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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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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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Vaughn Hillyard / NBC News:
Arizona's Maricopa County has 605,000 uncounted ballots, some results released tonight — Data from Arizona's Maricopa County shows that there are still about 605,000 uncounted ballots, and results for a bulk of them are expected to come out in two batches starting around 9 p.m. ET, which is 7 p.m. local time.
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Reuters and The Daily Caller
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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Washington Examiner, Reuters, The Hill, CNN, Axios, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Politico, Reason, WFXRtv, New York Times, The Sun, Forbes, Liberty Unyielding, USA Today and NBC News
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
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Politico, USA Today, American Prospect, Washington Post, Reason, Bloomberg, redstate.com, Fortune, Newsbusters, Axios, The Hill, The American Spectator and National Review
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Joe Biden Is on Track to Win the Electoral College
Joe Biden Is on Track to Win the Electoral College
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Mediaite, Florida Politics, The Hill, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and Bloomberg
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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Jordan Williams / The Hill:
Error in Arizona: 86 percent of vote in, not 98 percent
Error in Arizona: 86 percent of vote in, not 98 percent
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New York Times, Breitbart, The Western Journal and The Sun
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Biden is Winning, Act Like It
Biden is Winning, Act Like It
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Outside the Beltway, The Gateway Pundit, Bloomberg and Climate Home News
David Morgan / Reuters:
Republicans on track to dash Democratic hopes of U.S. Senate majority
Republicans on track to dash Democratic hopes of U.S. Senate majority
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Vox, The Atlantic, New York Times, The Guardian, Maryland Matters, redstate.com, Kansas Reflector and The Sun
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Trump falsely and prematurely claims victory in multiple battleground states
Trump falsely and prematurely claims victory in multiple battleground states
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The Post Millennial, The Hill, Axios, UPI, Philadelphia Gay News, Variety, The American Independent, abc7NY, The Mahablog and Raw Story
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
EXPLAINER: States still in play and what makes them that way
EXPLAINER: States still in play and what makes them that way
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CBS News, Associated Press and CBS Chicago
New York Times:
Fox's Arizona Call for Biden Flipped the Mood at Trump Headquarters — The Fox News decision left the president fuming, and his team complaining. Then he began casting aspersions on other states' vote counts. — WASHINGTON — With Florida looking red early on Tuesday night …
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One America News Network, Lawyers, Guns & Money and FOX News Radio
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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Ian MacDougall / ProPublica:
If Trump Tries to Sue His Way to Election Victory, Here's What Happens — It's easy enough for the Trump campaign to file a lawsuit claiming improprieties, but a lot harder to provide evidence of wrongdoing or a convincing legal argument. Here's what you need to know as the election lawsuits start to mount.
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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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Edward Foley / Washington Post:
Trump wants the courts to stop the counting. He's going to be disappointed.
Trump wants the courts to stop the counting. He's going to be disappointed.
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Business Insider, Politico, Daily Kos, Reuters, electionlawblog.org, New York Times, National Review, Al Jazeera, The Bulwark and Reason
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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The Daily Beast:
Trump Orders Advisers to ‘Go Down Fighting’ — Seeing his chances of reelection slipping away, the president wants his armada of lawyers to give Democrats a court fight that 'they'll never forget' — As Election Day turned into election week early Wednesday morning, Donald Trump had a simple message …
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Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, Axios, Fox News, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, New York Post, POLITICUSUSA, WFXRtv, Las Vegas Review-Journal, Gothamist and Deadline
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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
Trump campaign was livid when Fox News called Arizona for Biden — and tensions boiled over on-air
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TheGrio, Outside the Beltway and Mediaite
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Legal Experts Warn Trump's False Victory Claims Will Only Hurt Him
Fox News Legal Experts Warn Trump's False Victory Claims Will Only Hurt Him
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Washington Post, Raw Story and hotair.com
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
A Large Portion of the Electorate Chose the Sociopath — The moment every Donald Trump opponent has been waiting for is at hand: Joe Biden seems to be taking the lead. So why am I not happy? — I am certainly relieved. A Biden victory would be an infinitely better result than a Trump win.
