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ABC News:
Maine 2020 election results — The state has four electoral votes at stake in the presidential race. — Why don't the Electoral College and popular vote always match up? — Four times the winner of the national popular vote lost the presidency - most recently in 2016 when Hillary Clinton won …
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Associated Press, Politico, Washington Examiner and Change Research
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Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Final Ratings for the 2020 Election — Dear Readers: Due to popular demand, we decided to release a final pre-election Sabato's Crystal Ball: America Votes webinar. We will be going through our picks for the election. We'll also hear from Rob Griffin, the research director …
CNN:
Joe Biden takes all 5 votes in tiny township that is one of the first to announce results on Election Day
Joe Biden takes all 5 votes in tiny township that is one of the first to announce results on Election Day
Jim Newell / Slate:
The Most Consequential Election of Your Lifetime Is Finally Here
The Most Consequential Election of Your Lifetime Is Finally Here
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NBC News, Washington Monthly and The Hill
Washington Post:
Top Trump adviser bluntly contradicts president on covid-19 threat, urging all-out response — “This is not about lockdowns ... It's about an aggressive balanced approach that is not being implemented,' says internal White House report that challenges many of Trump's pronouncements.
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Politico:
Republicans publicly silent, privately disgusted by Trump's election threats — At rallies across the Midwest and Sun Belt swing states, President Donald Trump has been openly discussing murky schemes to prevent legitimate ballots from being counted, escalating threats to disenfranchise millions …
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CNN, Business Insider, The Federalist, 6abc, Raw Story, The Dispatch, The Week and UPI
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Biden narrowly leads Trump in six swing states before Election Day, poll shows
Biden narrowly leads Trump in six swing states before Election Day, poll shows
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Foreign Policy, NBC News and Washington Post
Politico:
Election Day 2020: How to keep up with election results
Election Day 2020: How to keep up with election results
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Georgia Recorder, Reuters, USA Today, UPI, American Prospect, The Atlantic, Blue Virginia and abc7NY
Terri Rupar / Washington Post:
Election Day guide: A rundown of what you need to know about the 2020 election
Election Day guide: A rundown of what you need to know about the 2020 election
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Associated Press, Reuters, The Hill, USA Today, CNN and The Guardian
Axios:
Scoop: Biden's plan to assert control — If news organizations declare Joe Biden the mathematical president-elect, he plans to address the nation as its new leader, even if President Trump continues to fight in court, advisers tell Axios. — Why it matters: Biden advisers learned the lesson of 2000 …
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Politico, Business Insider, Mediaite, Bloomberg, Talking Points Memo, Althouse, NPR, Summit News, who13.com and Associated Press
Reuters:
Exclusive: Tired of Trump, Deutsche Bank wants out but sees no good options - sources — NEW YORK/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank AG is looking for ways to end its relationship with President Donald Trump after the U.S. elections, as it tires of the negative publicity stemming from the ties …
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The Hill, Business Insider and Raw Story
Dion Rabouin / Axios:
A blue wave could bring major changes to the banking system — Financial services and the banking sector could undergo significant changes if Joe Biden wins and Democrats take control of the House and Senate. — What we're hearing: “With a couple of vote margin in the Senate there's a lot …
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Trump, on ‘Fox & Friends,’ claims ‘solid chance of winning,’ won't ‘play games’ in declaring victory — The president made his last-minute pitch to viewers as Americans head to the polls — President Trump says he will declare victory ‘only when there is victory’
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Politico, IJR, Townhall, The Daily Caller and Washington Times
Nature:
Partisan differences in physical distancing are linked to health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic — Nature Human Behaviour (2020) Cite this article — Abstract — Numerous polls suggest that COVID-19 is a profoundly partisan issue in the United States.
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Axios and Political Wire
New York Times:
As Voting Ends, Battle Intensifies Over Which Ballots Will Count — President Trump and his allies say they intend an aggressive challenge to how the votes are counted in key states, and Democrats are mobilizing to meet it. — With the election coming to a close, the Trump and Biden campaigns …
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Washington Post, Slate, Newsbusters and Raw Story
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Issues & Insights:
Democrats Deny Voter Fraud Exists As They Plot To Steal Pennsylvania — For years, the left has denied that voter fraud is a problem by setting a curious standard: It's not “widespread.” Never mind that voter fraud never is “widespread.” It's always targeted at key races.
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Fox News, The Guardian, The Sun, Watts Up With That? and NPR
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Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
Trump's top campaign strategist, Jason Miller, is hiding payments from Steve Bannon — Miller's child-support battle with the mother of his son has raised many questions about his murky finances — President Trump's top campaign strategist, Jason Miller, has been paid tens of thousands …
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.
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Washington Post:
Suspicious robocall campaign warning people to ‘stay home’ spooks voters nationwide — An unidentified robocaller has placed an estimated 10 million calls in the past several weeks warning people to “stay safe and stay home,” spooking some Americans who said they saw it as an attempt to scare them away from the polls on Election Day.
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Political Wire
The Daily Caller:
Here's What We've Found Digging Through Hunter Biden's Alleged Laptop — The Daily Caller News Foundation's reporters have been poring over the contents of Hunter Biden's alleged hard drive, which show how Hunter tried to leverage his father's position for financial gain.
