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11:05 AM ET, October 11, 2020

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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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Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Coons says that confirming Barrett ‘constitutes court-packing,’ Sasse responds that's ‘obviously’ incorrect
Discussion: National Review
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
How to watch Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearings
Discussion: The Hill
Leah Litman / Slate:   Why the Supreme Court Just Punted an Abortion Case
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 …
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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Axios:
Eric Trump says his father “got hit hard” by the coronavirus
Discussion: The Hill
ABC News:
Candace Owens' BLEXIT group pays for some attendees' travel to Trump's White House event
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 …
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Jonathan Turley / The Hill:   Democrats want voters in the dark with this version of ‘Truman Show’
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
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
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.
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
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.”
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.
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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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 …
Sidney Blumenthal / The Guardian:
Lindsey Graham, reverse ferret: how John McCain's spaniel became Trump's poodle … That Lindsey Graham would become Donald Trump's poodle was not a tale (or tail) foretold.  But it has landed him in the dogfight of his life for re-election to his Senate seat in South Carolina …
 
 
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Emily Goddard / The Independent:
Taliban denies endorsing Donald Trump
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Does Israel need a ministry to fight BDS?
Melissa Nann Burke / The Detroit News:
Delaware last year pardoned man charged in Whitmer kidnapping plot
Discussion: Redstate, pjmedia.com and The Hill
Laura Barrón-López / Politico:
The rise of Gen Z could foretell the fall of Trumpism
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
A Dark Past  —  Malcolm Muggeridge, Marked by Mobility and a Search for Morality
Discussion: Instapundit
Mary Kay Linge / New York Post:
How Trump's ‘enthusiasm factor’ could lead to another surprise win on Election Day
Discussion: CNN and Instapundit
 Earlier Items: 
Vandana Rambaran / Fox News:
Wisconsin blocked from accepting mail-in ballots after Election Day
Discussion: 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:
‘What are we so afraid of?’ … When President Trump got sick, I had this moment of deja vu …
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