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New York Times:
In Texas, More Have Voted Early Than the State's Entire 2016 Turnout  — More than 9 million people have voted early in Texas.  Polls show a near dead-heat in the state, with a slight edge for President Trump.  — Mr. Trump canceled plans to appear at Trump International Hotel for an election night party.
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Ursula Perano / Axios:
Texas early voting surpasses 2016's total turnout  —  Texas' early and mail-in voting totals for the 2020 election have surpassed the state's total voter turnout in 2016, with 9,009,850 ballots already cast compared to 8,969,226 in the last presidential cycle.
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Trump adviser Stephen Miller reveals aggressive second-term immigration agenda  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's senior adviser Stephen Miller has fleshed out plans to rev up Trump's restrictive immigration agenda if he wins re-election next week, offering a stark contrast to the platform of Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: It's the pandemic, stupid
Discussion: Raw Story and The Week
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Timothy Evans / HillReporter.com:
Miami GOP Mayor Caught Trying to Suppress Voting
Discussion: The Stern Facts
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
My Never Trump Elegy  —  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,” Smiley said at a dinner among young recruits …
Discussion: Twitchy and Althouse
Darryl Fears / Washington Post:
A top Interior official has controversial views on race.  He used a white supremacist website to support them.  —  Jeremy Carl called Black Lives Matter a racist organization in articles written before his appointment this month.  He also cited an opinion by Jared Taylor, who said Black people destroy any civilization they control.
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Donald Trump Jr. said covid-19 deaths are at ‘almost nothing.’ The virus killed more than 1,000 Americans the same day.  —  Donald Trump Jr. declared on Thursday night that coronavirus deaths had dropped to “almost nothing,” questioning the seriousness of the pandemic on a record-breaking …
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Donald Trump / Fox News:
Reelect me and I will continue to deliver safety, prosperity and opportunity for all Americans  —  A vote for me is a vote for jobs, safety, rule of law, lower taxes, protection of your Second Amendment, and freedom.  —  ‘The Five’ react to Trump, Biden holding dueling Florida rallies
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Donald J. Trump / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
President Trump: Wisconsin, help me preserve our great economic comeback
Discussion: Instapundit
NBC News:
How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge  —  One month before a purported leak of files from Hunter Biden's laptop, a fake “intelligence” document about him went viral on the right-wing internet, asserting an elaborate conspiracy theory involving former Vice …
Joe Walsh / The Bulwark:
Hannity, Tucker, and Me  —  Mirrors don't lie.  —  Donald Trump will lose in four days.  Or in five days.  Or in six days.  But he will lose.  And when he loses, everyone in the conservative media world will have a decision to make.  If past is prologue, the vast majority of these folks …
April Siese / CBS News:
Louisville police officer sues Kenneth Walker, boyfriend of Breonna Taylor, for emotional distress, assault and battery  —  An officer involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor has filed a civil suit against the 26-year-old's boyfriend for emotional distress, assault and battery on the night she was killed.
Gallup:
U.S. Voters Enthusiastic, Anxious as 2020 Campaign Ends  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the 2020 race for president draws to a close, U.S. voters are feeling both enthusiastic about voting and fearful of what the outcome will mean for the country if their candidate loses.
Discussion: Al Jazeera
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Dhrumil Mehta / FiveThirtyEight:
Americans Say They're Fired Up To Vote — Especially Democrats
Discussion: Althouse
Josh Venable / Detroit News:
As a Republican, I'm tired of Trump's division, discord, vitriol and hate  —  I am a lifelong Republican.  And I am exhausted.  —  Nearly all my career, I have worked for Republican candidates and conservative causes, managing campaigns, organizing coalitions and raising money.
Discussion: HillReporter.com
Ron Suskind / New York Times:
The Day After Election Day  —  Current and former Trump administration officials are worried about what might happen on Nov. 4.  —  Mr. Suskind is an investigative journalist who has written about the presidency and national affairs for more than three decades.
Discussion: Raw Story
Celine Castronuovo / The Hill:
Trump changes election night plans, cancels party at Trump International: report  —  President Trump has reportedly called off plans to host an election night event at Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., a person familiar with the plans told T he New York Times.
