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Politico:
Trump may just keep campaigning after Election Day — Even if there isn't a clear winner the day after the election, President Donald Trump may still take his MAGA message on the road. — Top surrogates for the Trump campaign have been told to keep their Novembers clear for potential campaign events.
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The Hill and Political Wire
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Republicans gear up for day-of and post-Election Day litigation — Republican Party officials say they're already looking to Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Nevada as likely battlegrounds for post-election lawsuits if the results are close. — The big picture: As pre-election lawsuits draw to a close …
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Reuters, The Nevada Independent, The Dispatch, Political Wire, Detroit Metro Times and Associated Press
Tyler Pager / Bloomberg:
Biden Aides See Warning Signs in Black, Latino Turnout So Far — Despite record early turnout, Black, Latino votes lag — Top Biden aides confident seniors, suburban votes will carry — Senior officials on Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's campaign are increasingly worried …
NBC News:
Here's what happened when NBC News tried to report on the alleged Hunter Biden emails … The complaints from President Donald Trump and his allies have been growing louder as the election approaches: Why isn't the mainstream media covering the Hunter Biden laptop story?
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New York Times, Salon, Real Clear Politics, Breitbart, TheBlaze, Detroit News, Mediaite, The Wrap, The Moderate Voice and The Week, more at Mediagazer »
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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Another Hunter Biden laptop taken into custody during DEA raid: Report — Another laptop tied to Hunter Biden was reportedly obtained by the Drug Enforcement Agency earlier this year. — Sources told NBC News that the device belonging to the 50-year-old son of former Vice President Joe Biden …
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Townhall, The Daily Caller, Breitbart and Al Jazeera
Bruce Golding / New York Post:
How tweet it is: Twitter backs down, unlocks Post's account — Twitter backed down Friday in its battle with The Post and unlocked its main account after a two-week stalemate over the Hunter Biden exposé. — The move came after The Post refused Twitter's demand that it delete six tweets …
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Business Insider, Axios, Breitbart, Washington Times, redstate.com, Deadline, TheBlaze, The Verge, Townhall, Instapundit, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Liberty Unyielding and The Hill
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Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter Unlocks New York Post Account After Two-Week Standoff
Twitter Unlocks New York Post Account After Two-Week Standoff
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New York Post, Newsbusters, Fox News and Twitchy, more at Mediagazer »
Katie Bo Williams / Defense One:
Helicopters Over DC Protesters Broke Regulations While Commander was Driving Home, DC Guard Concludes — The D.C. National Guard and Pentagon IG are fighting over who to blame for the dangerous incident that symbolized Trump's militarized response. — NATIONAL GUARD - WHITE HOUSE - 2020 ELECTIONS
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Raw Story
Garrett M. Graff / Politico:
‘There Are No Boundaries’: Experts Imagine Trump's Post-Presidential Life if He Loses — Being an ex-president can be a cushy and quiet life for the most part. Jimmy Carter builds homes; George W. Bush paints. After leaving the White House, Barack Obama went kite-surfing with Richard Branson …
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The Moderate Voice, National Review, The 19th, No More Mister Nice Blog and Lawyers, Guns & Money
CBS Los Angeles:
Garcetti Announces Discounts On Parking Citations If Paid Within 48 Hours — LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Mayor Eric Garcetti Friday announced a program for drivers to receive a $20 discount on certain traffic citations if they are paid within 48 hours. — The program, “Early Pay L.A.,” …
New York Times:
Trump and Biden Campaign in Midwest States With ‘Red Zone’ Outbreaks — Last year, the office of Bo Duhé, the district attorney for Louisiana's 16th Judicial Circuit, made an unusual motion to have Lori Landry, the first Black female judge in the district, removed from more than 300 cases.
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OutKick, The American Independent, Politico, Axios, The Daily Caller, Associated Press, HillReporter.com, CNN, POLITICUSUSA, Fox News, VICE, Rap-Up, New York Post, The Week, The Hill, The Sun, Balloon Juice, Business Insider, Vanity Fair, Reuters, Washingtonian, Talking Points Memo, The Post Millennial, TMZ.com and Mediaite
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Texas Has Already Exceeded Its 2016 Turnout. Here's What That Means.
Texas Has Already Exceeded Its 2016 Turnout. Here's What That Means.
