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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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CNN, USAPP, Newsbusters and The Week
New York Times:
In Dash to Finish, Biden and Trump Set Up Showdown in Pennsylvania — Both campaigns were intensifying their efforts in a state increasingly critical to victory, as the candidates and their surrogates planned a final blitz to make their closing arguments. — PHILADELPHIA …
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Fox News, The American Spectator, CBS Philly and BuzzFeed News
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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Reuters, NBC News, Japan Times, Townhall, The Week and CBS Philly
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Trump Can't Just “Declare Victory”
Trump Can't Just “Declare Victory”
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Townhall, USAPP, National Review, The American Spectator and The Guardian
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
Nate Silver: “Without Pennsylvania, Biden becomes an underdog”
Nate Silver: “Without Pennsylvania, Biden becomes an underdog”
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Washington Examiner, Twitchy, Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Fortune, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Slate and Forbes
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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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 — 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.
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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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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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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.
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 …
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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Mediaite, Greenwald and New Yorker
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 …
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
Jolie McCullough / The Texas Tribune:
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.
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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
John Ellis / Medium:
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 …
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CNN, NBC News, Breitbart, who13.com, Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Liberty Unyielding and The Federalist
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?
Hans Nichols / Axios:
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.
The Economist:
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 …
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
David Edwards / Raw Story:
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.
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New York Times:
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 …
Elizabeth Neumann / The Bulwark:
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.
Alayna Treene / Axios:
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.
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Raw Story
Newt Gingrich / Fox News:
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 …
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The American Spectator
Conor Pope / The Irish Times:
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.
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Al Jazeera
Washington Post:
Alleged Michigan plotters attended multiple anti-lockdown protests, photos and videos show — On April 30, outside the Michigan Capitol, protesters gathered to demand that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer end the business closures and other measures she had imposed to slow the transmission of the coronavirus.
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The Hill
CNN:
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.”