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10:50 AM ET, November 4, 2020

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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.
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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 …
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.
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 …
Brad Heath / Reuters:
Trump, Biden's paths to victory in U.S. presidential election  —  (Reuters) - President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden on Wednesday each faced narrow paths to potential victory in a close-fought U.S. presidential election that will be determined by a razor-thin margin.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Says Vote-Counting Should Only Continue in States Where He's Behind  —  In a late-night speech from the White House, President Trump declared the plan he has been openly signaling for weeks: He hopes to steal the 2020 election by prematurely declaring himself the winner and halting …
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump falsely and prematurely claims election victory  —  Addressing an election party in the East Wing of the White House early Wednesday morning, President Trump falsely and prematurely claimed victory in key swing states and pledged to go to the Supreme Court to stop votes from being counted.
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.
John F. Harris / Politico:
Once Again, a Nation Cuts It Too Close for Comfort  —  Before Election Day, Democrats had an answer for how they intended to deal with President Donald Trump's hold on his most-devoted partisans, or the possibility of widespread challenges to absentee ballots, or the fear that conservative judges might come …
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Trump seeks to stop voting, but only counting remains  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he'll take the presidential election to the Supreme Court, but it's unclear what he means in a country in which vote tabulations routinely continue beyond Election Day, and states largely set the rules for when the count has to end.
Candy Woodall / USA Today:
In Pennsylvania, 1.4 million ballots still being counted with race too close to call
Discussion: Townhall and National Review
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Why it's too early to call the election
Michael Ruiz / Fox News:
Hillary Clinton retweets her own message from the day after Election Day 2016
New York Times:
Americans Conclude an Election Like No Other, and It's a Tight One
New York Times:
Hickenlooper becomes the first Democrat to flip a Senate seat tonight.
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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Bloomberg:
Trump's Road to Supreme Court Is Neither Fast Nor Certain  — President didn't lay out any grounds for a possible challenge  — Republican lawyer says Trump may have hard time blocking votes  —  President Donald Trump said he will go to the U.S. Supreme Court because he wants …
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Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:
While You've Been Watching the Election, the Supreme Court Is Set to Transform ‘Religious Freedom’ and America
Discussion: Raw Story
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
Discussion: Power Line and Instapundit
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Worst-Case Election Scenario Is Happening  —  Biden may yet win, but it's already clear that Trump's dangerous rhetoric about the “rigged election” was a self-fulfilling prophecy.  —  For months, Joe Biden has been campaigning with endless variations on a simple theme: vote and we can end this.
Washington Post:
USPS disregards court order to conduct ballot sweeps in 12 postal districts after more than 300,000 ballots cannot be traced  —  A federal judge ordered mail service and law enforcement agents to comb processing plants for votes as delays continue  —  The U.S. Postal Service turned …
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump has attacked democracy's institutions, but never so blatantly as he did overnight  —  For four years, President Trump has sought to undermine the institutions of a democratic society, but never so blatantly as in the early morning hours of Wednesday.  His attempt to falsely claim victory …
Ben Brasch / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Fulton, Gwinnett counties struggle to count absentee ballots  —  The most populous counties in the state, on the biggest stage imaginable, are having trouble counting their absentee ballots.  —  As of press time, neither Fulton nor Gwinnett counties had finished tallying their early and Election Day results.
Discussion: Politico
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Ben Brasch / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Fulton election results delayed after pipe bursts in room with ballots
Nicole Narea / Vox:
How Latinos in Miami-Dade County helped Trump win Florida  —  Biden needed to win big in Miami-Dade County.  But Trump ate into his margins among Latinos.  —  SHARE All sharing options  —  Vice President Joe Biden performed significantly worse in Florida's Miami-Dade County …
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Stephen Kruiser / pjmedia.com:
The Morning Briefing: RIP America, The Mail-In Voter Fraud Fix Is In  —  Your Freedom Vote Has Been Lost In the Mail  —  Well, it's Wednesday.  I do hope you're all having a good one so far, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing Friends.  —  It's going to be a quick one this morning after yesterday's festivities.
Kyle Smith / New York Post:
Media has a meltdown as Biden fails to deliver a landslide  —  Ever sat next to somebody who's afraid to fly?  That combination of freaking out, embarrassment and asking when the drinks cart would come around again was what we all saw in the lefty telepundit class last night.
Michael Stratford / Politico:
Kellyanne Conway says Trump may lose ground in Electoral College from 2016  —  The president earlier on Tuesday predicted he would outperform his prior electoral vote count.  —  Former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said that President Donald Trump was “feeling great” …
Detroit News:
Biden takes lead in Michigan with votes still uncounted  —  Democrat Joe Biden pulled ahead of President Donald Trump at about 9 a.m. Wednesday in the unofficial results in Michigan, one of a group of battleground states where decisions about America's next commander in chief hanged in the balance.
The Intercept:
Democrats Underperformed Among Voters of Color — Except in Arizona.  Here's Why. … In 2016, in Starr County, Texas, one of the poorest areas of the country and 96 percent Latino, Hillary Clinton cleaned up, winning it 79 to 19 percent.  Four years later, Joe Biden won that same county by just 5 points.
April Siese / CBS News:
Mississippi votes in favor of adopting new flag  —  Mississippi has formally rebuked the confederate battle cross that once adorned its state flag.  Voters cast their ballots in favor of Measure 3, a referendum adopting a new state flag featuring a magnolia surrounded by 21 stars signifying …
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Trump flipped this Ohio county that hasn't gone Republican in 50 years  —  “We finally flipped it.”  —  That was the reaction of Tom McCabe, the chairman of the Mahoning County Republican Party at a jubilant campaign headquarters on Market Street in Youngstown, Ohio.
Luiza Ch. Savage / Politico:
China shapes a new U.S. economic era: The return of industrial policy  —  A historic shift in U.S. economic policy is taking shape regardless of who sits in the White House or controls Congress: an increasingly muscular role for state power to build up industries U.S. leaders deem critical …
 
 
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Graham Moomaw / Virginia Mercury:
In historic change, Virginia voters approve bipartisan commission to handle political redistricting
Washington Examiner:
The biggest loser of election 2020: Identity politics
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Mark Kelly Defeats Martha McSally in Crucial Arizona Senate Race
Dartunorro Clark / NBC News:
NBC News projects Democratic Tina Smith of Minnesota wins Senate race
 Earlier Items: 
David Siders / Politico:
Biden dispatches Trump in Minnesota
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
In photos: Election Day 2020 across the U.S.
Discussion: NBC News, Politico and ABC News
Lacy Johnson / New York Times:
Minnesota Election Results: Fifth Congressional District
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Politico:
These races will tell you who's winning
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