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5:25 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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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.
Discussion: redstate.com, Power Line and Breitbart
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 …
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 …
Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump Trails Joe Biden by 10 Points Nationally in Final Days of Election
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 …
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.
Discussion: Reuters and KXAN-TV
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.
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
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 …
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.
Discussion: electionlawblog.org
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
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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
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 …
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 …
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?
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: Mashable and The Verge
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: Mediaite, Raw Story and The Week
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 …
Discussion: Business Insider, The Hill and IJR
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
 
 
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Maria Arias / Axios:
Trump adviser Scott Atlas apologizes for appearing on RT
Tyler Pager / Bloomberg:
Biden Heads to Ohio as Polls Show Delegate-Rich State is Tied
Discussion: Instapundit
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Rising tide of violence, propaganda reveal Tuesday's stakes for America: freedom or fascism?
Discussion: redstate.com
Matthew Brown / Associated Press:
Trump noticeably absent from key US Senate race in Montana
WRAL-TV:
Police use pepper spray on crowd who blocked roadway during march to the polls in Alamance County
CBS News:
Transcript: Scott Gottlieb discusses coronavirus on “Face the Nation,” November 1, 2020
Discussion: Axios
 Earlier Items: 
American Greatness:
A Momentous Choice Faces Us Today as in 1776
USA Today:
Lincoln Project: We're fighting for a better America. A Biden era would be a good start.
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
If Biden Wins Wisconsin, These New Black Community Groups Will Be a Major Reason Why
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
A safe, sane way to navigate election night — and beyond
Discussion: New York Times
Larry D. Croom / Villages-News:
Villages sees spike in COVID-19 cases as state tops 800,000 positive results
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
That Sound You Hear Is Trumpworld Panicking
Discussion: redstate.com and Raw Story
Lawfare:
Newly Released FBI Documents Show Troubling Double Standard on Political Speech