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8:05 AM ET, October 3, 2020

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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump campaign manager tests positive for Covid-19  —  Donald Trump's campaign manager has tested positive for Covid-19, dealing another blow to his reelection effort on a day that saw the president and the head of the Republican National Committee report contracting the disease as well.
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Washington Post:
Invincibility punctured by infection: How the coronavirus spread in Trump's White House  —  The ceremony in the White House Rose Garden last Saturday was a triumphal flashback to the Before Times — before public health guidelines restricted mass gatherings, before people were urged to wear masks and socially distance.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“There Is Zero Reason to Panic”: On Trump's Coronavirus Case and the Shredded Credibility of His White House  —  A report from Day One after the President's diagnosis.  —  As Thursday began, it seemed like just another day of Trumpian meltdown in the nation's capital.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Three White House journalists test positive for coronavirus after closely covering Trump  —  Journalists who work at the White House have been on high alert about the coronavirus since March, but the issue took on even greater urgency Friday with a mini-outbreak in the press room following …
Discussion: The Daily Beast, The Hill and Axios
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Trump Infects America  —  “At the best of times, Trumpworld operates with all the strategic direction of a chicken with its head cut off,” a senior Republican official told me.  “Right now, they're operating like a chicken with its head cut off, lit on fire, and thrown off a cliff.”
Discussion: OpsLens and Roll Call
Peter Nicholas / The Atlantic:
What I Saw Today at the White House  —  On the White House grounds this morning, senior West Wing aides walked around without masks.  They spoke with the press without masks.  They huddled privately with one another and didn't wear masks.  —  When I visited the White House in August …
Discussion: Vox, Yahoo News, BuzzFeed News and The Week
David K. Li / NBC News:
11 positive coronavirus tests traced to presidential debate, Cleveland officials say  —  At least 11 positive coronavirus tests can be traced to organizers of this week's presidential debate in Cleveland, city officials said Friday.  —  The city's announcement came after President Donald Trump …
Washington Post:
Trump's debate guests refused to wear masks, flouting rules  —  A little more than two days before she reported testing positive for the coronavirus, first lady Melania Trump — as well as the president's sons, daughters and several guests — violated safety protocols at the first presidential debate …
Washington Post:
Trump seemed to defy the laws of science and disease.  Then, the coronavirus caught up with him.  —  President Trump contracted the novel coronavirus after months in which he and people around him — his aides, his children, even his golf-club members — avoided taking basic steps to prevent …
Discussion: Mediaite and Daily Kos
Politico:
Debate commission accedes to Biden campaign's ‘health and safety’ objections for VP debate  —  The Commission on Presidential Debates has agreed to seat Kamala Harris and Mike Pence 12 feet apart at the vice presidential debate next week, after the Biden campaign raised health and safety objections …
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump taken to Walter Reed medical center and will be hospitalized ‘for the next few days’
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Cliff Sims, who wrote tell-all White House memoir, joins spy office
Discussion: Axios, The Hill and Breitbart
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Cavalier White House approach to COVID catches up to Trump
Discussion: Twin Cities and Political Wire
WKYC-TV:   City of Cleveland announces 11 positive cases of COVID-19 stemming from preparations for presidential debate
The Daily Beast:
'It's Just F*ck-Up After F*ck-up'—Trump's COVID Advisers at Their Breaking Point  —  With the president infected, the group responsible for combating the virus remains a mess.  At the center of the drama is one man: Dr. Scott Atlas.  —  The announcement that President Donald Trump …
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USA Today:
2 GOP senators test positive for COVID-19 after Trump; Democrats say it's ‘premature’ to move forward with Barrett confirmation hearings … WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats argued Friday it was “premature” to move forward with confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump's Supreme Court …
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Washington Post:
Supreme Court nominee tested positive for coronavirus this summer, has since recovered  —  Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett tested positive for the coronavirus earlier this year but has since recovered, three officials familiar with her diagnosis told The Washington Post.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump's campaign has an epically bad day — and it's not just the virus
Discussion: Fox News and The Week
Jerry Holt / Star Tribune:
Minnesota Republicans fly Delta home from D.C. after COVID-19 exposure  —  U.S. Reps. Stauber, Emmer and Hagedorn appear to have violated the airline's policy, although they tested negative for the virus.  —  Video (00:29) : Republican Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka …
Molly Beck / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
MOLLY BECK  —  MADISON - State Rep. Barbara Dittrich of Oconomowoc last week told her constituents there was no longer a danger of COVID-19 causing a large number of deaths.  The same day, the U.S. lost its 200,000th person to the virus.  —  Days later, state Sen. Howard Marklein told …
Discussion: Bulwark+
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
‘God-tier genetics’: A stunned MAGA world offers blame, adulation after Trump's diagnosis  —  Donald Trump's coronavirus diagnosis has stunned MAGA world, but it hasn't changed how it reacts to bad news: blame others, accuse the left of craven behavior and cling tighter to the president.
Jason Koebler / VICE:
Twitter Says You Cannot Tweet That You Hope Trump Dies From COVID  —  “Content that wishes, hopes or expresses a desire for death, serious bodily harm, or fatal disease against an individual is against our rules.”  —  Jason Koebler  —  President Trump has coronavirus …
Jacob Ogles / Florida Politics:
Chamber poll shows Joe Biden winning Florida by 5 points  —  Joe Biden holds a solid lead among likely Florida voters, according to the latest poll from the Florida Chamber of Commerce.  —  A survey by Cherry Communications for the Chamber shows if the election were held today …
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HuffPost:
Contract Tracers Waited On Names Of Trump Fundraiser Guests Who Had Already Scattered  —  Social media posts show people who went to the New Jersey event with Trump had fanned out across the country, going out in public and not wearing masks.  —  New Jersey contact tracers did not have a complete list …
Discussion: Vox and Vanity Fair
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Carl Campanile / New York Post:
AOC baffles Jewish community by refusing to meet with leaders
Jack Beyrer / Washington Free Beacon:
Hickenlooper Calls China a ‘Great Nation’
Discussion: Breitbart
Maha Nassar / +972 Magazine:
US media talks a lot about Palestinians — just without Palestinians
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Trump's COVID Diagnosis Spooks Russia: ‘Our Candidate is Sick’
Chabeli Carrazana / The 19th:
865,000 women left the workforce last month
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Root
HuffPost:
Amy McGrath Is Airing A Pro-Trump Ad In A Swing State Media Market
 Earlier Items: 
John Engel / KXAN-TV:
Lawsuit filed against Gov. Greg Abbott for limiting ballot drop off locations
Discussion: Associated Press
Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:
Authorities Close Investigation Into Wisconsin Hate Crime, Say No Evidence It Occured
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Trump's Illness Makes It Clear: This Election Was Always About the Virus
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and WOOD-TV
Chris Cohen / GQ:
Should You Wake Up Your Romantic Partner in the Middle of the Night to Tell Them the President Contracted a Deadly Virus?
Helen Branswell / STAT:
As ‘the clock starts ticking’ after coronavirus infection, Trump faces an uncertain road ahead
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Bulwark+
Jacob Grier / Arc Digital:
A Pox on One of Their Houses  —  A lifelong Libertarian voter is driven to break for a major party …
 

 
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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New York Times:
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