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exploring a partnership that could result in the joint development and production of their vehicles the treasury Department released 603 pages of proposed rules for the corporate Alternative Minimum Tax Black Rock plans to offer wealthy investors a way to get easier access to private equity and private credit Warner Brothers Discovery renewed its distribution deal with Charter ahead of schedule as the company prepares for life without the MBA US Stocks turned higher after the latest read on inflation the NASDAQ Dow and S&P 500 Rose 1% 0.6% and 0.8% respectively Boeing new boss Kelly ortberg urged union members not to go on a strike that would halt most of its airplane production Microsoft is laying off approximately 650 employees from its video game business in a move to cut costs worldwide news Eli must secretly Channel hundreds of thousands of dollars into a local r race in Travis County Texas in an unsuccessful effort to unseat a prosecutor Edward kaban the New York Police Commissioner has resigned after becoming embroiled in a federal investigation a senior Israeli military intelligence official said he would resign because of his failure to prevent the Hamas Le attack on October 7th the US and Chinese militaries are taking tentative steps to re-engage De diploma de diplomacy after 2-year freeze in relations proposed legislation would allow the FDA to warn and find companies and individuals who post false information online L about medications Donald Trump appeared to definitely rule out another debate with kamla Harris a day after sending mixed signals following their clash in Philadelphia Lindsay Graham urg Trump to distance himself from Laura lumer a rightwing a rightwing conspiracy theorist who posted racist comments about kamla Harris the US level sanctions against 16 Venezuelan officials for allegedly helping nias manduro steal the July presidential elections and launch a Crackdown the ECB lowered interest rates by a quarter point its second cut in 3 months widening a policy Gap with the Federal Reserve New York City Police Commissioner resigns amid probe New York City Police Commissioner Edward kaban has resigned after becoming embroided and one of several Federal investigations that have swirled around the administration of Mayor Eric Adams kab's future has been in question recently after news broke last week that agent seized his phone he hasn't been accused of wrongdoing the noise around recent devel velopments has made that impossible and had and has hindered the important work our city requires caban said in a statement Thursday I have therefore decided it is in the best interest of the department that I resign as commissioner Adams named Thomas Delon who has served in several roles in federal law enforcement as inter room police commissioner kaban began his career with the New York police department in 1991 patrolling the South Bronx he rose through the ranks over the years in July 2023 Adams a Democrat appointed kaban to the position of commissioner making him the head of the nation's largest police department and the first Latino to lead the force last week Federal investigators executed search warrants at the homes of at least three members of Adams Administration according to people familiar with the matter investigators sees kaban phone as part of a probe examining nightclubs and payments for security according to the people kab's brother James a former New York PD officer who runs a nightclub security business also had his phone seized according to the people Russell Capone and Rebecca danelski attorneys for kaban said he have been informed by investigators that he isn't the target of any investigation led by the Manhattan us attorney's office he expects to cooperate fully with the government they said Sean Hecker a lawyer for James kaban said his client denies any wrongdoing his work as a consultant and acting as a liaison between the department and a private company is perfectly legal especially giving his previous career as a New York PD officer Hecker said a representative for the US attorney's office for the southern district of New York didn't respond to a request for comment Adams continued to defend kaban in recent days saying he tapped him for the police commissioner job because of his 30 years of experience in law enforcement Adams acknowledged the federal investigations during brief remarks he made Thursday announcing kab's resignation I was as surp as you to learn of these inquiries and I take them extremely seriously Adam said I spent more than 20 years in law enforcement and so every member of the administration knows my expectations that we must follow the law Adam said members of his administration will remain focused on their jobs despite the federal investigations as astronauts conduct first private space walk private citizen astronauts traveling with SpaceX completed the first commercial space walk pushing new boundaries for the Elon mus Le company SpaceX kicked off The Space Walk a centerpiece on the private privately funded Polaris Dawn space flight shortly after 6: a.m. et3 Thursday when oxygen began flowing inside the astronaut SpaceX developed suits after checking for leaks and boosting the pressure of the suits a company live