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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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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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CBS News, Axios, Washington Post, Reuters, Business Insider, Mother Jones, Fox News, The Guardian, IJR and CBS Pittsburgh
Washington Post:
Post-ABC polls: Biden has slight lead in Pennsylvania; Florida a toss-up
Post-ABC polls: Biden has slight lead in Pennsylvania; Florida a toss-up
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The Hill
Evie Fordham / Fox News:
Election 2020 polls show Biden leading Trump in key battleground states, Florida a tossup
Election 2020 polls show Biden leading Trump in key battleground states, Florida a tossup
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NBC News, The Hill, One America News Network and Raw Story
Scott Rasmussen / Political IQ:
Florida Final Poll: Biden 51% Trump 47%
Siena College Research Institute:
The New York Times / Siena College Battleground Polls: Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
The New York Times / Siena College Battleground Polls: Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
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Washington Times and Florida Politics
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 …
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, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth, Business Insider, NBC News, The Hill, The Guardian, KXAN-TV and Twitchy
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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My Canyon Lake, The Post Millennial, Breitbart, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, Mashable, Forbes and The Daily Beast
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.
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Townhall and The Gateway Pundit
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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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Biden leads Trump by 10 points in final pre-election NBC News/WSJ poll — WASHINGTON — Democrat Joe Biden maintains his double-digit national lead over Republican President Donald Trump in the final national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll before the 2020 presidential election …
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The Hill, CNBC and POLITICUSUSA
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 …
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
A safe, sane way to navigate election night — and beyond — We all need to be clear-eyed about the social and political volatility heading into Election Day: The chances of sporadic violence, significant unrest or voting issues are quite high, according to basically every federal …
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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Trump Camp Uses Online Gimmick to Fuel Donations Into December
Larry D. Croom / Villages-News:
Villages sees spike in COVID-19 cases as state tops 800,000 positive results — The Villages saw a significant jump in COVID-19 patients on Friday as Florida surpassed 800,000 cases of the potentially deadly virus. — Thirty-nine new COVID-19 cases were reported Friday in and around Florida's Friendliest Hometown.
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.
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
That Sound You Hear Is Trumpworld Panicking — The old tricks aren't working. The October Surprise surprised nobody. Junior says nobody's dying. But like, a lot of people still are. — BEAST INSIDE … Madame Tussaud's in Berlin dumped its wax version of America's worst president …
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Raw Story
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
Washington Post:
Trump allies, largely unconstrained by Facebook's rules against repeated falsehoods, cement pre-election dominance — From a pro-Trump super PAC to the president's eldest son, conservatives have blown past Facebook's fact-checking guardrails, with few consequences.
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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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
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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Joe Biden for President, Axios, CNN and Politico
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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Washington Post
David Rothkopf / Haaretz:
Netanyahu's Complicity With Traitor Trump Has Tainted Israel-U.S. Ties — Of all the world's leaders, its right-wing populists and ethno-nationalists, no one embraced America's betrayer as fully and as short-sightedly as Netanyahu. The years ahead will reveal the deep-seated damage that has caused
Washington Post:
Biden's still locked in a bitter fight. But the jockeying is already underway for jobs in his would-be administration. — Joe Biden remains locked in a bitterly fought race for the presidency, but the Congressional Black Caucus is nonetheless already gathering résumés for jobs in his would-be administration.
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NPR
Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
When will your ballot be counted in the 2020 election? A look at what goes into the tallying process — The exact procedures — including deadlines — depend on where you live. — Voting in 2020 during COVID-19 — How coronavirus has made mail-in voting and the general election more complicated in 2020.
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Associated Press and NPR
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
If We Are Going to Recover from Trumpism, We Must Deny Charity to Trump's Henchmen — The problem with anonymity is that you don't know who is speaking. That's not as obvious as it sounds: we tend to think that ideas can exist entirely outside of the people who bring them to light.
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Raw Story
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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Reuters, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth, Law & Crime and Austin American-Statesman
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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