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Washington Post:
Top Trump adviser bluntly contradicts president on covid-19 threat, urging all-out response — “This is not about lockdowns ... It's about an aggressive balanced approach that is not being implemented,' says internal White House report that challenges many of Trump's pronouncements.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: We're here — DRIVING THE DAY — HAPPY ELECTION DAY. DONALD JOHN TRUMP is going into today facing a significant chance of becoming the first one-term president in nearly three decades. JOSEPH ROBINETTE BIDEN is pushing into states that supported TRUMP in his quest …
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NPR, Real Clear Politics, Raw Story and WHP
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.
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Final Ratings for the 2020 Election — Dear Readers: Due to popular demand, we decided to release a final pre-election Sabato's Crystal Ball: America Votes webinar. We will be going through our picks for the election. We'll also hear from Rob Griffin, the research director …
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ABC News:
Montana 2020 election results — The state has three electoral votes at stake in the presidential race. — Why don't the Electoral College and popular vote always match up? — Four times the winner of the national popular vote lost the presidency - most recently in 2016 when Hillary Clinton won …
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Crooked Media, The Dispatch and redstate.com
Politico:
Election Day 2020: How to keep up with election results
Election Day 2020: How to keep up with election results
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Bloomberg, USA Today, Reuters, Georgia Recorder, American Prospect, Blue Virginia and The Atlantic
Jim Newell / Slate:
The Most Consequential Election of Your Lifetime Is Finally Here
The Most Consequential Election of Your Lifetime Is Finally Here
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Washington Monthly and The Hill
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Biden narrowly leads Trump in six swing states before Election Day, poll shows — Joe Biden holds at least narrow leads over Donald Trump in the six 2020 election swing states of Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to a CNBC/Change Research poll.
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Foreign Policy and Washington Post
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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 …
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Business Insider and Raw Story
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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NPR, Summit News, The Guardian, who13.com and Associated Press
Politico:
Republicans publicly silent, privately disgusted by Trump's election threats — At rallies across the Midwest and Sun Belt swing states, President Donald Trump has been openly discussing murky schemes to prevent legitimate ballots from being counted, escalating threats to disenfranchise millions …
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Louis Jacobson / @politifact:
Trump spokesman Jason Miller paints dubious picture of Election Night
Trump spokesman Jason Miller paints dubious picture of Election Night
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The Daily Caller:
Here's What We've Found Digging Through Hunter Biden's Alleged Laptop — The Daily Caller News Foundation's reporters have been poring over the contents of Hunter Biden's alleged hard drive, which show how Hunter tried to leverage his father's position for financial gain.
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Washington Examiner
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's 2020 Superspreader Campaign: A Diary — From “COVID, COVID, COVID” is a fake to “Fire Fauci!” — The Monday morning of Donald Trump's last full week as a Presidential candidate started, of course, with a tweet. “The Fake News media is riding covid, covid, covid, all the way to the Election.
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The Moderate Voice and Bloomberg
The Daily Beast:
Republicans: Trump Will Be Our Leader, Even if He Loses — The president won't go quietly even if things don't go well Tuesday night. Beyond that, politics have forever been changed by his presidency. — Although President Donald Trump could lose his bid for re-election on Tuesday night …
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Japan Times, The American Conservative, The Week and Politico
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Trump's suburban crash drags House GOP down with him — In only four years, a crescent of Atlanta's northern suburbs has swung from a safe, iconic Republican House seat to a near-lock for Democrats — a startling shift illustrating how far President Donald Trump and his party have fallen in the suburbs before the 2020 election.
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Associated Press, Washington Times, The Guardian and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Nature:
Partisan differences in physical distancing are linked to health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic — Nature Human Behaviour (2020) Cite this article — Abstract — Numerous polls suggest that COVID-19 is a profoundly partisan issue in the United States.
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Axios and Political Wire
Ben Sales / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Days before election, Jewish cemetery in Michigan vandalized with ‘TRUMP’ and ‘MAGA’ graffiti — (JTA) — A Jewish cemetery in Michigan was graffitied with the words “TRUMP” and “MAGA.” — The graffiti comes days before the presidential election, in which Michigan is a key swing state …
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New York Times:
Vienna Shooting Live Updates: Terrorist Attack in Austria Leaves 2 Dead and at Least 15 Wounded — The Austrian leader described the gunmen as terrorists, but no motive has emerged. At least one attacker was still at large. — RIGHT NOW “We are going through a dark hour in our republic …
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Reuters, CNN, Daily Mail, Associated Press, The New Arab, CBS News, hotair.com, Snopes.com, Townhall, Politico, Raw Story, ABC News, The Pittsburgh Jewish …, The Daily Beast, Al Jazeera and Liberty Unyielding
Michael Wines / New York Times:
November Surprise: Fewer Ballots Rejected by Election Officials — With many voters casting their first absentee ballots, experts feared a wave of disqualifying mistakes. But that may not be so. — WASHINGTON — With absentee ballots flooding election offices nationwide …
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The Dispatch, Raw Story and DCReport.org
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Election Eve Message Focuses on Refusing to Pay Microphone Guy — President Trump, trailing in the polls, brought an unconventional message to the people of Wisconsin: He is mad at the guy who set up his rally microphone and is not going to pay him for his work.
