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11:05 PM ET, October 1, 2020

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ABC News:
Hope Hicks, one of President Trump's closest advisers, tests positive for coronavirus  —  Hicks traveled with the president to and from Tuesday's first debate.  —  Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.  —  Hope Hicks, one of President Donald Trump's closest advisers …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Awaits Coronavirus Test Results After Aide Falls Ill  — Hope Hicks traveled with Trump to debate and Minnesota rally  — President says in interview he just had coronavirus test  —  President Donald Trump said Thursday night that Hope Hicks, one of his closest aides …
Washington Post:
Hope Hicks, close Trump aide, tests positive for coronavirus
Discussion: The Independent
WSB-TV:
Following rocky debate, Biden takes lead over Trump in latest exclusive Channel 2 poll  —  ATLANTA — We are seeing how the first presidential debate changed Georgia voters' opinions.  —  For the first time, former Vice President Joe Biden is leading our exclusive Channel 2 Action News/Landmark Communications poll.
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Biden is still leading in the polls, and voters say he won his first debate against Trump  — Democrat Joe Biden came into the first debate ahead of President Trump in the national polls.  — The first scientific polls to ask who won the debate Tuesday night show Biden coming out on top.
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump pushes back on changes to upcoming presidential debates  —  President Trump suggested Thursday that he'll resist any moves that could cut off candidates' microphones in the next debate if he continues to talk over his opponent and the moderator.  — “Why would I allow the Debate Commission …
Bloomberg:   Biden Breaks Fundraising Record Again, Buoyed by Debate
Rogerlsimon / theepochtimes.com:
Go Lincoln-Douglas: Eliminate Moderators From Presidential Debates
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
The Secret History of Kimberly Guilfoyle's Departure from Fox  —  As President Donald Trump heads into the 2020 elections, he faces a daunting gender gap: according to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, he trails Joe Biden by thirty percentage points among female voters.
SOM - State of Michigan:
AG Nessel Files Felony Charges Against Jack Burkman, Jacob Wohl in Voter-Suppression Robocalls Investigation  —  LANSING - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed charges today against two political operatives for allegedly orchestrating a series of robocalls aimed at suppressing the vote in the November general election.
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Grant Stern / Occupy Democrats:
Michigan AG charges two GOP operatives with multiple voter suppression felonies
Discussion: Forbes
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Amy Coney Barrett Signed Letter Urging End of ‘Barbaric’ Roe v. Wade  —  The letter may be in line with conservative thinking.  But it could complicate her Supreme Court fight.  —  Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett signed a letter in 2006 calling for the end of Roe v. Wade …
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Revealed: Amy Coney Barrett supported group that said life begins at fertilization
New York Daily News:
To keep Barrett off the Supreme Court, Schumer must fight like a defense attorney with a client on death row
Discussion: New York Times
Jessica Chasmar / Washington Times:
Proud Boys, Black Lives Matter leaders hold joint conference: We ‘denounce White supremacy’  —  Local leaders of the right-wing group Proud Boys in Salt Lake City held a joint news conference with a local Black Lives Matter leader on Wednesday to correct the record and “denounce White supremacy” …
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Josh Boswell / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Leader of ‘white supremacist’ Proud Boys is state director of unofficial support group called Latinos for Trump and has ties to Republicans including …
Discussion: CNN
Politico:
Trump blames low-income people, minorities for ‘ruining’ suburbia
Chuck Lindell / Austin American-Statesman:
Abbott orders counties to close multiple ballot dropoff sites  —  Gov. Greg Abbott issued an order Thursday requiring counties to close multiple locations where voters can drop off completed mail-in ballots.  —  As an election security measure, counties will be limited to one dropoff site …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Facing Grim Polls, Trump Leans Into Playing the Victim  —  Be it congressional Democrats, the news media, the standards enforcers at Twitter or, now, the debate commission, President Trump has repeatedly blamed others for problems and self-inflicted wounds.  —  On Thursday afternoon …
Tom LoBianco / Business Insider:
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale told friends he was under federal investigation just days before meltdown … - Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale told campaign staff and friends that he was under federal investigation, just days before police detained him, Trump advisers tell Insider.
