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Wall Street Journal:
Hunter Biden's Ex-Business Partner Alleges Father Knew About Venture — Former vice president says he had no involvement; corporate records reviewed by The Wall Street Journal show no role for Joe Biden — An ex-business partner of Hunter Biden, in a news conference organized by the Trump campaign …
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NBC News:
Inside the campaign to ‘pizzagate’ Hunter Biden … Some of the same people who pushed a false conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton that first emerged in 2016 are now targeting Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's son, with similar falsehoods. Their online posts are garnering astronomical numbers of shares on social media.
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
The Biden ‘Family Legacy’ — What we learned from the text messages of Hunter's partner Tony Bobulinski. — Joe Biden has a problem, and his name is Hunter. Because the former vice president hasn't had to answer any questions on this topic, that problem could soon become America's.
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Trump Doesn't Poop Pants; “Wins” Debate — So, so, so many lies. — Watching the final presidential debate, I couldn't get Jane Coaston's latest piece out of my head: Donald Trump is extremely online and his campaign only makes sense if you too are extremely online.
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Trumpworld Wraps Up Campaign by Going Full Q — From the president on down, the closing pitch to voters is to signal acceptance of a conspiracy theory that the FBI considers dangerous. — Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon had a message for his podcast listeners on Tuesday …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Hunter Biden business associate's text messages indicate meeting with Joe Biden
Hunter Biden business associate's text messages indicate meeting with Joe Biden
James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
Now Corruption Story Is About Joe, Not Hunter
Now Corruption Story Is About Joe, Not Hunter
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump will attack Biden's son at the debate. It will likely backfire on him.
Trump will attack Biden's son at the debate. It will likely backfire on him.
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Sam Dorman / Fox News:
Hunter's ex-partner recounts meeting Joe Biden, claims family ‘paranoid’ about hiding former VP's involvement
Hunter's ex-partner recounts meeting Joe Biden, claims family ‘paranoid’ about hiding former VP's involvement
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo: Joe Biden (sort of) addresses Hunter Biden accusation
Byron York's Daily Memo: Joe Biden (sort of) addresses Hunter Biden accusation
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Associated Press:
Debate Takeaways: Trump gets personal, Biden hits on virus — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden met for the second and last time on a debate stage Thursday after a previously scheduled town hall debate was scrapped after the Republican incumbent became …
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Nick Arama / redstate.com:
Rasmussen Says Trump Just Hit the ‘Holy Grail’ of Reelection Numbers — We're now counting down to the election with just 12 days left. — We're seeing all kinds of things exploding off in the Biden scandal as more and more information keeps dropping. It's clear Joe Biden is going to have serious problems over it.
Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
Takeaways: Four things to watch for in the Trump-Biden debate
Takeaways: Four things to watch for in the Trump-Biden debate
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Trump and Biden clash in final debate over federal Covid-19 response
Trump and Biden clash in final debate over federal Covid-19 response
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ABC News:
Presidential debate live updates: Trump, Biden clash over key issues
Presidential debate live updates: Trump, Biden clash over key issues
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Marty Johnson / The Hill:
Welker raises question about ‘the talk’ during final debate
Welker raises question about ‘the talk’ during final debate
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Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Biden carries big cash advantage into final weeks of election
Biden carries big cash advantage into final weeks of election
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Biden warns of ‘dark winter’ in America
Biden warns of ‘dark winter’ in America
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
After Barrett meeting, Murkowski still opposes election-year confirmation
After Barrett meeting, Murkowski still opposes election-year confirmation
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Nick Ochsner / WBTV-TV:
Man arrested in Kannapolis with van full of guns and explosives, researched killing Joe Biden — KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (WBTV) - A man was arrested in Kannapolis with a van full of guns and explosives with plans to carry out an act of terrorism, including trying to assassinate Joe Biden.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Trump releases unedited “60 Minutes” interview days early — President Trump tweeted on Thursday a link to an unedited 38-minute clip of his interview with Lesley Stahl of CBS' “60 Minutes” — days before its planned Sunday airdate. — Why it matters: Trump, who threatened yesterday to release the clip …
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Lex Haris / CBS News:
Trump administration violates agreement and releases “60 Minutes” interview ahead of Sunday broadcast
Trump administration violates agreement and releases “60 Minutes” interview ahead of Sunday broadcast
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Look at the bias, hatred and rudeness on behalf of 60 Minutes and CBS. Tonight’s anchor, Kristen Welker, is far worse! #MAGA:
Look at the bias, hatred and rudeness on behalf of 60 Minutes and CBS. Tonight's anchor, Kristen Welker, is far worse!