Greenwald:
Emails With Intercept Editors Showing Censorship of My Joe Biden Article  —  Given The Intercept's vehement denials, readers are entitled to see for themselves what the truth is: transparency journalism with integrity requires.  —  Following are the communications I had over the last week …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Denialism, Dishonesty, Deflection: The Final Days of the Trump Campaign Have It All  —  The President is ending his reëlection bid with scandals that call into question the legitimacy of next week's vote.  —  No one wants to admit it, but in Washington, D.C., the election might as well be over …
Tom Nichols / USA Today:
Why this conservative voted for Biden and you should too: Trump is a morally defective man  —  I'm a conservative and former Republican who did not vote based on policy.  Neither should you.  The 2020 election is about the moral future of America.  —  At the end of every campaign …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Neither Trump Nor Biden Drink Alcohol  —  Spirits may be low around the country, but don't expect them to be raised in the White House after the election; neither President Trump nor Joseph R. Biden Jr. partakes in alcohol.  —  A presidential election that has driven a nation to drink …
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
How to spot a red or blue ‘mirage’ in early election night results  —  Road to 270: Trump running against Biden and his own record  —  Washington (CNN)Election night will be an unusual experience this year.  Early results that pop up shortly after the polls close might look very different …
David Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
The State Department wouldn't reveal its payments to Mar-a-Lago.  Here's how we found them.  —  In April 2018, President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club charged taxpayers $3 so that Trump could drink water.  —  That charge was one of many bills that Mar-a-Lago sent to the State Department …
Discussion: Raw Story
The Atlantic:
The Pandemic Is in Uncharted Territory  —  Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers.  Find the collection here.  —  The United States set a new record for reported cases this week, breaking 500,000 for the first time in the pandemic …
Discussion: CNN and The COVID Tracking Project
Stacy Fernández / The Texas Tribune:
Despite polls showing a close race, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick claims if Democrats win on Election Day, it will be “because they stole it”  —  Voter fraud in absentee voting, as with any type of voting, is rare.  Many states, including many run by Republicans, have expanded mail-in voting options during the pandemic.
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Kamala Harris is returning to Georgia on Sunday  —  Vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris is returning to Georgia on Sunday to rally voters as the campaign intensifies efforts to flip a state that hasn't voted Democratic in a White House race since 1992.  —  The campaign announced the visit Friday …
Associated Press:
2 Florida men accused of stealing mail, ballots from dropbox  —  LIGHTHOUSE POINT, Fla. (AP) — Two Miami men are accused of stealing mail, including two mail-in ballots, from a dropbox at a post office in Broward County.  —  A police officer on patrol noticed the men lingering next …
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Why the 2020s Could Be as Dangerous as the 1850s  —  If Joe Biden beats Donald Trump decisively next week, this election may be remembered as a hinge point in American history: the moment when a clear majority of voters acknowledged that there's no turning back from America's transformation …
David Frum / The Atlantic:
The Raw Desperation of the Republican Party  —  I doubted that Mitch McConnell could do it, but he did.  With only a week remaining before Election Day, McConnell crammed through the confirmation of a sixth conservative justice to the U.S. Supreme Court.  The people who tally such things reckon …
Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
How a C.I.A. Coverup Targeted a Whistle-blower  —  When a Justice Department lawyer exposed the agency's secret role in drug cases, leadership in the intelligence community retaliated.  —  Before dawn on January 23, 2019, Mark McConnell arrived at the Key West headquarters of the military …
Jo Craven McGinty / Wall Street Journal:
With No Commute, Americans Simply Worked More During Coronavirus  —  Employees spent over 22 million extra hours on their primary job each workday  —  What would you do with an extra hour each day?  —  For many people, the answer is...work more.  —  From mid-March to mid-September …
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Noam Chomsky Believes Trump Is “the Worst Criminal in Human History”  —  Noam Chomsky, the American linguist, activist, and political writer, is one of the most famous and harshest critics of American foreign policy.  His critiques of Presidential Administrations from Nixon to Obama …
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
White House aide says Trump's vaccine-by-Election Day promise was ‘arbitrary’  —  A top White House adviser on Friday called President Donald Trump's longshot pledge to have a coronavirus vaccine by Nov. 3 “kind of an arbitrary deadline,” as Election Day prepares to come and go with no shot having even applied for approval yet.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Rachel Adams-Heard / Bloomberg:
Texas Beats Total 2016 Vote Count Four Days Before Election Day  — Early voting shatters records in both cities and rural areas  — Polls suggest reliably Republican stronghold is now a toss up  —  In a sign of the passions sparked by the U.S. presidential race …
Tim Alberta / Politico:
A Trump-Fueled Tsunami of Distrust Has Swamped Our Elections.  Americans Are Voting Anyway.  —  LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — Shelby Watchilla leaned forward, her amber hair brushing against the plexiglass barrier, lowering her voice so that it was barely audible from behind her blue mask.
Discussion: Salon and Raw Story
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Yes, Media Are Rigging The Election Against Half The Country.  Here's How  —  Will all this be enough for mass media to win the day?  People will find out next week.  —  Even if Donald Trump had lost the 2016 election, instead of won it in a surprise, the media's coverage of his campaign …
Discussion: Fox News, The Guardian and Byline Times
Reuters:
Exclusive: Russian hackers targeted California, Indiana Democratic parties  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The group of Russian hackers accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election earlier this year targeted the email accounts of Democratic state parties in California and Indiana …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and The Verge
 
 
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