USA Today:
1,600 former Justice Department lawyers accuse Barr of using DOJ to help Trump in election … WASHINGTON - Former Justice Department attorneys expressed concerns Thursday that Attorney General William Barr is using the power of the agency to help President Donald Trump win reelection …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Regina Ip / New York Times:
Hong Kong Is China, Like It or Not  —  After months of chaos in the city, something had to be done, and the Chinese government did it.  —  Ms. Ip is a legislator and a member of the Executive Council in Hong Kong.  —  HONG KONG — No amount of outcry, condemnation or sanctions …
Thomas Barrabi / Fox News:
Obama touts LeBron's ‘More Than a Vote’ campaign as it surpasses 10,000 poll volunteers  —  Obama thanked the volunteers in a surprise address to a virtual crowd at the NBA Finals.  — Flipboard  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for October 1  —  Former President Barack Obama praised participants …
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Bobby Burack / OutKick:   NBA Finals Ratings Sink to All-Time Lows
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Wisconsin Is Frazzled by Surging Virus Cases and Growing Campaign Frenzy  —  The state, up for grabs in the presidential election, has become a coronavirus hot spot.  “It's too late” to solve, one mayor says.  —  OSHKOSH, Wis. — Steve VanderLoop, 64, heard that several of his co-workers …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Biden poised to launch in-person canvassing in key states  —  NEW YORK (AP) — After months of avoiding direct contact with voters because of the pandemic, Joe Biden's campaign is about to launch in-person canvassing efforts across several battleground states.
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David Wasserman / NBC News:
Trump is winning the voter registration battle against Biden in key states
Michael Lewis / Bloomberg:
Inside a California Covid Revolt  —  Residents of Shasta County have taken resistance to Covid-19 restrictions to another level: “full-on anarchy.”  —  Some people who are good in a crisis need a crisis to be good.  They're better wired for hot zones than for ordinary life and so they do whatever …
Politico:
Vulnerable Senate Republicans raise alarm over coronavirus impasse  —  With their majority on the line, Senate Republicans are beginning to fret about the prospect of facing voters in the final weeks of the campaign without a new round of coronavirus aid being enacted.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Kayleigh McEnany's first post-debate briefing goes off the rails  —  For the second time in a week, the United States bore witness to an animated and interruption-filled political discussion.  The first one was Tuesday's debate, but Thursday's White House briefing wasn't that different.
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
American cyclist suspended over pro-Trump tweet  —  A rising American cycling star has been suspended after expressing support for President Trump in a Twitter feud with a Dutch journalist.  —  Quinn Simmons, the reining junior road race world champion and the junior U.S. road race champion …
Aaron Davis / Washington Post:
How Trump amassed a red-state army in the nation's capital — and could do so again  —  The call that came into state capitals stunned governors and their National Guard commanders: The Pentagon wanted thousands of citizen soldiers airlifted to the nation's capital immediately …
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“Biden continually interrupts Ryan in a way I find incredibly annoying.”  —  I'm rereading my live-blogging of the October 11, 2012 debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan.  It's making me view Trump's debate behavior in a different way.  I hated the way Biden treated the very polite, earnest Midwesterner Ryan.
 
 
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump May ‘Denounce’ White Supremacists, But He Is Never Angry
Discussion: HillReporter.com
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The most essential books of the Trump era are barely about Trump at all
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
House passes revised $2.2 trillion stimulus bill
Discussion: Reuters and Washington Times
West Nova News:
LCPS proposal would punish teachers who criticize critical theory
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Biden breaks the $365 million fund-raising record that he set in August.
Discussion: WTOP
Washington Post:
If Trump wants us to believe he paid millions in taxes, all he has to do is show us one page
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Discussion: Washington Post
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Emily Green / VICE:
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Discussion: Daily Kos and The Week
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
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Helena Bottemiller Evich / Politico:
Trump requires food aid boxes to come with a letter from him
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Internal document shows Trump officials were told to make comments sympathetic to Kyle Rittenhouse