IT’S POLITICAL:  Hang on. Just two days to go.

  A weak September jobs report gave Donald Trump ammunition to attack Kamala Harris about the economy while Harris denounced Trump for saying that her ally Liz Cheney should be put in front of the guns.

  Earlier in the week Trump accused the Republican Cheney of being a war hawk and “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her.” Harris said yesterday that, “anyone who wants to be president of the United States who uses that kind of violent rhetoric is clearly disqualified, and unqualified, to be president.”

  Two hurricanes, the Boeing strike and other factors reduced hiring in October to just 12,000 jobs. “Our economy is a total disaster and is expected to get very substantially worse,” Trump said almost celebrating the bad news. “It’s a wonderful time for me coming in, you know — this is what I want.” 

  Unemployment remained just over 4 percent but about 460,000 people were put out of work by weather disasters. Even so, in a suburb outside Detroit Trump said the “new jobs report proves decisively that Kamala Harris and crooked Joe have driven our economy off a cliff.”

  The NY Times reports that Trump and his team are preparing to declare victory even if they lose. Trump is already calling Democrats “a bunch of cheats.” The paper says “some of his most influential advisers are suggesting he will again seek to claim victory before all the votes are counted.” 

  Harris in recent days has been confronted by pro-Palestinian protesters demanding an end to the Gaza war. Arab-American voters in Michigan could determine which way the state goes. Harris sometimes stops her speech and pledges that she’s dedicated to ending the war and winning return of the Israeli hostages, but that’s been the case since the war started more than a year ago. Millions of voters are outraged about the Israeli destruction of Gaza and now Lebanon, posing a danger to Harris particularly in Michigan

INSIDE EDGE: MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, who was communications director for President George W. Bush, called on her former boss to have a “change of heart” and speak against his party’s candidate, Donald Trump. Speaking on her “Deadline: White House” program, Wallace said that when she’s off the set the question she’s asked more than any other is, “Where is George W. Bush?”

  Bush’s daughter Barbara backs Kamala Harris but her father has declined to endorse … or denounce … a candidate.

THE RUSSIA HOUSE: Two recent election-related videos circulated online have brought US intelligence agencies to conclude that they are a product of Russian election influencing.

  One video claims that Haitians voted illegally multiple times in Georgia and that Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband received a $500,000 bribe from the jailed music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.

  Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said the Haitian video was “an example of targeted disinformation we’ve seen this election.” 

  This comes after another fabricated video that falsely claimed Pennsylvania ballots were being destroyed. The NY Times says senior officials from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency called it a “fire hose of disinformation” out there on the internet.

THE SPIN RACK:  The number of dead from flooding in the Valencia region of Spain has risen to 205. — A former Louisville police detective who fired 10 shots into Breonna Taylor’s apartment in a 2020 raid was found guilty last night of violating her civil rights by using excessive force. Brett Hankinson is White and Taylor was Black. The shots fired by Hankison did not kill Taylor but the officers who fired the fatal shots were not charged. — Conservative radio host and columnist Hugh Hewitt walked away from a live Washington Post talk show as the two other hosts talked about how Donald Trump might be planning to declare victory even if he loses. Hewitt stormed off saying “I will not come back, Jonathan, how’s that? I’m done. This is the most unfair election ad I have ever been a part of.” —  The LA Dodgers team bus got stuck in LA traffic on the way to their victory parade in downtown Los Angeles. — NY State Wildlife officials put to death P’Nut the squirrel they seized from a man who had kept him as a household pet since infancy seven years ago. Mark Longo, who made P’Nut an Instagram star, said online that “To the group of people who called DEC, there’s a special place in hell for you.”

BELOW THE FOLD: In an extension of the belief that children should feel no pain, discomfort, or disappointment, New York City’s elite Fieldston school told its families that “students who feel too emotionally distressed” the day after the election will be excused from classes, and that psychologists will be available during the week to provide counseling. Stacey Bobo, principal of the upper school, wrote that, “No matter the election outcome,” the school “will create space to provide students with the support they may need.”

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