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11:30 AM ET, October 11, 2020

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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 …
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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 …
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
ABC host says White House blocked Fauci from appearing on show
Discussion: Washington Post
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 …
Chelsea Janes / Washington Post:
Harris faces spotlight at Supreme Court hearing  —  Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) went viral twice when she questioned Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh at his volatile confirmation hearing two years ago.  —  She scored a hit when she pressed the nominee on whether he knew of any laws …
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Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
How to watch Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearings
Discussion: The Hill
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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Axios:
Eric Trump says his father “got hit hard” by the coronavirus
Discussion: The Hill and The Daily Beast
ABC News:
Candace Owens' BLEXIT group pays for some attendees' travel to Trump's White House event
CBS News:
Biden leads Trump in Michigan and Nevada, and race is tied in Iowa — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll  —  Most voters in the battleground states of Michigan, Nevada and Iowa feel President Trump set a bad example for the nation during his own recent battle with the coronavirus, handling things in a way they call irresponsible.
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
John Verhovek / ABC News:
Biden ‘wants to debate Donald Trump again’: National campaign co-chair  —  Rep. Richmond, national co-chair of Biden's campaign, appeared on “This Week.”  —  In this installment of Model Talk, Nate Silver and Galen Druke discuss the latest movements in the 2020 election forecasts.  —  Pool/Getty Images, FILE
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Jonathan Turley / The Hill:   Democrats want voters in the dark with this version of ‘Truman Show’
Politico:
Amateur hour at the Trump White House  —  Nearly everyone remembers the old cliché: If you can't trust someone to get the little things right, how can you ever count on them to do the big things?  —  President Donald Trump had better hope that bromide, invoked everywhere …
Discussion: Raw Story and Eschaton
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Jaime Harrison smashes Senate fundraising record in race with Lindsey 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 by almost $20 million.
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Jamie Lovegrove / Post and Courier:
Jaime Harrison breaks record for biggest fundraising quarter by any Senate candidate ever
Discussion: Washington Post
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post, CNN and WHYY
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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
Detroit Free Press:
13 men charged in alleged kidnapping plot, many with troubled pasts  —  A wide-ranging Free Press investigation into the defendants found many who vented their anger at government in Michigan both online and in person.  —  Detroit Free Press staff, Detroit Free Press
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 …
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.
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
Trump Failed the 3 A.M. Test  —  A memorable campaign ad from 2008 urged voters to ask themselves which candidate would perform better in an unexpected emergency: “It's 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep, but there's a phone in the White House and it's ringing ... Your vote will decide who answers that call.”
Ashley Carnahan-Uc Berkeley / The College Fix:
Department of Justice sues Yale University for discrimination against white and Asian applicants  —  University called the lawsuit ‘baseless’  —  The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Yale University, alleging it discriminates against white and Asian applicants during its admissions process.
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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Associated Press:
Biden visit Monday caps push into Ohio, once a longshot  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Joe Biden is set to make his first general election campaign visit Monday to Ohio, signaling the former vice president's hopes of winning the state Democrats lost by a significant margin in the 2016 election.
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Republicans ditching Trump as their Senate prospects worsen  —  GOP officials are preparing for a Democratic blowout, and they are furiously trying to salvage red-state races in the homestretch.  —  Here's the clearest sign that Democrats hold a clear advantage in their efforts to retake the Senate …
 
 
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Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
The rise of Gen Z could foretell the fall of Trumpism
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How Trump's ‘enthusiasm factor’ could lead to another surprise win on Election Day
Discussion: CNN and Instapundit
Vandana Rambaran / Fox News:
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Discussion: The Week and Reuters
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
‘A Dear Leader approach’: Trump's critics compare his shows of strength around coronavirus to authoritarian tactics
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
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Discussion: The Big Picture
WCHS-TV:
Records: Williamson nurse charged after shooting woman in abdomen
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Taking Page From Authoritarians, Trump Turns Power of State Against Political Rivals
Discussion: Raw Story
Minyvonne Burke / NBC News:
Coronavirus cases set new single-day records in six U.S. states and worldwide