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10:45 PM ET, November 1, 2020

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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 …
Benjamin L. Ginsberg / Washington Post:
My party is destroying itself on the altar of Trump  —  Benjamin L. Ginsberg practiced election law for 38 years.  He co-chaired the bipartisan 2013 Presidential Commission on Election Administration.  —  President Trump has failed the test of leadership.  His bid for reelection is foundering.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
I'm Here To Remind You That Trump Can Still Win  —  A 10 percent chance isn't zero.  And there's a chance of a recount, too.  —  It's tempting to write this story in the form of narrative fiction: “On a frigid early December morning in Washington, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 …
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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 …
Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
Why You Can't Rely on Election Forecasts
Discussion: Insight
Associated Press:
Biden works to push Black turnout in campaign's final days
Discussion: CBS Philly
Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
False video of Joe Biden viewed 1 million times on Twitter  —  New York (CNN Business)A deceptively edited video of Joe Biden making it appear the Democratic presidential nominee forgot what state he was in was viewed more than one million times on Twitter over the weekend.
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Josh Campbell / CNN:
FBI investigating alleged harassment of Biden campaign bus by Trump supporters
James Glanz / New York Times:
Tests Show Genetic Signature of Virus That May Have Infected President Trump  —  The White House did not take basic steps to investigate its outbreak.  We worked with geneticists to sequence the virus that infected two journalists exposed during the outbreak, providing clues to how it may have spread.
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
Discussion: New York Times, Reuters and KXAN-TV
Ben Smith / New York Times:
It's the End of an Era for the Media, No Matter Who Wins the Election  —  Trump made the legacy media great again.  Here's what's next for them.  —  There's a media phenomenon the old-time blogger Mickey Kaus calls “overism”: articles in the week before the election whose premise …
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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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.
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 …
New York Times:
Trump's supporters block traffic on major roadways in New York and New Jersey.  —  Caravans of President Trump's supporters blockaded the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge and the Garden State Parkway on Sunday, snarling traffic on two of the busiest highways in the New York metropolitan area just two days before Election Day.
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.
The Economist:
Joe Biden really is in pole position  —  President Donald Trump will enter election day with much worse odds than he had in 2016  —  IN SOME WAYS, this presidential election has been remarkably dull, at least for a psephologist.  There have been plenty of unpredictable events …
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Intel committee senators fear constitutional crisis  —  Top lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee tell Axios their biggest fear in the immediate days after Tuesday's election is a “perception hack” that throws the country into a constitutional crisis.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump's Dismissal of Covid Risk Paved Way to White House Outbreak  —  From the pandemic's earliest days, President Donald Trump was of two minds on coronavirus.  —  In public he was dismissive and belittling of the virus, and those who feared it.  In private, for all his bravado, he acted like a man who dreaded catching it.
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden team weighs informal ban on naming Democratic senators to Cabinet  —  Joe Biden's team is considering an informal ban on naming Democratic U.S. senators to the Cabinet if he wins — which would effectively block Elizabeth Warren for Treasury or Bernie Sanders for Labor — people familiar with the discussions tell Axios.
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 …
Discussion: Data For Progress
NBC News:
NBC News Decision Desk: How we call races on election night 2020  —  Here's how NBC News calls races on election night, the steps NBC News takes to verify results, as well as the answers to some frequently asked questions.  —  Early on election night, the NBC News Decision Desk uses exit poll data …
Alicia Victoria Lozano / NBC News:
‘2020 is the time’: California voters weigh bringing back affirmative action  —  More than two decades after affirmative action was banned in California, voters will decide whether to restore the practice with a ballot measure supporters say would bring greater access to educational …
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 …
Elizabeth Neumann / The Bulwark:
Untangling Faith and Love of Country  —  How one national security expert found freedom from fear by looking to Jesus.  —  In August, I joined over 100 former Republican national security officials in explaining our security concerns with the current president.
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
American Flag Collapses at Trump Rally in North Carolina  —  Donald Trump had only been onstage for a few minutes in Hickory, North Carolina, when there was a loud bang.  The lift holding up an American flag at the back of the venue had blown over and half the flag — the striped portion …
Washington Post:
Alleged Michigan plotters attended multiple anti-lockdown protests, photos and videos show  —  On April 30, outside the Michigan Capitol, protesters gathered to demand that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer end the business closures and other measures she had imposed to slow the transmission of the coronavirus.
Discussion: The Hill
CNN:
Our biggest Election Day concern  —  Opinion by Richard H. Pildes and Richard L. Hasen  —  John Avlon breaks down early voting turnout  —  Richard H. Pildes is the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law and an author of “The Law of Democracy.”
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.
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Lindsey Graham tells women: 'There's a place for you in America' if you ‘follow traditional family structure’  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told women over the weekend that they can “follow traditional family structure” if they want to be welcome in America.
Discussion: Business Insider
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.
Conor Pope / The Irish Times:
Veteran journalist and author Robert Fisk dies aged 74  —  Highly regarded, controversial foreign correspondent had long relationship with Ireland  —  about 2 hours ago Updated: 52 minutes ago  —  Robert Fisk joined the London Independent in 1989 and continued to work for that publication until his death.
Discussion: Al Jazeera
 
 
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Why this is Joe Biden's hour
Discussion: Mashable
Megan Henney / Fox News:
Where's Hillary? Clinton absent from trail as Biden deploys Obama in election's final days
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Election Day will be the media's D-Day. The skill we need most is the one we've never mastered.
Mariel Padilla / The 19th:
More women than men are voting early in key battleground states
Discussion: USA Today and who13.com
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Trump was way worse than I feared in 2016. Here's how.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
Political Groups Elude Facebook's Election Controls, Repost False Ads
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Days before U.S. election, Biden's lead widens in Rust Belt: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Discussion: Politico
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Maria Arias / Axios:
Trump adviser Scott Atlas apologizes for appearing on RT
Jeremy Scahill / The Intercept:
Statement Regarding Attacks on The Intercept and Its Journalists
The Boston Globe:
Conservative Supreme Court justices are threatening a post-election coup
Discussion: electionlawblog.org
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
The son of Lev Parnas offers one more Trump tell-all
Discussion: Raw Story
Lawfare:
Newly Released FBI Documents Show Troubling Double Standard on Political Speech
 

 
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