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Young evangelicals tell The Times about the relationship between their faith and their politics. Page A13.

‘God Is Going to Have to Forgive Me’

SCOTT McINTYRE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

NICK COTE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

‘I’m worried that we’ve done immense harm to themarginalized in the name of God.’

ALEXANDRIA BEIGHTOL 22, DEMOCRAT, MARCO ISLAND, FLA.

AUDRA MELTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

‘We were tired of having corn drop 40 cents a day. Finallysomebody gets it. So our community is upbeat.’

HANNAH FLAMING 27, REPUBLICAN, PAXTON, NEB.

‘I don’t talk politics to anyone, not even my family. We talk about Christian values.’

EDUARDO SANDOVAL RUIZ 23, REPUBLICAN, LOUISVILLE, KY.

AUDRA MELTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

‘Wait, should I be fully Democratic? But as a Christianthere will be things I don’t fully agree with.’

JAYNA DUCKENFIELD 24, NO POLITICAL AFFILIATION, ATLANTA

An army of almost 40,000 is hand writ-ing postcards to voters on behalf ofDemocratic candidates. PAGE A11

NATIONAL A11-21

Campaigning in CursiveAfter years of trying, Desi Linden wona rainy Boston Marathon. Now hersights are set on New York. PAGE B8

SPORTSFRIDAY B8-11

First, Boston; Next, New York?

The Metropolitan Museum of Art invit-ed breakdancers to don medieval-stylebattle gear and perform among its armsand armor collection. PAGE A22

NEW YORK A22-25

Knights of the Dance Floor

Finland’s disclosure of everyone’s in-come stirs talk of who’s up, who’s downand who’s not paying taxes. PAGE A8

INTERNATIONAL A4-10

Finns Bare All on Tax Day

Paul Krugman PAGE A27

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27

LONDON — A month after thekilling of the Saudi dissident Ja-mal Khashoggi, the growing inter-national consensus that CrownPrince Mohammed bin Salmanwas behind it has done almostnothing to weaken his grip onpower over the kingdom.

The crown prince owes his ap-parent impunity partly to the na-ture of power in Saudi Arabia’s ab-

solute monarchy and to his ownproven ruthlessness. But he alsoowes it to the Trump administra-tion. It has decided to stand byhim, according to three people fa-miliar with the White House delib-erations.

Barring a surprise interventionby his aging father, King Salman,there is every expectation thatPrince Mohammed, 33, will suc-ceed him and dominate Saudi Ara-bia for a half-century to come.

White House officials knew

from an Oct. 9 phone call withPrince Mohammed that he con-sidered Mr. Khashoggi, a Virginiaresident and Washington Post col-umnist, a dangerous Islamist, twopeople familiar with the call said,so the officials knew he had a po-tential motive for the killing.

But having invested deeply inPrince Mohammed as the maindriver of the administration’sagenda for the region, and underpressure from allies who support

U.S. Is Said to Stand by the Saudi Crown PrinceBy DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

and BEN HUBBARD

Continued on Page A6

Goldman Sachs is facing one ofthe most significant scandals in itshistory, a multibillion-dollar inter-national fraud that investigatorssay was masterminded by a flam-boyant financier with a taste forHollywood and carried out withhelp from the Wall Street firm’sbankers.

Federal prosecutors on Thurs-

day unveiled a guilty plea fromone former Goldman Sachsbanker and announced briberyand money laundering chargesagainst a second banker, as part ofan investigation into the allegedembezzlement of billions of dol-lars from a state-run investmentfund in Malaysia. Prosecutorsalso brought charges against theMalaysian businessman they be-lieve stole some of the money: JhoLow, who spent millions of dollarson gifts to celebrities like the actor

Leonardo DiCaprio and the modelMiranda Kerr.

The money was used to buy aPicasso painting, diamond neck-laces and Birkin bags as well as topay for the Hollywood block-buster “The Wolf of Wall Street.”Najib Razak, the Malaysian primeminister who established andoversaw the so-called sovereignwealth fund, lost his re-electionbid over the scandal, in whichAmerican prosecutors said $731

Goldman Sachs Ensnarled in Vast Fraud ScandalThis article is by Matthew Gold-

stein, Alexandra Stevenson andEmily Flitter.

