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9:30 AM ET, October 11, 2020

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Washington Post:
Post-ABC poll: Biden maintains lead nationally over Trump  —  With little more than three weeks remaining until Election Day, President Trump is in a race against the clock as he continues to trail former vice president Joe Biden by double digits, his standing driven down by distrust on the issue …
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Powered by trust on the pandemic, Biden leads by 12 points nationwide: POLL  —  Nearly 6 in 10 disapprove of how Trump has handled the coronavirus outbreak.  —  Visual Tracking: COVID-19 and the White House  —  At least 34 people connected to the White House have tested positive for COVID-19 …
Denver Post:
One dead after gunfire at downtown Denver rallies; private security guard on contract by 9News in custody  —  A Denver Post staff member witnessed the fatal confrontation.  This story was updated after authorities called into question the accuracy of that journalist's report concerning the affiliation of the shooter.
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Jennifer Campbell-Hicks / KUSA-TV:
1 dead, security guard in custody after shooting near dueling Denver rallies  —  A “Patriot Rally” and a “BLM-Antifa Soup Drive” took place at Civic Center Saturday afternoon.  —  DENVER — A private security guard is being held as a suspect in a deadly shooting near the Denver Art Museum …
New York Times:
Trump Makes First Public Appearance Since Leaving Walter Reed  —  The president continued to play down the threat of the virus, but the event that the White House had previewed as a huge “peaceful protest for law and order” was uncharacteristically brief.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House physician …
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ABC News:
Candace Owens' BLEXIT group pays for some attendees' travel to Trump's White House event  —  Attendees were told they “must” wear a BLEXIT shirt, according to emails.  —  Trump plans to resume in-person events at White House  —  Just a week after he was hospitalized for COVID-19 …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Manic Panic on the Potomac  —  Will Mitch ditch the Donald?  —  WASHINGTON — At long last, a top Republican is distancing himself from Donald Trump.  —  Literally.  —  Mitch McConnell has been boasting to colleagues and to reporters in Kentucky that he knew better than to go to the Amy …
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Los Angeles Times:
Strapped for cash, Trump yanks TV ads in key states as Biden spending surges  —  President Trump stopped all of his television and radio advertising in three states and substantially reduced it in four others in recent weeks after his lackluster fundraising left him unable to match a surge …
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Washington Post:
Pennsylvania emerges as ‘tipping-point’ battleground for Biden and Trump — before and after Election Day
Discussion: Fox News and Political Wire
Jamie Lovegrove / Post and Courier:
Jaime Harrison breaks record for biggest fundraising quarter by any Senate candidate ever  —  COLUMBIA — Jaime Harrison, the Democrat challenging Republican incumbent Lindsey Graham in South Carolina's high-profile U.S. Senate race, brought in more money in the last full fundraising quarter …
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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Jaime Harrison smashes Senate fundraising record in race with Lindsay Graham  —  South Carolina Senate candidate Jaime Harrison's campaign announced Sunday it raised $57 million in the third quarter of 2020, shattering the quarterly fundraising record for a Senate race set by Beto O'Rourke in 2018.
Discussion: Politico, Forbes, Political Wire and Slate
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Pennsylvania needs Joe Biden … It's a remarkable — and frightening — time in America.  This country has withstood wars, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and civil unrest, but the division and chaos, incompetence, and intolerance that we have witnessed from Donald Trump in the last few months …
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
‘What are we so afraid of?’ … When President Trump got sick, I had this moment of deja vu back to when I first woke up in the hospital.  I know what it's like to be humiliated by this virus.  I used to call it the “scamdemic.”  I thought it was an overblown media hoax.  I made fun of people for wearing masks.
