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Contrasting Trump and Harris Headlines on the Front of the New York Times

The October 23 New York Times ran a Donald Trump headline on the top-right corner of the paper, and a Kamala Harris headline just underneath it. The headline contrast is so cartoonish you might blink twice and think this is a Babylon Bee prank. 

First, the Trump headline, from reporter Peter Baker: 

A Scandal-Plagued Career Nears a Decisive Moment

Trump Has Been Accused of Wrongdoing at Scale Unseen at Presidential Level 

Underneath that, a Kamala story by reporters Tim Arango and Heather Knight: 

Harris, Crime Fighter by Day, Courted High Society at Night

This has the Bat-Girl vibes, she’s a masked superhero in the daylight, then she’s unassuming Barbara Gordon in the evening. Arango and Knight sounded like they were writing a screenplay: 

OAKLAND, Calif. — In August 1996, a jury in an Oakland, Calif., courtroom convicted a man of slicing off a…

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