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Trump ratchets up the chaos in an October barrage

President Trump is carrying his insatiable appetite for controversy into the most unforgiving stretch of the electoral calendar, fortified by a decade of political survival. "Bottom line, it's gonna all work out. You know why? It always does," Trump told reporters this week. Why it matters: Gone are the days of a single "October surprise," swallowed by a familiar barrage of scandals, provocations and shattered conventions that have persisted in the closing weeks of Trump's final midterm election