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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden tops Trump among likely voters in key states — Democrat Joe Biden is ahead in three key states that President Donald Trump won in 2016, according to new Fox News statewide surveys of Arizona, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. — Support for reelecting Trump falls below his 2016 vote share in each state.
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Biden's lead persists post-conventions — (CNN)After two political conventions unlike any the United States had seen before, Joe Biden maintains an advantage over Donald Trump in the race for the presidency, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. — Among registered voters, 51% back Biden, 43% Trump.
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Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Presidential Race Tightens — Democrats lead in other state contests — West Long Branch, NJ - Joe Biden holds a 4-point lead over Donald Trump among all registered voters in Pennsylvania according to the Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll. Among likely voters, the race is a tight 1 to 3 points …
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Chris Kahn / Reuters:
No bounce in support for Trump as Americans see pandemic, not crime, as top issue: Reuters/Ipsos poll — NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's attempt to make civil unrest a central theme of his re-election campaign has yet to boost his political standing, as most Americans …
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Biden posts stunning monthly cash haul: $365 million
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Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Biden raises a record-shattering $364 million in August
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Grinnell College:
Joe Biden Leads Donald Trump in Latest Grinnell College National Poll
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
This is why Trump is still losing
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Geoffrey Skelley / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump May Have Gotten A Convention Bounce. But It's Very Slight And May Already Be Fading.
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Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Trump encourages North Carolina residents to vote twice to test mail-in system — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump suggested that people in North Carolina should vote twice in the November election, once by mail and once in-person, escalating his attempts to cast confusion and doubt on the validity of the results.
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Eric Beech / Reuters:
U.S. attorney general says mail-in voting open to ‘fraud and coercion’
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Speaker Pelosi calls salon visit a ‘set-up,’ refuses to apologize — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declined to apologize Wednesday for her controversial visit to a San Francisco hair salon, calling it “a set up” and suggesting that she had been tricked by the business owner.
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Commission on Presidential Debates:
Kristen Welker, Co-Anchor Weekend TODAY, White House Correspondent, NBC News — Thursday, October 22, Belmont University, Nashville, TN — Fahrenkopf, Ridings and Wollack said that, “We are grateful to these experienced journalists, who will help ensure that the general election presidential …
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
2020 Election Live Updates: New Poll Shows Biden's Lead Over Trump Narrowing in Pennsylvania
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Trump orders review to defund NYC, other ‘anarchist’ cities — WASHINGTON — President Trump is ordering the federal government to begin the process of defunding New York City and three other cities where officials allowed “lawless” protests and cut police budgets amid rising violent crime, The Post can exclusively reveal.
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New York Times:
C.D.C. Tells States How to Prepare for Covid-19 Vaccine by Early November — As Trump pushes the possibility of a vaccine this year, the C.D.C. has outlined technical scenarios to state public health officials for an unidentified “Vaccine A” and “Vaccine B.”
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Amanda Terkel / HuffPost:
GOP Rep. Clay Higgins Threatens To Shoot Armed Protesters: 'I'd Drop Any 10 Of You' — His social media post, which was removed by Facebook, had a photo of armed Black men. — Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) said he'd be more than willing to shoot any armed demonstrators in Louisiana …
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Washington Post:
First covid-19 death linked to Sturgis Motorcycle Rally reported in Minnesota — The case, involving a biker in his 60s, is one of at least 260 infections traced to the event last month where many declined to wear masks. — A Minnesota biker who attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally …
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Trump told Sarah Sanders to ‘take one for the team’ after Kim Jong-un wink — Donald Trump told Sarah Sanders she would have to “go to North Korea and take one for the team”, after Kim Jong-un winked at the then White House press secretary during a summit in Singapore in June 2018.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Sanders Says Trump Joked About Her ‘Taking One for the Team’ With Kim Jong-un
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo: Trump in Kenosha — Welcome to Byron York's Daily Memo newsletter. — Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to receive the newsletter. — TRUMP IN KENOSHA. President Trump wasn't on the ground in Wisconsin for very long, but it was long enough to show …
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ABC News:
DHS withheld July intelligence bulletin calling out Russian attack on Biden's mental health — The Trump campaign has repeatedly engaged in a similar line of attack. — In early July the Department of Homeland Security withheld publication of an intelligence bulletin warning law enforcement agencies …
Axios:
Barr says “epidemic” of police brutality against Black people is “false narrative” — Attorney General Bill Barr denied Wednesday that there are “two justice systems” for Black and white people in the U.S., claiming in a wide-ranging interview on CNN that the idea that there is an “epidemic” …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump presses Barr (again) to target his enemies before election
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Trump melts down after Lincoln Project ad mocks his RNC TV ratings: ‘We have FAR more people!’ — President Donald Trump on Wednesday threw a tantrum about a new Lincoln Project ad that mocked him for scoring lower television ratings for the Republican National Convention than Democratic rival Joe Biden.