stream show Jared isaacman a tech industry billionaire leaving the SpaceX crew Dragon craft through its hatch conducting a series of Mobility tests and coming back inight around 7:00 a.m. M the entire spacecraft was exposed to the vacuum of space Sarah Gillis a SpaceX employee who is also a member of the crew left spacecraft after isaacman returned performing her own set of tests around 7:15 a.m. the hatch was closed again and SpaceX began bringing the cabin back to normal conditions the mission called Polaris Dawn marked a milestone for SpaceX which has aspirations to return humans to the moon and eventually establish a human presence on Mars the crew members Dawn SpaceX design and manufactur suits that were previously untested in orbit building a base on the moon and a city on Mars will require thousands of space suits Space X said in a post on X The Space Walk was also a first for private space flights a nent business pursued by SpaceX and other companies the Polaris Dawn mission was funded by isaacman who paid for a separate SpaceX flight about three years ago and has about three and has said he wants to help Advance space exploration SpaceX back at home we all have a lot of work to do but from here Earth sure Earth sure looks like a perfect world Isa M said at one point during his walk musk in a post on X congratulated isman and the others as well as SpaceX employees working on the company's crew Dragon program extra extra vehicular activity as space walks are called is a fairly common part of orbital operations like during maintenance on the International Space Station to date space walks have only been conducted by government astronauts working on missions set up by National Space agencies they are risky astronauts must maneuver through space with nothing between them and the vacuum of space but their space suits isaacman and Gillis remain connected by their hands or feet as well as tethers to the crew Dragon spacecraft that is transporting them Scott poti a retired Air Force pilot and Anna Manan a space oper ation engineered at SpaceX are also on the flight the Polaris Dawn Mission launched early Tuesday on a SpaceX rocket from Florida and crew members began preparing for The Space Walk shortly after liftoff pressure levels inside the spacecraft were slowly lowered as oxygen levels increased helping get nitrogen out of the crew's bloodstreams and redu red decompression sickness on Tuesday SpaceX set its crew Dragon craft reached a distance of 870 miles above Earth meaning the Polaris Dawn crew members were more than three times higher than the International Space Station the highest altitude humans have reached in space since the National Aeronautics and Space administrations of Apollo program decades ago the private astronauts and their spacecraft have undergone intense testing over the past couple of years according to SpaceX and members of the Polaris Dawn team that has ranged from skydiving and entering a vacuum chamber to developing backup plans for the operation in addition to testing the space suits the operation broke new ground with crew Dragon SpaceX low earth orbit spacecraft because the craft has no air loock all four crew members put on their suits before the vehicle was vented which removed its pressure before The Space Walk and left its systems exposed to the vacuum of space crew Dragon had never been vented down in orbit the Polaris Dawn astronauts have carried out other tasks during their time in orbit including scientific research and testing SpaceX starlink satellite Network the mission is scheduled to last up to 5 days with the company's craft set to return the crew as late as Sunday the crew dragon ship the crew dragon ship is intended to re-enter Earth's atmosphere and drift down under parachutes Landing in the Atlantic near Florida you are listening to a reading of Articles and features from The Wall Street Journal on the Niagara Frontier radio reading service more US News Trump says no to debate rematch Donald Trump appeared to definitely rule out another debate with kamla Harris a day after sending mixed signals following their clash in Philadelphia KLA should focus on what she should have done during the last Almost 4 year period Trump wrote Thursday in all caps on social media there will be no third debate Trump debated President Biden in late June Trump claimed he won the Tuesday debate with the vice president though Harris was widely seen as having the better night when a price fighter loses a fight the first words out of his mouth are I wanton a rematch he wrote asked if Trump was in fact ruling out a debate a spokeswoman said in an email you heard the man Harris meanwhile again called for the for the candidates to meet one more time I believe we owe it to the voters to have another debate she said at a rally in Charlotte North Carolina on Thursday minutes after Trump's announcement the vice president criticized Trump in North Carolina her first campaign event since the debate for saying during the debate debate that he had a concept of a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act he's going to end it based on a concept she said Harris also said Trump didn't offer a vision for the country it was the same old show the same Tire Playbook that we've heard for years with no plans