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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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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What blue wave? — DRIVING THE DAY — PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP and JOE BIDEN are locked in the tightest presidential contest in decades, with TRUMP threatening to drag the race to the Supreme Court. BIDEN is ahead by a sliver in Wisconsin, TRUMP is up in Michigan and Pennsylvania …
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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 …
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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.
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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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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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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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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New York Times:
Presidential Election Results — Editors at The Times will take into account a number of factors before declaring a winner, including race calls made by The Associated Press and Edison Research, as well as analysis of the votes that have been reported so far.
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Trump's Supreme Court vow was what he planned all along — This was always Donald Trump's plan. — He said it in the spring. He said it over the summer. And he hinted at it again in the early hours of Wednesday: Votes shouldn't be counted after Election Day.
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Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Here's how Alaska's congressional race could determine our next president — If Donald Trump wins Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, and Iowa, while Joe Biden wins Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada, we could have a 269 to 269 Electoral College tie, depending on who wins Maine's and Nebraska's 2nd Congressional Districts.
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump's premature victory claim prompts quick rebukes — Donald Trump's decision to prematurely declare himself the winner in the hours after Election Day and pledge to quash the ongoing counting of legitimate ballots provoked withering bipartisan criticism of his presidency …
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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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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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Brad Heath / Reuters:
Trump, Biden's paths to victory in U.S. presidential election
Trump, Biden's paths to victory in U.S. presidential election
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump has attacked democracy's institutions, but never so blatantly as he did overnight
Trump has attacked democracy's institutions, but never so blatantly as he did overnight
Ben Brasch / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Fulton, Gwinnett counties struggle to count absentee ballots
Fulton, Gwinnett counties struggle to count absentee ballots
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New York Times:
Election Highlights: With Votes Still Being Counted, an Anxious Nation Awaits a Winner
Election Highlights: With Votes Still Being Counted, an Anxious Nation Awaits a Winner
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Candy Woodall / USA Today:
In Pennsylvania, 1.4 million ballots still being counted with race too close to call
In Pennsylvania, 1.4 million ballots still being counted with race too close to call
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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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John F. Harris / Politico:
Once Again, a Nation Cuts It Too Close for Comfort
Once Again, a Nation Cuts It Too Close for Comfort
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Detroit News:
Benson: Michigan's election results could be known within 24 hours
Benson: Michigan's election results could be known within 24 hours
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Wayne County:
Election Results — Elections in Wayne County are conducted under the authority of the County Clerk
Election Results — Elections in Wayne County are conducted under the authority of the County Clerk
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Biden: ‘We believe we are on track to win this election’
Biden: ‘We believe we are on track to win this election’
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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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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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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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Dan Avery / NBC News:
The day after: Counting ballots in Michigan — Ritchie Torres becomes first gay Afro Latino elected to Congress — Ritchie Torres has won his House race for New York's 15th Congressional District, making him the first gay Afro Latino person elected to Congress.
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Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Trump campaign argues he has a path to victory
Trump campaign argues he has a path to victory
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Politico:
Republicans clinging to Senate majority as Dems under-perform — Democrats' path to a Senate majority has narrowed dramatically as the party underperformed expectations in a handful of the most expensive races in the country, but control of the Senate remains undecided with a handful of states still too close to call.
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Senate Democrats are going to have a hard time winning the majority now
Senate Democrats are going to have a hard time winning the majority now
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Reuters:
Judge reviews ballot counting in suburban Philadelphia county — (Reuters) - A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Wednesday weighed arguments by Republicans seeking to stop a suburban Philadelphia county from counting mail-in and absentee ballots that voters had been permitted to correct.
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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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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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New York Times:
Arizona Presidential Election Results … Absentee votes by candidate — Some states and counties will report candidate vote totals for mail-in ballots, but some places may not report comprehensive vote type data. … Results by county — We received more votes from Pinal County.
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Jeffery C. Mays / New York Times:
Ocasio-Cortez Wins 2nd Term in Costly Loss for Republicans — Her challenger had collected $10 million, but Ms. Ocasio-Cortez still coasted to an easy win, creating speculation about her future political ambitions. — Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York sailed …
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Polling Crisis Is a Catastrophe for American Democracy — If public-opinion data are unreliable, we're all flying blind. — Staff writer at The Atlantic — Even with the results of the presidential contest still out, there's a clear loser in this election: polling.