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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.
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Hill and Politico
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.
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.”
Rachel Adams-Heard / Bloomberg:
Federal Judge Rejects Bid to Toss Texas Drive-Through Votes  —  A federal judge rejected a bid by Republican activists to invalidate 127,000 votes in the most populous county in Texas.  —  “For lack of a nicer way of saying it, I ain't buying it,” U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen …
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Reuters:
U.S. judge skeptical of Texas Republican bid to scrap 127,000 votes
NBC News:
Some media locked out as 127K ‘drive-thru’ ballots debated
Discussion: National Review and The Week
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 …
Discussion: Axios, Fox News, The Root and WHYY
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Murray Waas / New York Magazine:
How Trump and Barr's October Surprise Went Bust  —  On September 10, Nora Dannehy resigned as the deputy to John Durham, the federal prosecutor investigating the government's probe into the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.  Dannehy left her post and the Justice Department …
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
New York Times:
Federal Judge Rejects G.O.P. Attempt to Toss 127,000 Ballots in Texas  —  President Trump used the first of his five rallies scheduled for Monday, the last day of campaigning before Election Day, to air grievances about polls, the media, the investigation into Russian interference in the election …
Discussion: Mother Jones and Raw Story
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
2020 Election Live Updates: Early Votes Near 100 Million as Turnout Heads Toward a Record
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.
Discussion: Summit News, Vox, The Guardian and Raw Story
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.
Kevin Johnson / USA Today:
DOJ sending voting rights monitors to 18 states, including Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio … The Justice Department is dispatching voting rights monitors to 18 states Tuesday, including jurisdictions in the key battlegrounds of Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Ohio.
Discussion: Townhall
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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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Washington Post:
Facial recognition used to identify Lafayette Square protester accused of assault  —  A line of U.S. Park Police officers pushed protesters back from Lafayette Square on June 1, firing pepper balls and rolling canisters spewing irritant gas into the retreating crowds on H Street NW, video shows.
Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
Psychiatrist Who Evaluated Trump's Mental State on CNN and MSNBC Argues President is Worse Than Hitler  —  Dr. Bandy X. Lee, a psychiatrist who has appeared on CNN and MSNBC and briefed members of Congress, appeared to argue on Monday that President Donald Trump is worse than Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
Max Boot / Washington Post:
The work of the Never Trumpers is just beginning  —  What a weird, wild ride it has been — and it's not over yet.  —  When Donald Trump began running for the presidency on June 15, 2015, I never imagined he would win the Republican primaries, much less the general election.
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.
Discussion: Salon, CNN and Washington Examiner
Emily Stewart / Vox:
Help is not on the way  —  The near-term plan for the US economy is that there is no plan.  —  SHARE All sharing options  —  It is quite possible, even probable, that the American people are staring down at least three more months without any further stimulus or economic support …
Discussion: Politico, The Hill and Ballotpedia
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Court File Shows Joe Biden Listed as Possible Witness With Son in Fraud Case  —  Devon Archer, far left, named Joe and Hunter Biden, right, as possible witnesses in a fraud case, according to a recording recovered from Hunter's laptop.  —  A federal judge named Joe Biden as a possible …
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
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 …
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.
J.K. Dineen / San Francisco Chronicle:
‘Like local terrorism’: Trump caravan roars into Marin City, angering residents  —  A caravan of flag-fluttering Trump partisans motored into the parking lot at the Gateway Center in Marin City on Sunday morning, with some members hurling racial epithets at bystanders in what is Marin County's …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Breitbart
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.
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 …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
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 …
Discussion: Slate
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.
Discussion: Fox News, COURIER and NBC News
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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NYC businesses board up shops ahead of 2020 presidential election
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Quinn Scanlan / ABC News:
Ohio secretary of state stresses ‘election night results are never final’
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