for how he would address the needs of the American people Trump has a history of giving conflicting answers about whether he will commit to a debate including before the two camp campaigns agreed on the Philadelphia event the former president said Wednesday that he was less inclined to debate the vice president again though later in the day he seemed more open to one the vice presidential contenders Republican senator JD Vance of Ohio and Democratic governor Tim wz of Minnesota are scheduled to debate October 1st in New York musk secretly sought to oust Texas prosecutor Elon must secretly Channel hundreds of thousands of dollars into a local race in Travis Country Texas in an unsuccessful effort to unseat a prosecutor who had won the office with the backing of the investor and Democratic donor George Soros a group primarily funded by the teslaa and SpaceX chief executive which called itself saving atin sent out flyers and text and spent more than $650,000 on television ads attacking district attorney Jose Garza in the Democratic primary race earlier this year according to people familiar with must involvement as well as Federal Communications Commission filings and corporate documents musk who is worth more than $200 billion and is the owner of a major social media network has used his influence and money in hopes of helping Donald Trump return to the White House his support for Trump's marked a political shift that could have major ramifications in the presid presidential race his covert his covert effort in the local prosecutors race in Texas shows that his engagement in politics is broader than previously known it was also provocative one of the Flyers sent to voters in February bore Garza's photo above an image of a Rumple teddy bear stained with what appeared to be blood Jose Gara is filling Austin streets with pedopiles and Killers the flyer said the next victim could be your loved one on the back of the flyer was a photo of a man's hand covering a child's mouth left leaning Austin is the state capital and the seat of Travis Country where musk has established something of a home base after years in California must didn't respond to requests for comment must this spring worked with Republican Consultants to create a super political action committee intended to draw voters to the polls in support of trump the Republican Presidential nominee must publicly endorse the former president in July after Trump survived an assassination attempt at a rally last month he interviewed Trump on musk social media site X in both campaigns he has moved his money through outside groups rather than giving directly to candidates musk has portrayed soros's back prosecutors and vice president KLA Harris Trump's opponent in the presidential race as threats to society America pack must Pro Trump project is registered with the Federal Election Commission and must disclose its donors the Texas effort flowed from a tax exempt social welfare organization that doesn't have to reveal donors and included Republican Consultants lawyers and former staff members of of Senator Ted Cruz according to FCC and the corporate records reviewed by by The Wall Street Journal neither Garza nor his opponent Jeremy silin said they were aware of M involvement in the race until the journal contacted them both of them condemned the saving Austin flyer as out of bounds after it was sent some voters also recall from it saying on social media that the flyer had motivated them to get to the poll to support Garza Garza Cru to Victory with 67% of the vote and is heavily favored to win the general election in November the country should take note Garza said in a emailed statement magga billionaires treat Texas like a Petry dish for extremist policy aims then export their anti-public SA job killing anti Freedom agenda to all 50 states we've shown that these extremists can be beaten musk versus Sorrows musk has privately expressed interest in countering the sway of Sorrows whom must has compared to a surveillant a super villain according to a person who has spoken with the billionaire on the issue Soros who made his who made his fortune as a hedge fund manager has given millions of dollars to pxs supporting candidates for district attorney over the past decade transforming what had often been sleepy low dollar races into closely watch elections Soros has favored candidates who campaign on platforms that they said would make the justice system fairer including a focus on police accountability rather than on traditional tough on crime policies his effort began in Earnest in the midst of bipartisan ca for reducing the US prison population and after a grand jury in 2014 declined to indict the police office who shot and killed Michael Brown and an un and un unarmed black man in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson Missouri the Texas Justice and Public Safety pack funded by Sor spent about $450,000 in support of Garza as he campaigned for district attorney in 2020 according to state camp campaign Finance the closures Soros didn't contribute to this year's race in Travis Country a representative for Soros declined to comment Austin has seen its crime rates decreased since a pandemic surge overall crimes reported in Austin in the first half of 2024 were the lowest in five