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Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Donald Trump takes over lead in Iowa as Joe Biden fades — | Des Moines Register Show Caption Hide Caption … Republican President Donald Trump has taken over the lead in Iowa as Democratic former Vice President Joe Biden has faded, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows just days before Election Day.
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Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Republican Joni Ernst pulls ahead of Democrat Theresa Greenfield in closing days of U.S. Senate race — | Des Moines Register Show Caption Hide Caption … Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst has pulled ahead of Democrat Theresa Greenfield in the closing stretch of a contentious U.S. Senate race …
Nick Coltrain / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Republicans preferred in 3 of 4 U.S. House races; Rep. Finkenauer appears at risk — | Des Moines Register Show Caption Hide Caption … A Republican could be poised to win back one of the Iowa congressional districts that flipped to Democrats two years ago …
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Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:
Biden needles Joni Ernst in Iowa for not knowing breakeven soybean price
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Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Biden Team Cancels Texas Event After Highway ‘Ambush’ by MAGA Cavalry — Dozens of pickup trucks, many with Trump flags, surrounded a Biden campaign bus as it traveled from San Antonio to Austin. — Joe Biden's presidential campaign canceled a Friday event in Austin, Texas, after harassment from a pro-Trump contingent.
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David R. Montgomery / New York Times:
Vehicles flying Trump flags try to force a Biden-Harris campaign bus off a highway in Texas. — AUSTIN, Texas — Multiple vehicles bearing Trump flags and signs surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus heading from San Antonio to Austin on Friday, forcing campaign officials to scrap two campaign events …
Doug P. / Twitchy:
‘Is this a joke?’ Biden/Harris supporter in Texas bus tour called 911 on Trump caravan that tagged along & put them 'in harm's way' — A Biden/Harris bus was driven around Texas (for a while, but we'll get to that in a minute) this week, and it was escorted by many, many supporters... of President Trump:
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Washington Post:
‘A whole lot of hurt’: Fauci warns of covid-19 surge, offers blunt assessment of Trump's response — President Trump's repeated assertions the United States is “rounding the turn” on the coronavirus have increasingly alarmed the government's top health experts, who say the country is heading …
CNN:
CNN Polls: Biden leads in Michigan and Wisconsin as campaign ends, with tighter races in Arizona and North Carolina — (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden holds an advantage in the upper Midwest states of Wisconsin and Michigan, according to CNN Polls conducted by SSRS …
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
Trump campaign rallies led to more than 30,000 coronavirus cases, Stanford researchers say — Researchers looked at 18 Trump rallies held between June 20 and Sept. 22 and analyzed Covid-19 data the weeks following each event. — The researchers found that the rallies ultimately resulted …
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SSRN:
Abstract — We investigate the effects of large group meetings on the spread of COVID-19 by studying the impact of eighteen Trump campaign rallies. To capture the effects of subsequent contagion within the pertinent communities, our analysis encompasses up to ten post-rally weeks for each event.
ABC News:
American hostage Philip Walton rescued in dramatic military operation: Officials — Walton was abducted recently in Niger, where he had been living. — Catch up on the developing stories making headlines. — An American citizen abducted last week in Niger has been rescued during …
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Lucas Tomlinson / Fox News:
American hostage rescued in West Africa by SEAL Team 6 in daring raid
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Trump Camp Uses Online Gimmick to Fuel Donations Into December — The Trump campaign is now automatically checking a box to create recurring weekly donations from supporters until mid-December. — President Trump's campaign is raising money for a prolonged political and legal fight long …
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Democrats grow more anxious about Pennsylvania — Joe Biden on Saturday prepared to mount a last-minute, two-day blitz of Pennsylvania, amid concern among some local Democrats about a potential late shift that would threaten his narrow advantage there and mirror President Trump's 2016 comeback.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump Can Still Win, But The Polls Would Have To Be Off By Way More Than In 2016 — To borrow from Cook Political Report's Dave Wasserman, “I've seen enough.” — No, I don't know who's going to win the election. According to our forecast, President Trump still has a chance at a second term …
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New York Times:
The President's Taxes: A Reader's Guide — Over the past four years, The New York Times has independently obtained and published information on several decades of Donald J. Trump's taxes. — Over the last several weeks, The New York Times has published the findings of its investigation …
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Boris Johnson announces month-long COVID-19 lockdown in England — A new national lockdown will be imposed in England, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Saturday, as the number of COVID-19 cases in the country topped 1 million. — Details: Starting Thursday, people in England must stay at home …
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Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
One of the plaintiffs trying to throw out drive-thru votes in Harris County, Texas, is a COVID and QAnon conspiracy theorist — Texas Republicans have petitioned a federal court to potentially throw out more than 100,000 ballots cast in drive-thru voting in Harris County, Texas.
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Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
U.S. judge to hear Republican bid to void 100,000 votes in Texas
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Politico:
USPS investigates undelivered Miami ballots — TALLAHASSEE — State and federal authorities are investigating a pileup of mail at a Miami post office that included a handful of completed ballots after Florida House Minority Leader Kionne McGhee posted a video Friday.
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Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Intercept Staffers Roll Their Eyes Over Glenn Greenwald's Censorship Claim — Glenn Greenwald had the freedom to publish almost anything he wanted at The Intercept. Then he cried censorship. — Glenn Greenwald officially left The Intercept on Thursday, complaining of censorship and heavy-handed editing.
Tresa Baldas / Detroit Free Press:
Whitmer kidnap suspect wants out of jail. He's diabetic, and fears COVID-19 — After three weeks in jail, one of the suspects charged with plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is asking the judge to reconsider her decision to keep him locked up: He's worried about getting the COVID-19 virus.
Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Lincoln Project targets 3 deep red states with million-dollar ad buy as election map ‘turning against’ Trump — WASHINGTON — With just three days left until the election, President Trump's enemies are seeing new opportunities in staunchly red states. The Lincoln Project …
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Jackie Calmes / Los Angeles Times:
Barack Obama is making the argument for Joe Biden — by roasting Trump — Barack Obama is uncorked and letting it fly. — For three-and-a-half years, he mostly honored the tradition that former presidents do not criticize their successors, even as his norm-breaking successor attacked him relentlessly.
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Washington Post:
Trailing in the polls, Trump enlists his administration and co-opts the government to bolster his reelection — In the final days of the 2020 election season, President Trump has featured his White House press secretary as a star at his campaign rallies, where she has triumphantly joined him onstage.
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Chicago Tribune:
Kyle Rittenhouse cried, vomited and worried about social media as he told Antioch cops, ‘I shot two white kids’ — Kyle Rittenhouse cried, vomited and worried about negative social media comments after turning himself in to a far north suburban police department following the fatal shooting …
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Marcia Brown / American Prospect:
The Facebook Group That Could Flip Pennsylvania — Boasting more than 120,000 members, it's one of the largest pro-Biden online communities, and a source of camaraderie and support. — “We are 124k in this group and I'm hoping that at least more than half of us (62k+) have voted!
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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Trump goes it alone — Donald Trump ambushed his party establishment and mowed down a sprawling lineup of polished and better-connected rivals in 2016 — mostly on his own. — Four years later, the benefits of incumbency have done little to draw the biggest Republicans to the president …
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Obama hammers Trump's claim that doctors have inflated coronavirus numbers — Former President Obama laid into President Trump on Saturday over his claim that doctors have tried to profit off of the coronavirus pandemic by intentionally inflating the number of COVID-19 cases.
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