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Associated Press:
2020 Latest: McConnell says it'll take while to count votes — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is discounting President Donald Trump's early claim that he'd already won the election, saying it's going to take a while for states to conduct their vote counts.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Joe Biden Is on Track to Win the Electoral College — Joe Biden has taken the lead in the Electoral College and is on track to win the 2020 election. President Trump no longer has any incentive to stop counting the votes, because Biden is currently ahead in enough states to make him president.
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Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Biden looks screwed even if he wins — This is not the outcome Democrats expected. — Despite many bold predictions of a rout in which Democrats gained (or re-gained) Trumpian red territory of 2016, as of early Wednesday only one state — Arizona — had flipped from red to blue.
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New York Times:
Can Biden Still Win? Can Trump Still Win? Yes. Here Are the Remaining Paths. — The president was able to close off several avenues to an early Biden win, but the former vice president still has a number of options. — Joseph R. Biden Jr. started election night with many paths …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What blue wave?
POLITICO Playbook: What blue wave?
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Jordan Williams / The Hill:
Error in Arizona: 86 percent of vote in, not 98 percent
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump's premature victory claim prompts quick rebukes
Trump's premature victory claim prompts quick rebukes
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New York Times:
Presidential Election Results
Presidential Election Results
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Jeva Lange / Yahoo News:
Biden has now received more votes for president than any other candidate in U.S. history
Biden has now received more votes for president than any other candidate in U.S. history
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Says Vote-Counting Should Only Continue in States Where He's Behind
Trump Says Vote-Counting Should Only Continue in States Where He's Behind
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Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
With a tight margin in Wisconsin, attention turns to a potential recount
With a tight margin in Wisconsin, attention turns to a potential recount
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Vox, Washington Post and Breitbart
New York Times:
Election Needles: President
Election Needles: President
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New York Times:
Michigan Presidential Election Results
Michigan Presidential Election Results
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Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Biden is Winning, Act Like It
Biden is Winning, Act Like It
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Bloomberg, Climate Home News and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
Arizona Presidential Election Results
Arizona Presidential Election Results
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Kadia Goba / BuzzFeed News:
Donald Trump Is Lying About The Early Election Results — Trump could still win the election legitimately, with votes still being counted. Early Wednesday morning, he tried to steal it. — Copy — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, in a 2:30 a.m. address during …
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Albert Hunt / The Hill:
This election is headed to the courts, but Democrats have lawyers too — The Democrats won't be ill-prepared or out-lawyered this time, as they were in earlier contested presidential elections, and clearly, what became a tight and dispiriting race for Democrats will be settled by high-powered legal fights.
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Investor's Business Daily, Washington Post and Telegraph
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Trump's Supreme Court vow was what he planned all along
Trump's Supreme Court vow was what he planned all along
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Trump seeks to stop voting, but only counting remains
Trump seeks to stop voting, but only counting remains
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Bloomberg:
Trump's Road to Supreme Court Is Neither Fast Nor Certain
Trump's Road to Supreme Court Is Neither Fast Nor Certain
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Jessica Guynn / USA Today:
President Trump's declarations of victory and accusations of stealing the election test Facebook and Twitter
President Trump's declarations of victory and accusations of stealing the election test Facebook and Twitter
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Bogus ‘vote fraud’ claims proliferate on social media
Bogus ‘vote fraud’ claims proliferate on social media
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Business Insider, NECN, The Post Millennial, One America News Network and DCReport.org
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Cut out the ‘fraud’ claims: Trump should have sounded like Pence
Cut out the ‘fraud’ claims: Trump should have sounded like Pence
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Audrey McNamara / CBS News:
Pennsylvania has counted nearly half of all mail-in ballots, secretary of state says
Pennsylvania has counted nearly half of all mail-in ballots, secretary of state says
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Talking Points Memo and Washington Times
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
The Remaining Vote in Pennsylvania Appears to Be Overwhelmingly for Biden — The president leads by nearly 700,000 votes, but there are 1.4 million absentee votes outstanding. — Joe Biden has won absentee ballots counted in Pennsylvania by an overwhelming margin so far, according to data from the Secretary of State early Wednesday.