years though homicides remain higher than prepandemic times according to the police data musk announced in 2021 that he was moving Tesla's headquarters to the city that was the same year gaza's assumed office Garza has never met or spoken with mosque according to a campaign spokeswoman but the billionaire has been scathing about Soros and District Attorneys he supported in my opinion F he fundamentally hates Humanity mus says of Soros in a 2023 appearance on Joe rogo's podcast he's doing things that erode the fabric of civilization getting da elected that refuse to prosecute crime in Travis count in Travis Country Republicans and moderate Democrats saw a potential opening for someone like sisin to challenge Garza sisin who worked as a prosecutor in Travis County for 15 years before entering Private Practice campaign on restoring the officers relationship with police and giving priority to victims he declined to comment for this article Celestine outspent Garza by nearly $1 million with help from contributions from Republic Republicans including pantier Technologies co-founder of the Lonsdale a longtime musk Ally LEL who has acted as a informal political advisor to mosque and is involved in the prot Trump pack gave $25,000 to celest te's campaign in early February according to campaign Finance records musk didn't give to celestin campaign directly but he made no se no secret of his desire to Uso Garza on the day of the primary musk urged Tesla employees base near the car maker Headquarters in Austin to ditch Garza and vote for a district attorney who will actually prosecute crime must engage in the Republican political consulting firm ax strategies to help him insert his money into the race anonymously the people familiar with the effort said the flyer that voters began receiving in February which accused Garza of putting pedophiles and killers on the streets created a stir in Austin and was quickly condemned by the candidates ceas and ceas and deasis Garo campaign meanwhile sent a cease and dece better letter to saving Austin saying that the group should have registered with the Texas ethic Commission and included a disclaimer on materials that were consed political advertising the letter alleged that saving Austin appears to be a sham dark money organization created to Shield the true identity of those spending money to influence Travis Country elections saving Austin is an assumed name for an entity called called saving taxes according to Texas corporate records the goldber the goldber group a political Law Firm [Music] formed the organization in 2016 under a different name the conservative Action Network the group changed its name to saving taxes in 2023 and took on the Alias saving Austin and early 24 Corporate records show Chris Gober the founder of the law firm that formed the organization organization is The Treasure of mus prot Trump pack according to FEC filings the three directors of saving Texas listed in its most recent corporate disclosure are former staffers Cruz who as who is a client of ax and gober's firm in recent weeks saving Texas has begun placing attack acts again after months of inactivity according to FCC records this time the target is Democrat Republican Colin all all red a civil rights lawyer and former professional football player who is running against Cruz for a seat in the US Senate in the November election you are listening to a reading of Articles and features from The Wall Street Journal on the Niagara Frontier radio reading service big Banks to limit hours for young staffers JP Morgan confines weekly hours to 80 Bank of America revamps timekeeping JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America plan to limit and more closely track young Bankers hours following a Wall Street Journal investigation that detailed a dangerous culture of overwork on Wall Street JP Morgan will now cap Junior investment banker hours at 80 a week in most cases people famili am with the matter said meanwhile Bank of America is implementing a new timekeeping tool that requires Junior Bankers to go into more detail about how their time is spent other people familiar with the matter said the changes come after the journal investigation based on conversations with more than three dozen current and former Bankers revealed that Junior bankers at bank of America were routinely instructed to lie about their hours to avoid exceeding hourly limits the question of how much to work Junior employees whose entry level salaries can reach $200,000 has divided Wall Street for decades each year thousands of young people start entrylevel jobs in Investment Banking attracted by the industry's reputation for turning hard workers into millionaires but many of them said constant bouts of working long hours are not only mentally grueling but also hazardous to their health the death of a 35y old Bank of America associate who had been working 100 hour weeks led to an outcry in the industry about employee protections being ignored Leo lucanus theii had been working on a team completing a $2 billion deal an autopsy found he di of a blood clock that formed in a coronary artery wow the weekly cap on hours at JP Morgan a first for the bank is the same as the New York state limit for hours of medical residence the bank plans to make