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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump's plan to declare premature victory — President Trump has told confidants he'll declare victory on Tuesday night if it looks like he's “ahead,” according to three sources familiar with his private comments. — That's even if the Electoral College outcome still hinges …
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Trump Can't Just “Declare Victory” — Just count the damn votes. — We are nearing the end of a ridiculous pandemic-laden election season, where we may hit record turnout despite the most blatant attempt to suppress the vote in a generation. More than 90 million people have already voted …
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Maggie Astor / New York Times:
We Have Never Had Final Results on Election Day
We Have Never Had Final Results on Election Day
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Benjamin L. Ginsberg / Washington Post:
My party is destroying itself on the altar of Trump — Benjamin L. Ginsberg practiced election law for 38 years. He co-chaired the bipartisan 2013 Presidential Commission on Election Administration. — President Trump has failed the test of leadership. His bid for reelection is foundering.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
I'm Here To Remind You That Trump Can Still Win — A 10 percent chance isn't zero. And there's a chance of a recount, too. — It's tempting to write this story in the form of narrative fiction: “On a frigid early December morning in Washington, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 …
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New York Times:
In Dash to Finish, Biden and Trump Set Up Showdown in Pennsylvania — Both campaigns were intensifying their efforts in a state increasingly critical to victory, as the candidates and their surrogates planned a final blitz to make their closing arguments. — PHILADELPHIA …
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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Nate Silver: “Without Pennsylvania, Biden becomes an underdog”
Nate Silver: “Without Pennsylvania, Biden becomes an underdog”
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New York Times:
Election at Hand, Biden Leads Trump in Four Key States, Poll Shows
Election at Hand, Biden Leads Trump in Four Key States, Poll Shows
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
False video of Joe Biden viewed 1 million times on Twitter — New York (CNN Business)A deceptively edited video of Joe Biden making it appear the Democratic presidential nominee forgot what state he was in was viewed more than one million times on Twitter over the weekend.
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump begins rally blitz by playing the hits and lamenting the cold
Trump begins rally blitz by playing the hits and lamenting the cold
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James Glanz / New York Times:
Tests Show Genetic Signature of Virus That May Have Infected President Trump — The White House did not take basic steps to investigate its outbreak. We worked with geneticists to sequence the virus that infected two journalists exposed during the outbreak, providing clues to how it may have spread.
Ben Smith / New York Times:
It's the End of an Era for the Media, No Matter Who Wins the Election — Trump made the legacy media great again. Here's what's next for them. — There's a media phenomenon the old-time blogger Mickey Kaus calls “overism”: articles in the week before the election whose premise …
Jolie McCullough / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Supreme Court rejects Republican-led effort to throw out nearly 127,000 Harris County votes — A handful of GOP activists and candidates had asked the state's highest civil court to rule Harris County's drive-thru voting locations illegal, and invalidate votes that have already been cast.
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Chuck Lindell / USA Today:
Texas court rejects bid to toss out 127,000 drive-thru votes, but fight isn't over
Texas court rejects bid to toss out 127,000 drive-thru votes, but fight isn't over
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
American Flag Collapses at Trump Rally in North Carolina — Donald Trump had only been onstage for a few minutes in Hickory, North Carolina, when there was a loud bang. The lift holding up an American flag at the back of the venue had blown over and half the flag — the striped portion …
New York Times:
Trump's supporters block traffic on major roadways in New York and New Jersey. — Caravans of President Trump's supporters blockaded the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge and the Garden State Parkway on Sunday, snarling traffic on two of the busiest highways in the New York metropolitan area just two days before Election Day.
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John Ellis / Medium:
Forty-One Percent. — I've been covering American politics for a long time and I can't remember a number that so dramatically altered the political community's perception of a presidential campaign as that number did, last night, at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time. — The source of the number …
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Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Trump, GOP will need big Election Day margins to win in Iowa
Trump, GOP will need big Election Day margins to win in Iowa
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Lindsey Graham tells women: 'There's a place for you in America' if you ‘follow traditional family structure’ — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told women over the weekend that they can “follow traditional family structure” if they want to be welcome in America.
