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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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The Nation, Fox News, The Hill and New York Times
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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Talking Points Memo, Law & Crime, Patterico's Pontifications and Raw Story
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Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Wisconsin Republican Party says hackers stole $2.3 million — MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Hackers stole $2.3 million from the Wisconsin Republican Party's account that was being used to help reelect President Donald Trump in the key battleground state, the party's chairman told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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Reuters, Axios, National Review, The Verge, Baller Alert, Law & Crime, UpNorthNews, Raw Story, The Daily Caller and POLITICUSUSA, more at Techmeme »
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Vicky Prodeline / Monmouth University Polling …:
Biden Maintains Lead — Support falls for minimum wage and primary election ballot measures — West Long Branch, NJ - Joe Biden holds a lead of 4 to 6 points over Donald Trump in Florida, based on different likely voter models in the latest Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.
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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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Florida Politics, The Hill, POLITICUSUSA, Fox News, Politico, Washington Times and Political Wire
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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The Daily Beast:
Rudy Vents to Trump That Bill Barr Is Screwing Up His Hunter Play — The president and his attorney are upset that the attorney general won't pursue a prosecution about the dubious evidence they've pushed around. … Weeks after Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani first pushed …
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The Economist and Raw Story
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Mother Jones:
The Crazy Last Days of Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon — For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter. — Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon, and the entire Trumpland dirty-tricks squad seem desperate.
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Raw Story, Reuters, Center for Security Policy, Mediaite and Check Your Fact
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.
Robert Snell / Detroit News:
FBI nabs accused neo-Nazis in extremism crackdown in Michigan — Detroit — Federal agents on Thursday arrested two men as part of a continuing crackdown on extremism in Michigan three weeks after the FBI said it thwarted a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
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The Hill, Political Wire, Raw Story, The Post Millennial, Fox News and Twitchy
Josh Lederman / NBC News:
Emails show how Pompeos mixed personal, official business — WASHINGTON — Less than three months after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was sworn in, his son, Nick, reached out to thank State Department officials for a private tour they had given him and his mother, Susan Pompeo, of the agency's in-house museum.
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The Hill, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, Gothamist and Twitchy
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Jerry Falwell Jr. sues Liberty University — Former Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. announced Thursday that he had filed a lawsuit against the school, claiming that it had “needlessly injured and damaged his reputation” after his resignation earlier this year.
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NBC News, PR Newswire, The Daily Beast, Religion News Service and Associated Press
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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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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Talking Points Memo, CNN, The Daily Beast, The Week, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Mediaite
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Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
EXCLUSIVE: Twitter Suspends U.S. Border Chief For Celebrating Wall's Protection From Illegal Aliens — Twitter suspended U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan for a post celebrating the success of the U.S. southern border wall keeping violent criminals from reaching American communities.
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Mediaite, Fox News, Twitchy, Breitbart, New York Post, The Daily Caller, Washington Times, Conservative News Today, The Gateway Pundit and The Wrap
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
UPS Finds Mystery Tucker Carlson Package — ‘URGENT INVESTIGATION’ — A spokesman for UPS told The Daily Beast on Thursday that they had located a mysterious packaged that Fox News host Tucker Carlson suggested had been deliberately misplaced or intercepted because it contained “damning” materials on the Biden family.
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The Daily Beast, Talking Points Memo and Political Wire
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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Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Ms. Magazine, The Daily Caller, NPR and Off the Kuff
Kate Payne / NPR:
Polling Places Are Closing Due To COVID-19. It Could Tip Races In 1 Swing State … The New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Waterloo. The senior high school in Fort Dodge. The Masonic Temple in Council Bluffs. — Iowa voters won't be able to cast their ballot at any of those polling places …
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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Axios, Vanity Fair, The Verge and Raw Story
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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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The Hill, Raw Story and Political Wire
The Economist:
Why it has to be Biden — Donald Trump has desecrated the values that make America a beacon to the world — THE COUNTRY that elected Donald Trump in 2016 was unhappy and divided. The country he is asking to re-elect him is more unhappy and more divided.
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Bloomberg, DemCast, Washington Post and Florida Politics
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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Politico
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
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 …
Gothamist:
New York Is In A Financial Tailspin, Millions Are Suffering. Why Shouldn't Billionaires Pay More Taxes? — Before the pandemic, Sergio Ajche could earn as much as $200 a day as a roofer. Now he mostly makes a living on his bicycle, working for tips through food delivery apps.
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
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 …
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National Review
Washington Post:
What happens to Fox News if Trump loses? Rupert Murdoch is prepared. — Spend a couple hours with Fox News on a typical weeknight, and you may come to see the potential election of Joe Biden as a cataclysm in the making. — Prime-time host Laura Ingraham recently warned her viewers of the …
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
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
WATCH: MSNBC's Chuck Todd Asks if Joe Biden is Taking Covid ‘Too Seriously’ — MSNBC anchor Chuck Todd tried to demonstrate that there are very fine questions on both sides when he asked whether former Vice President Joe Biden is hurting himself politically by taking the coronavirus pandemic “too seriously.”
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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Newsmax, American Prospect, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones and Spectator USA
Sadie Gurman / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. to Lift Ban on Police Use of Body Cameras Alongside Federal Agents — Justice Department to allow local forces to use the devices, which remain barred for federal law enforcement, in joint operations — WASHINGTON—The Justice Department will allow state and local police officers across …
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The Hill
Steven Greenhouse / The Guardian:
‘I regret voting for him’: Ohioans hit by GM plant closure reflect on Trump … Before Covid-19 hit, Trisha Amato spent her weekdays behind a modest, ebony-colored desk, running the “transition center” that helps laid-off General Motors workers pick up the shards of their lives.
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Raw Story