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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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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:
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 …
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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, Raw Story and One America News Network
Washington Post:
The map is wide, Democrats tense and Republicans hopeful in the last days of campaign 2020
The map is wide, Democrats tense and Republicans hopeful in the last days of campaign 2020
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New York Times, Washington Examiner, The Hill, Politico, New York Post and Instapundit
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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Outside the Beltway, NBC News, ABC News, Forbes, Raw Story, New York Post, Rolling Stone and The Post Millennial
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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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Althouse
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 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, Breitbart, Raw Story and Business Insider
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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Twitchy, 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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The Post Millennial, Townhall, POLITICUSUSA, KXAN-TV, Forbes, Mashable, Washington Examiner, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth, Daily Kos, The Sun, Law & Crime, Mother Jones, Mediaite, The Mahablog and KEYE
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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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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USA Today, The Hill, The Daily Beast, CBS News, Bloomberg, Mediaite, The Guardian, The Week, CNN, Raw Story, Axios and Balloon Juice
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
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
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
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.
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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Axios, Joe Biden for President, CNN and Politico
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
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
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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Washington Examiner, The Federalist, Fox News, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and The Sun
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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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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
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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