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The Economist:
Joe Biden really is in pole position — President Donald Trump will enter election day with much worse odds than he had in 2016 — IN SOME WAYS, this presidential election has been remarkably dull, at least for a psephologist. There have been plenty of unpredictable events …
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
The man and the record — “He's unpresidential.” — “He's crude and unkind.” — “He's just not a good man.” — These things, and much worse, are commonly said of President Donald Trump. His personality totally eclipses his record. — So we, seemingly, have him on the dunk tank, ready for a very cold bath.
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden team weighs informal ban on naming Democratic senators to Cabinet — Joe Biden's team is considering an informal ban on naming Democratic U.S. senators to the Cabinet if he wins — which would effectively block Elizabeth Warren for Treasury or Bernie Sanders for Labor — people familiar with the discussions tell Axios.
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump's Dismissal of Covid Risk Paved Way to White House Outbreak — From the pandemic's earliest days, President Donald Trump was of two minds on coronavirus. — In public he was dismissive and belittling of the virus, and those who feared it. In private, for all his bravado, he acted like a man who dreaded catching it.
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Election Day will be the media's D-Day. The skill we need most is the one we've never mastered. — Almost two months before the 2016 presidential election, Dave Wasserman, an editor at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, wrote a prescient piece. — The headline?
David Maddox / Daily Express:
Poll: Donald Trump set to win US presidency by electoral college landslide — DONALD TRUMP is on course to win four more years in the White House with a one point lead in the popular win, the final Democracy Institute poll for the Sunday Express has found. — Sign up for FREE now and never miss the top politics stories again.
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Elizabeth Neumann / The Bulwark:
Untangling Faith and Love of Country — How one national security expert found freedom from fear by looking to Jesus. — In August, I joined over 100 former Republican national security officials in explaining our security concerns with the current president.
New York Times:
How There Was No October Surprise for President Trump — Trump's hope that an economic recovery, a Covid vaccine or a Biden scandal could shake up the race fades with the last light of October. — President Trump began the fall campaign rooting for, and trying to orchestrate …
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Tim Hrenchir / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Man thought people were stealing Donald Trump signs; three shot — Three people were shot late Saturday in North Topeka after a man confronted people he thought had been stealing signs promoting the campaign of Republican Presidential incumbent Donald Trump, a Topeka police supervisor said Sunday.
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Intel committee senators fear constitutional crisis — Top lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee tell Axios their biggest fear in the immediate days after Tuesday's election is a “perception hack” that throws the country into a constitutional crisis.
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Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
Political Groups Elude Facebook's Election Controls, Repost False Ads — Company faces challenges as it seeks to enforce its policies designed to curb misinformation — Political groups are getting around Facebook Inc.'s system for blocking false political advertising by reposting ads found …
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Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon Draw-Down at U.S. Embassies Prompts Concern About Ceding Field to Global Rivals — Moves come as U.S. shifts defense resources from Africa, Europe, Middle East, toward China, Russia — WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has quietly begun withdrawing top military officers from U.S. embassies …
NBC News:
NBC News Decision Desk: How we call races on election night 2020 — Here's how NBC News calls races on election night, the steps NBC News takes to verify results, as well as the answers to some frequently asked questions. — Early on election night, the NBC News Decision Desk uses exit poll data …
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
The Atlantic gave Ruth Shalit a ‘second chance’ 25 years after a media scandal. It ended with a bitter retraction. (Updated) — In pointing out errors and fabrications in a wildly popular story about niche sports, the magazine said it was wrong to assign work to the writer at the center of a 1990s media scandal
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CNN:
Our biggest Election Day concern — Opinion by Richard H. Pildes and Richard L. Hasen — John Avlon breaks down early voting turnout — Richard H. Pildes is the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law and an author of “The Law of Democracy.”