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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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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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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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Vaughn Hillyard / NBC News:
Arizona's Maricopa County has 605,000 uncounted ballots, some results released tonight
Arizona's Maricopa County has 605,000 uncounted ballots, some results released tonight
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Reuters and The Daily Caller
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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Julio Rosas / Townhall:
Joe Biden Wins Wisconsin as the Trump Campaign Calls for a Recount
Joe Biden Wins Wisconsin as the Trump Campaign Calls for a Recount
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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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Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Reuters, Roll Call and Washington Post
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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The Diplomat, Indian Country Today, The Guardian, New York Post and redstate.com
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.
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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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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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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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Joshua Geltzer / Washington Post:
Trump says he's going to court. He has absolutely no basis to sue.
Trump says he's going to court. He has absolutely no basis to sue.
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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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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Albert Hunt / The Hill:
This election is headed to the courts, but Democrats have lawyers too
This election is headed to the courts, but Democrats have lawyers too
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Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA and Telegraph
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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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What blue wave?
POLITICO Playbook: What blue wave?
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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.
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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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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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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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Greg Haas / KLAS:
Nevada: Secretary of State's office will release more election results later today due to interest in Nevada — LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Although Nevada officials said early Wednesday that no new election results would be released until 9 a.m. on Nov. 5, the Secretary of State's office is now saying …
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Marvin Clemons / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada won't release new vote totals until Thursday
Nevada won't release new vote totals until Thursday
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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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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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New York Times
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 Him
Fox News Legal Experts Warn Trump's False Victory Claims Will Only Hurt Him
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hotair.com, Washington Post and Raw Story
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
The Polling Crisis Is a Catastrophe for American Democracy
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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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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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Detroit News:
New poll challengers barred by police at Detroit vote counting center … The GOP challengers also had a verbal altercation with an unidentified elections worker as they were told they couldn't replace existing monitors from their party. City police officers briefly locked the doors following the altercation.
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Talking Points Memo and Metro.co.uk
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
‘Someone may have to pay a price’: Judge lashes Postal Service for defying ballot order — A federal judge thrashed the U.S. Postal Service Wednesday, and suggested he might seek testimony from Postmaster General Louis DeJoy for declining to comply with a last-minute court order …
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Aaron Gordon / VICE:
Why the Post Office's Last-Minute Ballot Crisis Isn't as Dire as It Seems
Why the Post Office's Last-Minute Ballot Crisis Isn't as Dire as It Seems
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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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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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Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
YouTube refuses to remove video that appears to violate its policies — Google-owned YouTube refused to take down a video that falsely claims Trump won the Presidential election and democrats committed voter fraud. — The company would not provide a response as to why the video doesn't violate YouTube policies.