exceptions in certain cases such as a live deal young bankers at JP Morgan already have a protected window from 6:00 p.m. Friday to noon Saturday and a guarantee of one full weekend off every 3 months the bank like the bank like most of its peers has long monitor Banker hours through self-reported time sheets Young aners have been known to put in 120 hours a week or more in the thick of a time sensitive project JP Morgan chief executive Jamie Dion said in a May said in May the bank was asking what can we learn from Lina's death senior Bankers have been communicating the new guidance to staff in recent weeks some of the people familiar with the matter said Bank of America had already kept young Bankers hours but the journal found that the guidelines were routinely violated and in some cases bosses told direct reports to lie about how much they were working shortly after the journal's investigation were published the bank told employees to alert supervisors or the human resources department if they were being pressured to lie about their hours the journal reported at the time in recent days Bank of America unveiled a new tool in the company's timekeeping software that requires us-based Junior investment bankers to log their hours daily rather than weekly people familiar with the matter said they also will be required to detail which Deals they are working on when and which senior Bankers are overseeing this the assignments the people said junior staff also can gauge how much capacity they have for more work on this scale from 1 to four the new reporting tool will go live next week the people said it was being developed before Lina's death we successfully piloted the improved technology platform earlier this year to help our team more efficiently serve our investment banking clients a spokesman for the bank said the death over a decade ago of a Bank of America intern in London who had loged long hours at the office prompts some soul searching in the industry but enforcement of protective guidelines put in place by many banks has been inconsistent over the years at Goldman Sachs a junior Banker famously protested their working conditions in 2021 when the bank's deal business was booming a person close to the bank said Goldman doesn't plan to change his policy in the near in the near term but will continue to keep an eye on Junior hours world news wave led to Earth vibrating for 9 days in 2023 a geologic mystery that has lingered for the past year has finally been solved what caused an odd Cascade of vibrations to Ripple across the globe for 9 days using classified SE FL maps from the Danish military a global network of subit sensors used to detect earthquakes drone video of debris washed high up on a remote Rock faced in eastern Greenland and other evidence researchers finally piece together the strange sequence of events it started when sensors at monitoring stations around the world detected a signal in September 2023 that look nothing like the signals made by the earthquakes this signal oscillated at 92 intervals and continued for days some of some of our us colleagues put it down put it down to faculty instruments said Christian senior research scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and green and Lead author of a study on the findings published Thursday in the journal science they had never heard anything like it before a few days after the signal began a few days after Christian got a call from authorities in Greenland who reported damage to an unoccupied research base Christian Assemble an earth science detective squad of 68 experts who reconstructed what happened the evidence revealed that 33 million cubic yards of rock and Ice the volume of 10,000 Olympic side swimming pools has had plunged into the Dixon Forge in eastern grenland triggering a tsunami the massive wave wave created at 6 650 ft above the water surface throwing debris onto a nearby rock face it settled down to 25 ft but over the next 9 days it sosed from one side of the from one side to the other striking the sides with enough force to move the walls creating and signaling that propaganda around the planet Christian said the landslide was caused by a melting Glacier below the Mountaintop according to the study and Christians said scientists are reconsidering the kinds of natural disasters that are now possible in a warming Arctic environment wow in 2017 a glacial landslide in Western Greenland's carrot flood flooded a village destroying 11 homes and killing four residents in Alaska US officials are closely watching The Barry arm Glacier for a potential landslide that could trigger a tsunami there and threaten nearby communities had you suggest had you suggested just a year ago that a nday wave will exist on the Greenland sea Flor or anywhere people would shake their heads he said now we've seen it we have to deal with it and know that these things exist art in review and our couple in Iowa portraying women who are written as Polar offices straight and gay rural and urban naive and wise up Mia pharaoh and Patty Leone find a lovely symbolises both for their characters and themselves and the roommate a bright funny and delicately move moving comedy by Jen Silverman about more than anything else the rocky ground of more than middle age and both the