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Vicky Prodeline / Monmouth University Polling …:
Biden Holds Lead Despite Trump Gains in Swing Counties  —  Biden trusted more to handle pandemic  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Joe Biden holds a 5-point to 7-point lead over Donald Trump among likely voters in Pennsylvania, according to the Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.
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QU Poll:
Florida And Ohio: Biden Has The Edge Over Trump, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Nationally, Biden Maintains A Strong Lead  —  On the eve of Election Day 2020, former Vice President Joe Biden has narrow leads over President Donald Trump in Florida and Ohio, according to the final Quinnipiac …
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Final NBC/Marist state polls show close races in Pennsylvania and Arizona  —  WASHINGTON — Democrat Joe Biden holds a narrow lead over President Donald Trump in the all-important battleground state of Pennsylvania, while the two candidates are tied in Arizona, according to the final NBC News …
Discussion: Spectator USA, Politico and The Hill
Rachel Adams-Heard / Bloomberg:
Texas Drive-Through Votes Survive GOP Lawsuit to Toss Them  — Court finds Republican activists lack standing to bring suit  — Appeal vowed; at stake are 127,000 ballots in new battleground  —  A federal judge rejected an effort to invalidate 127,000 votes in the most populous county in Texas …
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NBC News:
Some media locked out as 127K ‘drive-thru’ ballots debated
Discussion: National Review and The Week
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump just revealed his plot to steal the election.  Here's a way to stop him.  —  President Trump has revealed his endgame in all its corrupt glory.  If Trump is on track to losing once all the votes are counted, he will seek to invalidate as many ballots as possible …
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New York Times:
Needle Update: What to Expect on Election Night  —  We'll have live estimates for Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.  —  For many Times readers, the memory of election night in 2016 is inseparable from the image of a semicircular chart that has since become known — affectionately or not — as “the needle.”
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Psychiatrist featured on CNN, MSNBC praises Hitler in tweet attacking Trump  —  Dr. Bandy X. Lee later deleted the tweet following backlash  —  Yale psychiatrist questions Trump's mental health  —  Outspoken psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee raised eyebrows on Monday when she criticized President Trump …
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Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
Psychiatrist Who Evaluated Trump's Mental State on CNN and MSNBC Argues President is Worse Than Hitler
Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:   Media's favorite ‘resistance’ mental health quack goes full Hitler apologist
Murray Waas / New York Magazine:
How Trump and Barr's October Surprise Went Bust  —  On September 10, Nora Dannehy resigned as the deputy to John Durham, the federal prosecutor investigating the government's probe into the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.  Dannehy left her post and the Justice Department …
Discussion: Law & Crime and Raw Story
Jeremy Stahl / Slate:
What I Learned From Training to Be a Right-Wing Poll Watcher  —  Alan Vera, ballot security chairman for Texas' Harris County GOP, wants prospective poll watchers to keep an eye on their coffee.  —  “Here's a tip that I almost hate to have to tell you, but: Do not accept coffee …
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Jessica Huseman / ProPublica:
So Far, Trump's “Army” of Poll Watchers Looks More Like a Small Platoon
Discussion: Slate
New York Times:
How Do Donalds Vote?  Take Our Name Quiz to Find Out  —  We found some unexpected trends when we sorted our polling data by first name.  —  Over the past two months, The New York Times and Siena College have conducted polls in almost every battleground state, creating a large database of likely voters and their preferences.
Louis Jacobson / The Cook Political Report:
What is The Cook Political Report?  —  The Cook Political Report is an independent, non-partisan newsletter that analyzes elections and campaigns for the US House of Representatives, US Senate, Governors and President as well as American political trends.
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Ex-RNC officials won't back Trump  —  Three former communications directors at the Republican National Committee (RNC) voted against President Trump this year, they said Monday.  —  In a tweet posted Monday, Ryan Mahoney, who ran communications for the party apparatus during President Trump's …
Barton Gellman / The Atlantic:
How Trump Could Attempt a Coup  —  A wretched presidential campaign has played out at last, but Election Day is not how this story ends.  Unable to overtake his opponent in the polls, Donald Trump decided months ago to run against the election itself.  That race does not conclude when the ballots are counted.
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Twitter names 7 outlets to call election results  —  Twitter on Monday provided more details about its policies around tweets that declare election results, and named the seven outlets it will lean on to help it determine whether a race is officially called.
Daniel Figueroa IV / WMNF:
Video shows Pinellas deputies repeatedly punching, elbowing Biden supporter during political rally in Palm Harbor  —  Elections, News and Public Affairs, Police.  —  A video showing the arrest of a Clearwater man during a political rally in Palm Harbor has raised concerns over a deputy's use of force.
Discussion: Raw Story
Henry Olsen / Washington Post:
My predictions for the 2020 presidential and congressional races  —  Henry Olsen is a Washington Post columnist and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.  —  “These are the times that try men's souls.”  The opening line of Thomas Paine's Revolutionary War pamphlet series …
Discussion: National Review
New York Times:
Vienna Shooting Live Updates: At Least 1 Dead and 15 Injured as Gunmen Open Fire  —  Officials described the shootings in the heart of the Austrian capital Monday night as a terrorist attack.  —  RIGHT NOW “We are going through a dark hour in our republic,” Austria's chancellor said after the attack in Vienna.
