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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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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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: Bloomberg and hotair.com
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.
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 …
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 …
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Here's how Alaska's congressional race could determine our next president
Candy Woodall / USA Today:
In Pennsylvania, 1.4 million ballots still being counted with race too close to call
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump falsely and prematurely claims election victory
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Trump seeks to stop voting, but only counting remains
The Hill:
Trump prematurely declares victory, says he'll go to Supreme Court
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and hotair.com
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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
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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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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Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
Trump campaign pushes back on projections of Biden winning Arizona's 11 electoral votes
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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New York Times:
Michigan Presidential Election Results
Discussion: Raw Story
Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Trump campaign argues he has a path to victory  —  Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien argued on a call with reporters Wednesday morning that the president could pull off wins in Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Georgia and said he thought Wisconsin was headed for “recount territory.”
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Dan Avery / NBC News:
The day after: Counting ballots in Michigan
Detroit News:
Benson: Michigan's election results could be known within 24 hours … The delay will be accounting for its largest jurisdiction, Detroit, which has tabulated 120,000 absentee ballots in the past 13 hours, Benson said at 10 p.m. Tuesday.  —  Benson had previously estimated it could take up to 80 hours to tabulate Michigan's results.
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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.
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.
The Guardian:
AOC and her fellow ‘Squad’ members all win re-election to Congress … All four members of the progressive “Squad” of Democratic congresswomen have handily won re-election.  —  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib …
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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.
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.
Marvin Clemons / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada won't release new vote totals until Thursday  —  The first 2020 ballots arrived shortly after 8 p.m. at the Clark County Election Center for tabulation on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Las Vegas.  (LeՁndre Fox/Las Vegas Review-Journal)  —  With Nevada elections results too close …
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.
 
 
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Judge reviews ballot counting in suburban Philadelphia county
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Jan Cienski / Politico:
Poland's government backed into a corner over abortion
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 Earlier Items: 
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Trump flipped this Ohio county that hasn't gone Republican in 50 years
Stephen Kruiser / pjmedia.com:
The Morning Briefing: RIP America, The Mail-In Voter Fraud Fix Is In
Kyle Smith / New York Post:
Media has a meltdown as Biden fails to deliver a landslide
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
Michael Stratford / Politico:
Kellyanne Conway says Trump may lose ground in Electoral College from 2016
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