Continued on Page A21

WASHINGTON — When theWikiLeaks founder, Julian As-sange, appeared on a video linkfrom Europe a month before the2016 presidential election andvaguely promised to release aflood of purloined documents re-lated to the race, the head of Don-ald J. Trump’s campaign, StephenK. Bannon, was interested.

He emailed the political opera-tive Roger J. Stone Jr., who hadbeen trying to reach him for daysabout what Mr. Assange mighthave in store. “What was that thismorning???” Mr. Bannon askedon Oct. 4.

“A load every week going for-

ward,” Mr. Stone replied, echoingMr. Assange’s public vow to pub-lish documents on a weekly basisuntil the Nov. 8 election.

The email exchange, not previ-ously reported, underscores howMr. Stone presented himself toTrump campaign officials: as aconduit of inside information fromWikiLeaks, Russia’s chosen re-pository for documents hackedfrom Democratic computers.

Mr. Bannon and two other for-mer senior campaign officialshave detailed to prosecutors forthe special counsel, Robert S.Mueller III, how Mr. Stone createdthat impression, according to peo-ple familiar with their accounts.One of them told investigators

How WikiLeaks Boasts PulledA Trickster Into Trump’s Circle

This article is by Sharon LaFra-niere, Michael S. Schmidt, MaggieHaberman and Danny Hakim.

Continued on Page A18

JASON HENRY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Wild horses roam the Nevada desert where a cryptocurrency mogul is planning a utopia. Page B1.The Blockchain Marks the Spot

WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump’s closing argument is nowclear: Build tent cities for mi-grants. End birthright citizenship.Fear the caravan. Send active-duty troops to the border. Refuseasylum.

Immigration has been the ani-mating issue of the Trump presi-dency, and now — with the possi-bility that Republicans could facesignificant losses in the midtermelections on Tuesday — the presi-dent has fully embraced a dark,anti-immigrant message in thehope that stoking fear will moti-vate voters to reject Democrats.

In a rambling speech on Thurs-day afternoon that was riddledwith falsehoods and vague prom-ises to confront a “crisis” at theborder, Mr. Trump used the officialbackdrop of the White House tostep up his efforts to demonize acaravan of Central Americansthat has been making its waythrough Mexico, assail Demo-crats, and promote a vision of aUnited States that would be betteroff with fewer immigrants.

The president said he had or-dered troops to respond to any mi-grants in the caravan who throwrocks as if they were brandishingfirearms, saying, “I told them:Consider it a rifle.” He said hisgovernment had already begun toconstruct “massive cities of tents”to imprison legal and illegal immi-grants who try to enter the UnitedStates.

“This is a defense of our coun-try,” Mr. Trump declared from alectern in the Roosevelt Room be-fore leaving the White House to at-tend a campaign rally in Missouri.“We have no choice. We will de-fend our borders. We will defendour country.”

The president also played fastand loose with the truth. At onepoint, he said that 97 percent ofimmigrants apprehended at theborder and released into theUnited States do not show up fortheir trials; the number is closerto 28 percent. He also said the gov-ernment is no longer releasing im-migrants while they await trial.Meanwhile, migrants are beingcaught and released at the borderregularly, as has happened fordecades.

He repeated his oft-stated, mis-leading description of the situa-tion south of the border, saying

TRUMP INVOKING‘CRISIS’ AT BORDER

AS VOTING NEARS

MESSAGE FOR MIDTERMS

A Presidential Theme IsBuilt Around a Fear

of Immigrants

By MICHAEL D. SHEARand JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS

Continued on Page A17

It was Gov. Andrew M. Cuomoin his element: An audience ofNew York’s elite, from business ti-tans to lobbying powerhouses toreal estate barons, sat rapt beforehim.

As he spoke of the imperative toremake John F. Kennedy Airport,a PowerPoint slide behind himprojected a motto with a far

broader theme that he quoted tohis listeners.

“You are what you build,” Mr.Cuomo told them.

It was a simple encapsulation ofhis get-it-done governing philoso-phy. But there was more to thosewords than that.

