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10:05 AM ET, October 8, 2020

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New York Times:
Pence, Peerless Trump Defender, Confronts His Limits  —  During an orderly debate, the vice president deflected criticism of the Trump administration's pandemic response, something Kamala Harris said “clearly” hasn't worked.  —  Vice President Mike Pence approached his task on Wednesday …
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CNN:
Post-debate CNN poll: Harris seen as winner in a contest that matched expectations  —  See who undecided voters thought won the VP debate  —  (CNN)More Americans said Sen. Kamala Harris did the best job in the vice presidential debate Wednesday night, according to a CNN Instant Poll of registered voters who watched.
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Mike Pence's Debate Performance Bugged Me Out  —  He's numb to pests large and small.  —  We need to talk about that fly.  —  It was a fly, wasn't it?  If not, it was a bug doing an ace interpretation of a fly, and about two-thirds of the way through the debate in Salt Lake City on Wednesday night …
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Pence Dodges Peaceful Transfer of Power Question at VP Debate
Politico:
Key moments from Harris and Pence's primetime showdown
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
The VP debate offers the nation a glimpse of a post-Trump future
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
‘They are coming for you,’ Harris says of Trump-Pence attacks on the Affordable Care Act.
NBC News:
Trump asked Walter Reed doctors to sign non-disclosure agreements in 2019  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump required personnel at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to sign non-disclosure agreements last year before they could be involved with treating him, according to four people familiar with the process.
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The Daily Beast:
White House Quietly Told Vets Group It Might Have Exposed Them to COVID  —  The first known White House warning to visitors about a coronavirus risk came the same day that the president acknowledged getting the virus. … On the same day President Trump acknowledged contracting the coronavirus …
ABC News:
34 people connected to White House, more than previously known, infected by coronavirus: Internal FEMA memo  —  The administration has sought to downplay the spread.  —  White House-related COVID-19 infections grow  —  President Trump's circle of infections has now extended into the Pentagon.
NBC News:
Trump back at White House after Covid-19 treatment at Walter Reed … President Donald Trump has returned to the White House after leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he had been receiving treatment for Covid-19 since Friday.  He immediately took off his mask to pose …
Discussion: VICE
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Second Trump-Biden debate will be remote  —  The Commission on Presidential Debates announced Thursday that President Trump and Joe Biden will appear at next week's second presidential debate from “separate remote locations.”  —  The state of play: The decision comes as Trump continues …
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New York Times:
Trump Objects to Commission's Virtual Debate Plan  —  The Commission on Presidential Debates said the second Biden-Trump matchup would be virtual, because of virus concerns, but the president called the plan “ridiculous.”  —  President Trump on Thursday said that he would refuse to participate …
Patricia Murphy / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Top White House aide hosted lavish Atlanta wedding in May despite virus restrictions  —  At time, state banned gatherings of more than 10 people  —  White House chief of staff Mark Meadows hosted a lavish wedding for his daughter in Atlanta this May, despite a statewide order and city …
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
New England Journal of Medicine:
Dying in a Leadership Vacuum  —  Article  —  Covid-19 has created a crisis throughout the world.  This crisis has produced a test of leadership.  With no good options to combat a novel pathogen, countries were forced to make hard choices about how to respond.  Here in the United States, our leaders have failed that test.
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Elizabeth Meyer / Iowa Starting Line:
Greenfield Shatters Fundraising Records With $28.7M Haul  —  Theresa Greenfield raised more money in the last three months than any Iowan running for U.S. Senate had raised in an entire election cycle.  —  In the third fundraising quarter of 2020, spanning July through September …
Discussion: The Hill, Political Wire, DNyuz and Fox News
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
What is The Cook Political Report?  —  The Cook Political Report is an independent, non-partisan newsletter that analyzes elections and campaigns for the US House of Representatives, US Senate, Governors and President as well as American political trends.
Discussion: Political Wire
Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review:
Trump's antibody treatment was tested using cells originally derived from an abortion  —  The Trump administration has looked to curtail research with fetal cells.  But when it was life or death for the president, no one objected.  —  hide  —  This week, President Donald Trump extolled …
Discussion: Political Wire and Al Jazeera
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Jim Dwyer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, Dies at 63  —  Working for New York Newsday, The Daily News and The Times, he covered the human stories of New York in dramatic prose and crusaded against injustice.  —  Jim Dwyer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, columnist …
Ethan Wolff-Mann / Yahoo Finance:
Ex-Obama advisor: 'Take phone out of Trump's hand,' warns he's ‘going to blow up the economy’  —  On Tuesday, President Trump fired off a tweet at 2:48 p.m. ET that sent the S&P 500 (^  —  “I have instructed my representatives to stop negotiating until after the election when …
Ken Haddad / WDIV-TV:
Michigan AG: Burkman, Wohl turn themselves in on voter intimidation charges  —  DETROIT - Two right-wing political operatives accused of voter intimidation in Michigan have turned themselves in to authorities in Detroit, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Thursday.
David Lynch / Washington Post:
As Washington fumbled relief talks, economy's cracks deepened in recent months  —  Loss of momentum raises danger of protracted, disappointing recovery  —  Katie Button has put her bar stools into storage, laid off about half of her 130 employees and learned how to run a half-empty restaurant.
Kelly McLaughlin / Business Insider:
Eric Trump says his dad ‘literally saved Christianity’ in a ‘full-out war on faith’ … - Eric Trump said in an interview with the North Dakota radio station WZFG-AM last week that his father, President Donald Trump, “literally saved Christianity.”  — He claimed Democrats have launched a …
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Economic relief talks are back on, Trump asserts, two days after he cut them off  —  Latest pronouncement comes as Pelosi and Mnuchin negotiate on airline relief; Trump says he's pushing for broader deal  —  President Trump said Thursday that economic relief talks are back on …
Henry J. Gomez / BuzzFeed News:
Donald Trump Is Canceling TV Ads In Midwest States That Made Him President  —  President Donald Trump's reelection campaign is slashing television spending in the Midwest, canceling millions of dollars in advertising in states that carried him to victory in 2016.  —  He's been off the local airwaves completely in Iowa and Ohio.
 
 
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David Harsanyi / National Review:
A New York Times Columnist Wish-Casts Foreign Intervention into U.S. Elections
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
They Want You To Be Afraid  —  The only thing that outraged the leftist elite …
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Trump administration to impose crushing sanctions on Iran in defiance of European humanitarian concerns
Discussion: Bloomberg
Jake Tapper / The Atlantic:
Why Americans Fall for Grifters
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
With Just Weeks to Go, Trump is Not Making up Ground
Discussion: Political Wire and VICE
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Maya Wiley Enters N.Y.C. Mayor's Race: ‘I Am Not a Conventional Candidate’
 Earlier Items: 
Francis Wilkinson / Bloomberg:
The Republican Party Is Terrified of Voters
Discussion: Washington Post, NPR and Raw Story
Mark Weiner / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Brindisi surges ahead of Tenney in House race (Siena College | Syracuse.com poll)
Discussion: Roll Call
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
White House Security Official Contracted Covid-19 in September
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
‘A Republican Party unraveling’: GOP plunged into crisis as Trump abruptly ends economic relief talks, dismisses virus
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
Judge Orders Twitter To Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set Off Seth Rich Conspiracy
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Justice Department says it ‘inadvertently’ altered Flynn notes
Sophie Nieto-Munoz / New Jersey Online:
Ex-N.J. Gov. Chris Christie remains hospitalized for COVID-19
Discussion: Washington Post and New York Post
 

 
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Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
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