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1:35 PM 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 …
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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.
Siena College Research Institute:
The New York Times / Siena College Battleground Polls: Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
Scott Rasmussen / Political IQ:
Florida Final Poll: Biden 51% Trump 47%
Discussion: The Guardian
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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John Harwood / CNN:   America again has a choice between the past and the future
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 …
Laura Italiano / New York Post:
FBI investigating ‘Trump Train’ swarming of Biden bus on Texas interstate: report
Discussion: Rolling Stone
David R. Montgomery / New York Times:
Vehicles flying Trump flags try to force a Biden-Harris campaign bus off a highway in Texas.
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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.
Discussion: The Verge
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
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USA Today:   Lincoln Project: We're fighting for a better America. A Biden era would be a good start.
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.”
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
We Have Never Had Final Results on Election Day  —  President Trump has been trying to pre-emptively delegitimize ballots counted after Nov. 3.  But states have always counted past election night.  —  For weeks, President Trump and his allies have been laying groundwork to challenge the results of the election if he loses.
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Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
When will your ballot be counted in the 2020 election? A look at what goes into the tallying process
Discussion: Axios, Associated Press and NPR
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: Raw Story and Washington Post
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 …
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Trump, GOP will need big Election Day margins to win in Iowa  —  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — President Donald Trump and other Republicans will head into Election Day likely trailing by tens of thousands of votes in Iowa, a deficit they hope to overcome with a strong turnout of their supporters at polling places.
Discussion: Chicago Sun-Times
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?
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
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 …
Discussion: New York Times
Media Matters for America:
ABC's George Stephanopoulos doesn't push back when Trump adviser Jason Miller suggests that counting votes after election night is stealing the election  —  Stephanopoulos offered no push back to the baseless claim  —  A number of people pointed out that the claim is baseless …
Discussion: Mediaite and Twitchy
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 …
American Greatness:
A Momentous Choice Faces Us Today as in 1776  —  We should be under no illusions about the momentousness of the choice facing the country. … The British army, the mightiest in the world, had taken over three colonies, including New York, and were threatening Philadelphia, seat of the fledgling American government.
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.
Jessica Remo / New Jersey Online:
N.J. Women For Trump group, with 29K members, removed from Facebook days before election  —  On Saturday morning there were more than 29,000 members in a private Facebook group for New Jersey women who support President Trump — and by Saturday afternoon the group was gone.
CBS News:
Transcript: Scott Gottlieb discusses coronavirus on “Face the Nation,” November 1, 2020  —  The following is a transcript of an interview with former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb that aired November 1, 2020, on “Face the Nation.”  —  MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to former FDA commissioner …
Discussion: Axios
 
 
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New York Times:
The Battlegrounds Within Battlegrounds  —  Many of the places that were critical …
Discussion: The Sun and Politico
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
If Biden Wins Wisconsin, These New Black Community Groups Will Be a Major Reason Why
Lara Jakes / New York Times:
U.S. Diplomat Coughs Online, and European Allies Wonder if They Were Exposed
Washington Post:
Biden's still locked in a bitter fight. But the jockeying is already underway for jobs in his would-be administration.
Discussion: NPR
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Stanford Study Seeks to Quantify Infections Stemming From Trump Rallies
Discussion: Japan Times
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The last push
Discussion: NPR, CNBC and The Guardian
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: Mediaite and Raw Story
 

 
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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:
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