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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 President Donald Trump supporters were left in the freezing cold for hours after a rally at an airfield in Omaha, Nebraska, on Tuesday night, with some walking around three miles to waiting buses and others being taken away in ambulances.
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Samantha Lock / Newsweek:
Omaha Trump Rally Attendees Stranded, Several Taken to Hospital Suffering Hypothermia
Omaha Trump Rally Attendees Stranded, Several Taken to Hospital Suffering Hypothermia
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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? — “MAGA” hat? Easy: Trump supporter. A Biden-Harris tote is also an obvious giveaway. — But Coffee mate? Loose eggs? — We wondered if it was possible to identify Trump and Biden voters based on what's inside their refrigerators.
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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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The Texas Tribune
Washington Post:
Post-ABC polls: Biden leads Trump narrowly in Michigan, significantly in Wisconsin — Strong support among women powers Biden's advantages in both states. Coronavirus concerns rise in Wisconsin and are hampering the president. — Former vice president Joe Biden continues to outpace President Trump …
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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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Gary Langer / ABC News:
COVID surge hurts Trump in Wisconsin; Biden leads in a closer Michigan contest: Poll — Biden has sizable leads among women, moderates and independents in both states. — Trump, Biden race to the finish on the campaign trail — President Trump will hit three states he won last election …
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NBC News:
Biden is vastly outspending Trump in the final week of the 2020 race
Biden is vastly outspending Trump in the final week of the 2020 race
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Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
Six Days to Go — We're tracking campaign news nationwide, both in the presidential race and in Senate and House races.
Six Days to Go — We're tracking campaign news nationwide, both in the presidential race and in Senate and House races.
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National Review, Political Wire and The Daily Beast
Evie Fordham / Fox News:
Election 2020 polling average shows Biden leading Trump nationally with just days left
Election 2020 polling average shows Biden leading Trump nationally with just days left
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The Hill, Washington Post and Politico
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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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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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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The Hill
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 …
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Trump's COVID Task Force Is Livid Over the Trump White House's ‘We Ended COVID’ Report — “There's no world in which anyone can think that is true.” — Health officials and scientists working on the Trump administration's coronavirus response said on Tuesday they are personally offended …
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
White House science office says Trump ended COVID-19 pandemic as US hits record cases
White House science office says Trump ended COVID-19 pandemic as US hits record cases
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POLITICUSUSA and Political Wire
Lauren DeBellis Appell / USA Today:
My ‘suburban mom’ demographic is supposedly all in for Biden. But I'm voting for Trump.
My ‘suburban mom’ demographic is supposedly all in for Biden. But I'm voting for Trump.
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Curtis Houck / Newsbusters:
Here Are Ten Moments from the Bobulinski Interview the Liberal Media Will Ignore — Text to Speech Font Size — With the Wall Street Journal's news side having gotten cold feet and the rest of the liberal media engaging in one of their most brazen cover-ups, Tony Bobulinski took his story …
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Shipwreckedcrew / redstate.com:
Former Biden Family Business Partner Lays Waste to the Biden Family Legacy in Interview With Tucker Carlson
Former Biden Family Business Partner Lays Waste to the Biden Family Legacy in Interview With Tucker Carlson
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Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Senate Panel Investigating Hunter Biden's Failure to Register as Foreign Agent
Senate Panel Investigating Hunter Biden's Failure to Register as Foreign Agent
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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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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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New York Times:
How Trump Maneuvered His Way Out of Trouble in Chicago — When his skyscraper proved a disappointment, Donald Trump defaulted on his loans, sued his bank, got much of the debt forgiven — and largely avoided paying taxes on it. — The financial crisis was in full swing when Donald J. Trump traveled …
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Jaclyn Peiser / Washington Post:
A guard asked two sisters to put on a mask. They stabbed him 27 times instead, prosecutors say. — When Jessica Hill and her sister, Jayla, tried to walk into a shoe store in Chicago on Sunday, a security guard asked the pair to put on masks and use store-provided hand sanitizer.
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Fox News, Chicago Sun-Times and New York Post
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Justice Thomas' wife boosts unsupported claims against Biden — WASHINGTON (AP) — The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is using her Facebook page to amplify unsubstantiated claims of corruption by Joe Biden. — Ginni Thomas, a longtime conservative activist …
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
The Election's Big Twist: The Racial Gap Is Shrinking — Racial and ethnic divides? Actually, Biden is making gains with white voters, and Trump with nonwhite ones. — American politicians, including presidents, have often sought to exploit the nation's racial and ethnic divides for political gain.
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Rebecca Mansour / Breitbart:
Biden's Energy Policies Could Kill 160,000 Michigan Jobs, Decimate Auto Manufacturing, and Create California-Style Rolling Blackouts — Democratic nominee Joe Biden's energy policies could have a devastating impact on Michigan that could potentially destroy 160,000 energy sector jobs …
Washington Post:
Some Americans refuse to wear masks even as their hometowns become covid-19 hot spots — Resistance to mask-wearing and other efforts to control the spread of the coronavirus has hardened in the final days before the presidential election, demonstrating how the pandemic has been politicized …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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Rebecca Buck / CNN:
New Jersey congressman's pledge of ‘undying support’ for Trump hangs over close House race — Former Democrat pledges ‘undying support’ to Trump — Northfield, New Jersey (CNN)The congressman who represents Atlantic City made a risky political gamble last year.
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Political Wire
Nancy Scola / Politico:
The Most Powerful Social-Media Exec You Haven't Heard Of — On a late fall day last year, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sat down on a couch on the company's San Francisco roof deck and dug into a problem. — Next to him was the company's top lawyer, Vijaya Gadde.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Right-wing misinformation machine could gain steam post-election — With less than a week ahead of the 2020 election, researchers have expressed concern that the information ecosystem today is ripe for an unprecedented level of exploitation by bad actors, particularly hyper-partisan media and personalities on the right.
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
In Georgia, Democrats Target the True Silent Majority: People Who Don't Vote — As Democrats eye the Southern battleground, high turnout will be crucial for them, and that means persuading nonvoters to participate. But experts warn that changing electorates is hard and complicated.
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Daily Kos
Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
Waking to the Woke — Northwestern University's president takes a commendable hard line against student rioting—but he helped create the climate for the destructive behavior. — The Social Order — Public safety — Since June, a group of Northwestern University students has demanded …
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National Review
Colby Bermel / Politico:
Judge orders USPS to reverse mail collection limits now — A federal judge on Tuesday night ordered the U.S. Postal Service to reverse limitations on mail collection imposed by Trump-backed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, giving the agency until Wednesday morning to inform workers …
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