rich rewards and The Perils of that it may bring Miss Pharaoh is Sharon who opens her Iowa City house to miss lon's Robin coming from New York the bronze no less to Sharon's awkward to Sharon's all Fascination after Sharon's marriage has come apart their me cute scenes is indeed cute as Robin enters with a box of vegetables that look almost frightening to Sharon Robins a vegan and and exotic terms to Sharon wearing a black wearing a leather jacket and black tights while Sharon Sports baggy mom jeans and has her long blonde hair and braided pigtails Silverman A Gifted writer who plays are often more experimental essentially has written a romantic comedy in the roommate first seen in 2015 at the sadly now defun human Festival of new American plays this Broadway production directed with d directed with consummate skill by Jack O'Brien validate Silverman's distinct gift in a particular frisky C quirky humor and a sensitive to the emotional mindfields in women's lives lives Robin is initially more wary of the disorienting new world she has dive bomb into and miss lupon an expert in curdled comedy sharp the which this sharp delicate her characters barely hidden contempt for which she perceives as her host staggering innocence when Sharon recalls in shock at the drugs Robin is smoking she points out that the lovely looking plant sh plants Sharon had admired were in fact marijuana the sweet bonding scene when Robin convinces Sharon to try these medicinal herbs marks a turning point in their relationship Miss phell has been seen all too rarely on stage and her last Broadway outing a reef run of another two-hander AR gurn's play Love Letter she gave a performance of breath taking emotional scope here she brings a natural Luminosity to her character who seems who seems to radiate a both both uncertainty about herself and a Natural Curiosity about well anything other than herself specifically Robin and her life to Robin's initial sour chargon but most but miss FOH also leads her character as eth quality that makes Sharon's emotional policy believable as Robin gently tugs her from her shell of complacency Miss lupon is a far better known stage quantity of course a three-time Tony writer winner for her work in musicals who also has appeared more than once in her long career in the work of David Mt as Robin she ex exudes a faintly hostile defense defensiveness at least at first and she brings delicious most musical variety to Robin's often tartly comic responses to Sharon's wide eye innocence about life she can hardly believe Sharon has reached age 65 wath weathered in so much eager ignorance but as the two women spend more time together Robin sheds her armor and Miss lupan affectionally IM imitates sense of renewal that Robin begins to feel as the woman finds some unexpected and unexpectedly fertile Common Ground although Robin at first dodged the question she eventually admits that she has had an adult daughter with whom she has had a cool and getting cooler relationship Sharon has been open from the start about her love for her son a designer who lives in Park Slope Brooklyn everyone thinks he's a homosexual but he's not she adds hardly convincing Robin perhaps and perhaps only have convincing herself and yet he rarely answers her calls Miss Pharaoh quietly illuminates how Sharon has become haunted by sadness because of his withdrawal and worries that her smothering love may have driven him away oh wow both women we come to see through Silverman's fluid peppery comic dialogue are feeling a drift in their lives why else would a woman why else oh wow would a lesbian from Brock from the Bronx abandoned her greedy life to settle in the in the freakishly alien to her climbs of Iowa Robin reacts with stunned alarm when Sharon casually assures her that it's mostly pretty safe here except for the tornadoes Silverman throws a certain curveball Midway through the play when Sharon inly discovers that Robin isn't just a pottery maker and a Slam Poet as she said she was but also a woman with a distinctly shaded past by this by this time however the comfort of company was warmed the corners of Sharon's life to such a degree that shock and dis May flicker only briefly to be followed by Fascination and perhaps some somewhat implausibly a dangerous desire to drop to dip her own clean toes into an exotic elicit world Miss pharoh's Delirious almost childlike experim excitement is rendered with delightful fizziness the estimable Mr o'ban who won a well-deserved Lifetime Achievement Tony Award justce year celebrates the fluctuations in the women's relationship with subtly and Grace allowing these two superb actors to navigate the changes in their private tones and rhyme at their own space on a on a handset made by Bob Crowley that hint at both possibility those Rich blue skies and perhaps vulnerability for all this for all this warning comic passages the roommate concludes on a plff note but it suggests that the unusual experience of living in close courts with someone so diametrically different from themselves has enriched both Sharon's and Robin's lives as giving them the courage to approach the future from A New Perspective I don't know where to start Sharon confesses in a monologue address to God but really himself the first then she fir firmly then she