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Miles Taylor / Medium:
A Statement — Why I'm no longer “Anonymous” — More than two years ago, I published an anonymous opinion piece in The New York Times about Donald Trump's perilous presidency, while I was serving under him. He responded with a short but telling tweet: “TREASON?” — Trump sees personal criticism as subversive.
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Miles Taylor, a Former Homeland Security Official, Reveals He Was ‘Anonymous’ — Mr. Taylor, whose criticisms of President Trump in a New York Times Op-Ed article and subsequent book, roiled Washington and infuriated Mr. Trump, resigned from the administration last year and endorsed Joe Biden this summer.
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Orion Rummler / Axios:
“Anonymous” senior Trump official revealed as ex-DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor
“Anonymous” senior Trump official revealed as ex-DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor
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Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
Hundreds of Trump supporters stuck in the cold for hours when buses can't reach Omaha rally — By the time President Trump finished speaking to thousands of supporters at Omaha's Eppley Airfield on Tuesday night and jetted away on Air Force One, the temperature had plunged to nearly freezing.
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Aaron Sanderford / Omaha World-Herald:
Hundreds of people waited hours in the cold for buses after Trump rally in Omaha — Hundreds of people who attended President Donald Trump's rally Tuesday evening at Eppley Airfield spent up to three hours in freezing temperatures waiting for buses to take them back to their cars.
NBC News:
Hundreds of Trump supporters stuck on freezing cold Omaha airfield after rally
Hundreds of Trump supporters stuck on freezing cold Omaha airfield after rally
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Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
What To Make Of That New Wisconsin Poll That Has Biden Way Ahead — Once in a blue moon, you see a poll that makes you blink twice to make sure you're not seeing things. This morning's ABC News/The Washington Post survey of Wisconsin was just such a poll.
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New York Times:
Biden Holds 8-Point Lead in Michigan as He Tries to Reconstruct the ‘Blue Wall’ — The New York Times / Siena College poll — Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by eight points in Michigan, a battleground state that Mr. Trump flipped in 2016. — 2016 result — NYT/Siena — <1 Trump — 47.3-47.0
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Washington Post:
Post-ABC polls: Biden leads Trump narrowly in Michigan, significantly in Wisconsin
Post-ABC polls: Biden leads Trump narrowly in Michigan, significantly in Wisconsin
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
The Election's Big Twist: The Racial Gap Is Shrinking
The Election's Big Twist: The Racial Gap Is Shrinking
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
COVID surge hurts Trump in Wisconsin; Biden leads in a closer Michigan contest: Poll
COVID surge hurts Trump in Wisconsin; Biden leads in a closer Michigan contest: Poll
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Biden's Path to 270 Widens, Trump's Path Narrows, as Texas Moves to Toss Up — Less than a week out from Election Day and President Donald Trump is playing catch-up. In 2016, he won 30 states (and Maine's 2nd Congressional District) and their 306 electoral votes.
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John Keefe / New York Times:
Quiz: Can You Tell a ‘Trump’ Fridge From a ‘Biden’ Fridge?
Quiz: Can You Tell a ‘Trump’ Fridge From a ‘Biden’ Fridge?
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Beto O'Rourke Has Some Final Advice for the Biden Campaign
Beto O'Rourke Has Some Final Advice for the Biden Campaign
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CNN:
Jared Kushner bragged in April that Trump was taking the country ‘back from the doctors’ — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner boasted in mid-April about how the President had cut out the doctors and scientists advising him on the unfolding …
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Vicky Prodeline / Monmouth University Polling …:
Swing Toward The Democrats — But most voters still expect Trump to win — West Long Branch, NJ - The race for Georgia's electoral votes remains very close, but Joe Biden has gained ground on Donald Trump in the latest Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey falsely tells senators company lifted ban on Post exposé — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday falsely told senators that his company lifted a ban on users tweeting articles from The Post's Hunter Biden exposé, despite the fact that the ban remained …
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Tina Nguyen / Politico:
MAGA scrambles to repair the Hunter Biden narrative — Weeks ago, when Rudy Giuluani first threw the contents of Hunter Biden's alleged laptop online, he promised a trove of even more damning information 10 days before the election. — Yet with less than a week to go, Giuliani …
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Emily Jashinsky / The Federalist:
With Biden Corruption, Democrats Are Once Again Reaping The Consequences Of Their Gentle Primary
With Biden Corruption, Democrats Are Once Again Reaping The Consequences Of Their Gentle Primary
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Hunter Biden on Tape?
