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In Today’s BRIGHT

15 Days to Go
What I’m Reading This Week
The ‘Border Crossings Are Down’ Lie
He’s Lovin’ It
More Weekend Reads
A Case of the Mondays

15 Days to Go

Shout out to all the battleground state folks who have to endure so many ads!

With just over two weeks until the 2024 election, Ben Domenech at The Spectator wrote that Vice President Kamala Harris is campaigning aggressively, but her recent media appearances are failing to connect with independent voters. Her reliance on talking points instead of addressing key issues like border policy is seen as a missed opportunity to attract swing voters in battleground states.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump continues to gain support among Black and Hispanic voters, challenging traditional racial voting patterns. In Georgia, Democrats are working to maintain their coalition, but some Black voters are shifting toward Trump. Concerns also arise about Trump’s ground game (always a frequent problem for Republicans in any election), with questions about the effectiveness of outside groups in crucial states. Read his and others’ analysis of the final weeks here.

I’m not making a prediction, but I’ll leave you with this: The 2016 election was called on my birthday and this year the 47th president will be decided the year I turn 47. Once again, I only have one birthday wish.

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What I’m Reading This Week

I’m a huge Elvis fan and the Oprah Book Club sticker didn’t deter me from buying From Here to the Great Unknown, the first book from Lisa Marie Presley, and finished by her daughter, Riley Keough. From the description:

In 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her long-gestating memoir.

A month later, Lisa Marie was dead, and the world would never know her story in her own words, never know the passionate, joyful, caring, and complicated woman that Riley loved and now grieved.
 
Riley got the tapes that her mother had recorded for the book, lay in her bed, and listened as Lisa Marie told story after story about smashing golf carts together in the yards of Graceland, about the unconditional love she felt from her father, about being upstairs, just the two of them. About getting dragged screaming out of the bathroom as she ran toward his body on the floor. About living in Los Angeles with her mother, getting sent to school after school, always kicked out, always in trouble. About her singular, lifelong relationship with Danny Keough, about being married to Michael Jackson, what they had in common. About motherhood. About deep addiction. About ever-present grief. Riley knew she had to fulfill her mother’s wish to reveal these memories, incandescent and painful, to the world.
 
To make her mother known.