Day 1372: "There’s no point."

WTF Just Happened Today

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

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• Days until Election Day: 14.

• 📈 Election Polling Tracker.

• Harris +1.0 points (New York Times)
  Harris +1.7 points (538)
  Harris +1.6 points (Nate Silver)
  Harris +1.6 points (The Economist)
  Harris +0.9 points (RealClearPolitics)

• 🔮 Election Forecast Tracker.

• Trump wins 50 times out of 100. Harris wins 50 times out of 100. (538)
  Trump wins 53 times out of 100. Harris wins 47 times out of 100. (Nate Silver)
  Trump wins 54 times out of 100. Harris wins 46 times out of 100. (The Economist)
  Trump wins 61 times out of 100. Harris wins 39 times out of 100. (Election Betting Odds)
  Trump wins 52 times out of 100. Harris wins 47 times out of 100. (JHK Forecasts)
  Trump wins 61 times out of 100. Harris wins 39 times out of 100. (Super Model)

• 📅 The WTFJHT Calendar: Now until then.

• 📺 Oct. 23: Harris CNN town hall
  🗳️ Nov. 5: Election Day.
  ⚖️ Nov. 26: Trump is sentenced.
• ✅ Get election ready: Register to vote, update your address, or request an absentee ballot at Vote.org, TurboVote.org, RocktheVote.org, or VoteFromAbroad.org.

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1/ More than 400 doctors and health professionals called on Trump to release his medical records, questioning his mental and physical fitness to serve. “With no recent disclosure of health information from Donald Trump, we are left to extrapolate from public appearances,” their letter states. “And on that front, Trump is falling concerningly short of any standard of fitness for office and displaying alarming characteristics of declining acuity.” The letter adds that Trump is 78 years old and would be the oldest president if he win. But at a campaign event Sunday, Trump denied being close to 80 years old or having any cognitive issues. “I’m not 80, and I’m not that close to 80,” said Trump, who is 20 months away from turning 80. “I’ve done cognitive tests. I’ve done them twice, and I aced both of them, and the doctor in one case said, ‘I’ve never seen anybody ace them.’” Following a series meandering, unhinged, and nonsensical public appearances, a psychiatrist who helped craft the 1973 “Goldwater rule” that has kept mental health professionals from opining about Trump for nearly a decade said he’d recommend a dementia test for Trump. Allen Dyer, a retired George Washington University psychiatry professor, said Trump’s recent behavior warrants medical evaluation because “he seems to be progressively cognitively impaired.” (WTF Just Happened Today? for more news and headlines, brought to you by Matt Kiser. The WTFJHT Podcast is narrated and produced by Joe Amditis.