Max Boot / Washington Post:
The work of the Never Trumpers is just beginning  —  What a weird, wild ride it has been — and it's not over yet.  —  When Donald Trump began running for the presidency on June 15, 2015, I never imagined he would win the Republican primaries, much less the general election.
Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Friedman to ‘Post’: ‘Trump can change Middle East for next 100 years’  —  US Amb. looks back on president's Israel policies and predicts what he may do with another four years.  —  If reelected, US President Donald Trump will continue to set policies with the potential to transform the Middle East …
Brian Beutler / Crooked Media:
Trump Has No Free-and-Fair Path to Re-election  —  At no point since Donald Trump filed his re-election paperwork on inauguration day in 2017 has he or his campaign acted with the purpose of winning the most votes, or even of convincing people that he'd be the popular favorite in 2020.
Tucker Doherty / Politico:
The pandemic surge in charts  —  Every indicator used to track the coronavirus — cases, hospitalizations, hospital capacity, positivity rates and deaths — is flashing bright red warning signs that the pandemic is surging across vast swaths of the country, just as people return indoors and families make plans for Thanksgiving.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
New York Times:
Federal Judge Rejects G.O.P. Attempt to Toss 127,000 Ballots in Texas  —  President Trump used the first of his five rallies scheduled for Monday, the last day of campaigning before Election Day, to air grievances about polls, the media, the investigation into Russian interference in the election …
Discussion: Army Times and Raw Story
The White House:
Executive Order on Establishing the President's Advisory 1776 Commission  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to better enable a rising generation to understand the history and principles of the founding …
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
GOP GOTV set to swamp Biden lead, ‘Election Day to look like a Trump rally’  —  The Trump campaign, exuding 11th hour confidence, is revealing raw voter data that suggests to them that Joe Biden's lead in early voting will be swamped by a red wave of GOP voters on Election Day.
Washington Post:
Facial recognition used to identify Lafayette Square protester accused of assault  —  A line of U.S. Park Police officers pushed protesters back from Lafayette Square on June 1, firing pepper balls and rolling canisters spewing irritant gas into the retreating crowds on H Street NW, video shows.
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Court File Shows Joe Biden Listed as Possible Witness With Son in Fraud Case  —  Devon Archer, far left, named Joe and Hunter Biden, right, as possible witnesses in a fraud case, according to a recording recovered from Hunter's laptop.  —  A federal judge named Joe Biden as a possible …
Aimee Picchi / CBS News:
On election eve, the U.S. Postal Service is struggling to deliver mail on time  —  The U.S. Postal Service is seeing more delays in delivering the mail, with the agency disclosing last week that about 20% of all letters and packages sent around the country in the week ended October 23 were late.
Discussion: Reuters, Vox and CNBC
Reuters:
‘You are no longer my mother’: How the election is dividing American families  —  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - When lifelong Democrat Mayra Gomez told her 21-year-old son five months ago that she was voting for Donald Trump in Tuesday's presidential election, he cut her out of his life.
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Supreme Court sides with activist DeRay McKesson in lawsuit over officer injured at protest  — The Supreme Court on Monday sided with the prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson, who is fending off a lawsuit from a police officer injured at a protest that McKesson attended.
Politico:
How the Octagon Magnifies QAnon for MAGAWorld  —  The mixed martial arts fighter knew the exact moment when he became convinced that QAnon was real.  It was March 22, when President Trump held a late-afternoon briefing alongside members of the Coronavirus Task Force.
Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Federal authorities expected to erect ‘non-scalable’ fence around White House  —  Washington (CNN)Federal authorities are expected to put back into place a “non-scalable” fence around the entire perimeter of the White House on Monday as law enforcement and other agencies prepare …
 
 
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Matt Vespa / Townhall:
If New Batch of Polls are Correct, Trump Will Soar Past 300 Electoral Votes
Discussion: Power Line and Breitbart
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
How Trump officials used COVID-19 to shut U.S. borders to migrant children
Discussion: Associated Press
Jade Scipioni / CNBC:
How Kamala Harris' husband Doug stays fit and deals with stress on the campaign trail
New York Post:
NYC businesses board up shops ahead of 2020 presidential election
Discussion: redstate.com and Denver Post
J.K. Dineen / San Francisco Chronicle:
‘Like local terrorism’: Trump caravan roars into Marin City, angering residents
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Beast
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Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Former Trump Land-Use Lawyer Ordered to Give Documents to N.Y. AG
Discussion: Raw Story
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Trump's Risky Bet on Rural America
Discussion: Raw Story
Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist:
Photos: Police Stand By As Caravans Of Trump Supporters Block Bridges, Threaten Counter-Protesters
Discussion: Salon, CNN and Washington Examiner
Joseph Menn / Reuters:
QAnon received earlier boost from Russian accounts on Twitter, archives show
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