When Mr. Cuomo’s father,Mario M. Cuomo, was governor ofNew York, he attributed some ofhis favorite sayings to an inventedcharacter: A.J. Parkinson. So on

this October morning, the youngerMr. Cuomo quietly paid homage tohis father and credited his “you arewhat you build” mantra to the heirof that character: A.J. ParkinsonII.

“Great quote,” he said.The shadow of Mr. Cuomo’s fa-

ther never seems far behind whentalk turns to the governor’s legacy.

As Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, cam-paigns for a third term — whichwould match his father’s tenure —

he has been talking a lot aboutwhat he has built or is building:train stations, airports, rail lines,bridges. They are the concreteand steel manifestations, in Mr.Cuomo’s telling, of the turnaroundhe has brought to Albany.

With the governor heavily fa-vored to defeat his Republican op-ponent, Marcus J. Molinaro, thebigger drama involves his poli-

Steamrolling to 3rd Term as Governor, Cuomo Looks to His LegacyBy SHANE GOLDMACHER

Continued on Page A24

HOUSTON — Two years ago,the presidential election hinged inlarge part on a rightward shiftamong working-class whites whodeserted Democrats.

Tuesday’s House election mayturn on an equally significant andopposite force: a generationalbreak with the Republican Partyamong educated, wealthierwhites — especially women —who like the party’s pro-businesspolicies but recoil from PresidentTrump’s divisive language on raceand gender.

Rather than seeking to coaxvoters like these back into the Re-publican coalition, Mr. Trump ap-pears to have all but written themoff, spending the final days of thecampaign delivering a scorchingmessage about preoccupationslike birthright citizenship and amigrant “invasion” from Mexicothat these voters see through asalarmist.

In Republican-leaning districtsthat include diverse populationsor abut cities that do — from bul-warks of Sunbelt conservatismlike Houston and Orange County,Calif., to the well-manicured bed-room communities outside Phila-delphia and Minneapolis — theparty is in danger of losing itsHouse majority next week be-cause Mr. Trump’s racially-tingednationalism has alienated thesevoters who once made up a de-pendable constituency.

One of those disenchanted vot-ers is J. Mark Metts, a 60-year-oldpartner at one of this city’s presti-gious law firms. Mr. Metts hadnever voted for a Democraticpresidential candidate until 2016.Now he and some of his neighborsin the moneyed River Oaks en-clave of Houston are about to op-pose a Republican once again, toregister their disapproval of Pres-ident Trump.

“With Congress not reallystanding up to Trump, this elec-

G.O.P.’s ImageLosing AppealIn the Suburbs

Divisive Language byTrump Repels Voters

By JONATHAN MARTINand ALEXANDER BURNS

Continued on Page A15

The spacecraft, which was launched in2007 and orbited the asteroid Ceres, ranout of propellant. PAGE A21

End of Days for NASA’s DawnCarmelo Anthony, now a reserve inHouston, could learn from Bob Mc-Adoo’s time with the Lakers. PAGE B8

A Model for Anthony

Thousands of employees at the compa-ny’s offices around the world held awave of walkouts to protest how theinternet giant has handled cases ofsexual misconduct. PAGE B3

BUSINESS DAY B1-7

Harassment Backlash at Google

Republican efforts to hobble the Afford-able Care Act have yielded new options,and some potential pitfalls, now thatopen enrollment of the insurance mar-ketplace has begun. PAGE B1

Changes to Health Care Act

At a City Center festival, dancers areshowing what it means to have themaster choreographer’s style in yourbones, Brian Seibert writes. PAGE C3

WEEKEND ARTS C1-32

Balanchine in Full FlowerAmal Hussain turned the world’s eyesto famine when her photo appeared onthe front page of The Times. PAGE A6

Yemeni Girl in Photo Is Dead

FLORIDA The Trump favorite forgovernor is behind in the pollsafter racial stumbles. PAGE A12

WHAT IF? Should the G.O.P. keepthe House, expect more tax cutsand less spending. PAGE A16

OHIO PUZZLE The state hasshifted to the right; Democratswant to shift it back. PAGE A14

Late EditionToday, mostly cloudy, showers, high70. Tonight, rain, storms, possibleflooding, low 56. Tomorrow, morn-ing showers, windy, clearing, high59. Weather map is on Page A19.

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