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The Texas Tribune, Rolling Stone and Associated Press
New York Times:
Trump Is Said to Set Aside Career Intelligence Briefer to Hear From Advisers Instead — For weeks, the director of national intelligence has taken over a job usually done by an intelligence officer. — WASHINGTON — President Trump has dispensed with intelligence briefings from a career analyst …
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
New York Times opinion section comes unhinged ahead of the 2020 election — And you thought the New York Times's news division had problems. — The paper's opinion section on Friday published a collection of essays titled, “What have we lost?” — Featuring all 15 New York Times opinion columnists …
Discussion:
New York Times and No More Mister Nice Blog
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Iran Probed State Election Websites Since September, U.S. Says — Nonpublic voter registration data accessed in at least one state, federal agencies say in alert — WASHINGTON—Suspected Iranian government-backed hackers have probed a number of state election websites since September …
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Bloomberg
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Barr tells friends he would like to remain attorney general in second term if Trump is reelected — Attorney General William P. Barr — who has recently faced criticism from President Trump for not prosecuting his political rivals — has told friends and advisers in recent weeks that he hopes …
Manual RedEye:
KSP training slideshow quotes Hitler, advocates ‘ruthless’ violence — UPDATE, 4:15 PM: Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear responded to this story with the following statement: “This is absolutely unacceptable. It is further unacceptable that I just learned about this through social media.
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Forbes
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Police took a Black toddler from his family's SUV. Then, the union used his photo as ‘propaganda,’ attorneys say. — On Thursday, the nation's largest police union posted a photo to social media taken during the unrest in Philadelphia this week, where hundreds of protesters clashed …
CNN:
Donald Trump has run a historically bad reelection campaign — Opinion by Arick Wierson and Bradley Honan, CNN — Race to 270: How Latino voters could sway election — Arick Wierson, who writes frequently for CNN Opinion, is a six-time Emmy Award-winning television producer …
Bernie Marcus / Fox News:
Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus: Trump deserves a second term and has my vote. Here's why — Undecided voters should ask themselves: Do I want to return to the pre-pandemic Trump nation or the Obama-Biden stagnation? — Trump could ride wave of new, unique Republicans to victory: Geraldo Rivera
Brittany Wallman / Orlando Sentinel:
Fraudster attempts to register dozens of dead Democrats as voters in Broward — Authorities have uncovered an attempt to register dozens of dead people as Democratic voters in Broward County. — Though officials said no mail-in ballots were requested or cast under the falsified voter IDs …
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Washington Times, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze and Twitchy
Zack Hoopes / Sentinel:
Security info request from Trump campaign leaves Cumberland County officials concerned ahead of Election Day — Cumberland County officials received an email this week from the Trump campaign requesting highly specific details about the county's ballot security.
Dan Diamond / Politico:
Trump's $200 drug cards for seniors remain in limbo — President Donald Trump's plan to distribute $200 drug-discount cards to all Medicare recipients remains in limbo after officials missed an earlier goal of sending out millions of announcement letters and even some cards by Election Day …
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Raw Story, Fortune and Kaiser Health News
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia Gov. Kemp may not be able to vote during COVID-19 quarantine — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp might not be able to vote because he's in quarantine after close contact with U.S. Rep. Drew Ferguson, who tested positive for the coronavirus Friday. — Kemp, who tested negative for the virus …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Biden's lead over Trump narrows slightly to 8 points — Pollsters say despite Biden's lead, the race is not a foregone conclusion — Trump, Biden campaign in Florida as election may come down to the Sunshine State — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's lead …
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The Hill and POLITICUSUSA
BuzzFeed News:
Mueller Memos: Bonus Special Edition! A Huge Trove Of New Details From The Mueller Investigation — Just days before the election, these records, which BuzzFeed News sued the federal government to get, provide a new look at the two-year inquiry. — Copy
CBS News:
Birx warns of “broad surge” across the country, as Trump claims U.S. is “rounding the turn” — Dr. Deborah Birx warned the nation's governors on Friday of a “broad surge” of the COVID-19 pandemic across the country as the weather cools, contradicting President Trump's claim that the U.S. is “rounding the turn.”
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Mediaite
Caitlin Dickerson / New York Times:
U.S. Expels Migrant Children From Other Countries to Mexico — Children from Central America are being sent across the border to Mexico, where they may have no family to retrieve them. An internal email said the transfers violated the government's own policies.
