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9:55 AM ET, November 1, 2020

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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 …
Discussion: The Hill, Vox, Axios, Bloomberg and CNN
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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.
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 …
Discussion: The Hill
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
Michael Walsh / New York Post:   Trump's winning hand: How the president can pull off another upset
Gary Langer / ABC News:   Florida maintains toss-up status while Biden leads slightly in Pennsylvania: POLL
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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 …
Discussion: Althouse
David R. Montgomery / New York Times:
Vehicles flying Trump flags try to force a Biden-Harris campaign bus off a highway in Texas.  —  AUSTIN, Texas — Multiple vehicles bearing Trump flags and signs surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus heading from San Antonio to Austin on Friday, forcing campaign officials to scrap two campaign events …
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.
Discussion: 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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: CNBC
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 …
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: 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.
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
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Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
U.S. judge to hear Republican bid to void 100,000 votes in Texas
Discussion: Mother Jones
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post
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 …
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.
Discussion: Japan Times
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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
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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New York Times:
Trump Dismisses Virus Coverage and Biden Dismisses Virus Leadership: This Week in the 2020 Race
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.
Discussion: NPR
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.
 
 
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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Why Trump Can't Afford to Lose
Discussion: Fox News, CNN and New York Post
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Another election night nears, with trepidation replacing hope
Discussion: Fortune and The Guardian
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The last push
Discussion: NPR, Bloomberg, CNBC and The Guardian
Washington Examiner:
The Trump administration scores another win for peace
Discussion: The National Interest
Merrill Matthews / The Hill:
Could Blacks and Hispanics hand Trump a November victory?
Discussion: The Guardian
Dan Kaufman / New Yorker:
Will Trump's Broken Promises to Working-Class Voters Cost Him the Election?
Joseph E. Stiglitz / New York Times:
Republicans, Not Biden, Are About to Raise Your Taxes
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
ABC:
They once peddled misinformation for Guo Wengui and Steve Bannon. Now they're speaking out
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
If We Are Going to Recover from Trumpism, We Must Deny Charity to Trump's Henchmen
Discussion: Raw Story
Julie Strauss Levin / Tennessee Star:
Commentary: The Nightmare Scenario of Biden-Harris and the Ascendancy of Kamala
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Democrats grow more anxious about Pennsylvania
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Boris Johnson announces month-long COVID-19 lockdown in England
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Apple reports Q4 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 12% YoY to $24.97B, a new quarterly record, but below est.

Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Amazon reports Q3 ad revenue up 19% YoY to $14.33B, vs. $14.25B est., amid its push to insert ads into Prime Video, and subscription sales up 11% YoY to $11.3B

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Search to let users search for timely information using GPT-4o, after testing the feature in July 2024, a direct challenge to Google

 
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