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October surprises are coming at a dizzying pace. But the question is whether grave crises at home and abroad can break a dead heat between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in an election that’s already been marked by huge turmoil.

The White House is grappling with three challenges that could threaten the vice president’s hopes and offer an opening to the Republican nominee’s narrative of Biden-era negligence. A month before Election Day, the US faces the grave possibility of being dragged into a Middle East conflagration; a port workers’ strike could harm inflation-weary consumers; and political pressure is rising in the fallout of Hurricane Helene.

Trump, mean to be hit on Wednesday by the unsealing of a 165-page document in special counsel Jack Smith gives fullest picture of his case in the federal 2020 election interference case. Ex-president has pleaded not guilty, but filing re-injected his attempt to steal last election into frantic endgame of a campaign partially shaped by Democrats’ claims he poses an existential threat to American democracy.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/03/politics/...index.html