| | | | | |  | | By Anna Palmer, Jake Sherman, Eli Okun and Garrett Ross | Presented by |  | | | OUR COLLEAGUES JOHN BRESNAHAN and BURGESS EVERETT interviewed Senate Majority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL this morning, and they passed along this comment about Covid relief negotiations between Speaker NANCY PELOSI and Washington's Most Eager Man, Treasury Secretary STEVEN MNUCHIN: "That was a very complicated negotiation. Depending on who you talk to, I'm not sure they got very close." -- NOTE THE PAST TENSE used here. PELOSI and MNUCHIN are, theoretically, still talking, even though both chambers are out of session with no real plan to return until after Election Day. ABC'S JOHNNY VERHOVEK (@JTHVerhovek): "Obama in FL on Trump: 'What's his closing argument? That people are too focused on COVID! … COVID, COVID, COVID -- he's complaining, he's jealous of COVID's media coverage!'" -- HE'S WATCHING … @realDonaldTrump: "Now @FoxNews is playing Obama's no crowd, fake speech for Biden, a man he could barely endorse because he couldn't believe he won. Also, I PREPAID many Millions of Dollars in Taxes." BIG SWING… ELAINA PLOTT on the cover of the NYT MAG: "Win or Lose, It's Donald Trump's Republican Party" LOTS O' VOTING GOING ON … WAPO: "The U.S. has already hit 47% of total 2016 voting," by Brittany Renee Mayes, Kate Rabinowitz, Peter Andringa and Lenny Bronner -- FOLLOW ALONG with the early vote numbers here , via University of Florida's Michael McDonald and his U.S. Elections Project. -- IOWA CITY PRESS-CITIZEN: "50% of Johnson County's registered voters have already voted, and Election Day's still a week away," by Zachary Oren Smith: "In 2000, Johnson County voters cast 53,299 ballots. In 2004, they cast 66,292 ballots. In 2008, they cast 73,231 ballots. In 2012, they cast 76,199 ballots. By 2016, Johnson County voters cast more than 77,000 ballots. "As of Monday — more than a week out from Election Day — the county's voters have returned 46,944 ballots through in-person, mail-in and satellite voting options — 50% of the county's total active registered voters." BUT IS HE PAYING THOSE STAFFERS UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR, OR NAH? … NYT'S ALEX BURNS: "Bloomberg Funds Last-Minute Advertising Blitz for Biden in Texas and Ohio": "A political adviser to Mr. Bloomberg said the billionaire former mayor of New York City would use his super PAC, Independence USA, to air intensive ad campaigns in all television markets in both states. The cost of the two-state campaign is expected to total around $15 million." THE AMERICAN PROSPECT: "Sources: Gina Raimondo Being Considered as Biden's Treasury Secretary," by David Dayen ANDREW DESIDERIO and JOHN BRESNAHAN: "Meet the senators who will be in charge if Dems win the Senate": "Potential committee chairs include 79-year-old Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at Budget; 80-year-old Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) at Appropriations; 87-year-old Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) at Judiciary; Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) at Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Mark Warner (D-Va.) at Intelligence; and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) at Foreign Relations." JUST LIKE ABE … AXIOS' SARA FISCHER: "Scoop: The Lincoln Project is becoming a media business" WILD NUMBERS DOWN BALLOT ... ALLY MUTNICK: "'It's daunting': Democrats crushing House Republicans on the airwaves": "In the most competitive 94 districts, Democrats have booked over $177 million in ads since Sept. 1, while their GOP opponents have booked $93 million, according to a POLITICO analysis of advertising data. Republican outside groups have partly made up the difference, but the party is still bracing for a string of defeats next month." JOSH GERSTEIN and KYLE CHENEY: "Federal judge rebuffs Justice Department's bid to aid Trump in defamation case": "A federal judge has dealt a setback to the Justice Department's attempt to take over President Donald Trump's defense in a defamation suit brought by a New York writer who accused him of raping her more than two decades ago. U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected the government's motion to essentially step into Trump's shoes as the defendant in the suit, brought by E. Jean Carroll. The move, if successful, would almost certainly have scuttled the litigation. "The judge said the actions that precipitated the suit — Trump's recent denials of Carroll's rape claims from the 1990s — were not related to Trump's job as president and did not amount to official business. Kaplan also said the president was not covered by the law the Justice Department wielded to jump into the case. Allowing the government to assume the role of defendant in the suit likely would have doomed Carroll's case, since the law does not allow libel claims against federal officials acting in their official capacity." POLITICO … The opinion Good Tuesday afternoon. CENSUS UPDATE -- "After high court ruling, DOJ wants census challenges stopped," by AP's Mike Schneider: "Now that the Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to end the 2020 census count, the courts should not interfere with efforts to meet a year-end deadline for turning in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats by state, Department of Justice attorneys said in court papers ahead of a hearing Tuesday. "All further court challenges to the Trump administration's numbers-crunching methods for the 2020 census should be suspended as the U.S. Census Bureau works toward turning in apportionment numbers by a congressionally-mandated Dec. 31 deadline, Trump administration attorneys said ahead of a hearing before U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California. Critics