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2:20 PM ET, November 4, 2020

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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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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.
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:
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump's premature victory claim prompts quick rebukes
New York Times:
Michigan Presidential Election Results
Discussion: Raw Story, Forbes and Washington Post
New York Times:
Americans Conclude an Election Like No Other, and It's a Tight One
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Here's how Alaska's congressional race could determine our next president
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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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
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
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 …
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Trump falsely and prematurely claims election victory
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: hotair.com and Raw Story
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
USPS statistics on mail-in ballots ‘look worse than they actually are’: report
Discussion: VICE, HillReporter.com and POLITICUSUSA
Washington Post:
USPS disregards court order to conduct ballot sweeps in 12 postal districts after more than 300,000 ballots cannot be traced
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Polling Crisis Is a Catastrophe for American Democracy  —  Even with the results of the presidential contest still out, there's a clear loser in this election: polling.  —  Surveys badly missed the results, predicting an easy win for former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic pickup in the Senate …
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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.
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.
Audrey McNamara / CBS News:
Pennsylvania has counted nearly half of all mail-in ballots, secretary of state says  —  Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar said at a press conference Wednesday that the state has counted nearly 50% of its mail-in ballots, with millions more to go.
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Dan Avery / NBC News:
The day after: Counting ballots in Michigan  —  Ritchie Torres becomes first gay Afro Latino elected to Congress  —  Ritchie Torres has won his House race for New York's 15th Congressional District, making him the first gay Afro Latino person elected to Congress.
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Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Trump campaign argues he has a path to victory
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Wrap
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.
N'dea Yancey-Bragg / USA Today:
Black Lives Matter activist Cori Bush becomes Missouri's first Black congresswoman  —  Watch Video: Protest leader wins Missouri congressional primary  —  Protest leader and activist Cori Bush won the election to Missouri's 1st Congressional District, making her the state's first Black congresswoman.
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The Hill:
House Democrats fall way short in disappointing night  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her invigorated caucus charged into Tuesday with an energized base, a sharp fundraising advantage and hopes to flip anywhere from five to 15 Republican seats on election night.
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.
Reuters:
Judge reviews ballot counting in suburban Philadelphia county  —  (Reuters) - A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Wednesday weighed arguments by Republicans seeking to stop a suburban Philadelphia county from counting mail-in and absentee ballots that voters had been permitted to correct.
 
 
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Nihal Krishan / Washington Examiner:
Major liberal ballot measures fail in California
Discussion: Politico, New York Times and The Hill
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Kevin McCarthy gears up to run for Speaker in 2022
Discussion: Politico
Jan Cienski / Politico:
Poland's government backed into a corner over abortion
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 Earlier Items: 
Detroit News:
Biden takes lead in Michigan with votes still uncounted
Discussion: Fox News and TheBlaze
April Siese / CBS News:
Mississippi votes in favor of adopting new flag
Discussion: The Clarion-Ledger
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
Discussion: The Federalist
 

 
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