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8:40 PM ET, November 3, 2020

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Washington Post:
USPS disregards court order to conduct ballot sweeps in 12 postal districts after more than 300,000 ballots cannot be traced  —  A federal judge ordered mail service and law enforcement agents to comb processing plants for votes as delays continue  —  The U.S. Postal Service turned …
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John Kruzel / The Hill:
Federal judge orders USPS to rush delivery of mail ballots as deadlines near  —  A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday ordered the U.S. Postal Service to sweep facilities for remaining mail ballots and rush their delivery, as receipt deadlines close in.
Axios:
Scoop: Biden's plan to assert control  —  If news organizations declare Joe Biden the mathematical president-elect, he plans to address the nation as its new leader, even if President Trump continues to fight in court, advisers tell Axios.  —  Why it matters: Biden advisers learned the lesson of 2000 …
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden campaign believes it has 8-point battleground early vote lead  —  Joe Biden's campaign said Tuesday that it believes it has at least an 8-point advantage in battleground states after analyzing the nearly 100 million ballots that were cast early.  —  Why it matters: The campaign …
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump campaign to run election night war room on White House grounds  —  The Trump campaign will run its election night war room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, located steps from the West Wing, the campaign confirmed to Axios.  —  Why it matters: The decision to move …
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Trump, on ‘Fox & Friends,’ claims ‘solid chance of winning,’ won't ‘play games’ in declaring victory
Associated Press:
AP VoteCast: Voters say pandemic top issue in election  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — With the coronavirus now surging anew, voters ranked the pandemic and the economy as top concerns in the race between President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden, according to AP VoteCast, a national survey of the electorate.
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CNN:
Voters split on state of economy, but a majority says Covid has caused them financial hardship, early CNN national exit poll shows  —  (CNN)The economy was top of mind for voters as they cast ballots for president, according to preliminary results of a nationwide CNN exit poll.
Discussion: Washington Post, Breitbart and The Sun
Allan Smith / NBC News:   Feline poll watcher in Kentucky
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Economy top concern for U.S. voters: exit poll
Lucy Bayly / NBC News:
Dow ends the day up by 550 points, buoyed by investor hopes on clear election winner
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
Election Needles: President  —  If Joe Biden wins one of these three states, he is likely to win the presidency.  —  If President Trump wins all three, it could be days or more before a winner is declared.
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Kevin Stankiewicz / CNBC:
GOP pollster says the Trump-Biden race comes down to 3 states and Biden only needs to win 1  — North Carolina, Florida and Ohio are key bellwethers in determining the election outcome between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, according to GOP pollster Frank Luntz.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Politico:
After dire warnings, Election Day voting issues are ‘isolated and sporadic’  —  Election administrators and regular Americans were bracing for Election Day chaos — warned to expect violence, malfunctions, long lines and disinformation.  Instead, they got something else entirely: a fairly smooth election process across the country.
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Katherine Miller / Here are some links:   Election Day links  —  Bonus, practical stuff  —  When you've had the real pleasure …
Michael Ruiz / Fox News:
Hillary Clinton retweets her own message from the day after Election Day 2016  —  The failed 2016 Democratic presidential nominee wrote, ‘Do not lose heart...  (Vote)’  —  Fox News Go  —  Hillary Clinton resurfaced some of her own tweets this Election Day - messages she originally shared …
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Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
EXPLAINING RACE CALLS: Kentucky to Trump, Vermont for Biden
Discussion: Axios, New York Times and Mercury News
Anna North / Vox:
Live results for 2 key abortion ballot initiatives
Discussion: National Review and Forbes
FiveThirtyEight:
2020 Election: Live Results And Coverage  —  INTERACTIVES  —  Biden's Favored In Our Final Presidential Forecast, But It's A Fine Line Between A Landslide And A Nail-Biter  —  NEWSLETTER  —  Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and Safety Information/Your California Privacy Rights/Children's Online Privacy Policy are applicable to you.
