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 …

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.

False video of Joe Biden viewed 1 million times on Twitter  —  New York (CNN Business)A deceptively edited video of Joe Biden making it appear the Democratic presidential nominee forgot what state he was in was viewed more than one million times on Twitter over the weekend.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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.

Joe Biden really is in pole position  —  President Donald Trump will enter election day with much worse odds than he had in 2016  —  IN SOME WAYS, this presidential election has been remarkably dull, at least for a psephologist.  There have been plenty of unpredictable events …

Lindsey Graham tells women: 'There's a place for you in America' if you ‘follow traditional family structure’  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told women over the weekend that they can “follow traditional family structure” if they want to be welcome in America.

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?

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.

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.

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 …

Will Trump win?  Yes.  I think history will repeat itself - here's why  —  What's at stake in this election is nothing less than freedom vs. tyranny  —  Newt Gingrich lays out what Trump's final campaign message should be  —  In 1964, Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater asked Ronald Reagan …

NBC News Decision Desk: How we call races on election night 2020  —  Here's how NBC News calls races on election night, the steps NBC News takes to verify results, as well as the answers to some frequently asked questions.  —  Early on election night, the NBC News Decision Desk uses exit poll data …

Untangling Faith and Love of Country  —  How one national security expert found freedom from fear by looking to Jesus.  —  In August, I joined over 100 former Republican national security officials in explaining our security concerns with the current president.

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.

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.

The Atlantic gave Ruth Shalit a ‘second chance’ 25 years after a media scandal.  It ended with a bitter retraction.  (Updated)  —  In pointing out errors and fabrications in a wildly popular story about niche sports, the magazine said it was wrong to assign work to the writer at the center of a 1990s media scandal

Our biggest Election Day concern  —  Opinion by Richard H. Pildes and Richard L. Hasen  —  John Avlon breaks down early voting turnout  —  Richard H. Pildes is the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law and an author of “The Law of Democracy.”

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.

‘2020 is the time’: California voters weigh bringing back affirmative action  —  More than two decades after affirmative action was banned in California, voters will decide whether to restore the practice with a ballot measure supporters say would bring greater access to educational …