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New York Times:
As Trump Ignores Virus Crisis, Republicans Start to Contradict Him — President Trump continues to press for a quick return to life as usual, but Republicans who fear a rampaging disease and angry voters are increasingly going their own way. — President Trump's failure to contain …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Fox News
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Pandemic surge damages Trump, boosting Biden's White House bid: POLL — Public preference for Biden in trust to handle the pandemic has soared. — Public preference for Joe Biden over Donald Trump in trust to handle the coronavirus pandemic has soared since March in the latest ABC News …
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Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Slate, Off the Kuff, ABC13, Fox News, Bloomberg, Washington Monthly and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Harry Enten / CNN:
New polls show Joe Biden is winning suburbanites by a historic margin — Polls show Trump trails Biden by double digits — (CNN)The new ABC News/Washington Post poll is the latest to show former Vice President Joe Biden on a roll. — He leads President Donald Trump 55% to 40% among registered voters.
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The Week and Washington Post
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden holds lead over Trump as coronavirus concerns grip nation — Coronavirus infected the election. — The virus is the top issue to voters, over half of them disapprove of how President Trump's handling it, and they increasingly trust Joe Biden to do a better job on it.
Discussion:
Twitchy, The Daily Beast, The Hill and The Guardian
Washington Post:
Biden leads by double digits as coronavirus takes a toll on the president, Post-ABC poll finds
Biden leads by double digits as coronavirus takes a toll on the president, Post-ABC poll finds
Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
Leaders in states seeing ‘out of control’ coronavirus surges debate mask mandates, reopenings
Leaders in states seeing ‘out of control’ coronavirus surges debate mask mandates, reopenings
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Politico, The Hill, The Colorado Sun and The Week
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
Trump Leans Into False Virus Claims in Combative Fox News Interview — The president grew agitated as he was fact-checked on polling, race relations and the coronavirus response by Chris Wallace of Fox News. — WASHINGTON — An agitated President Trump offered a string of combative …
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The Daily Beast
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Associated Press:
Trump not ready to commit to election results if he loses — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is refusing to publicly commit to accepting the results of the upcoming White House election, recalling a similar threat he made weeks before the 2016 vote, as he scoffs at polls showing him lagging behind Democrat Joe Biden.
Washington Post:
Coronavirus updates: Trump dismisses rising cases as deaths mount
Coronavirus updates: Trump dismisses rising cases as deaths mount
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Yahoo News, New York Times, Sputnik News and Talking Points Memo
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Trump says he's not offended by the Confederate flag
Trump says he's not offended by the Confederate flag
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Politico, The Hill, The Guardian, Breitbart and One America News Network
Hope Yen / Associated Press:
AP FACT CHECK: Trump bending facts on virus, Biden, economy
AP FACT CHECK: Trump bending facts on virus, Biden, economy
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ABC News
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Some People ‘Have The Sniffles’: Trump Downplays The Coronavirus's Severity
Some People ‘Have The Sniffles’: Trump Downplays The Coronavirus's Severity
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Axios
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Trump's made-for-TV fascism in Portland won't get him re-elected. It may get someone killed — Some have dubbed it the “Say Anything” shooting, but what happened in Portland earlier this month to 26-year-old Donavan LaBella after he held up an old-school boom box and started blaring …
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NBC News, Al Jazeera, The Week, KTLA and Axios
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KOIN-TV:
Night 51: Riot declared at police union, tear gas used at Justice Center
Night 51: Riot declared at police union, tear gas used at Justice Center
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NBC News, Raw Story, Law & Crime, Axios and New York Post
Tyler O'Neil / pjmedia.com:
Antifa Rioters Break Into Portland Police Union and Set It on Fire as Mayor Hamstrings Federal Troops
Antifa Rioters Break Into Portland Police Union and Set It on Fire as Mayor Hamstrings Federal Troops
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Power Line, Portland Police, Big League Politics and The Hill
Eder Campuzano / Oregonian:
Feds, right-wing media paint Portland as ‘city under siege.’ A tour of town shows otherwise
Feds, right-wing media paint Portland as ‘city under siege.’ A tour of town shows otherwise
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Politico
Washington Post:
Oregon attorney general sues federal agencies for allegedly violating protesters' civil rights
Oregon attorney general sues federal agencies for allegedly violating protesters' civil rights
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The Hill, Daily Kos, Common Dreams, New York Times and Reason
Associated Press:
Police call Portland protest a riot
Police call Portland protest a riot
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The Daily Caller, Fox News and Raw Story
Kris Alexander / The Daily Beast:
I Was a Military COVID Planner. Trust Me: Texas Is in Deep, Deep Trouble — Things are pretty bad right now in the Lone Star State. But the real pain is likely to come during hurricane season, when as many as 19 named storms are projected to hit. — Like many of my fellow Texans …
New York Times:
Roger Stone Uses Racial Slur on Radio Show — Mr. Stone, while being questioned about the commutation of his sentence by President Trump, used a racial slur in referring to his interviewer, who is Black. — During a live radio show on Saturday, Roger Stone, the political operative …
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Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, Variety, The Root, The Hill, Mediaite, Althouse and The Gateway Pundit
Peter Dreier / American Prospect:
John Lewis: Good Trouble — The life of the civil rights icon, who died Friday from cancer, is a testament to perseverance. — John Lewis stands at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, 50 years after he was beaten there on Bloody Sunday in 1965. — In 1965, as chair …
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Raw Story
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
The family that owns The New York Times were slaveholders — It's far worse than I thought. In addition to the many links between the family that owns The New York Times and the Civil War Confederacy, new evidence shows that members of the extended family were slaveholders.
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Twitchy
CNN:
What a Trump loss could look like — Polls show Trump trails Biden by double digits — Julian Zelizer, a CNN political analyst, is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University and author of the book, “Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party.”
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Raw Story
LasVegasSun.com:
Trump says he aced this cognitive test. Can you? — Are you a “very stable genius” like President Donald Trump? — Find out today by taking this cognitive test, which has been administered to Trump. Trump bragged last week to Fox News host Sean Hannity that he “aced” …
Discussion:
Raw Story and The Guardian
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
‘No mask, no entry. Is that clear enough? That seems pretty clear, right?’ … We tried our best to be polite about it. I'd frame it to customers like they were doing us this big favor: “Would you please consider wearing a mask?” “May we offer you a free mask?” “We sure do appreciate your cooperation.”
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Companies Lose Hope for Quick Rebound From Covid-19 — CEOs overhaul strategies and staffing in acknowledgment of coronavirus's permanent impact on demand; ‘We cannot defy gravity’ — Big U.S. companies are deciding March and April moves won't cut it.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Real White Fragility — Does the white upper class feel exhausted and oppressed by meritocracy? — In 2001, when I was still attending college, David Brooks wrote an essay for The Atlantic called “The Organization Kid,” in which he spent a lot of time with young Ivy Leaguers …
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Althouse and The College Fix