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New York Times:
Facing Gap in Pennsylvania, Trump Camp Tries to Make Voting Harder — Trailing in the polls, President Trump and his campaign are pursuing a three-pronged strategy that would effectively suppress the mail-in vote in the critical state of Pennsylvania. — PHILADELPHIA — President Trump's campaign …
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Eliza Griswold / New Yorker:
In Pennsylvania, Republicans Might Only Need to Stall to Win — A political analyst warned, “Harrisburg in 2020 could be Tallahassee in 2000.” — On September 10th, Kevin Boyle, a Democratic state representative in Pennsylvania, opened his e-mail to find an invitation to a Zoom call …
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Fox News, The Hill, The Nation and New York Times
EL PAÍS:
A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air … Six people get together in a private home, one of whom is infected. Some 31% of coronavirus outbreaks recorded in Spain are caused by this kind of gathering, mainly between family and friends.
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
U.S. GDP booms at 33.1% rate in Q3, better than expected — U.S. GDP accelerated at a 33.1% annualized pace in the third quarter. — That was better than the 32% estimate from a Dow Jones economist survey. — A surge in business and residential investment along …
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Atlantic Council
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Dan Berman / CNN:
Kavanaugh tweaks voting opinion after Vermont official asks for correction — Law professor cited by Kavanaugh responds — (CNN)Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday night tweaked a line in his controversial opinion on Wisconsin mail-in voting this week …
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The American Independent, Raw Story and Law & Crime
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court to Let Pennsylvania and North Carolina Accept Absentee Ballots After Election Day
Supreme Court to Let Pennsylvania and North Carolina Accept Absentee Ballots After Election Day
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Joyce Vance / MSNBC:
The Supreme Court will not protect our voting rights. Here's who actually might.
The Supreme Court will not protect our voting rights. Here's who actually might.
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LGBTQ Nation
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans' only way to win is to stop people from voting
Republicans' only way to win is to stop people from voting
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Associated Press, Axios and The Daily Beast
New York Times:
Turkish Bank Case Showed Erdogan's Influence With Trump — New details of the Justice Department's handling of the accusations against Halkbank reveal how Turkey's leader pressured the president, prompting concern from top White House aides. — WASHINGTON — Geoffrey S. Berman was outraged.
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Raw Story
Politico:
Trump confronts his 50 percent problem — Donald Trump won the presidency with 46 percent of the popular vote. His approval rating, according to Gallup, has never hit 50 percent. He remains under 50 percent in national polling averages. — The president's inability to capture a majority …
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Al Jazeera and Washington Post
Doug Richards / WXIA-TV:
Sen. Loeffler: ‘Not familiar’ with Access Hollywood tape — Sen. Kelly Loeffler said Wednesday that she will “always” defend President Donald Trump. — BUFORD, Ga. — Sen. Kelly Loeffler said Wednesday that she doesn't disagree with anything President Donald Trump has said or done.
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The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo, The Week and Mediaite
CNN:
Atlas push to ‘slow the testing down’ tracks with dramatic decline in one key state — Trump's new Covid-19 adviser responds to critics — Washington (CNN)Shortly after joining the White House as President Donald Trump's pandemic adviser, Dr. Scott Atlas launched a quiet effort …
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Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Trump's COVID Advisers: He's Now Pushing Herd Immunity
Trump's COVID Advisers: He's Now Pushing Herd Immunity
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Business Insider, POLITICUSUSA, Daily Kos, @politifact, The Conversation and Raw Story
Dan Diamond / Politico:
‘Helping the president’: HHS official sought to rebrand coronavirus campaign — The Trump appointee who steered a $300 million taxpayer-funded ad campaign to “defeat despair” about the coronavirus privately pitched a different theme last month: “Helping the President will Help the Country.”
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David Harsanyi / National Review:
About That ‘Uncoverable’ Biden Story — Rick Scott Criticizes Twitter for Allowing Posts by Foreign Dictators while Flagging Trump Tweets — Daddy Daycare Doesn't Belong in American Politics — Lincoln Project to Break Into TV after Election — NYT Smears Washington Examiner's Voter Fraud Coverage as ‘Propaganda’
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Tucker Suggests His Hunter Biden Dirt Was Intercepted in the Mail
Tucker Suggests His Hunter Biden Dirt Was Intercepted in the Mail
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Helen Branswell / STAT:
It may be time to reset expectations on when we'll get a Covid-19 vaccine — The ambitious drive to produce Covid-19 vaccine at warp speed seems to be running up against reality. We all probably need to reset our expectations about how quickly we're going to be able to be vaccinated.
