| | | | | President Trump waves to journalists Thursday as he walks across the South Lawn. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images | | | Nikki Haley Headlines Al Smith Dinner: Haley spoke out against calling political opponents "evil" and had some jokes
Punk The Vote: Elle is sorry for saying Kim and Kanye split to trick followers into clicking a voter registration page
Rihanna Reportedly Turned Down Super Bowl Halftime Show: The singer declined the offer because she supports Kaepernick, per Us Weekly | | | What America is Talking About: - It's 18 days until the midterm elections.
- There are debates tonight between candidates in Massachusetts' and Nevada's Senate races and in Wisconsin's gubernatorial race.
- President Trump holds rallies tonight in Mesa, Arizona, for Senate candidate US Rep. Martha McSally and Saturday in Elko, Nevada, for Senate candidate Dean Heller.
- At his rally last night in Montana, Trump joked about Rep. Greg Gianforte assaulting a reporter last year. "Any guy who can do a body slam ... he's my guy," Trump said. The Guardian, whose reporter Ben Jacobs was assaulted, was not amused, and the White House Correspondents Association said in a statement it amounted to "an attack on the First Amendment by someone who has solemnly pledged to defend it."
- Beto O'Rourke said in last night's CNN town hall that he's open to impeaching Trump, comparing it to an indictment. "There is enough there to proceed to a trial," he said, and he "would not prejudge the outcome of that trial."
- A New York Times analysis found Democratic candidates are getting more engagement on Facebook and Instagram than Republicans.
- LeBron James scored 26 points in his first regular season game as a Laker, but Los Angeles lost to the Portland Trailblazers, 128-119. Last year, James wore "Equality" sneakers for his opening game. This year, he wore Cavs colors, but the colorway was actually inspired by a 2003 Nike poster, the shoe's designer, Jason Petrie, said.
- Britney Spears announced her new Las Vegas residency, "Domination," opening in February at the Park MGM.
Poll of the Day:
The midterm election is all about T̶r̶u̶m̶p̶ ... health care. A Wesleyan Media Project study found that between September 18 and October 15, ads for nearly 46% of federal races and 30% of gubernatorial races mentioned health care. This is the first election since 2008 that Democrats mentioned it more than Republicans, per Wesleyan data. | | Credit: Wesleyan Media Project
Nikki Haley Headlines Al Smith Dinner:
The outgoing US ambassador to the UN delivered the keynote at last night's white-tie dinner in New York. During her remarks, Haley spoke about demonizing political opponents in America and sounded pretty un-Trumpian.
"In our toxic political life, I've heard some people in both parties describe their opponents as enemies or evil," she said. "In America, our political opponents are not evil."
What is evil, she said, was rape being used as a weapon of war in South Sudan or chemical weapons used to murder children in Syria. "In the last two years, I've seen true evil," she said. "We have some serious political differences here at home. But our opponents are not evil, they're just our opponents."
Haley also made jokes about Elizabeth Warren ("I get it. You wanted an Indian woman, but Elizabeth Warren failed her DNA test."), Jeff Flake ("Jeff Flake was going to be here, but he wanted to give the FBI a week to look into it."), and Paul Manafort ("With all of our differences, there is still one thing that unites all 193 [UN member] countries. At one point, every single one of them was paying Paul Manafort.").
The annual dinner is named for Al Smith, the first Catholic presidential nominee of a major party, in 1928, and it raises money for Catholic charities. | | Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Punk the Vote:
Elle upset some people on the internet yesterday when it tricked followers into clicking to a voter registration page. Elle tweeted that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were splitting and linked to an Elle-branded page for When We Vote, Michelle Obama's group. Kimye is still together, and neither partner has said anything about the post on social media, but Elle apologized about four hours later. "We made a bad joke," the magazine tweeted. "Our passion for voter registration clouded our judgement and we are sincerely sorry." | | Credit: @ElLLEmagazine/Twitter
Elle's tweet was part of a wider meme of rickrolling in the name of voter registration this week. Tim Cigelske, whose tweet Sunday linking to vote.org under the guise of explaining why Ariana Grande and Pete Davidson broke up was retweeted more than 46,000 times, wrote on Medium about watching his tweet, and the meme, spread.
"You may or may not care about Peter Davidson and Ariana Grande, but either way you deserve to vote -- and you should vote," he wrote. "If this serves as a reminder to 20,500 or so people (who'd clicked his link by that point), then it was worth it."
I just want you to know I will never trick you with fake celebrity news to get you to click a link, I promise.
J-Kush Has a New Sister-in-Law:
Karlie Kloss married Joshua Kushner, Jared's brother, yesterday in upstate New York. Per People, they wed in a small Jewish ceremony for 80 people and Kloss wore Dior. Ivanka Trump tweeted "So much love for you both as you begin forever together." It looks like Kloss buddy Taylor Swift was not there, because she has her opening Reputation Tour stop in Australia tonight, in Perth, and she posted an Instagram story complaining about jet lag. | | Credit: @karliekloss/Instagram
Rihanna Reportedly Turned Down Super Bowl Halftime Show:
Rihanna was offered the halftime show headliner slot but turned it down because of her support for Colin Kaepernick, Us Weekly reported, citing a source. So, I guess that means we can wave good-bye to this amazing tweet. | | Credit: @FlexinFerg/Twitter
Street Art Sighting:
This mural of a man in a red "USA! USA!" hat was spotted in Dallas' Deep Ellum neighborhood. | | Credit: Mark "LoveSun" Rodriguez
If you spot political street art, tweet me @hunterschwarz, tag me on Instagram @hunterschwarz, or email me at coverlinehunter@cnn.com with your sighting so I can feature it in COVER/LINE.
P.S.:
Guys, that Britney announcement last night was so weird. For those who missed it, they played Britney music vids, projected onto the Park MGM, shot off some fireworks, then Britney popped up on stage. She literally said nothing. She walked off, signed some autographs and left. Who else could announce a residency without saying a word? Your favs could never. 😂😂 Anyways, see you in Vegas in February. Happy Friday. | | Credit: Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images
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