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Washington Post, The Guardian, One America News Network, Fortune, Metro.co.uk, Denver Post and Washington Times
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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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Washington Examiner, The Daily Poster, Foreign Policy, National Review, Jacobin, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Friendly Atheist, Vox, Common Dreams, The Hill and The Week
Greg Haas / KLAS:
More election results expected to be released by Nevada Secretary of State today — LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — State officials are set to release more election results Wednesday despite conflicting information throughout the day. — By Wednesday afternoon, according to Clark County and Washoe County registrars …
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Las Vegas Review-Journal, Townhall, KCLO-TV, hotair.com, Breitbart, Conservative News Today, The Western Journal, Twitchy and WFXRtv
Detroit Free Press:
Chaos erupts at TCF Center as Republican vote challengers cry foul in Detroit … A chaotic scene erupted outside the vote tally room at TCF Center in Detroit as election officials informed dozens of challengers that they could not reenter the room due to it being over-capacity.
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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.
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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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CNN, Washington Examiner and USA Today
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Stephanie Akin / Roll Call:
House losses all have come on Democratic side so far
House losses all have come on Democratic side so far
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Associated Press
George Packer / The Atlantic:
Face the Bitter Truth — We don't yet know the outcome of the election, but its meaning is already clear. We are two countries, and neither of them is going to be conquered or disappear anytime soon. The outcome of the 2016 election was not a historical fluke or result of foreign subversion …
Washington Post:
Coronavirus updates: United States tops 100,000 new coronavirus cases in a day for first time — BREAKING NEWS: The United States has for the first time surpassed 100,000 new coronavirus infections in a single day, as a steadily rising number of hospitalizations threatens to again overwhelm some health systems.
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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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Washington Examiner
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Polling Crisis Is a Catastrophe for American Democracy
The Polling Crisis Is a Catastrophe for American Democracy
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Mica Soellner / Washington Examiner:
Arizona attorney general says office received hundreds of voter complaints regarding Sharpies at polling stations — Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said his office has received hundreds of complaints by voters who said Sharpies were provided to them to fill in their ballot in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix.
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Trump's campaign manager wants a recount in Wisconsin. Here's how it would work. — MADISON, Wis. — President Trump's campaign manager Bill Stepien said he would “immediately” request a recount in Wisconsin, where former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. leads by about 20,000 votes …
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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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New York Times:
False News Targeting Latinos Trails the Election — Rampant falsehoods evolved online on Wednesday, intended to make Spanish speakers question the unfolding election results and believe that President Trump was being robbed of victory. — MIAMI — The posts proliferated on election night …
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Associated Press
Washington Post:
Trump administration taps mainstream climate scientist to run key climate review — Amid climate science skepticism at the Trump White House, pick may encourage scientific community. — The next National Climate Assessment, the federal government's most definitive and comprehensive report …
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Cable News Needs to Take Election Day Off — As Election Day 2020 coasted to a crawl and the west coast voting precincts closed shop, the cable news networks were dazed to learn that even though the pollsters had predicted a flush, green, blossoming victory for Joe Biden …
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Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Defying polls, Republican Susan Collins leads in Maine Senate race — Susan Collins appeared poised to beat back Democratic challenger Sara Gideon to win a fifth term representing Maine in the U.S. Senate. — Collins has so far defied months of polling that all showed her trailing Gideon …
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Politico, Talking Points Memo, National Review and The Week
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Washington D.C. / OSCE:
Highly competitive elections in US tarnished by legal uncertainty and unprecedented attempts to undermine public trust, international observers say — Yesterday's vote was hard-fought and competitive with a high degree of engagement by election workers and citizens in the face …
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NBC News and The Guardian