Look at the bias, hatred and rudeness on behalf of 60 Minutes and CBS. Tonight's anchor, Kristen Welker, is far worse!
Politico:
Bernie Sanders makes a play for Biden Labor secretary — Sen. Bernie Sanders is hoping to be a part of Joe Biden's potential administration and has expressed a particular interest in becoming Labor secretary, two people familiar with the conversations tell POLITICO.
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Business Insider:
Jared Kushner floating launch of a new Trump-branded media outlet, GOP sources say. It's another sign of a looming 2020 defeat. … - Jared Kushner has been talking about starting a Donald Trump-themed news outlet or another media company, perhaps as soon as after the November election …
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New York Times:
Trump Campaign Draws Rebuke for Surveilling Philadelphia Voters — President Trump's campaign has been videotaping voters at ballot drop boxes, a tactic that could amount to illegal voter intimidation, Pennsylvania's attorney general says. — PHILADELPHIA — The Trump campaign …
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New York Times:
Russia Poses Greater Election Threat Than Iran, Many U.S. Officials Say — Russia's hackers appeared to be preparing to sow chaos amid any uncertainty around election results, officials said. — WASHINGTON — While senior Trump administration officials said this week that Iran …
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Rod Dreher:
No Families, No Children, No Future — Here's a fascinating article from New York magazine on the massive gender gap between Trump and Biden supporters. It contains this eye-popping claim, buried deep down: … David Shor is one of the best data people the Democratic Party people has.
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Reuters:
Exclusive: ‘Dumb mistake’ exposed Iranian hand behind fake Proud Boys U.S. election emails - sources — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Government analysts and private sector investigators were able to rapidly attribute to Iranian hackers a wave of thousands of threatening emails aimed at U.S. voters …
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Anand Giridharadas / The.Ink:
Judge Barrett is family to me. Don't confirm her — A relative of the Supreme Court nominee speaks out in The.Ink — Welcome to The.Ink, my newsletter about money and power, politics and culture. If you're joining us for the first time, hello! Click the orange button below to get this in your inbox, free.
New York Magazine:
The Debate Guardrails Were a Gift for Trump — Though exceeding the standards of the surreal first presidential debate was not necessarily a difficult task, Thursday night's event felt like an accomplishment. President Trump and Joe Biden engaged in normal-ish back and forth …
Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Trump campaign press secretary suspended on Twitter over mail-in voting tweet — The Trump campaign accused Twitter of seeking to ‘silence’ the campaign, hours before a presidential debate. — Trump 2020 spokesman Gidley on Trump campaign reportedly dwarfed by Biden's in fundraising
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Madison Cawthorn's Racist Website — A new attack website put up by the Madison Cawthorn campaign includes an explicitly racist broadside against his opponent, Moe Davis (D-NC), for associating himself with people who want to “ruin white males.” — For real.
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James Lindsay / New Discourses:
Critical Race Theory's Jewish Problem — Critical Race Theory has a Jewish problem, and, finally, people are beginning to notice. “Stop being shocked,” implores Bari Weiss, formerly of the New York Times, writing for the Jewish commentary magazine Tablet. Stop starting off sentences with “can you believe...?”
New York Times:
Trump Holds Small Lead in Conservative Kansas, Poll Shows — President Trump won Kansas by more than 20 points, but he leads Joe Biden by only seven in a Times/Siena College poll. The Republican Senate candidate leads his Democratic rival by an even smaller amount, 46 percent to 42.
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Washington Post:
Trump issues sweeping order for tens of thousands of career federal employees to lose civil service protections — President Trump has fired his biggest broadside yet this week against a federal bureaucracy he has moved to remake with an executive order that would remove job security …
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