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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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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump campaign sues to halt vote counting in Michigan — President Trump's reelection campaign on Wednesday said it was filing a lawsuit to halt the counting of votes in Michigan until it is given access to observe the tabulation process. — Campaign manager Bill Stepien alleged that it had not been given …
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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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Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
Trump suing in Michigan to stop votes being counted — President Trump's reelection campaign filed a lawsuit in Michigan to stop ballot counting on Wednesday amid an “extremely tight” race, with Democratic nominee Joe Biden ahead by less than one percentage point.
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Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Biden is Winning, Act Like It — Democrats need to push past our 2016 emotional trauma and project confidence. — 4 hr — Last night went exactly like we thought it would for most of the last six months. Like many others, I desperately hoped for a quick Biden victory with wins in Florida and North Carolina.
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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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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What blue wave?
POLITICO Playbook: What blue wave?
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump's premature victory claim prompts quick rebukes
Trump's premature victory claim prompts quick rebukes
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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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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 — 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, while they lost a handful of seats in Trump-friendly districts …
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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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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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Andy Sullivan / Reuters:
If he wins White House, Biden's ambitions likely blocked by Republican Senate
If he wins White House, Biden's ambitions likely blocked by Republican Senate
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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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
Fox News Legal Experts Warn Trump's False Victory Claims Will Only Hurt Himself
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Jordan Williams / The Hill:
Error in Arizona: 86 percent of vote in, not 98 percent — An error was found in Edison Research data for the results of Arizona's presidential contest, according to New York Times editor Patrick LaForge. — As of early Wednesday, only 86 percent of the state's votes have been counted, versus 98 percent.
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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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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
‘Someone may have to pay a price’: Judge lashes Postal Service for defying ballot order
‘Someone may have to pay a price’: Judge lashes Postal Service for defying ballot order
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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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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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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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David Sirota / The Daily Poster:
Six Takeaways From Election Night
Six Takeaways From Election Night
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The Hill:
House Democrats fall way short in disappointing night — Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her invigorated caucus charged into Tuesday with an energized base, a sharp fundraising advantage and hopes to flip anywhere from five to 15 Republican seats on election night.
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Marvin Clemons / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada won't release new vote totals until Thursday — The first 2020 ballots arrived shortly after 8 p.m. at the Clark County Election Center for tabulation on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Las Vegas. (LeՁndre Fox/Las Vegas Review-Journal) — With Nevada elections results too close …
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CBS News:
Watch Live: Trump campaign hosts press conference in Philadelphia — The Trump campaign is hosting a press conference in Pennsylvania Wednesday afternoon with Eric Trump, Trump 2020 senior advisor Lara Trump, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, and campaign senior advisor Corey Lewandowski.
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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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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 …
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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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