say that is not enough time." AP | | A message from the Partnership for America's Health Care Future: During this critical time, let's build on what's working where private coverage, Medicare and Medicaid work together – not start over with a one-size-fits-all government health insurance system like the public option that we can't afford. Learn more. | | | REALITY CHECK -- "The oil industry actually hasn't done that well under Trump," by Ben Lefebvre: "The oil industry's fortunes have been withering on President Donald Trump's watch, with dozens of oil companies falling into bankruptcy as weak crude prices take a toll on the sector he contends would be abolished if he's not reelected. … So far least 40 U.S. oil companies have sought bankruptcy protection in 2020 while dozens of others have slashed spending and cut tens of thousands of jobs. … "More fundamentally, oil and gas executives told POLITICO, the president doesn't really understand their business — and his famously chaotic White House has set up a system where only a relative handful of favorite energy executives have access to people who can shape policy. … While nearly all agreed that Trump's supportive comments and corporate tax cuts were welcomed by the industry, they were nearly unanimous in also describing an administration that most felt has done little that will survive court challenges and even, in some cases, actively harmed their overall business." POLITICO GUNS IN AMERICA -- "A Divided Nation Agrees on One Thing: Many People Want a Gun," by NYT's Dionne Searcey and Richard Oppel Jr. in Chantilly, Va.: "Many gun buyers now are saying they are motivated by a new destabilizing sense that is pushing even people who had considered themselves anti-gun to buy weapons for the first time — and people who already have them to buy more. The nation is on track in 2020 to stockpile at record rates, according to groups that track background checks from F.B.I. data. "Across the country, Americans bought 15.1 million guns in the seven months this year from March through September, a 91 percent leap from the same period in 2019, according to seasonally adjusted firearms sales estimates from The Trace, a nonprofit news organization that focuses on gun issues. … Gun shop owners, gun rights groups and gun lobbying groups said they were now selling more weapons than usual to Black shoppers, and to women in particular, and more weapons to first-time gun owners generally." NYT HOW WE VOTE -- "Pandemic restrictions may impact the nursing home vote," by The 19th's Mariel Padilla: "Of the 1.3 million nursing home residents in the United States, about half a million have no or mild cognitive impairment and are more likely to vote, according to Nina Kohn, a law professor at Syracuse University and a scholar in elder law at Yale Law School. "But nursing home advocates and experts are concerned that thousands upon thousands of nursing home residents may not be able to vote due to increased restrictions under the pandemic, understaffing and the spread of misinformation. More than two-thirds of the nursing home population are women and about 90 percent of nursing home aides are women." BATTLE FOR THE SENATE -- "Republicans could suffer from Chinese company's failure to buy Montana beef," by WaPo's David Lynch: "The deal seemed like great news for Montana ranchers: Chinese retailer JD.com had promised to buy $200 million worth of beef and spend an additional $100 million building a slaughterhouse in the state. But nearly three years after the accord was announced on the sidelines of President Trump's first official trip to Beijing, the big orders have yet to materialize and there's no sign of any new meatpacking plant. "The project's apparent collapse has surfaced in the state's U.S. Senate race, one of several contests that could determine whether the Republicans retain control of the chamber or surrender it to the Democrats. The vanishing beef deal shows how the souring of the U.S.-China relationship is reshaping U.S. politics, making a liability of once-beneficial ties and placing a premium on hard-edge rhetoric toward Beijing." WaPo | | | | JOIN WEDNESDAY - SPACE, THE FINAL ECONOMIC FRONTIER: The quest for resources and other economic benefits is space exploration's new frontier. Commercialization and public-private partnerships are increasingly common, a trend that will likely continue. What will a future space economy look like, and what role will the U.S. play in achieving it? What policy and regulatory issues must be tackled as space commerce grows? And what obstacles and opportunities lie ahead? On Wednesday, Oct. 28, join POLITICO for a virtual, deep-dive conversation exploring the opportunities and challenges of the fast-growing space economy. REGISTER HERE. | | | | | TRUMP TURNS A PAGE -- "Trump Campaign Tones Down Immigration Messages That Dominated 2016 Election," by Sabrina Siddiqui, Michelle Hackman and Chad Day: "A Wall Street Journal review found that immigration was the fourth most mentioned issue in Mr. Trump's 2016 campaign TV ads but has barely cracked the top 10 this cycle, according to data from political ad tracker Kantar/CMAG. "The Trump campaign has instead focused on violence that has erupted at some protests around the country, jobs, government spending and China. Notably, terrorism—the third most mentioned issue in Mr. Trump's 2016 ads and one he often connected to immigration four years ago—isn't among the top 10 most mentioned issues in 2020." WSJ CALIFORNIA BURNING -- "Fires sweep through Orange County, driving tens of thousands from their homes," by the L.A. Times' Ruben Vives, Stephanie Lai, Alex Wigglesworth and Alejandra Reyes-Velarde: "A pair of wind-driven wildfires raced toward neighborhoods in Orange County on Monday, critically injuring two