Hunter Biden on Tape?
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Michelle Ruiz / Vanity Fair:
AOC's Next Four Years — The history-making congresswoman addresses her biggest critics, the challenges that loom no matter who wins, and what she's taking on next. — Her Republican colleagues had, up until then, been civil. But one day in late July, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stood …
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Steven Overly / Politico:
Blackburn asks Google if employee who criticized her still has a job — Sen. Marsha Blackburn used a Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday to ask about the employment status of a Google engineer whose criticism of the Tennessee Republican has become fodder for right-wing media outlets over the past two years.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Stench of Trump's Racism Will Cling to His Enablers Forever — A month ago, President Trump added to his rally speech a new riff about Ilhan Omar, expressing indignation that the Democratic member of Congress would dare to express opinions about American government.
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Trump to strip protections from Tongass National Forest, one of the biggest intact temperate rainforests — President Trump will open up all 16.7 million acres of Alaska's Tongass National Forest to logging and other forms of development, according to a notice posted Wednesday …
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Wall Street Journal:
Russian in Cyprus Was Behind Key Parts of Discredited Dossier on Trump — A Wall Street Journal investigation points to the identity of ‘Source 3’ as a disgruntled PR executive with a ‘vast network’ of sources — in Washington and David Gauthier-Villars — In the nearly four years since …
Jonathan Tamari / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
How Biden's lead is different from Clinton's — and why the polls are different this time — Sound familiar? — On the surface, there's a lot about the 2020 presidential race that looks like the 2016 contest, when Trump shocked expectations, pollsters, and the media. He might yet do it again.
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Washington Post:
Trump's attacks on political adversaries are often followed by threats to their safety — The CIA's most endangered employee for much of the past year was not an operative on a mission abroad, but an analyst who faced a torrent of threats after filing a whistleblower report that led to the impeachment of President Trump.
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Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
How Far Might Trump Go? — No one is quite sure. — Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality. — On election night and the days that follow, the country may be in for a roller-coaster ride, with ups and downs that raise and dash expectations …
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Kate Sullivan / CNN:
Hillary Clinton says she is an Electoral College elector in New York
Hillary Clinton says she is an Electoral College elector in New York
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Stuart Rothenberg / Inside Elections:
2020 Election Preview: Bracing for History — By Nathan L. Gonzales & Jacob Rubashkin — No matter what happens, the 2020 elections will be historic. With impeachment, a pandemic, economic crisis, a national conversation about racism, and the death of a Supreme Court icon …
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Larry Neumeister / Associated Press:
Change of plea scheduled in Rudy Giuliani-related case — NEW YORK (AP) — A change-of-plea hearing is set for Thursday for a man charged with conspiring with associates of Rudy Giuliani, one of President Donald Trump's lawyers, to make illegal campaign contributions.
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Lev Parnas's Business Associate David Correia, Fraud Guarantee Co-Founder with Giuliani Ties, Will Plead Guilty
Lev Parnas's Business Associate David Correia, Fraud Guarantee Co-Founder with Giuliani Ties, Will Plead Guilty
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Chris Strohm / Bloomberg:
FBI Group Calls for Wray to Be Protected as Trump Chides Him — ‘This country needs stability’ in FBI's leadership, agents say — Biden praised Wray but refused to rule out changes at FBI — U.S. national security may be jeopardized if FBI Director Christopher Wray is abruptly removed …
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Axios:
The GOP's monstrous math problem — Republicans, win or lose next week, face a big — and growing — math problem. — The state of play: They're relying almost exclusively on a shrinking demographic (whites), living in shrinking areas (small, rural towns), creating a reliance on people …
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Timothy Johnson / Media Matters for America:
Militia leader Stewart Rhodes says that his group will be at polling locations and is ready to kill Democrats … Oath Keepers militia leader Stewart Rhodes said members of his militia will be at polling locations on Election Day to “protect” Trump voters during an appearance on far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' program.
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