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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.
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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 …
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Biden leads Trump by 10 points in final pre-election NBC News/WSJ poll
Biden leads Trump by 10 points in final pre-election NBC News/WSJ poll
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Business Insider, The Hill, CNBC, Politico, Washington Examiner, No More Mister Nice Blog, POLITICUSUSA, Washington Times and CNN
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Trump begins rally blitz by playing the hits and lamenting the cold
Trump begins rally blitz by playing the hits and lamenting the cold
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CNN, Washington Times, POLITICUSUSA and Fox News
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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Associated Press, Siena College Research …, redstate.com, Florida Politics, The Week, IJR, Raw Story, The Hill and NBC News
Matthew Brown / USA Today:
Pro-Trump protesters picket Attorney General Barr's house in Virginia, demand he ‘lock up’ Joe Biden
Pro-Trump protesters picket Attorney General Barr's house in Virginia, demand he ‘lock up’ Joe Biden
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Business Insider, The Moderate Voice, HillReporter.com and New York Post
Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump Trails Joe Biden by 10 Points Nationally in Final Days of Election
President Trump Trails Joe Biden by 10 Points Nationally in Final Days of Election
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Mediaite, The Hill, Outside the Beltway and Political Wire
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 …
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Maggie Astor / New York Times:
We Have Never Had Final Results on Election Day
We Have Never Had Final Results on Election Day
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Axios, Slate, electionlawblog.org, Forbes and Mother Jones
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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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.
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steveschale.com and Townhall
Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
Political Groups Elude Facebook's Election Controls, Repost False Ads — Company faces challenges as it seeks to enforce its policies designed to curb misinformation — Political groups are getting around Facebook Inc.'s system for blocking false political advertising by reposting ads found …
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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
Trump, GOP will need big Election Day margins to win in Iowa
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Talking Points Memo and who13.com
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.
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Fox News, Los Angeles Times, CNN and New York Post
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Days before U.S. election, Biden's lead widens in Rust Belt: Reuters/Ipsos poll — (Reuters) - Democrat Joe Biden's lead over U.S. President Donald Trump has widened a little in the final days of the 2020 campaign in three critical Rust Belt states that Trump narrowly won four years ago …
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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.
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.
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electionlawblog.org
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 …
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Data For Progress
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 …
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Alex Thompson / Politico:
‘She Kind of Reminds You of Margaret Thatcher’: Liz Cheney Prepares To Make Her Move — Earlier this year, Liz Cheney's ambitions came into focus. — After Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi announced his retirement, Mitch McConnell and his team offered Cheney, the state's sole House member …
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Townhall, CBS Boston, Washington Post and Daily Kos
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 …
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.
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The Moderate Voice
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.
Maria Arias / Axios:
Trump adviser Scott Atlas apologizes for appearing on RT — President Trump's favorite coronavirus adviser Scott Atlas apologized on Twitter for appearing Saturday on Russia's state-controlled RT network, where he insisted that the U.S. is turning the corner on the pandemic and that lockdowns are actually “killing people.”
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?
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New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Times
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.
Sam Dorman / Fox News:
Biden says Trump's coronavirus response ‘almost criminal’ during rally in Philadelphia — “We're at an inflection point, so we have to vote like we never did before,” Biden said. — Biden holds a ‘Souls to the Polls’ event in Philadelphia — Former Vice President Joe Biden made a pitch …
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Washington Examiner, The Daily Beast, Washington Times, Vox, NBC4 Washington and Al Jazeera
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.
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 …
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.
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