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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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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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Outside the Beltway, The Week, Fortune, USAPP and Axios
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: One day more — DRIVING THE DAY — HAPPY MONDAY and welcome to election week! — HERE'S SOMETHING YOU SHOULD REMEMBER going into Election Day: Candidates do not get to decide they won the election. Just like football coaches don't get to call the game at halftime …
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Real Clear Politics and Washington Post
Axios:
How the Supreme Court is handling election cases — The Supreme Court has tried to tread lightly so far in election-related cases — but that could change after Nov. 3. — The big picture: In its pre-election rulings, the court has largely preserved the status quo.
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Washington Examiner
Associated Press:
Campaign draws to a close with US facing a crossroads
Campaign draws to a close with US facing a crossroads
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New York Times:
In Dash to Finish, Biden and Trump Set Up Showdown in Pennsylvania
In Dash to Finish, Biden and Trump Set Up Showdown in Pennsylvania
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New York Times, ABC News, NPR, Fox News, KXAN-TV and BuzzFeed News
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Trump Can't Just “Declare Victory”
Trump Can't Just “Declare Victory”
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USA Today, Townhall, National Review, The American Spectator, Washington Examiner and The Guardian
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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The Guardian, steveschale.squarespace.com and Raw Story
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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NBC News:
Trump lashes out after FBI announces investigation of Biden bus incident — President Donald Trump on Sunday lashed out at the FBI after the agency said it was investigating reports that a caravan of the president's supporters harassed a bus belonging to Joe Biden's campaign.
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
False video of Joe Biden viewed 1 million times on Twitter
False video of Joe Biden viewed 1 million times on Twitter
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LewRockwell
Politico:
Biden camp quietly raises money for post-election court brawl
Biden camp quietly raises money for post-election court brawl
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Business Insider and New York Times
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.
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Balloon Juice
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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Trump suggests he may fire Fauci after the election
Trump suggests he may fire Fauci after the election
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Tim Hrenchir / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Man thought people were stealing Donald Trump signs; three shot — Three people were shot late Saturday in North Topeka after a man confronted people he thought had been stealing signs promoting the campaign of Republican Presidential incumbent Donald Trump, a Topeka police supervisor said Sunday.
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The Hill
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 …
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The Dworkin Report:
Speaker Pelosi reveals the plan for investigating Trump's abuses of power — Scott speaks with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) about what's next for the House's investigation of Donald Trump over his administration's failed coronavirus response has killed over 235,000 Americans.
Tom Hals / Reuters:
Polarized electorate, mail-in ballots could spark post-election legal ‘fight of our lives’ — WILMINGTON, Del (Reuters) - Tuesday's U.S. presidential election has all the ingredients for a drawn-out court battle over its outcome: a highly polarized electorate, a record number of mail-in ballots …
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The Bulwark
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Legal armies ready if cloudy election outcome heads to court
Legal armies ready if cloudy election outcome heads to court
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Associated Press and New York Times
CNN:
How the exit polls will work in a pandemic — How a contested election could play out — (CNN)News media and election watchers have long relied on exit polling to tell them who voted and why they support their chosen candidate on election night, and despite the unprecedented challenges …
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FiveThirtyEight
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Steve Krakauer / The Hill:
The ‘Anonymous’ saga ended with a dud — a perfect example of the problem of Trump-era media — There will be many incidents from the past four years of the Trump era that will erode the public's faith in the press to provide fair, accurate information — all the nonsense from the Russia collusion story …
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Greenwald, Mediaite and New Yorker
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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The Daily Beast, Washington Examiner, The Hill and Business Insider
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 …
Reed Williams / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Witnesses describe clash at Lee Circle between caravan of Trump supporters and a crowd of opponents — Tempers flared Sunday as a “Trump train” of cars tried to pass Lee Circle along Monument Avenue and clashed with opposing protesters, drawing a police presence that blocked off the area to traffic.
Marc Caputo / Politico:
The 2 big bets that will decide Florida — Democrats outnumber Republicans in Florida. But Republicans have more high-propensity voters. — POLITICO animation — MIAMI — The presidential contest in the nation's tightest swing state, and perhaps the entire race for the White House, ultimately comes down to two big bets.
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Real Clear Politics, Roll Call and Florida Politics
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. — Almost two months before the 2016 presidential election, Dave Wasserman, an editor at the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, wrote a prescient piece. — The headline?
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.
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Axios and The Post Millennial
Tim Alberta / Politico:
This Place Has Picked Every President Since 1952. Is Its Streak About to End? — Dear Washington, — You know what they say: “As Valencia County goes, so goes the nation.” — What? You've never heard that? You've never even heard of Valencia County? — Well, I suppose that's not altogether surprising.
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Axios:
The wealthy rush to shield their assets from Biden — High-net-worth Americans are busy setting up trust funds, giving large gifts to heirs and philanthropies, and even selling family businesses as they brace for the tax hikes a Biden presidency might bring.
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CBS News, Washington Post, The National Interest and Issues & Insights
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.
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Business Insider
Jon Ralston / The Nevada Independent:
Biden will win Nevada, blue wave should help down ballot — Election signs outside of the Washoe County Registrar of Voters Office on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020. (Trevor Bexon/The Nevada Independent) — It's not impossible for President Donald Trump to win Nevada.
The Daily Beast:
COVID Is Trump's Undoing. He Truly Thinks He Nailed it. — The missteps were early and numerous. They've led the country to a terrible point and Trump to the precipice of political defeat. — President Donald Trump's prospects for re-election likely rest on convincing voters …
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Raw Story