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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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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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Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Nate Silver: “Without Pennsylvania, Biden becomes an underdog” — Joe Biden will become “an underdog” if he fails to win Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral votes, FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver said on ABC's “This Week” Sunday. — Why it matters: Trump won the battleground by less …
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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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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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Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump Trails Joe Biden by 10 Points Nationally in Final Days of Election
President Trump Trails Joe Biden by 10 Points Nationally in Final Days of Election
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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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Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Days before U.S. election, Biden's lead widens in Rust Belt: Reuters/Ipsos poll
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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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.
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 — AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas Supreme Court on Sunday rejected, without comment, a bid by three Republican candidates and a GOP activist to toss out almost 127,000 votes cast in drive-thru lanes in the emerging Democratic stronghold of Harris County.
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Why Trump Can't Afford to Lose — The President has survived one impeachment, twenty-six accusations of sexual misconduct, and an estimated four thousand lawsuits. That run of good luck may well end, perhaps brutally, if Joe Biden wins. — The President was despondent.
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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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Jeremy Scahill / The Intercept:
Statement Regarding Attacks on The Intercept and Its Journalists … Over the past several days, I have watched in disgust as a barrage of lies, smears, and vicious attacks has been unleashed against The Intercept and its journalists. This is a news organization filled with dedicated reporters …
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The Boston Globe:
Conservative Supreme Court justices are threatening a post-election coup — They are pushing a theory that makes a mockery of America's constitutional design. — After handing down orders in a spate of challenges to states' efforts to make voting easier during the coronavirus pandemic, the Supreme Court is catching its breath.
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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.
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Lois Beckett / The Guardian:
Scholars warn of collapse of democracy as Trump v Biden election looms … Dozens of historians of fascism and authoritarianism have signed a letter warning that democracy “is either withering or in full-scale collapse globally”, and urging ordinary people to take action.
Politico:
‘They All Got Careless’: How Falwell Kept His Grip on Liberty Amid Sexual ‘Games,’ Self-Dealing — When Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife Becki strolled around the Lynchburg, Va., campus of Liberty University, the evangelical school which Falwell led as president, they would play a secret game called “Would you rather.”
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
The son of Lev Parnas offers one more Trump tell-all — As Rudy Giuliani searched for damaging information on the Bidens in Ukraine, waged shadow diplomatic campaigns in Venezuela and Turkey, and spoke regularly to President Donald Trump about all of it, a 19-year-old law student was quietly watching and soaking it all in.
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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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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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Washington Post:
Trump focuses on his base in final blizzard of rallies before Election Day — In a frenzied burst of campaigning in the last days of the presidential race, President Trump has accused doctors of fabricating coronavirus deaths for money, pantomimed a physical fight with Democratic rival Joe Biden …
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CBS News:
Biden leads, Trump needs Election Day surge to win — CBS News Battleground Tracker — Joe Biden heads into Election Day preferred by voters who have already cast their ballots early. President Trump has a lead among those who plan to show up on November 3. So will Biden's lead hold up?
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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.
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 …
New York Times:
As Trump Campaign Questions Vote Counting, Court Rejects G.O.P. Challenge in Texas — Joe Biden will travel to Philadelphia today, and President Trump will hold five rallies across the Rust Belt and Southeast. The Trump campaign again tried to falsely paint post-Election Day vote counts as illegitimate.
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 …
Geoff Edgers / Washington Post:
Q&A with newsman Chris Wallace: Moderating a debate with(out) masks, bias in the news and Trump's daddy issues — Every Friday, national arts reporter Geoff Edgers hosts The Washington Post's first Instagram Live show from his barn in Concord, Mass. He has interviewed, among others …
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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