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7:15 PM ET, November 5, 2020

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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Joe Biden on cusp of clinching victory  —  Joe Biden has pulled closer to President Donald Trump in Georgia and Pennsylvania, slowly expanding his pathways to victory as the campaigns brace for the release of results Thursday that could put the contest out of reach for the president.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Has anyone seen Donald Trump?  —  IS ANYONE ELSE SURPRISED the president has not done a news conference or interview in the last 24 hours?  As his campaign aides and lawyers fan across the country, President DONALD TRUMP has been uncharacteristically quiet.  (Except on Twitter, of course.)
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
35,000 ballots remain in Allegheny County, but most won't be counted until Friday
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump supporters, protesters clash outside Detroit absentee ballot counting center
Discussion: Associated Press, UPI and CNBC
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
Yes, Democrats Are Trying To Steal The Election In Michigan, Wisconsin, And Pennsylvania
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump prepares to launch a second term early, even without winning  —  He may fire department heads like the FBI's Chris Wray and Pentagon chief Mark Esper.  He could sign base-pleasing executive orders.  He might resume travel.  —  U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on election night …
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NBC News:
Long at odds with Trump, Defense Secretary Esper has prepared a resignation letter, say officials  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Mark Esper has prepared a letter of resignation, according to three current defense officials.  —  It's not uncommon for Cabinet secretaries to prepare undated letters …
Nicole Via y Rada / NBC News:
Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney says Trump could run in 2024 if he loses
Discussion: Washington Examiner and IJR
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Biden Appears to Hold Edge in the Key Votes Left to Be Counted  —  The tabulations continue in the states too close to call, but some things are becoming clearer.  —  Joe Biden looks to be on the cusp of winning the election.  Here's a look at where the vote count stands in the key states.
New York Times:
The Electoral College is close.  The popular vote isn't.  —  As the presidential race inches agonizingly toward a conclusion, it might be easy to miss the fact that the results are not actually very close.  —  With many ballots still outstanding in heavily Democratic cities …
Megan Messerly / The Nevada Independent:
Biden slightly expands lead over Trump as Nevada releases first results in 24 hours  —  Joe Biden slightly expanded his narrow lead over President Donald Trump in Nevada on Thursday, though the number of outstanding ballots in urban Clark County suggests that the race in the Silver State is still the former vice president's to lose.
Discussion: KXAN-TV, The Week, Forbes and UPI
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Axios:
GOP Senate wins wreak havoc on Biden transition plans  —  Republicans' likely hold on the Senate is forcing Joe Biden's transition team to consider limiting its prospective Cabinet nominees to those who Mitch McConnell can live with, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The 2020 Election Has Brought Progressives to the Brink of Catastrophe  —  This week, the American left clambered out of hell, only to find itself condemned to political purgatory.  —  Barring an act of malign intervention, Donald Trump will be a one-term president.
Ali Breland / Mother Jones:
A Massive “Stop the Count” Facebook Group Has Ties to Republican Operatives  —  For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.  —  A rapidly growing Facebook group falsely accusing Democrats of “scheming” …
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BuzzFeed News:
Facebook Has An Internal Metric For “Violence And Incitement Trends.” Right Now It's Rising.
Discussion: IJR, more at Techmeme »
NBC News:
Pro-Trump operatives coordinated viral #StopTheSteal events. Facebook shut them down.
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill:
Facebook takes down massive ‘Stop the Steal’ group
Discussion: New York Times, Townhall, Breitbart and NPR
NPR:
Where Presidential Election Votes Are Still Being Counted … Loading...  With both President Trump and Joe Biden still short of the 270 electoral votes needed to claim victory, anxious Americans are left with little to do but be patient and wait as election officials in key swing states furiously work …
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Biden's campaign insists former VP ‘will be the next president’
New York Times:
N.Y.P.D. Anti-Harassment Official Accused of Racist Rants  —  The official was relieved of his command after City Council investigators amassed evidence that he posted vitriolic messages online under the name “Clouseau.”  —  For more than 20 years, an online chat board called the Rant …
Karl Rove:
Biden Had No Election Coattails  —  In this wild year of challenge and disruption, nobody should have expected a simple and easy finish to the presidential contest.  Despite press declarations that President Trump (who led in none of the 80 national polls conducted since Labor Day) …
Discussion: HillReporter.com and Raw Story
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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Trump's Special Treatment on Twitter Would End With Biden Win  — For now, violating posts get warning label, not removal  — But ‘world leader’ newsworthiness rules wouldn't apply  —  As U.S. president, Donald Trump receives special treatment from Twitter Inc. when he violates …
Politico:
Dem leaders warn liberal rhetoric could blow Georgia races  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her top lieutenants had a stark warning for Democrats on Thursday: Swing too far left and they're all but certain to blow their chances in the Georgia runoff that will determine which party controls the Senate.
Talia Kaplan / Fox News:
Trump ‘turning up the heat’ with rhetoric does not help his legal case over ballots, says Andrew McCarthy  —  ‘Turning up the heat politically does not help persuade the judges,’ McCarthy argues  —  Fox News Go  —  President Trump's “provocative” comments could dissuade the Supreme Court …
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New York Sun:
Justice Samuel Alito, Prophet
USA Today:
The Supreme Court must avoid partisan overreach on election cases
Discussion: Law & Crime and Washington Post
Washington Post:
USPS processed 150,000 ballots after Election Day, jeopardizing thousands of votes  —  The number of mailed ballots not delivered by Nov. 3 is expected to grow as more postal data is released in the coming days.  —  More than 150,000 ballots were caught in U.S. Postal Service processing facilities …
Associated Press:
Counties with worst virus surges overwhelmingly voted Trump  —  U.S. voters went to the polls starkly divided on how they see President Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic, with a surprising twist: In places where the virus is most rampant now, Trump enjoyed enormous support.
Emily Dreyfuss / New York Times:
Trump's Tweeting Isn't Crazy.  It's Strategic, Typos and All.  —  A network of right-wing operatives and activists — and the president himself — spread disinformation about Joe Biden with one simple hashtag.  —  Ms. Dreyfuss is a journalist at the Harvard Shorenstein Center's Technology and Social Change project.
Discussion: Breitbart, Summit News and Twitchy
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The final implosion of Trump's Fox News propagandists  —  With President Trump mounting a frantic, last-ditch effort to stop the counting of votes that could doom his reelection, his Fox News propagandists are wheeling into action: One after another, they are raging that the election …
John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
The Repudiation  —  The 2020 election, it appears, was a staggering repudiation of Donald Trump.  Of him.  Personally.  —  You're not hearing this right now because the right is in denial about the results as it works through the stages of Kubler-Ross grief.
Discussion: hotair.com and The Intercept
 
 
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Omaha World-Herald:
Thousands of Omaha-area voters backed Democrat Biden, Republican Bacon
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Australia has almost eliminated the coronavirus — by putting faith in science
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