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6:15 PM ET, November 2, 2020

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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, The Hill and Politico
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
New York Times:
As Election Day Arrives, Trump Shifts Between Combativeness and Grievance  —  The president is sounding notes of bravado and exasperation at the end of a divisive campaign.  But he may have severed himself from the political realities of a country in crisis.
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 …
Discussion: Associated Press, Axios, Breitbart and CNN
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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.”
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
Emma Colton / Washington Examiner:
Trump rally Wi-Fi login for journalists celebrates ACB's confirmation: ‘FilledTheSeat’  —  The WiFi login and password for a Trump rally featuring Vice President Mike Pence gave a nod to newly-minted Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett.  —  New York Magazine's Olivia Nuzzi tweeted a photo …
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Jessica Huseman / ProPublica:
So Far, Trump's “Army” of Poll Watchers Looks More Like a Small Platoon  —  Despite appeals from the president and his son, few of his supporters have shown up to watch early voting.  One explanation: The task is just too boring. … Donald Trump Jr. looked straight into a camera at the end …
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Jeremy Stahl / Slate:   What I Learned From Training to Be a Right-Wing Poll Watcher
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.
Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
Psychiatrist Who Evaluated Trump's Mental State on CNN and MSNBC Argues President is Worse Than Hitler  —  Dr. Bandy X. Lee, a psychiatrist who has appeared on CNN and MSNBC and briefed members of Congress, appeared to argue on Monday that President Donald Trump is worse than Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Media's favorite ‘resistance’ mental health quack goes full Hitler apologist
Discussion: Newsbusters and Fox News
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Peter Navarro Is Hyping Trump in Swing States—on the Taxpayer's Dime  —  The top Trump aide made a series of reports on White House stationery meant to tout Trump's performance on the economy.  He only made them for swing states.  —  As President Donald Trump worked to hold key swing states responsible …
Discussion: Raw Story
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CREW:   Sixteen Trump administration officials violated the law to boost Trump campaign in October
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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 …
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
November Surprise: Trump to Fire Fauci After Election  —  Trump ensures the campaign's final news cycle is about his virus trutherism.  —  At the end of a one-day, five-stop coronavirus superspreader tour extending from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, the president of the United States …
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
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.
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.
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 …
Jorge Fitz-Gibbon / New York Post:
Kyle Rittenhouse ordered held on $2M bail in Kenosha  —  Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse was ordered held on $2 million cash bail Monday during his first court appearance on homicide charges in the Wisconsin city.  —  Loren Keating. a court commissioner who presided over the hearing …
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.
Associated Press:
Report: South Dakota official distracted before fatal crash  —  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg was distracted before he drove onto a highway shoulder where he struck and killed a pedestrian in September, state Secretary of Public Safety Craig Price said Monday.
Discussion: The Hill, CBS News and Political Wire
Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
Joe Biden's Effort to Make This Election a Moral Referendum  —  Early last Thursday, after a day spent close to home, in Delaware, Joe Biden flew to Broward County, Florida, to begin the campaign's final swing.  Two hundred and one cars arrived for a rally in a parking lot on the Broward College campus …
Discussion: The Sun and Bloomberg
 
 
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New York Times:
Vienna Shooting Live Updates: At Least 1 Dead and 15 Injured as Gunmen Open Fire
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: In bid to win Michigan, Trump makes false claims about the state's auto industry
Discussion: Raw Story
Jade Scipioni / CNBC:
How Kamala Harris' husband Doug stays fit and deals with stress on the campaign trail
New York Times:
In Hunt for Virus Source, W.H.O. Let China Take Charge
Discussion: National Review
Emily Stewart / Vox:
Help is not on the way  —  Demonstrators display signs calling for an end to evictions …
Discussion: Politico
New York Post:
NYC businesses board up shops ahead of 2020 presidential election
Discussion: redstate.com and Denver Post
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Court File Shows Joe Biden Listed as Possible Witness With Son in Fraud Case
J.K. Dineen / San Francisco Chronicle:
‘Like local terrorism’: Trump caravan roars into Marin City, angering residents
Discussion: Breitbart and The Daily Beast
 Earlier Items: 
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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