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10:15 PM ET, October 9, 2020

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Sheila Kaplan / New York Times:
White House Blocked C.D.C. From Requiring Masks on Public Transportation  —  The order would have mandated that both passengers and employees wear face coverings on planes, trains, buses and subways and in airports, stations and depots.  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention drafted …
Discussion: Forbes, Mediaite and Raw Story
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
2020 Election Live Updates: With Clock Ticking Down, Trump Lashes Out  —  President Trump, down by double digits in national polls, is attacking his enemies and even his aides.  His doctor said the president could return to public engagements tomorrow.  Joe Biden heads to Nevada today.
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New York Times:
Trump's Struggles Ripple Across the Sun Belt, Endangering G.O.P. Stronghold  —  President Trump is fading nationally as he alienates women, seniors and suburbanites, polls show.  But private G.O.P. surveys show he is in close races in solidly red states, too.
ABC News:
Trump planning to host 1st in-person event since diagnosis at White House on Saturday: Sources  —  His doctor said the president can hold “public engagements” starting Saturday.  —  Trump calls virtual debate ‘waste of time’  —  The latest on the next presidential debate …
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: Barr tells Republicans Durham report won't be ready by election  —  Attorney General Bill Barr has begun telling top Republicans that the Justice Department's sweeping review into the origins of the Russia investigation will not be released before the election, a senior White House official …
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump invites thousands to hear him speak from White House balcony on Saturday
Discussion: Outside the Beltway, NPR and Bloomberg
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
On Hannity's show, Trump reveals his corrupt, panicky endgame
Timothy Annett / Bloomberg:
Fauci Calls White House Ceremony a ‘Super-Spreader Event’  — Trump, others tested positive for coronavirus after event  — Many attendees had shunned masks, mingled closely indoors  —  Anthony Fauci, the U.S.'s top infectious-disease expert, said that a gathering in the White House Rose Garden …
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New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: The Northeast Held the Virus in Check.  Now Cases Are Inching Up Again.  —  RIGHT NOW Broadway will stay closed at least through May.  —  Here's what you need to know:  —  ‘Eventually, slowly, it comes back’: The U.S. Northeast sees signs of a second wave.
Washington Post:
Two students and a teacher at school attended by Barrett children test positive for coronavirus
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and New Republic
Bloomberg:
Trump Won't Travel Over Weekend, Ending Florida Rally Plan
Discussion: Forbes
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Plans In-Person White House Event for Saturday  —  President Trump is planning to hold his first in-person event since being treated for coronavirus  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump is planning to hold his first in-person events since being treated for Covid-19, with a gathering …
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ABC News:
2nd presidential debate between Biden and Trump canceled
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Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
South Carolina Debate Canceled After Lindsey Graham Refuses COVID Test  —  The debate cancelation announcement: … Advertisements  —  The only reason for the cancelation of the Senate debate is Lindsey Graham's refusal to be tested for the coronavirus.  —  Either Lindsey Graham knows …
Discussion: Twitchy
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Jamie Lovegrove / Post and Courier:
SC Senate debate replaced by separate interviews after Harrison insists on COVID tests  —  COLUMBIA — Republican incumbent Lindsey Graham and Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison will no longer debate Friday night after Harrison declined to participate unless Graham took a coronavirus test in advance and Graham denied the request.
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
‘The president is likely toast’: Trump's woes raise GOP fears of a blue wave  —  WASHINGTON — A series of setbacks for President Donald Trump has left some Republican operatives and donors fearing that the race for the White House is slipping away and proposing that the party shift focus to protecting seats in Congress.
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Houston Chronicle:
We recommend MJ Hegar for US Senate
Discussion: Washington Post
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The Entire Presidency Is a Superspreading Event Down in the polls, high on steroids, and clinging to good health while endangering everyone else's.  —  Donald Trump was on the phone, and he was talking about dying.  It was Saturday, October 3, and while his doctor had told the outside world …
Discussion: Associated Press
New York Times:
Election Less Than a Month Away, Trump Leans on Barr and Pompeo for a Lift  —  The secretary of state said he would make Hillary Clinton's emails public, handing the president a weapon to attack his political foes as the attorney general resisted his overtures to prosecute them.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Trump personnel office weighs asking appointees to offer their resignations  —  The White House Presidential Personnel Office is considering asking nearly every political appointee in the Trump administration to write and tender provisional letters of resignation right before the election …
