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9:30 AM ET, November 4, 2019

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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
One Year From Election, Trump Trails Biden but Leads Warren in Battlegrounds  —  Signs that the president's advantage in the Electoral College has persisted or even increased since 2016.  —  Despite low national approval ratings and the specter of impeachment, President Trump remains highly competitive …
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Dems tiptoe around ‘Pocahontas’ and Hunter as Trump licks his chops  —  “Pocahontas?”  A racial slur unfit for discussion.  Bernie's heart attack?  Out of bounds.  Questions about Hunter Biden's business dealings?  Stop carrying Donald Trump's water.  —  To listen to 2020 Democrats …
Christian Toto / Hollywood in Toto:
‘SNL’ Goes Full Pravda for ‘President’ Elizabeth Warren  —  The once mighty show is reduced to shilling for its preferred candidates, and it'll probably get even worse from here.  —  Pin  —  “Saturday Night Live” lost plenty of fans when it serenaded Hillary Clinton's failed presidential campaign three years ago.
Discussion: YouTube
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Fox News:   Kellyanne Conway on White House response to House Democrats' impeachment push
ABC News:
4 White House officials slated for depositions in impeachment inquiry not expected to show up
Discussion: HuffPost, The Hill and Financial Times
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Did Trump just threaten a shutdown over impeachment?  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP just made this month much more ... interesting.  Speaking on the South Lawn on Sunday, the president left the door open to a government shutdown in 17 days.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
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Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
Democrats don't have a candidate who would beat Trump in Texas today, poll finds  —  President Donald Trump would win head-to-head races with the top Democratic candidates right now, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. … None of the top Democrats seeking …
New York Times:
As Warren Gains in Race, Wall Street Sounds the Alarm  —  With a populist message that promises to rein in corporate excess, Ms. Warren has been facing more hostility from the finance industry than any other candidate.  —  Julia Roberts was making the rounds at Blackstone …
Discussion: National Review
Associated Press:
Trump threatens to cut US funding for California wildfires  —  LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump is threatening to cut U.S. funding to California for aid during wildfires that have burned across the state during dry winds this fall.  —  Trump tweeted Sunday that California Gov. Gavin Newsom has done a …
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James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
As wildfires burn across California, President Trump lashes out at the state on Twitter
Discussion: Political Wire
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump, the phone call, and consciousness of guilt  —  The July 25 call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Vlodomyr Zelensky is the central piece of evidence in the Democratic drive to remove the president from office.  “That call was a smoking gun,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi …
Matt Novak / Gizmodo:
Internet-Savvy Nazi Says a Bunch of Old Fashioned Nazi Shit in Leaked Tape  —  Richard Spencer, one of the most high profile neo-Nazis in America, has spent the past three years online trying to rebrand his extremist ideology with terms like “alt-right.”  But a newly leaked audio tape makes …
Axios:
How an impeached Trump wins  —  President Trump is showing how he could be impeached, survive and still win re-election, something never done before in American history.  —  Between the lines: Trump officials think two things must unfold for this to happen: Republicans must stay unified …
Discussion: Deseret News and Breitbart
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Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Trump to campaign in Kentucky in hopes of lifting unpopular Gov. Bevin to victory
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:   A Conservative Push to Make Trans Kids and School Sports the Next Battleground in the Culture War
Washington Post:
Unemployment is climbing in key swing states, including Michigan and Wisconsin  —  There's been a steady increase of people coming to the St. Vincent de Paul Society's food pantry in Marinette, Wis., a small city of about 10,000 just across the border from Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
David Catron / The American Spectator:
Elizabeth Warren's Health Care Chimera  —  Medicare-for-all would be unaffordable for taxpayers and unhealthy for patients.  —  YouTube screenshot  —  Economist Jonathan Gruber famously attributed the passage of Obamacare to “the stupidity of the American voter.”
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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Billionaires Only? Warren Errs in Saying Whom Her Health Plan Would Tax
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Redstate
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
In China, every day is Kristallnacht  —  In China, every day is Kristallnacht.  —  Eighty-one years ago this week, in what is also known as the “Night of Broken Glass,” hundreds of synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in Nazi Germany were damaged or destroyed, along with thousands of Jewish-owned businesses.
Lauren Fedor / Financial Times:
Nearly two-thirds of US voters say Trump has not made them better off  —  Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they are not better off financially than they were when Donald Trump was elected, casting doubt on whether economic expansion and a record bull market will boost the president's re-election campaign in 2020.
Discussion: The Hill
National Review:
In No Safe Spaces, an Odd Couple Teams Up to Fight Free-Speech Bans  —  Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager join figures across the political spectrum to examine the plague of censorship and groupthink emanating from college campuses.  —  The pro-free-speech documentary No Safe Spaces …
Axios:
Behind the scenes: How Trump still gets his NYT and WaPo fix  —  If you were skeptical that President Trump would give up his lifelong habit of reading the New York Times, you were right to be.  —  Driving the news: Sources familiar with the president's iPhone told Axios that the president maintains …
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and HuffPost
Vasco Cotovio / CNN:
Norway arrests US white supremacist ahead of far-right conference  —  (CNN)Norwegian authorities have arrested a high-profile American white supremacist, hours before he was due to give a speech at a far-right conference in Oslo on Saturday.  —  The detained American, Greg Johnson …
Atthar Mirza / Washington Post:
Trump's false claim of ‘centuries’ of fighting between Turks and Kurds  —  “If Syria wants to fight for their land, that's up to Turkey and Syria, as it has been for hundreds of years, they've been fighting.  And the Kurds have been fighting for hundreds of years — that whole mess.
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Vivi Vitalone / NBC News:   Trump's Syria pullout follows years of Kurdish struggle
Deanna Paul / Washington Post:
After decades visiting his parents in prison, this lawyer wants to be San Francisco's next DA  —  Editor's note: The reporter is a former New York City prosecutor and has a parent who was formerly incarcerated.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Chesa Boudin spared no time after deplaning the redeye from California.
Discussion: The Nation and Eschaton
Judd at Popular Information / Popular Information:
The Trump campaign holds a lot of contests.  Does anyone win?  —  The Trump campaign has held at least 15 contests since 2018 offering the chance to win breakfast, lunch, or dinner with President Trump.  Supporters are enticed to donate to Trump's campaign with promises of free travel …
 