Discussion: texastribune.org and Gizmodo
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USA Today:
South Carolina Election Results 2020: Live Updates
Paul Heintz / News + Opinion, Seven Days:
Phil Scott, Vermont's GOP Governor, Says He Voted for Joe Biden  — Gov. Phil Scott speaking to reporters after voting  —  Vermont Gov. Phil Scott told reporters Tuesday afternoon that he cast his presidential ballot for Democratic nominee Joe Biden.  That makes him the only incumbent …
The Daily Beast:
Polls Begin to Close and Americans Brace for the Worst  —  From fears of vigilantes to messy legal battles, anxiety was high—and the contest felt far from finished.  —  A nation battered by the coronavirus pandemic trudged to the polls on Tuesday with an eerie sense that no matter how they felt …
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Politico:
These races will tell you who's winning
Discussion: NBC News, Forbes and TheGrio
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
First polls set to close soon in Trump-Biden presidential race  —  WASHINGTON — Millions of door-knocks, TV ads and a record-shattering $14 billion later, the polls are soon to close across the country in the 2020 campaign.  —  A tense and stressed-out nation is waiting for the early results …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
The Trump campaign has set up two ‘war rooms’ in the White House complex
Discussion: The Sun and The Hill
RT:
‘Any time they want’: If Biden wins, Democrats themselves could oust him at whim, Trump's lawyer Giuliani tells RT  —  The Democratic Party would be in a position to easily force Joe Biden out of office if he is elected president, and has been openly laying the ground for it, Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani believes.
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Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
Trump's top campaign strategist, Jason Miller, is hiding payments from Steve Bannon  —  Miller's child-support battle with the mother of his son has raised many questions about his murky finances  —  President Trump's top campaign strategist, Jason Miller, has been paid tens of thousands …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Generals privately brief news anchors, promise no military role in election  —  Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley held an off-the-record video call with top generals and network anchors this weekend to tamp down speculation about potential military involvement …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Tired of Trump, Deutsche Bank wants out but sees no good options - sources  —  NEW YORK/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank AG is looking for ways to end its relationship with President Donald Trump after the U.S. elections, as it tires of the negative publicity stemming from the ties …
NPR:
A note about this election  —  To find out who wins this year's contests up and down the ballot will require patience.  The pandemic has transformed how this election is being run in many states.  The vast number of ballots cast by mail before Election Day could lengthen the amount of time it takes to count all the votes.
Discussion: Twitchy and Townhall
Dr. Daniel Winarick / Medium:
Donald Trump has DSM-5 Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD)  —  I am going to lay out the case for why Donald Trump meets criteria for ICD11/DSM-5 Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD).  While many pundits and armchair psychiatrists as well as psychologists have labeled the President of the United States …
Joshua Shanes / Haaretz:
The pro-Trump Jews Who Sold Out the Bible to Buy the President's Cruel Bigotry  —  The arc of ex-Never Trump Jews like Bethany Mandel, who feared Trump for stoking antisemitism but now love him for aiding Israel's territorial maximalists, is a sad tale of indifference to human suffering
Discussion: Religion News Service
WSB-TV:
HAPPENING NOW: All voting machines down in Spalding County due to countywide glitch  —  SPALDING COUNTY, Ga. — Election officials in Spalding County says voting machines are currently down after a glitch this morning.  —  Spalding County Elections Supervisor Marcia Ridley told Channel 2 Action News …
 
 
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Kristina Wong / Breitbart:
Video of Amish Horse and Buggy Trump Train Goes Viral on Election Day
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Todd Shepherd / DV Journal:
NYTimes Keeps Reporter On Energy Beat Despite Tweet Linking Industry to ‘White Supremacy’
Discussion: Instapundit
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
YouTube Cut Down Misinformation. Then It Boosted Fox News.
El Paso Matters:
Live blog: Election Day 2020 in El Paso
Discussion: texastribune.org
Rebecca Heilweil / Vox:
Live results for California's Proposition 22 on ride-hailing drivers
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Britain overwhelmingly backs Biden, according to POLITICO poll
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