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11:00 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 …
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.
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Cut out the ‘fraud’ claims: Trump should have sounded like Pence  —  A leader owes his people measured rhetoric that is honest.  He owes his country respect for the democratic process and a presumption of its legitimacy.  —  Donald Trump, who is not known for measured rhetoric, honesty …
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Trump seeks to stop voting, but only counting remains
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
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 …
Discussion: CNN and hotair.com
Janell Ross / NBC News:
Why the vote result is delayed in Georgia
Discussion: MSNBC and Washington Post
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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Aaron Gordon / VICE:   Why the Post Office's Last-Minute Ballot Crisis Isn't as Dire as It Seems
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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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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.
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 …
Wayne County:
Election Results  —  Elections in Wayne County are conducted under the authority of the County Clerk  —  The County Clerk is responsible for coordinating and administering all Federal, State and County elections conducted in Wayne County.  Also, responsible for monitoring the candidates compliance …
Discussion: Detroit Free Press and Twitchy
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
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.
Jan Cienski / Politico:
Poland's government backed into a corner over abortion  —  A political crisis unleashed by a court ruling on abortion shows no sign of abating.  —  WARSAW — The explosion of popular fury that greeted a court ruling tightening abortion rules has stunned Poland's nationalist government …
Discussion: Jacobin and Balkan Insight
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.
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.
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.
 
 
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In historic change, Virginia voters approve bipartisan commission to handle political redistricting
Washington Examiner:
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Kellyanne Conway says Trump may lose ground in Electoral College from 2016
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