 
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Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Presidency Is Not Enough  —  And without reform, neither is a Democratic Senate.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump could get whacked by legal losses in coming months
Amy Knight / The Daily Beast:
Putin's Top Spy: We're Teaming Up With D.C. on Cybersecurity
Discussion: Mediaite and TASS
Wall Street Journal:
Under Armour Is Subject of Federal Accounting Probes
Discussion: The Week and CBS Baltimore
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Before his claims of corruption, Trump tried to build a resort in Ukraine
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Amid impeachment circus, the pro-Trump search for dirt on Ukraine, the Bidens, 2016 election goes on
Discussion: Raw Story, Just Security and MSNBC
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
U.S. embassy takeover anniversary: Iranians chant “death to America”
Discussion: Reuters, Associated Press and Fox News
Elaine Kurtenbach / Associated Press:
US sells business engagement with Asia as trade war drags on
 Earlier Items: 
BBC:
India air pollution at ‘unbearable levels’, Delhi minister says
Willie Brown / San Francisco Chronicle:
Impeachment a winner for Democrats? Don't bet on it
Discussion: Breitbart and The Hill
Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
Maria Butina: The Russian accused of trying to influence U.S. policies for the Kremlin
Discussion: Axios
Axios:
2 Texas Republicans agree the party has a diversity crisis. That's where the agreement ends.
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Joe Biden Is Tested in Iowa as Rivals Gain Ground
Michael Weiss / The Daily Beast:
Here's How the KGB Knew You'd Be a Traitor: an Exclusive Look at Its Recruitment Manual
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
 

 
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

Christopher Grimes / Financial Times:
Analysts say Netflix's live boxing match Friday night between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul is designed to get new subscribers, particularly on its ad-supported tier

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