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10:25 AM ET, November 4, 2020

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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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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 …
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.
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.
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Trump seeks to stop voting, but only counting remains
John F. Harris / Politico:
Once Again, a Nation Cuts It Too Close for Comfort
Spencer Neale / Washington Examiner:
Tucker Carlson: Early Hispanic vote in Florida shows election is ‘not what we were told to expect’
Discussion: Axios, Babalú Blog, Townhall and Politico
New York Times:
Americans Conclude an Election Like No Other, and It's a Tight One
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Why it's too early to call the election
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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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.
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 …
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 …
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” …
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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.
Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
Trump campaign pushes back on projections of Biden winning Arizona's 11 electoral votes
Michael Ruiz / Fox News:
Hillary Clinton retweets her own message from the day after Election Day 2016
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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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 …
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Dinah Voyles Pulver / USA Today:
USPS Service blows deadline to check for missing ballots. About 300,000 can't be traced
Discussion: Detroit Free Press and Breitbart
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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' majority hopes narrow after disappointing election night
Discussion: Power Line and Instapundit
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 …
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.
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
Tracey Tully / New York Times:
Recreational Marijuana Legalized by New Jersey Voters  —  Voters approved a constitutional amendment to legalize cannabis in New Jersey, putting pressure on neighboring states like New York.  —  After years of legislative failures, New Jersey voters on Tuesday authorized the legal use …
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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 …
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Geoff Pender / Mississippi Today:
Mississippians adopt new state flag after Confederate emblem flew for 126 years
Discussion: New York Times
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.
W. James Antle III / Washington Examiner:
Michelle Fischbach defeats Collin Peterson in Minnesota's 7th Congressional District  —  Rep. Collin Peterson, a Minnesota Democrat, was defeated by his Republican challenger, Michelle Fischbach, by about 13 percentage points, ending a 30-year tenure in Congress.
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Mica Soellner / Washington Examiner:
Democratic Rep. Andy Kim retains his New Jersey seat despite attacks from GOP
Discussion: Associated Press and Bloomberg
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.
 
 
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Washington Examiner:
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