firmly if sorrow sorrowfully again except over again the opinion section cess undebatable problem less than 8 weeks from the presidential election there are two widely different narratives of this race the one presented by the press and the one experienced by average voters no points for guessing which is more accurate Tuesday's debate post morem is the best example yet the Press is fist pumping over KLA Harris when how she went about Donald Trump how she turned in no joke one of the more resounding debate performances in recent decades Republicans are still stewing over biased moderators even as they grudgingly ad Mr admit Mr Trump blew it social media is mixed on whether Taylor Swift endorsement seals victory for the vice president back in the real world this is all ridiculous there was no WI in this televised scrum only a nation of hardworking losers millions of Americans came home after a long day of work and tuned in hoping for answers to their daily struggles with inflation migrants crime they instead got moderators obsessed with Beltway bubble issues and candidates who retaliated old disputes surprising though this will be to cheerleading pundits that a problem for their favorite tucked amid the pro Harris headlines were some honest reactions to the debate ruers interviewed 10 swing voters after the event and gave the story an intriguing headline some undecided voters not convinced by Harris after debate with Trump that's one way to put it six said afterward they would now they would now either vote for Trump or were leaning toward backing him the piece explains one remain undecided three backed Miss Harris a New York Times interview of eight undecided voters after the after the debate found two leading leaning toward Mr Trump one toward Miss Harris the rest extremely confused CNN BBC and Wall Street Journal interviews with uncommitted voters produce similar mixed results these voters responded responses highlight Miss Harris problems she has succeeded in dodging questions about her past and her agenda and she did so again Tuesday night the Press raved over her deafness but whoops but whoops five of the rers interviews faulted her for failing to explain how she'd help improve the economy their top issue there was no real meat and bones for her plan said a 61-year-old entrepreneur from Florida who is now leaning toward Mr Trump a Nevada resident said he also moved toward Mr Trump after hearing Miss Harris tell him not to vote for Don Donald Trump instead of why she's the right candidate at least Mr Biden in his basement at least Mr Biden in his basement spoke to the issue that in 2020 was voters top concern Co Miss Harris is a w on the economy awalk Mr Trump was equally short on agenda details but unlike Miss Harris he doesn't necessarily have to provide a plan people lived life under his leadership and can compare it with the Biden Harris economy a 34 year- old black woman in Milwaukee explained to the times why the debate nudged her toward the Republican when Trump was in office not going to lie I was living way better I've never been so down as in the past four years Miss Harris spent the debate casting Mr Trump as a truly unpleasant dude and we are voting for the leader of our country not who we want in our wedding party said a Pennsylvania woman and the CNN group she now plans to vote Trump of the six Trump converts in the ruds article all said they did not like him as a person they said their personal financial situation had been better when he was president these an antidotes responses are born out and POS Miss Harris standing with working class voters is the worst of any Democrat in modern history Barack Obama lost the white working class by 20 points in 2012 Joe Biden by 26 in 20120 the most recent times poll has Miss Harris behind by 36 that number has barely budged since July despite five weeks of Joy also unchanged Miss Harris is winning among nonwhite voters without college degrees by 30 points Mr Obama's margin was 67 she's losing voters 45 and older she's behind among male voters by a notably wider margin than she ahead among women and 41% of Hispanics say they back Mr Trump Donald Trump may not win he's unlikely and undisciplined and has proved his ability to lose but the last time the press and Democrats were this giddy about their candidate this resolutely blind to the disconnect with with average folders was in 2016 remember how that turned out for Hillary Clinton sure we sure we remember perhaps these interviewees out outliers and the debate was a Harris Game Changer but wouldn't it be wiser to assume that Americans aren't stupid that they are unhappy with inflation crime and Chaos at the border and that they do not and they do care about an agenda until or unless Miss Harris campaigns in a way that acknowledges as much she'll struggle against a beatable opponent the Press won't help her by spiking the football you've been listening to a reading of Articles and features from the Friday September 13 2024 issue on the Wall Street Journal we read from the Wall Street Journal every Monday through Thursday at 11: p.m. your reader has been Janice Marie Hunt thank you for listening and have a wonderful weekend [Music] [Music] the following program is intended for listeners who are blind have low vision or have