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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.
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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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.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
I'm Here To Remind You That Trump Can Still Win
I'm Here To Remind You That Trump Can Still Win
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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.
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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 …
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The Hill, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, BuzzFeed News, Vanity Fair, HillReporter.com, The Daily Caller and The Gateway Pundit
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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Trump threatens to fire Fauci in rift with disease expert
Trump threatens to fire Fauci in rift with disease expert
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Aja Romano / Vox:
The 2020 general election has arrived — President Donald Trump talks with reporters outside the White House. He faces Joe Biden in the presidential election on November 3. Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images — All you need to know for this crucial Election Day. — It's finally here.
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
The 2 big bets that will decide Florida
The 2 big bets that will decide Florida
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Breitbart, Spectator USA and Florida Politics
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 …
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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USA Today, The Root, The Daily Beast, Forbes, National Review, Business Insider, Washington Examiner, Daily Kos, The Hill, TheGrio, The Week and The Guardian
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.
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Summit News, Vox, The Guardian, Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
Final House Ratings: Democrats Poised to Expand Majority by 10 to 15 Seats — After impeachment and a Supreme Court fight (that wasn't much of one) and amid a global pandemic and racial reckoning, many congressional candidates have struggled to control their own destiny.
Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist:
Photos: Police Stand By As Caravans Of Trump Supporters Block Bridges, Threaten Counter-Protesters — Multiple caravans of Trump-supporting motorists cruised through the streets and highways of New York on Sunday, threatening counter-protesters and blocking traffic on major bridges, just two days ahead of the November 3rd election.
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Salon, CNN and The American Independent
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.
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Business Insider, Washington Examiner, Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and Political Wire, more at Mediagazer »
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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Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Justice Amy Coney Barrett hearing first Supreme Court oral arguments Monday
Justice Amy Coney Barrett hearing first Supreme Court oral arguments Monday
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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 …
BBC:
Vladimir Marugov murder: Russian ‘Sausage King’ killed in sauna with a crossbow — A Russian oligarch, nicknamed The Sausage King, has been murdered with a crossbow, investigators say. — Vladimir Marugov and his partner were in an outdoor sauna when they were attacked, reportedly by two masked assailants.
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The Moscow Times, Reuters, The Daily Caller, New York Post and Gothamist
Axios:
A decades-long blue wave — Young voters, projected to turn out overwhelmingly for Joe Biden, could provide a huge advantage for Democrats not just this for this election, but for decades to come. — Driving the news: Pollsters and political scientists have been poring over two new reports …
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Power Line, The Daily Caller and Los Angeles Times
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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CNN and Scripting News, more at Mediagazer »
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.
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Nevada Current, The Guardian, Raw Story, IJR, Daily Kos and Business Insider
Declan Leary / The American Conservative:
Sacha Baron Cohen, Propagandist — CIA contacts, a web of lies, and a robust propaganda operation. It's time to start asking questions about Borat's methods—and his goals. — Ayman Abu Aita is a family man. For years, he was a grocer by trade, running his shop in Bethlehem while serving …
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
“Law & Order” in Donald Trump's America — A sorry study in contrasts. — THE WHITE HOUSE IS SEEN BEHIND A LINE OF PARK POLICE OFFICERS WEARING RIOT GEAR AS THEY PUSH BACK DEMONSTRATORS OUTSIDE OF THE WHITE HOUSE, JUNE 1, 2020 IN WASHINGTON D.C., DURING A PROTEST OVER THE DEATH OF GEORGE FLOYD.
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New York Times, NBC News and COURIER
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.
Joseph Menn / Reuters:
QAnon received earlier boost from Russian accounts on Twitter, archives show — (Reuters) - Russian government-backed social media accounts nurtured the QAnon conspiracy theory in its infancy, earlier than previously reported, according to interviews with current and former Twitter executives …
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Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Former Trump Land-Use Lawyer Ordered to Give Documents to N.Y. AG — A former land-use lawyer for Donald Trump's company was ordered by a New York judge to hand over hundreds of documents to state officials investigating whether the president's real-estate business falsely reported property values to get loans or tax benefits.
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Wall Street Journal:
Doctors Begin to Crack Covid's Mysterious Long-Term Effects — Severe fatigue, memory lapses, heart problems affect patients who weren't that badly hit initially; 'It's been so long' — Nearly a year into the global coronavirus pandemic, scientists, doctors and patients are beginning …
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Politico, The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
Judge blocks Trump campaign's effort to stop mail-in ballot counting in Las Vegas — A Nevada judge on Monday rejected a lawsuit from President Trump's re-election campaign that sought to temporarily halt the processing of mail-in ballots in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal, Reuters, CNN and The Nevada Independent
Aubrey Wieber / Anchorage Daily News:
Gross campaign, Anti-Defamation League call on Sullivan to remove ad seen as anti-Semitic — An ad from Sen. Dan Sullivan's campaign came under fire over the weekend after several organizations called it anti-Semitic. — The ad shows Sullivan's challenger, Al Gross, holding a bunch of money, and standing behind a pile of $100 bills.
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Alaska Public Media and Jewish Insider
Russell Berman / The Atlantic:
Trump's Risky Bet on Rural America — LEVANT, Maine—Hardly anyone knew that President Donald Trump was on his way here. And among those who did get a whiff of the news in advance, even fewer knew his destination was Treworgy Family Orchard in Levant, a tiny rural town about 10 miles northwest of Bangor.
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Raw Story
Andrew Restuccia / Wall Street Journal:
Swing State Poll Finds No Late Shift in Presidential Race — In 2016 election, many pollsters missed 11th-hour shift among undecided voters toward Trump — WASHINGTON—Support for President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden in a group of battleground states has remained unchanged in recent days …
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Fox News, Florida Politics, Vox, Associated Press and Political Wire
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.
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Raw Story
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.
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
What Trump Needs to Win: A Polling Error Much Bigger Than 2016's — Several factors that led to the misfire last time are no longer in play. — If the polls are right, Joe Biden could post the most decisive victory in a presidential election in three and a half decades, surpassing Bill Clinton's win in 1996.
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Los Angeles Times, Georgia Recorder and Washington Post
Mario Canseco / Research Co.:
Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin Set to Flip in U.S. Election — Ohio remains too close to call, while there is little danger for the Democrats in Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey and New York. — Democratic nominee Joe Biden holds the upper hand over Republican incumbent Donald Trump …
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