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Grace Panetta / Business Insider:
5 mistakes that can disqualify your November mail ballot and how to avoid them — More states and counties than ever are allowing Americans to vote from home with a paper ballot mailed to their house this fall. — But voting by mail can be more prone to human error than voting in person …
Michael J. Sandel / New York Times:
Disdain for the Less Educated Is the Last Acceptable Prejudice — It's having a corrosive effect on American life — and hurting the Democratic Party. — Mr. Sandel is a political philosopher. — Joe Biden has a secret weapon in his bid for the presidency: He is the first Democratic nominee …
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Meg O'Connor / The Appeal:
HIS BROTHER CALLED FOR HELP AFTER HE WAS ACTING STRANGELY. POLICE KNELT ON HIM UNTIL HE WAS BRAIN DEAD. — Body camera video shows that Daniel Prude was complying with police when they knelt on his back and pushed his face to the ground for so long that he stopped breathing.
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Washington Post:
Tactics of fiery White House trade adviser draw new scrutiny as some of his pandemic moves unravel — Peter Navarro has faced an internal investigation into his treatment of colleagues, and now two of his coronavirus-related actions are under internal scrutiny.
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CNN:
Georgia likely removed nearly 200k from voter rolls wrongfully, report says — (CNN)The state of Georgia has likely removed nearly 200,000 Georgia citizens from the voter rolls for wrongfully concluding that those people had moved and not changed the address on their voter registration …
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Joni Ernst, in a Tight Senate Race, Repeats a Debunked Coronavirus Theory — The Iowa senator's comments echoed a false claim, spread by President Trump over the weekend, that deaths from Covid-19 have been inflated. — As Iowa sees a sharp spike in coronavirus cases, Senator Joni Ernst …
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Mitchell Byars / Denver Post:
Woman assaults 12-year-old boy in Boulder over Trump yard sign, police say — Boulder police are investigating a report that a 12-year-old boy was assaulted over a President Donald Trump yard sign. — According to Boulder police, the assault occurred at 3 p.m. Monday at Folsom Street and Glenwood Drive.
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
This Is Democrats' Doomsday Scenario for Election Night — What if early results in swing states on Nov. 3 show President Trump ahead, and he declares victory before heavily Democratic mail-in votes, which he has falsely linked with fraud, are fully counted?
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Devin Nunes May Be Trump's ‘Person’ Who Witnessed the Antifa Plane ‘Firsthand’ — The mega-loyalist Nunes was seemingly the first person in Trumpworld to publicly float the rumor of a plane full of geared-up antifa soldiers—days before the president spread it.
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Philip Oltermann / The Guardian:
Alexei Navalny poisoned with Novichok, says German government … The German government has said toxicological exams at Berlin's Charité hospital have yielded “unequivocal proof” that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent.
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Mike Dennison / KTVQ-TV:
Trump, state and nat'l GOP sue to stop all-mail ballots in MT — The Trump campaign, national Republicans and the Montana Republican Party filed suit Wednesday to overturn Gov. Steve Bullock's August order allowing Montana counties to conduct the Nov. 3 election with mail ballots.
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