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Dave Boucher / Detroit Free Press:
Roughly 80,000 Michigan ballots still being counted as officials preach patience — With roughly 96% of the vote in, Democratic nominee Joe Biden pulled further ahead of President Donald Trump with a 36,000 votes early Wednesday morning, but there were still more than 80,000 ballots that needed …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump campaign sues to halt vote counting in Michigan
Trump campaign sues to halt vote counting in Michigan
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Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
Trump suing in Michigan to stop votes being counted
Trump suing in Michigan to stop votes being counted
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Politico:
‘Dumpster fire’: House Democrats trade blame after Tuesday's damage — House Democrats are asking themselves one question after Tuesday's election stunner: What the hell happened? — In the House, bleary-eyed Democrats were still sorting out the wreckage when they awoke Wednesday with dozens …
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Stephanie Akin / Roll Call:
House losses all have come on Democratic side so far — Wins in 2018 gave GOP more targets, and some fell — With more than 50 races still uncalled as of early Wednesday afternoon, House Democrats hoping to grow their majority had failed to defeat a single Republican incumbent …
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Washington Free Beacon
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
McConnell calls for coronavirus package before end of the year
McConnell calls for coronavirus package before end of the year
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Senate Democrats are going to have a really hard time winning the majority now
Senate Democrats are going to have a really hard time winning the majority now
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Sarah Ellison / Washington Post:
Trump campaign was livid when Fox News called Arizona for Biden — and tensions boiled over on-air — Fox anchor Bill Hemmer was gearing up to do another review for viewers of a map of the United States that at 11:20 p.m. was looking surprisingly positive for President Trump when he did a double take in the lower left-hand quadrant.
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Legal Experts Warn Trump's False Victory Claims Will Only Hurt Himself — Two separate Trump-friendly legal analysts told Fox News that the president's false declarations of victory could end up backfiring in a major way. — In the moments after President Donald …
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Raw Story, Washington Post and Mediaite
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Polling Crisis Is a Catastrophe for American Democracy — Even with the results of the presidential contest still out, there's a clear loser in this election: polling. — Surveys badly missed the results, predicting an easy win for former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic pickup in the Senate …
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Sophia Waterfield / Newsweek:
Nate Silver Faces Wrath of Twitter After Election Results Once Again Go Against His Predictions — Americans called for FiveThirtyEight founder and editor-in-chief Nate Silver to retire after President Donald Trump won states that were predicted to instead go to Joe Biden.
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Joshua Geltzer / Washington Post:
Trump says he's going to court. He has absolutely no basis to sue. — Courts won't stop vote counting just because the president wants them to — Even as President Trump falsely claimed electoral victory early Wednesday morning, he implicitly acknowledged that the election results are not …
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David Wasserman / The Cook Political Report:
House Republicans Defy the Polls, Narrow Democrats' Majority — District-level polling has rarely led us — or the parties and groups investing in House races — so astray. Prior to Tuesday, most Republican strategists were privately resigned to the prospect of a double-digit loss of seats.
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Aaron Gordon / VICE:
Why the Post Office's Last-Minute Ballot Crisis Isn't as Dire as It Seems — The USPS has been intentionally making its own ballot delivery statistics look worse so it can deliver them faster. — Aaron Gordon — Many Americans have been waiting—perhaps even expecting …
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
USPS statistics on mail-in ballots ‘look worse than they actually are’: report
USPS statistics on mail-in ballots ‘look worse than they actually are’: report
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
We still don't know much about this election — except that the media and pollsters blew it again — By early morning Wednesday, there was a lot that millions of anxious Americans didn't know. — Mainly, they didn't know who the president-elect is. That, in itself, wasn't unexpected, nor is it terrible.
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New York Times:
National Exit Polls: How Different Groups Voted — The numbers on this page are preliminary estimates from exit polls conducted by Edison Research for the National Election Pool. These surveys interviewed voters outside of polling places or early voting sites, or by phone.
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Tom LoBianco / Business Insider:
Trump team readies for recount war with White House chief of staff serving as point man and an outside law firm that's home to Reince Priebus … - President Trump's campaign is preparing for a recount legal war with 2020 staffer Justin Clark and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows directing …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Biden May Win, But Trump Remains the President of Red America — His attacks on “the rigged election” are a worst-case scenario for the country. — For months, Joe Biden has been campaigning with endless variations on a simple theme: vote and we can end this.
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