation immediately. And I spent a couple of hours on this, and not only don't I know what he meant, but I can't find anybody who does know what he meant. Reverse deportation. That would have to be forcing foreign people into this country, and that would be a policy twist for Trump that would outdo

even his about face on TikTok. Or maybe reverse deportation would have to mean that the nation must stop all plans to deport anybody out of here, in which case you better look around the room for Steven Miller's head,

because it presumably exploded. Trump was replying to a complaint from one of his cultists about other cities in Alabama where local leaders Republicans, by the way, also invited immigrants to come in and work jobs that incumbent Americans would not take in places incumbent Americans would not live communities

like Springfield, Ohio have been reborn. It is a story of America as old as the nation itself because of the immigrants, because in the Ohio case of the Haitians, but of course Susan from Silicaga, Alabama wants the increase in her tax base, but without all them people of color. Because that is the other story of America that is as old as the nation itself, which brings us back

to JD. Vance. The Ohio state representative Casey Weinstein District thirty four Akron has called on Vance to resign because Vance actually did go on national television and tell CNN's Dana Bash, who largely redeemed herself in this interview, that he had quote to create stories unquote like the non existent cat eaters of Springfield, Ohio. Create. He used the word create and then tried to back away from the word create later create stories, and then he said he would do it again.

And you have heard otherwise because JD. Vance is a remorseless propagandist and a racist who is literally willing to torch his own state and get people who voted for him killed to benefit those he really represents, the billionaire fascists like Donald J. Trump. He has no place in government.

It does not appear, even has Trump's excuse of insanity setting aside for the moment the question of the election, there must be a move to expel him from the Senate today because also Springfield, Ohio is actually a dry run. In fact, it is two dry runs for things that are far, far worse. The first is Trump has now revealed the real goal here to deport not just undocumented immigrants in this country, but the ones who are here

officially and fully legally. Presumably that was what Trump was supposed to write when he garbled the message and demanded reverse deportation. And they are already gearing up the next locations to try this out, in the ones in Alabama I mentioned before, and at Charleroy in Pennsylvania, where the racists true fears are being realized, where immigrants are fitting in, assimilating and by the way, working harder than the people who had already lived there and rebirthing their communities. The

second dry run is more dire still. I am patching things together here, not quoting inside information. But if you wanted to see if you could get maga thugs to disrupt election day by targeting a town or a city or part of a swing state that was heavily democratic, say Atlanta, Georgia, or could be Madison, Wisconsin, could be anywhere, if you wanted to estimate now just how much of an impact you could have merely by spreading plausibly deniable

rumors about immigration terrorism cat eating. If you wanted to make bomb threats well, here's your dry run. Sick your cowardly terrorists on. Throw a dart, find a map, and throw a dart oh Springfield, Ohio. Sick your cowardly terrorists on Springfield, Ohio, and see how many people they will threaten to kill and how many locations like schools, universities, public offices, locations where there will be polling stations on

November fifth. Find out how many of them will have to be shut down, how loud you have to get before those idiots who believe in you will stochastically act on your behalf and terrorize a community on election day.

Because for all the handwringing over the falsehoods about Springfield, Ohio that Governor Mike Dwine, a Republican who is retiring, made, he could not bring himself to blame Trump or the national GOP, Nor could the Republican Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno or Lieutenant Governor John Houston or Attorney General Yost

or Secretary of State LaRose. Because this is a dry run, because Trump's chances of winning, and increasingly Republican Senate, House and gubernatorial chances of winning are shrinking with every passing day, and Trump will, and they will resort to anything to change that. Remember, at all times, Trump's life literally depends on winning this election. His nobody else's his. He will kill you to win. He would kill jd Vance to win.

Scaring people into staying home on November fifth is in fact one of the gentler and lazier of Republican options to affect the election. It is also, happily one that can be thwarted by early voting. New version of that from Brian Ray. It'll have its world premiere at the end of this bulletin. I'll play it in full. The lead, by the way, is six ABC News ipsos Harrows fifty two, Trump forty six among likely voters. And that is without a debate bump yet. And remember Nate Silver's actually useful

observation that debate bumps often take weeks to show up. Interestingly, in the ABC poll, her lead did grow one point among all adults. The real polling news, the Des Moines Register, last bothered to look in June, when it was Trump fifty Biden thirty two. In polling that finished last Wednesday and was published yesterday, it is Trump forty seven, Harris

forty three. That's likely voters. Among Iowa women, they favor her fifty three forty six, and the polls shows intent to vote jumps between six and ten points for various key demographics. City dwellers, women, college degree holders, and those under forty five now between six and ten points more likely to vote than they were in June. Iowa may be a swing state in Wisconsin. Insider Advantage polls a month ago, Trump by one is now Harris by two.

Likely voters at Yugov and Tip Insights have the national race at Harris plus four. Born in Consult Harris plus five, ABC Harris plus six. The other headlines, Laura Loomer has threatened to sue Bill Maher for defamation from implying Friday Night that she's having an affair with Trumpey. Of all, who in the hell do I root for here? I mean, what kind of choice is this? Laura Lumer or Bill Maher? How about just a really long, painful discovery. But more importantly,

there is actually a story in this. Lumer, in threatening to sue him for defamation, is claiming that claiming that somebody is having a relationship with Trump defames that person. My god, she's right about something ah, but for the previous Laura Lumer Marjorie Taylor Green, not so much. Eighth eight am. The ABC whistleblower who claimed Kamala Harris was given debate questions ahead of the debate has died in

a car crash. According to news reports twelve thirty five PM, this story appears to be false and I'm glad to hear it. Whatever you say, Barnie. According to news reports from I Made This Up News, the whistleblower has in fact died in Ohio because he was eaten by cats. Those are the Countdown Monday headlines for this the including today fifty first day until the twenty twenty four election. A full edition of Countdown Tomorrow bulletins is the news

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