Tuesday News Fix

⏰ Tick Tock

14 days to Election Day.
In-person early voting begins today.
The deadline to register to vote is Friday.

Good Tuesday morning!

Some stories that caught my eye:

1. With two weeks until Election Day, 17 million voters have already cast a ballot. [New York Times]
2. "The litigation election": Trump and Harris teams head to court in flurry of pre-election lawsuits. [ABC News]
3. The pollsters blew it in 2020. Will they be wrong again in 2024? [WSJ]
4. Donald Trump has made more than 100 threats to investigate, prosecute, imprison or punish his enemies. [NPR]
5. Donald Trump's tax proposals could offer total or partial income tax exemptions to 93 million Americans. Experts say Trump's plan to impose tariffs on imports would not come close to replacing the revenue from those tax breaks. [CNBC]
6. Canvassers working for America PAC, Elon Musk's organization that has taken on the bulk of the Trump campaign's ground game in battleground states, are allegedly using GPS spoofing to pretend they have knocked on doors in Arizona and Nevada when they haven't. [Guardian]
7. A Russian-aligned propaganda network known as Storm-1516 appears to be behind an effort to promote baseless claims that Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz sexually assaulted one of his former students. The network was linked to a previous effort that falsely claimed vice president Kamala Harris was involved in a hit-and-run accident in 2011. [Wired]

🗞️ Tuesday's headlines

Sen. Mike Lee questions FTC chair over alleged Hatch Act violations. [Utah Political Watch]

With ballots out, judges' review group sees surge in interest. [Utah News Dispatch]

Billboard's connection with $30M bond has some Cottonwood Heights residents concerned. [KUTV]

New poll shows half of Utahns now support legalizing recreational marijuana. [Fox 13]

Utah legislature to consider statewide housing plan, upzoning in 2025. [Utah News Dispatch]

Are too many kids put in seclusion in Utah's schools? It's hard to know. [Fox 13]

Average health care spending has gone up nearly 20% in Utah, study says. [KSL]