JONATHAN TURLEY:
“Not Pro-Black”: Wisconsin Students Unanimously Vote To Remove Lincoln Statue As Racist — We previously discussed the effort at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to have the famous statue of Abraham Lincoln removed as racist. The student government has now voted unanimously in favor …
Foreign Policy:
America's Cultural Institutions Are Quietly Fueled by Russian Corruption — New data exposes the long reach of foreign oligarchs in the world of philanthropy. — Over the past four years, a number of post-Soviet oligarchs have made headlines for their direct involvement in U.S. politics.
Lauren Leatherby / New York Times:
United States Records Its Worst Week Yet for Virus Cases — The outlook for the pandemic continues to worsen, and many areas of the United States are experiencing their worst weeks yet. The country reported a record of more than 500,000 new coronavirus cases in the past week.
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HillReporter.com and The Guardian
Washington Post:
Trump's pandemic agenda shoved government scientists aside. They're attempting an 11th-hour comeback. — Alarmed by the worsening pandemic and a president who mocks the virus at rallies, health agency scientists are challenging the administration's approach in ways small and large
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ABC News
Allan Smith / NBC News:
N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James developing ‘long’ list of Trump actions for Biden to undo — New York Attorney General Letitia James says her office is preparing a substantial list of legal actions for a potential Biden administration to begin quickly reversing Trump administration initiatives, she told NBC News in an interview.
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The Daily Beast, CNN, Raw Story and Washington Post
Zeynep / Insight:
The Real Hunter Biden Story Everyone is Missing — Why aren't we paying attention to the blatant blackmail? — 3 hr — A big story in the media today is that Glenn Greenwald has bolted from The Intercept. People surely have strong opinions of him, and he is opinionated himself.
Amy S. Rosenberg / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Dinner at the Bidens: In Delaware, they all know Joe Biden up close — MILFORD, Del. — Standing amid soybean fields, in the quiet middle of Delaware, Sean Smith represents a lot of Delawareans when he says, about Joe Biden: “All my life, I've had to hear it. From my aunt, my grandmother, everybody.”
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Taylor Swift allows song to be used in campaign ad — Taylor Swift is lending her voice to a political ad for the first time, urging young voters to head to the polls to cast their ballots on Election Day. — The 30-year-old Grammy Award-winner's song “Only the Young” …
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Breitbart, Rolling Stone and CNN
Los Angeles Times:
U.S. detained migrant children for far longer than previously known — In early June, a 17-year-old girl from Honduras got what she'd desperately wanted since she was 10: freedom from U.S. custody. — She'd been shuttled around the country for a good part of her childhood …
Will Gleason / Time Out New York:
A massive mural featuring 20,000 of Trump's lies has been installed in Soho — The public artwork is back after being vandalized at its first location. — Well, Donald Trump finally got his wall. — As we barrel ahead toward election day, a new installation put up in Soho takes 20,000 false …
Kerry Picket / Washington Examiner:
Pennsylvania House GOP candidate refers Democrat's social media posts to US attorney — A Pennsylvania Republican House candidate contacted federal law enforcement about social media posts by an intern for the campaign of his opponent, Democratic Rep. Conor Lamb.
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Washington Free Beacon and Breitbart
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
At Least Never Trumpers Stood and Fought — Shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, the author John le Carré's most famous creation, the fictional British spy George Smiley, reflected on a career spent fighting a now-vanquished enemy. — “There are some people,” …
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Wall Street Journal, Twitchy and Althouse
Stacy Liberatore / Daily Mail:
SpaceX declares independence: Elon Musk's firm says they will not recognize Earth laws in planned Mars colony and says ‘free planet’ will adopt ‘self-governing principles’ — SpaceX feels Mars is a free planet and it will not recognize Earth-based laws — The claims were recently spotted …
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New York Post and The Independent
Leticia Miranda / NBC News:
Walmart reverses decision to remove guns and ammo from store shelves — Walmart on Friday reversed its decision to take guns and ammunition from store displays in response to concerns about “isolated civil unrest.” — The country's largest retailer had asked all of its stores to move firearms …
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CBS News, Forbes, The Daily Caller, The Root and Wall Street Journal
Amy Donaldson / Deseret News:
Anti-mask protesters target state epidemiologist Dr. Angela Dunn — SALT LAKE CITY — Some Utahns opposed to the Utah Department of Health's mask requirements have turned their scorn from Gov. Gary Herbert to a new target this week — state epidemiologist Dr. Angela Dunn.