The second take may travel farther: Trump’s low approval and ‘big surprise’ prediction, a soft jobs report that lifted stocks, and Swift’s ‘Patient Zero’ making-of

Multiple national polls put President Trump near career-low approval weeks before the midterms; at a Saturday night rally in Ohio, he predicted a “big surprise,” NBC News reported. U.S. payrolls rose by 29,000 in September and unemployment ticked up to 4.2%, cutting the odds of an October Fed rate hike and sending major stock indexes higher Friday. Taylor Swift shared an eight-minute making-of for “Patient Zero,” the music video she directed that premiered at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 27. Read together, they may show a first reading followed by a second take that adds to it or pushes back on it.

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