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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.
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 …
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QU Poll:
Florida And Ohio: Biden Has The Edge Over Trump, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Nationally, Biden Maintains A Strong Lead — On the eve of Election Day 2020, former Vice President Joe Biden has narrow leads over President Donald Trump in Florida and Ohio, according to the final Quinnipiac …
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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, Forbes, National Review, The Root, Washington Examiner, Daily Kos, The Hill, TheGrio, Business Insider, The Week and The Guardian
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N'dea Yancey-Bragg / USA Today:
‘Non-scalable’ White House fence, military on standby: Police anticipate election protests
‘Non-scalable’ White House fence, military on standby: Police anticipate election protests
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Associated Press, Detroit Free Press and Townhall
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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Slate, TMZ.com, Summit News, Twitchy, Mediaite, KXAN-TV and National Review
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Supreme Court sides with activist DeRay McKesson in lawsuit over officer injured at protest — The Supreme Court on Monday sided with the prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson, who is fending off a lawsuit from a police officer injured at a protest that McKesson attended.
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Axios:
How the Supreme Court is handling election cases
How the Supreme Court is handling election cases
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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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Washington Examiner
New York Times:
Needle Update: What to Expect on Election Night — We'll have live estimates for Florida, Georgia and North Carolina. — For many Times readers, the memory of election night in 2016 is inseparable from the image of a semicircular chart that has since become known — affectionately or not — as “the needle.”
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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 and Raw Story
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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Politico, Associated Press, The Daily Caller and Washington Post
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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
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 …
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden campaign: “Under no scenario” will Trump be declared winner on election night — The Biden campaign is preparing for a long election night, and is warning the country — and the media — to ignore any victory declaration from President Trump before all the ballots are counted.
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Business Insider, Politico, Reuters and Political Wire
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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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Breitbart, Washington Examiner, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit and Political Wire, more at Mediagazer »
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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Washington Examiner, CNN, New York Times, redstate.com, National Review, Al Jazeera, USA Today, Bloomberg, One America News Network, Fox News and The Week
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.
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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@politifact, Fox News and FiveThirtyEight
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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The Hill, electionlawblog.org, Mediaite, National Review, COURIER, redstate.com, Religion News Service and Townhall
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
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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Raw Story
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
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.
Jessica Huseman / ProPublica:
So Far, Trump's “Army” of Poll Watchers Looks More Like a Small Platoon — Despite appeals from the president and his son, few of his supporters have shown up to watch early voting. One explanation: The task is just too boring. … Donald Trump Jr. looked straight into a camera at the end …
Jed Graham / Investor's Business Daily:
Trump Vs. Biden Race Suddenly Looks Tight In IBD/TIPP Presidential Poll — The latest Trump vs. Biden poll shows a much tighter race between former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump with just one day to go. The IBD/TIPP presidential poll suggests Trump has widened …
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Breitbart, Townhall, Roll Call and The Guardian
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
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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Fox News, New York Times and NBC News
Marina Villeneuve / Associated Press:
New York set for historic final day in fraught 2020 election — ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The most polarizing election in a generation wraps Tuesday, and even in a solidly blue state like New York, candidates for Congress and the state Legislature in a handful of battleground districts will be fighting for every last vote.