October 08, 2024 12:18 GMT
MNI POLITICAL RISK - Florida Braces For Hurricane Milton
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Executive summary:
- Political campaigning continues today amid the looming landfall of another potentially catastrophic hurricane on the Southeast coast. With analysts projecting tens of billions of dollars of damage from Hurricane Milton, the storm is likely to intensify calls for Congress to return to Washington, D.C. for an emergency session to inject FEMA with fresh funding.
- Vice President Kamala Harris appears likely to stick to her scheduled ‘media blitz’. She will record interviews today with ABC’s “The View,” SiriusXM’s “The Howard Stern Show,” and CBS’s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
- Harris is expected to announce a new policy to provide in-home care for seniors through Medicare, aimed at shrinking the burden for middle-aged professionals confronting rising costs associated with childcare and aged care - a demographic cohort with a large number of undecided voters.
- A ‘60 Minutes’ interview broadcast yesterday provided the most probing examination yet of Harris’ argument for the presidency.
- Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant is expected to meet with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon on Wednesday as the Middle East braces for an Israeli response to Iran’s ballistic missile attack.
- Elon Musk has quietly given vulnerable House Republicans, “a critical 11th-hour cash infusion.”
- Trump has overtaken Harris in prediction markets for the first time since early September.
- Poll of the Day: Voters now consider Harris the presidential candidate representing change for the first time.
Please find the full article attached below: US Daily Brief
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