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The Week
New York Times:
As Voting Ends, Battle Intensifies Over Which Ballots Will Count — President Trump and his allies say they intend an aggressive challenge to how the votes are counted in key states, and Democrats are mobilizing to meet it. — With the election coming to a close, the Trump and Biden campaigns …
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Washington Post, Slate, Newsbusters, Raw Story and Political Wire
Ryan D'Agostino / Esquire:
This Is Joe Biden When No One Is Watching — When my son was diagnosed with leukemia in 2016, Biden didn't have to call. But he did, three times, because he is everything he says he is. — On a brilliant spring afternoon in 2016, I stood in a classroom at a Secret Service training facility in Maryland …
CNN:
Joe Biden takes all 5 votes in tiny township that is one of the first to announce results on Election Day — (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden took all five of the votes cast for president in Dixville Notch, a tiny New Hampshire township along the US-Canada border that is among the first places …
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Mohammad Al-Kassim / Jerusalem Post:
Palestinian Authority communicating with Biden campaign — Relations with Trump Administration frozen since US recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital. — Two senior Palestinian officials have confirmed to The Media Line that the Palestinian Authority is maintaining direct channels …
Washington Post:
Suspicious robocall campaign warning people to ‘stay home’ spooks voters nationwide — An unidentified robocaller has placed an estimated 10 million calls in the past several weeks warning people to “stay safe and stay home,” spooking some Americans who said they saw it as an attempt to scare them away from the polls on Election Day.
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Political Wire
Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
Hope Dies Last — On Election Day we dare to believe the best of people. — My best friend and I have an ongoing disagreement about the nature of people. It's too reductive to say that I think people are generally good and he thinks they are generally bad.
Tim Alberta / Politico:
Four GOP Campaign Chiefs Make Their Final Election Predictions. They're as Divided as the Country. — They battled Donald Trump and lost. Despite the polls, a couple of them think he could pull out a surprise win again. — Election Day is here—and with it, the chance to look very smart …
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The 19th
NBC News:
Highlights: Trump and Biden rally supporters — President Donald Trump and Joe Biden made last-ditch efforts to energize their bases and win over undecided voters on the final day of campaigning before Election Day. — Trump was in four states key to his 2016 victory but where recent polls …
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Associated Press, Detroit Free Press, The Week and JONATHAN TURLEY
Arthur Bloom / The American Conservative:
Exclusive: How the Bidens Made Off With Millions in Chinese Cash — New documents show that as regulators closed in, Hunter struck a fresh deal with his Chinese partners — The Senate's report on Hunter Biden's activities released several months ago, which was spun by the New York Times as having shown …
Associated Press:
Judge limits Governor Newsom's powers during coronavirus pandemic — SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California county judge on Monday preliminarily ordered Gov. Gavin Newsom to stop issuing directives related to the coronavirus that might interfere with state law.
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The Hill, The Gateway Pundit, Los Angeles Times and redstate.com
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Texas Republicans appeal after judge rejects bid to toss 127,000 drive-thru ballots — Texas Republicans again appealed a court order allowing drive-thru voting to continue in Harris County, Texas, with a late filing Monday evening. — Earlier in the day, a federal judge ruled …
Rebecca Morin / USA Today:
Will Georgia voters deliver Biden an election surprise? Here's what we know about the tight race. … WASHINGTON — Georgia for more nearly three decades has supported the Republican candidate in the presidential election. — But President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden …
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Washington Post, Sabato's Crystal Ball and Townhall
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 …
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Flag-waving Trump supporters block California voting station with vehicle caravan — A caravan of President Donald Trump's supporters blocked access to a voting station in southern California. — The caravan paraded for 60 miles through Riverside County before arriving at a Temecula sports park …
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Los Angeles Times
Washington Post:
Trump signals chaotic stretch after election — President Trump is signaling that Election Day could be followed by a stretch of uncertainty and chaos as a purge of top officials, legal challenges to election results and a potential resistance to a normal transition cloud the prospects …
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Politico, Washington Times, The Root, Reason, The National Interest, Newsy and NPR
Jeremy Stahl / Slate:
What I Learned From Training to Be a Right-Wing Poll Watcher — Alan Vera, ballot security chairman for Texas' Harris County GOP, wants prospective poll watchers to keep an eye on their coffee. — “Here's a tip that I almost hate to have to tell you, but: Do not accept coffee …
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Yashar Ali / Yashar's Newsletter:
Exclusive: Los Angeles Mayor Was Warned About Sexual Harassment Allegations Against DA Candidate — This summer, after Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti began hinting that he might change his endorsement in the contentious LA County district attorney's race, a former Los Angeles Police Department …