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Washington Examiner
Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
Do Not Lose Sight of the Fact That Every Aspect of This Is Absolutely Insane — It's possible that all of this will have a happy ending. — Maybe the polls are right, and Joe Biden is on course for a dominant seven- or eight-point win over Donald Trump. He could pick up a couple …
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The Nation, Raw Story, Associated Press and Washington Post
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's 2020 Superspreader Campaign: A Diary — From “COVID, COVID, COVID” is a fake to “Fire Fauci!” — The Monday morning of Donald Trump's last full week as a Presidential candidate started, of course, with a tweet. “The Fake News media is riding covid, covid, covid, all the way to the Election.
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The Moderate Voice and Bloomberg
Ben Sales / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Days before election, Jewish cemetery in Michigan vandalized with ‘TRUMP’ and ‘MAGA’ graffiti — (JTA) — A Jewish cemetery in Michigan was graffitied with the words “TRUMP” and “MAGA.” — The graffiti comes days before the presidential election, in which Michigan is a key swing state …
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Washington Post, The Hill, Washington Examiner, POLITICUSUSA and New York Post
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Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Trump's suburban crash drags House GOP down with him — In only four years, a crescent of Atlanta's northern suburbs has swung from a safe, iconic Republican House seat to a near-lock for Democrats — a startling shift illustrating how far President Donald Trump and his party have fallen in the suburbs before the 2020 election.
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Associated Press, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Guardian and Washington Times
The Daily Beast:
Republicans: Trump Will Be Our Leader, Even if He Loses — The president won't go quietly even if things don't go well Tuesday night. Beyond that, politics have forever been changed by his presidency. — Although President Donald Trump could lose his bid for re-election on Tuesday night …
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The American Conservative, Japan Times, The Week and Politico
New York Times:
Vienna Shooting Live Updates: Terrorist Attack in Austria Leaves 2 Dead and at Least 15 Wounded — The Austrian leader described the gunmen as terrorists, but no motive has emerged. At least one attacker was still at large. — RIGHT NOW “We are going through a dark hour in our republic …
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New York Magazine:
How We're Feeling As America's Moment of Truth Arrives — America's day of reckoning is here at last. With the last swing-state polls published and the voting lines a few hours from dissipating, there isn't much more to say about the candidates' chances of victory on Tuesday night.
Michael Wines / New York Times:
November Surprise: Fewer Ballots Rejected by Election Officials — With many voters casting their first absentee ballots, experts feared a wave of disqualifying mistakes. But that may not be so. — WASHINGTON — With absentee ballots flooding election offices nationwide …
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The Dispatch, Raw Story and DCReport.org
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Election Eve Message Focuses on Refusing to Pay Microphone Guy — President Trump, trailing in the polls, brought an unconventional message to the people of Wisconsin: He is mad at the guy who set up his rally microphone and is not going to pay him for his work.
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The Week
Mohammad Al-Kassim / Jerusalem Post:
Palestinian Authority communicating with Biden campaign — Relations with Trump Administration frozen since US recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital. — Two senior Palestinian officials have confirmed to The Media Line that the Palestinian Authority is maintaining direct channels …
Ryan D'Agostino / Esquire:
This Is Joe Biden When No One Is Watching — When my son was diagnosed with leukemia in 2016, Biden didn't have to call. But he did, three times, because he is everything he says he is. — On a brilliant spring afternoon in 2016, I stood in a classroom at a Secret Service training facility in Maryland …
Mariane Pearl / The Meteor:
Behind My Ballot — Journalist Mariane Pearl can claim four nationalities—but the US is the one country she chose freely. Here's the intensely personal story of her American vote. — Photo illustrations by Debbie Millman — In June 2009, I was naturalized as an American.
Associated Press:
Gunman who killed 4 in Vienna attack had sought to join IS — VIENNA (AP) — A man who had previously tried to join the Islamic State group rampaged in Vienna armed with an automatic rifle and a fake explosive vest, fatally shooting four people before he was killed by police, Austrian authorities said Tuesday.
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Arthur Bloom / The American Conservative:
Exclusive: How the Bidens Made Off With Millions in Chinese Cash — New documents show that as regulators closed in, Hunter struck a fresh deal with his Chinese partners — The Senate's report on Hunter Biden's activities released several months ago, which was spun by the New York Times as having shown …
Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
Hope Dies Last — On Election Day we dare to believe the best of people. — My best friend and I have an ongoing disagreement about the nature of people. It's too reductive to say that I think people are generally good and he thinks they are generally bad.
Tim Alberta / Politico:
Four GOP Campaign Chiefs Make Their Final Election Predictions. They're as Divided as the Country. — They battled Donald Trump and lost. Despite the polls, a couple of them think he could pull out a surprise win again. — Election Day is here—and with it, the chance to look very smart …
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The American Spectator and The 19th
Washington Post:
Trump signals chaotic stretch after election — President Trump is signaling that Election Day could be followed by a stretch of uncertainty and chaos as a purge of top officials, legal challenges to election results and a potential resistance to a normal transition cloud the prospects …
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Politico, Washington Times, The Root, Reason, The National Interest and Newsy