firefighters, forcing tens of thousands of residents to evacuate and smothering much of the region with smoke. "The larger of the blazes, the Silverado fire, broke out shortly after 6:45 a.m. in the brush country around Santiago Canyon and Silverado Canyon roads, burning more than 7,200 acres as Santa Ana winds pushed it west to the suburban edge of Irvine and Lake Forest. By Tuesday morning, more than 70,000 people were under evacuation orders in the foothills." LAT RACIAL RECKONING -- "Fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. prompts heated overnight protests in West Philly," by the Philadelphia Inquirer's Ellie Rushing, Anna Orso, Robert Moran and Samantha Melamed: "Police officers fatally shot a 27-year-old Black man armed with a knife during a confrontation Monday afternoon in West Philadelphia, an incident that quickly raised tensions in the neighborhood and sparked a standoff that lasted deep into the night. … "Hours earlier, shortly before 4 p.m., police said, two officers responded to the 6100 block of Locust Street after a report of a man with a knife. Family members identified him as Walter Wallace Jr. A video posted on social media showed Wallace walking toward the officers and police backing away. The video swings briefly out of view at the moment the gunfire erupts but he appeared to be multiple feet from them when they fired numerous shots." | | | | SUBSCRIBE TO TRANSITION PLAYBOOK: We're excited to launch a newsletter written for insiders that will track the appointments, the people, and the power centers of the next administration. Both Team Biden and Team Trump have been working behind the scenes for months vetting potential nominees and drafting policy agendas. Transition Playbook takes you inside those preparations, personnel decisions, and policy deliberations. Don't miss out, subscribe today. | | | | | HOW WE GOT HERE … NYT: "How Trump and Bolsonaro Broke Latin America's Covid-19 Defenses," by David Kirkpatrick and José María León Cabrera: "Previous Republican and Democratic administrations have almost all regarded the public health of Latin America as of urgent national interest, because infectious diseases can spread easily between South and North America. White House officials say the administration withheld payments from the [Pan-American Health Organization] to demand transparency. ... "But public health experts say the Pan-American Health Organization — with offices inside every health ministry and nearly 120 years of experience tackling epidemics — was uniquely positioned to confront Covid-19. Even some critics of the Cuban program say that punishing the health agency sabotaged that effort. ... How that happened is the story of a political battle that shifted among many fronts, from Brasília to Miami to Washington. It left scars from villages in the Amazon basin to the slums of the Ecuadorean city of Guayaquil." NYT KNOWING ASHLEY MOODY -- "Florida's top prosecutor once sued Trump. Now she's fighting for his reelection," by Gary Fineout in Tallahassee: "[Florida A.G. Ashley] Moody, a former college Democrat whose family once sued Trump over a condominium dispute, has jumped into conservative causes with gusto, attending presidential campaign rallies and stepping out as a defender for the GOP president. She's making appearances on right-wing media and has become a voice for the Republican Attorneys General Association. "Moody, until now a low-profile figure nationally, has quietly and quickly become a major Republican player in must-win Florida, proving to top GOP leaders across the country that she's willing to leverage her office in an election year. And Moody stands to benefit whether Trump wins or loses: She could prove to be a formidable foe to Joe Biden, becoming a voice of opposition to a newly liberal Washington, or take advantage of being a key White House supporter in coming years." POLITICO REP. ILHAN OMAR (D-Minn.) and daughter ISRA HIRSI are on the November cover of Teen Vogue. MEDIAWATCH -- "U.S. Agency Targets Its Own Journalists' Independence," by NPR's David Folkenflik: "A regulatory 'firewall' intended to protect Voice of America and its affiliated newsrooms from political interference in their journalism was swept aside late Monday night by the chief executive of the federal agency which oversees the government's international broadcasters. "Michael Pack, a Trump appointee who assumed leadership of the U.S. Agency for Global Media in June, wrote that he acted to eliminate policies that were 'harmful to the agency and the U.S. national interest.' And Pack argued they had interfered with his mandate 'to support the foreign policy of the United States.'" NPR -- NYT MOVES: Carolyn Ryan is moving up to become a deputy managing editor, one of the top masthead positions. … Rick Rojas is opening up a new Nashville bureau. … Manny Fernandez is becoming Los Angeles bureau chief, while still helping oversee Texas coverage. TRANSITIONS -- Lauren Ehrsam Gorey is now director of comms for the Office of Personnel Management. She previously was director of public affairs at the Commerce Department, and is an NSC alum. … Andrew Kloster is now deputy general counsel for policy at OPM. He previously worked in the Presidential Personnel Office at the White House. WELCOME TO THE WORLD -- Dan Schneider, VP of comms at the Export-Import Bank, and Emily Schneider, a receptionist and administrative assistant at the U.S. Grains Council, welcomed Frederick Thomas Schneider on Oct. 10. Pic BONUS BIRTHDAY: Jack Kalavritinos of APCO Worldwide | | | | A message from the Partnership for America's Health Care Future:   American families may be forced to pay for the public option through higher taxes, even if they like their current coverage and care. 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