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New York Times:
Election at Hand, Biden Leads Trump in Four Key States, Poll Shows — Joseph R. Biden Jr. leads President Trump in Pennsylvania, Florida, Arizona and, by a wide margin, in Wisconsin, according to a Times/Siena College poll. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. holds a clear advantage over President Trump across four …
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Washington Post:
Post-ABC polls: Biden has slight lead in Pennsylvania; Florida a toss-up — Trump is rated high on the economy but low on coronavirus as case numbers rise — As the presidential race enters its final days, competition remains fierce in two of the most important battleground states …
Kate McGee / The Texas Tribune:
Biden camp cancels multiple Texas events after a “Trump Train” surrounded a campaign bus — The highway skirmish came as Democrats close ground in a state that is polling competitively in the race for president. Recent polls indicate the presidential race in Texas between President Donald Trump …
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Republican Party of Texas:
Statement Regarding ‘Biden Bus’ Incident — Abby Livingston from The Texas Tribune reached out to the RPT today and asked a question about a Biden campaign bus in her attempt to portray conservatives as violent radicals, even though it is leftists from Antifa and BLM who have been assaulting …
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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.
Vehicles flying Trump flags try to force a Biden-Harris campaign bus off a highway in Texas.
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Axios, Twitchy, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth, Business Insider, NBC News, The Hill and The Guardian
KJ Edelman / Mediaite:
Trump Tweets Support for Fans Who Swarmed Biden Bus: ‘I LOVE TEXAS!’
Trump Tweets Support for Fans Who Swarmed Biden Bus: ‘I LOVE TEXAS!’
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CNN:
Biden campaign cancels Texas event after Trump supporters surround bus on interstate
Biden campaign cancels Texas event after Trump supporters surround bus on interstate
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USA Today, Austin American-Statesman and Raw Story
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Biden Team Cancels Texas Event After Highway ‘Ambush’ by MAGA Cavalry
Biden Team Cancels Texas Event After Highway ‘Ambush’ by MAGA Cavalry
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Politico:
‘You can certainly see how he could win’: Why Trump isn't done yet — Everything would have to break exactly right for Donald Trump to win reelection. — But the recipe for an upset is there. — Trump is polling within striking distance of Joe Biden in Florida, North Carolina and Arizona.
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Political IQ:
Florida Final Poll: Biden 51% Trump 47% — The final PoliticalIQ Battleground State poll shows former Vice President Joe Biden with a modest lead over President Trump in Florida. The poll, conducted October 28-30 by Scott Rasmussen, shows Biden winning 51% of the vote while Trump picks up 47%.
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Siena College Research … and Florida Politics
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 …
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Lawfare:
Newly Released FBI Documents Show Troubling Double Standard on Political Speech — This morning, we received more than 30 pages of material from the FBI illustrating a remarkable disparity in its treatment of its employees: Five employees, the documents show, have been disciplined …
Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
Joe Biden has finally disclosed who is raising him big money just days before Election Day — Joe Biden released the list of his general-election fundraisers after 90 million people had already voted. Photo by Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images — Biden has been sharply breaking …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Dishonesty Has Defined the Trump Presidency. The Consequences Could Be Lasting. — Whether President Trump wins or loses on Nov. 3, the very concept of public trust in an established set of facts necessary for the operation of a democratic society has been eroded.
Jolie McCullough / The Texas Tribune:
“It's wholly un-American”: Harris County drive-thru voters await court rulings as Texas Republicans push to invalidate 127,000 votes — A conservative activist and three Republican candidates have asked state and federal courts to toss the votes and shut down drive-thru voting in the state's most populous …
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CBS Dallas / Fort Worth, Law & Crime and Austin American-Statesman
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Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
U.S. judge to hear Republican bid to void 100,000 votes in Texas
U.S. judge to hear Republican bid to void 100,000 votes in Texas
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Mother Jones
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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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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Raw Story
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.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Stanford Study Seeks to Quantify Infections Stemming From Trump Rallies — The researchers used a statistical model to extrapolate infections tied to 18 rallies, and the study's figures were not based on individual cases traced directly to particular campaign events.
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Japan Times
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
Trump campaign rallies led to more than 30,000 coronavirus cases, Stanford researchers say
Trump campaign rallies led to more than 30,000 coronavirus cases, Stanford researchers say
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Axios, HillReporter.com, The Wrap and Liberty Unyielding
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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Barry Yeoman / Washington Post:
N.C. police arrest at least 8, spray ‘pepper-based vapor’ to disperse voter turnout march that included kids — GRAHAM, N.C. — Law enforcement officers fired a spray they described as a “pepper-based vapor” that left demonstrators — including children — coughing at an “I Am Change” march for voter turnout.
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
White House plots possible second-term Cabinet purge — A second-term Trump administration is considering expelling Cabinet members who have crossed the president, refused to mount investigations he has demanded or contradicted him on coronavirus. — White House advisers say Trump is likely …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The last push — DRIVING THE DAY — HAPPY HALLOWEEN! THREE DAYS until Election Day. — SIREN ... NRSC'S KEVIN MCLAUGHLIN on TRUMP: “Trump drags down GOP senators, giving Democrats more paths to the majority,” by WaPo's Paul Kane and Seung Min Kim: “'Well, the president's losing Arizona.
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Phillip Stutts:
Election Analysis Exclusive: Here is What Will Happen on Nov. 3 — Who is going to win? That is the question everyone is asking. — After 24 years and 1,283 political campaign victories, including three winning U.S. Presidential races, I will break down how I see the race heading into Election Day.
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