We’re under a week to go! Well, under a week until we transition into Trump’s post-election chaos plans.

We’re also on Day 3 of fallout from the Madison Square Garden debacle. So it was high time that the Gop attempt to manufacture some counter-outrage. But it didn’t take, largely because Kamala Harris supporters turned out so, well, largely, at the Ellipse.

Greg Dworkin was on hand to round up the day’s news and themes, commentary on the strength of the economy, late-breaking state-of-the-race items, and of course, reminders of what’s at stake.

Quants will enjoy parsing the stats on early, in-person (EIP) voting, and some more of those polls that can’t actually tell you much.

Why can’t they tell you much? Well, we’ve got that, too.

Oh, and speaking of EIP voting, do you know why that’s so much better to do in Connecticut than voting absentee, now that it’s available to you? Greg does!

As if to signal the end of the Era of the Newspaper, Gannett and others now join the parade of non-endorsing papers. But the Gannett order goes much further than just their flagship, USAToday. And it also turns out that the manipulation at the LA Times goes much further, as well.

The panic is setting in over in the Trump camp, so the accusations are ramping up. And as you know, Every Republican Accusation is a Confession.™ So what are they confessing to? Well, in Pennsylvania, it’ll be fake video of “vote” tampering. In Minnesota, it’s just plain voter fraud. While in Indiana, it’s a ballot theft. By someone who was, just recently, on the ballot.

Somehow, though, repeatedly getting caught does not persuade Republicans that voter fraud — let alone large-scale voter fraud — would actually be quite difficult.

From TikTok World comes a reminder that even old news can be new news to somebody. In this case — because it’s TikTok — it’s “the kids.” And “the kids” are alright. Although we definitely feel their pain as they discover, for the first time as adults, the Access Hollywood tape. More specifically, what it means to find out that their fathers, uncles, brothers, pastors, etc. knew about this years ago, and have been voting for Trump ever since.

Still to come, if the story can break through some time in the near future: Elon Musk, immigration hypocrite. What? No way!