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Bloomberg and New York Post
Eric Gaillard / Reuters:
Three dead as woman beheaded in France, gunman shot dead in second incident — NICE, France (Reuters) - A knife-wielding attacker shouting “Allahu Akbar” beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a suspected terrorist act at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday …
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James McAuley / Washington Post:
Man shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ kills three outside French church, terrorism investigation opened
Man shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ kills three outside French church, terrorism investigation opened
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BBC, CNN, Louder With Crowder, New York Times, Forbes and Mediaite
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Trump's Closing Argument on Virus Clashes With Science, and Voters' Lives — The president has continued to downplay he severity of the coronavirus and declare before largely maskless crowds that it is vanishing. The surge in new cases across the country suggests otherwise.
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Raw Story and Political Wire
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. States Face Biggest Cash Crisis Since the Great Depression — The drop in tax revenue has led to a total shortfall expected in the hundreds of billions of dollars—greater than 2019's K-12 education budget for every state combined, or more than twice the amount spent that year on state roads and other transportation infrastructure
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: Biden holds narrow lead in Florida — WASHINGTON — Joe Biden holds a slight 4-point lead over President Donald Trump in the battleground of Florida, fueled by his standing among seniors and independents, according to the final NBC News/Marist poll of the state before Tuesday's presidential election.
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NBC News:
‘Quick, quick, quick’: Trump rushes McSally at rally as she fights to hold her Senate seat — President Donald Trump offered a not-very warm welcome to Sen. Martha McSally on Wednesday at his campaign rally in Arizona, where his fellow Republican is fighting to hold on to her seat.
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Talking Points Memo and The Week
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Biden and Trump to tangle in Tampa on Thursday — In rare crossing of paths, the two presidential nominees campaign in the same city on the same day — Trump, Biden campaigns flood battleground Florida with surrogates — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Trump …
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CNN, Politico, One America News Network, Reuters and CBS Miami
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Shawna Chen / Axios:
Polls: Biden leads Latino voters in key battleground states
Polls: Biden leads Latino voters in key battleground states
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Washington Post and Politico
CNN:
They call themselves ‘Wives of the Deplorables’ because their husbands support Trump — (CNN)Carole Catherine did not know her husband, Tim, supported Donald Trump until the day after Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election. She called him the next morning crying. — “And he was like, 'Yeah, of course she lost.
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Raw Story
Michael Stokes Paulsen / The Bulwark:
The Pro-life Case Against Trump — Deals with the Devil don't ever turn out well. — This is a story about selling one's soul. — Specifically, it is a story about those who would trade away their political, moral, and ethical souls and support Donald Trump—against their own better judgment …
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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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump didn't build his border wall with steel. … In the middle of his first year in office, President Trump endorsed a bill so radically anti-immigrant that even most Senate Republicans couldn't stomach it. — Trump claimed the bill would create a “merit-based immigration system that protects U.S. workers and taxpayers.”
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Jeremy B. Merrill / The Markup:
Facebook Charged Biden a Higher Price Than Trump for Campaign Ads — In swing states, Biden paid average ad rates of $34 compared with Trump's average of $17 in July and August — When President Donald Trump wanted to reach out to older Arizona voters in August with the message …
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Li Zhou / Vox:
Exclusive: Biden leads Trump by 12 points in a national UT Dallas poll — The survey also finds that more stimulus is respondents' top priority for a new Congress. — Former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by more than 10 points in a national poll by researchers at the University of Texas Dallas.
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The Week and Washington Post
Andrew Pantazi / Florida Times Union:
Duval County judge leading vote-counting board donated to Trump 12 times. That's not allowed. — A local judge and head of Duval County's vote-counting board has donated repeatedly to President Trump's re-election campaign and other Republican efforts, and his home is covered in signs supporting Trump …
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Raw Story
Washington Post:
How polling works and how it's changed since 2016 — Right before the election four years ago, polls showed Hillary Clinton holding small but shrinking leads in key states. Donald Trump outperformed those polls to win 304 electoral votes — though with a margin of fewer than 80,000 votes across three states.
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
We have to destroy the Republican Party in order to save it — “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.” That famous, if probably apocryphal, quote from the Vietnam War describes how I feel about the Republican Party. We have to destroy the party in order to save it.
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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 …
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Brig. Gen / Politico:
Is President Donald Trump a Flight Risk? — Yes, this sounds like a B-grade spy novel. But consider the evidence. — President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump on Feb. 16, 2020 in Daytona Beach, Florida. Chris Graythen/Getty Images — He said it.
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New York Times:
‘Tsunamis of Misinformation’ Overwhelm Local Election Officials — From Philadelphia to Sonoma County, Calif., election officials said they were working marathon hours to fight a flood of falsehoods. — The morning after last month's presidential debate, the phones inside …
Detroit News:
Whitmer kidnap plotter also wanted to hang Trump, other politicians, FBI says — A Delaware man accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also threatened to hang President Donald Trump and posted a hit list on Facebook targeting other elected leaders, including former President Barack Obama …
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The Post Millennial, Fox News and Twitchy