WCHS-TV:
Records: Williamson nurse charged after shooting woman in abdomen  —  A Williamson woman who made headlinesafter she traveled to New York to help treat COVID-19 patients has been charged after court records said she shot another woman.  Amy Jolene Thorn, 39, of Williamson is charged …
Katrin Bennhold / New York Times:
QAnon Is Thriving in Germany.  The Extreme Right Is Delighted.  —  As the U.S. conspiracy theory goes global, it has found fertile ground in the putsch fantasies and anti-Semitic tropes long popular on Germany's far-right fringe.  Counterterrorism officials worry.
CNN:
Trump's $1.8 trillion stimulus proposal faces opposition from Pelosi and Senate GOP  —  (CNN)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Republicans on Saturday balked at President Donald Trump's roughly $1.8 trillion stimulus proposal, making it all but certain Congress won't pass an economic relief package before Election Day.
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Axios:
GOP social-distances Trump
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Taking Page From Authoritarians, Trump Turns Power of State Against Political Rivals  —  President Trump took a step even Richard M. Nixon avoided in his most desperate days: openly ordering direct immediate government action against specific opponents, timed to serve his re-election campaign.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
A Dark Past  —  Malcolm Muggeridge, Marked by Mobility and a Search for Morality  —  Why Judge Barrett Doesn't Know Whether She Would Overturn Precedent  —  John Locke and the Fight over Judge Barrett's Catholicism  —  What's Gone Wrong with the Supreme Court — and How to Fix It
Discussion: Instapundit
Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
The rise of Gen Z could foretell the fall of Trumpism  —  The evidence all points in one direction: Americans born after 1996, known as Generation Z, could doom not only Trumpism but conservatism as the country currently knows it.  —  Members of Generation Z who are of voting age …
Vandana Rambaran / Fox News:
Wisconsin blocked from accepting mail-in ballots after Election Day  —  Democrats will likely appeal the decision.  — Flipboard  —  Former Wisconsin gov. on helping VP Pence prepare for debate  —  A federal appeals court in Wisconsin overruled a lower court's decision to extend …
Jordan Williams / The Hill:
Teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg endorses Biden  —  Teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg has endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.  —  “I never engage in party politics.  But the upcoming US elections is above and beyond all that,” Thunberg tweeted.
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Scientific American:
On November 3, Vote to End Attacks on Science
Discussion: Daily Kos, The Gateway Pundit and Axios
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
‘A Dear Leader approach’: Trump's critics compare his shows of strength around coronavirus to authoritarian tactics  —  President Trump was boarding Marine One at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a televised flight back to the White House on Monday when CNN analyst Brian Stelter called …
Nicholas Riccardi / MSN:
GOP's Supreme Court push may box in Cory Gardner  —  DENVER (AP) — Six years ago, Colorado Democrats failed to convince enough voters to reject Cory Gardner's bid for the U.S. Senate.  Their warnings that the Republican could, someday, be the confirming vote for a Supreme Court justice …
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Federal judge in Pennsylvania denies Trump campaign voting policy challenges in major ruling  —  Avlon: 2020 is the most litigated election ever, already  —  (CNN)A federal judge in Pennsylvania has denied the Trump campaign and Republican Party's bid to make ballot dropboxes …
Discussion: Washington Post and Axios
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Melissa Nann Burke / The Detroit News:
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
Trump Failed the 3 A.M. Test
Mary Kay Linge / New York Post:
How Trump's ‘enthusiasm factor’ could lead to another surprise win on Election Day
Discussion: CNN and Instapundit
Andy Puzder / Fox News:
COVID lockdown debate - Dems want science, they should look at the Great Barrington Declaration
USA Today:
Trump's COVID prognosis: 3 scenarios based on sparse facts from an opaque White House
Minyvonne Burke / NBC News:
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Philip Athey / Marine Corps Times:
Two men arrested in plot to kidnap Michigan governor were Marine veterans
Discussion: Task & Purpose
Stephanie Innes / Arizona Republic:
COVID-19 cases in Arizona dropped 75% after mask mandates began, report says
Discussion: LiveScience
Sami Yousafzai / CBS News:
The Taliban on Trump: “We hope he will win the election” and withdraw U.S. troops
Discussion: Axios and The Hill