Paul John Scott / Duluth News Tribune:
9 COVID cases linked to Trump's Bemidji rally; 2 hospitalized, 1 in ICU, state says  —  ST. PAUL — Minnesota's current COVID-19 surge shows no signs of slowing.  The Health Department on Friday, Oct. 9, reported another 1,401 newly confirmed cases and 14 more deaths.  Hospitalization rates continue to trend upward.
Discussion: Mediaite
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David Siders / Politico:
Nine coronavirus cases tied to Trump Minnesota rally
Discussion: ABC News
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Cyber Command has sought to disrupt the world's largest botnet, hoping to reduce its potential impact on the election  —  In recent weeks, the U.S. military has mounted an operation to temporarily disrupt what is described as the world's largest botnet — one used also to drop ransomware …
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Sixteen ‘Boogaloo’ Followers Have Been Busted in 7 Days  —  The takedown of the plot against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was just the tip of the iceberg.  —  A Madison Heights, Michigan, man killed by FBI agents during a still-murky standoff over a weapons warrant.
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Justin Fenton / Baltimore Sun:
Alleged Baltimore-area member of far-right ‘Boogaloo’ movement arrested on federal gun charge
Discussion: CBS Baltimore
Washington Post:
Hope Hicks returned to the White House to pull Trump across the finish line.  Then coronavirus hit.  —  When she returned to the White House on March 9 after two years away and a lucrative stint in corporate PR, Hope Hicks was supposed to be a talisman to re-create the magic of President Trump's against-the-odds 2016 campaign.
Discussion: IJR
Andrew Welsh-Huggins / Associated Press:
Ohio county says nearly 50,000 voters received wrong ballots  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Nearly 50,000 voters received incorrect absentee ballots in the county that is home to Ohio's capital, elections officials said Friday as they promised corrected ballots would be mailed within 72 hours.
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Evan Siegfried / NBC News:
Covid isn't why Trump is losing seniors' support.  But it isn't helping him. … The current thinking is that President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are faring so poorly with America's senior voters because of their response to Covid-19 — in particular, the president's severely inadequate actions …
Ben Popken / NBC News:
Regeneron board member and executive sell $1 million in stock after Trump touts treatment  —  A Regeneron executive and one of its directors sold $1 million worth of stocks two days after President Donald Trump announced he was taking their therapeutic, recent filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission reveal.
Discussion: Check Your Fact
The Daily Beast:
Trump's 11th Hour Campaign Gambit: Give Voters Cash  —  MORE MONEY, LESS PROBLEMS  —  The president ran successfully as a populist in 2016.  But as he tries to recapture the formula, he's running into some hurdles—mainly, his record.  —  Hitting the closing stretch of the election …
Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Supreme Court chief justice banished Judge Brad Schimel from his own courtroom after he refused to wear mask  —  Shortly after Waukesha County courts opened to the public in late June, someone complained that Waukesha County Circuit Judge Brad Schimel was not enforcing the mask mandate set …
Rachel Sandler / Forbes:
60 Employees Leave Coinbase Over CEO's Pledge To Be Apolitical  —  More than 60 Coinbase employees have taken an exit package after CEO Brian Armstrong said in a controversial blog post last month that the company would not participate in social activism.  —  KEY FACTS
Discussion: Bloomberg
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump chose his political brand over his presidency  —  WASHINGTON — Less than a month out from Election Day, President Donald Trump is dealing with a hostage crisis of sorts — he is both the captor and the captive of a badly tarnished political brand.  —  The more it fades, the more he tends to it.
 
 
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CBS News:
Longtime Republican strategists behind the Lincoln Project mounting rogue offensive against Donald Trump
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Donald Trump Jr. to Hit Campaign Trail After Covid Quarantine
Shane Harris / Washington Post:
Volunteer lawyers will advise military personnel who question the legality of orders during protests, election disputes
Brittany De Lea / Fox News:
Pennsylvania registers more Republican voters with election weeks away
Discussion: ABC News and Breitbart
Gretchen Whitmer / Washington Post:
I will hold the president accountable for endangering and dividing America
Discussion: AIER and Mediaite
 Earlier Items: 
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Former CIA director John Brennan takes on Trump, and doesn't hold back
Paul Matzko / New York Times:
Talk Radio Is Turning Millions of Americans Into Conservatives
Discussion: Althouse
Twitter:
Additional steps we're taking ahead of the 2020 US Election
RealClearInvestigations:
Pelosis Take a Big Stake in CrowdStrike
Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Trump Will Undergo Televised Medical Evaluation on Friday Night, Fox News Announces
Associated Press:
Judge denies motion to extend Florida's voter registration
 

 
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