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11:00 PM ET, September 6, 2020

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Washington Post:
Louis DeJoy's rise as GOP fundraiser was powered by contributions from company workers who were later reimbursed, former employees say  —  Louis DeJoy's prolific campaign fundraising, which helped position him as a top Republican power broker in North Carolina and ultimately as head …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Journalists Aren't the Enemy of the People.  But We're Not Your Friends.  —  President Trump will try to put the media on the ballot, and reporters face the increasing temptation to posture for those most eager to oust him.  —  The worst thing about being a reporter in the age of Donald Trump is …
CBS News:
CBS News Battleground Tracker: National, Wisconsin contests steady amid protests; more think Biden trying to calm situation  —  The presidential horse race remains unchanged by recent protests — Joe Biden still leads President Trump by the same margins nationally and in the battleground state of Wisconsin.
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Biden's lead over Trump is the steadiest on record  —  (CNN)New CBS News/YouGov polls reveal that former Vice President Joe Biden maintains his grip on the 2020 race for president.  —  Biden's up 52% to 42% over President Donald Trump among likely voters nationally, and he has a 50% to 44% edge …
Discussion: Vox, Townhall and POLITICUSUSA
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Trump erases Biden's lead in Texas, as Hegar chips away at Cornyn's edge in Senate race
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: Kevin McCarthy warns Trump's war on mail could screw GOP  —  House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy is privately encouraging voting by mail and warned President Trump the party could be “screwed” by his fight against mail-in voting.  —  The big picture: “We could lose based on that …
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Republicans see two conflicting paths in uphill fight to take back House majority
Discussion: Raw Story
Alexis Benveniste / CNN:
The Atlantic's editor-in-chief says his story about Trump calling vets ‘losers’ is just the beginning  —  New York (CNN Business)Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, said his magazine's story about Trump calling Americans who died in battle “losers” and “suckers,” was just the tip of the iceberg.
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Brian MacQuarrie Globe / The Boston Globe:
Last year, he was the country's top military officer.  Now, he is retired on the South Shore.  —  Joe Dunford wore the Marine Corps uniform for 42 years, but the retired four-star general has swapped the battle space in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as political skirmishes in Washington, for a South Shore home a block from the ocean.
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Michael Cohen's Book Says Trump Held ‘Low Opinions of All Black Folks’  —  The president's former fixer describes him as a mob boss figure who made racist insults, was driven by hatred for President Barack Obama and engaged in underhanded tactics against opponents.
Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist:
Bay Ridge Couple Forced Off NYC Ferry In Handcuffs Over Refusal To Wear Masks  —  A Brooklyn couple was pulled from a city ferry in handcuffs on Saturday night after refusing the captain's order to wear a mask or leave the boat.  The husband and wife, who were headed home to Bay Ridge …
Discussion: New York Post, TheBlaze and Law & Crime
Financial Times:
UK plan to undermine withdrawal treaty threatens Brexit trade talks  —  Internal market bill to override parts of N Ireland protocol as Johnson says sides should move on if no deal by Oct 15  —  The UK is planning new legislation that will override key parts of the Brexit withdrawal agreement …
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Emma Anderson / Politico:
Boris Johnson: Britain will move on if there's no Brexit deal
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump says Department of Education will investigate use of 1619 Project in schools  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump is continuing to wage battle against interpretations of history which he claims are un-American.  —  In a Sunday morning tweet, the President said the US Department of Education …
New York Post:
Wealthy NYC woman busted in BLM rampage  —  That's rich.  —  One of the Black Lives Matter protesters now facing felony rioting and misdemeanor graffiti charges — after a window-smashing free-for-all in Manhattan — is a wealthy Upper East Sider whose mother is an architect and whose father is a child psychiatrist.
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump and allies ratchet up disinformation efforts in late stage of campaign  —  For President Trump and his allies, it was a week spent spreading doctored and misleading videos.  —  On Aug. 30, the president retweeted footage of a Black man violently pushing a White woman on a subway platform under …
Discussion: Raw Story
Anne Diebel / The New York Review of Books:
Trumps on the Couch  —  Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man  —  In 1996, at a boozy lunch in Manhattan, a Connecticut lawyer was told about the Trump Organization's “punishment room” by an Atlantic City lawyer who said that he had represented Donald Trump's casino interests.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Here's what the media must do to fend off an election-night disaster  —  I learned about the hazards of election night the hard way.  In late 2000, only a year into my job as the Buffalo News's top editor, I had to make the high-anxiety wee-hours decision about a main headline for the paper's first Wednesday morning print editions.
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Jake Tapper Attempted to Convince GOP's Sean Parnell to Run in Different District than Against Democrat Conor Lamb  —  CNN anchor Jake Tapper tried to convince Republican Sean Parnell to run in a different congressional district than in Pennsylvania's 17th, where he is currently …
Discussion: Townhall
Bloomberg:
Trump Ended 2018 France Trip Having Art Loaded on Air Force One  — President decided he wanted pieces from ambassador's residence  — Painting, bust, figurines flown home to display at White House  —  After Donald Trump's planned trip to a French cemetery for fallen Marines …
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Trump, under fire for alleged comments about veterans, has a long history of disparaging military service  —  As Donald Trump laid the groundwork in 1999 to run for president as the Reform Party candidate, he made a little-remembered attack on the person he saw as a rival in a possible general election campaign: Republican John McCain.
Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
Kanye West's Nearly $7 Million Presidential Bid Has Hit Some Legal Snags  —  So far, Kanye West has spent nearly $7 million of his own money on what continues to be one of the most befuddling presidential bids in the history of American politics.  —  An overdue campaign-finance report filed …
Zack Budryk / The Hill:
Mnuchin: ‘The president and I believe we should do more stimulus’  —  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Sunday that he and President Trump are in favor of further stimulus in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.  —  “The president and I believe we should do more stimulus,” Mnuchin said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump prepares a new fall offensive: Branding Kamala Harris  —  Kamala Harris is about to get the Trump treatment.  —  President Donald Trump has long excelled at ridiculing opponents and fomenting rivalries among those around him — from contestants on “The Apprentice” to his top aides inside the White House.
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump's law and order campaign isn't working
Discussion: USA Today and The Hill
 
 
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Washington Examiner:
Trump must lead against Russian poisoning of dissident
Discussion: Fox News
Huey Freeman / Arizona Daily Independent:
Republican Congressman Receives Death Threat From Retired Teacher
Discussion: Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
John Harwood / CNN:
Trump's dishonest campaign is entirely on-brand
Discussion: New York Times, Raw Story and FITSNews
Sam Levin / The Guardian:
‘Reign of terror’: A summer of police violence in Los Angeles
Larry Celona / New York Post:
‘The gov killed Nana’ banner flies over NYC, LI beaches to troll Gov. Andrew Cuomo
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Caller
Associated Press:
Rare spat between Serbia and Russia after US-brokered deal
 Earlier Items: 
Alex Thompson / Politico:
Trump deploys YouTube as his secret weapon in 2020
Jelani Cobb / New Yorker:
Our Long, Forgotten History of Election-Related Violence
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
What Joe Biden didn't let himself see in Pennsylvania
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
This rural Virginia community thought it could escape the pandemic. Now, it has among the highest number of new cases in the state.
New York Times:
A New Front in America's Pandemic: College Towns
Nancy Dillon / New York Daily News:
He once thought Hillary Clinton and Lady Gaga ate babies. Now he wants to help people out of QAnon
New York Times:
In Final Stretch, Biden Defends Lead Against Trump's Onslaught