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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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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Biden's campaign insists former VP ‘will be the next president’ — Biden campaign calls Trump lawsuits in key battleground states ‘meritless’ — Biden on verge of victory as campaign readies for legal challenges — Joe Biden's presidential campaign on Thursday declared that …
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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Trump campaign presses legal challenges as count continues in swing states
Trump campaign presses legal challenges as count continues in swing states
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Has anyone seen Donald Trump?
POLITICO Playbook PM: Has anyone seen Donald Trump?
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
35,000 ballots remain in Allegheny County, but most won't be counted until Friday
35,000 ballots remain in Allegheny County, but most won't be counted until Friday
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Trump campaign wins legal battle in Pennsylvania to oversee vote counting
Trump campaign wins legal battle in Pennsylvania to oversee vote counting
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump supporters, protesters clash outside Detroit absentee ballot counting center
Trump supporters, protesters clash outside Detroit absentee ballot counting center
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Washington Post:
Judges in two states reject Trump campaign lawsuits as the president continues to press unsubstantiated claims of fraud
Judges in two states reject Trump campaign lawsuits as the president continues to press unsubstantiated claims of fraud
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
Eric Trump Is An Election Disinformation Superspreader
Eric Trump Is An Election Disinformation Superspreader
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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 …
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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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Nicole Via y Rada / NBC News:
Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney says Trump could run in 2024 if he loses
Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney says Trump could run in 2024 if he loses
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Washington Examiner and IJR
New York Times:
Election 2020 Live Updates: Protests and Legal Skirmishes as Counting Continues in Final Six States … Senate tally includes 65 seats not up for election. — Nevada has about 190,000 ballots still to be counted, the secretary of state said. Ninety percent of them are from Clark County …
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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.
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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 …
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.
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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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.
WSB-TV:
LIVE UPDATES: Judge dismisses President Trump's lawsuit in Georgia — ATLANTA — The country is watching Georgia as it remains one of the key battleground states that has not been called in the presidential election. — Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, North Carolina, Arizona and Alaska races have not been called by ABC News.
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Trump's lead shrinks in Georgia as officials race to finish counts
Trump's lead shrinks in Georgia as officials race to finish counts
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Tim Fitzsimons / NBC News:
French bulldog named Wilbur elected mayor of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky
French bulldog named Wilbur elected mayor of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky
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Jordan Davidson / The Federalist:
Presidential And Senate Races Tighten In Georgia As Key County Ballots Pour In
Presidential And Senate Races Tighten In Georgia As Key County Ballots Pour In
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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 …
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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NBC News:
Pro-Trump operatives coordinated viral #StopTheSteal events. Facebook shut them down.
Pro-Trump operatives coordinated viral #StopTheSteal events. Facebook shut them down.
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Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill:
Facebook takes down massive ‘Stop the Steal’ group
Facebook takes down massive ‘Stop the Steal’ group
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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.
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 …
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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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Arizona Republic:
In latest batch, Trump gets share of votes he would need to reclaim Arizona. But next rounds of ballots present new challenges — As Maricopa County released the results from 140,000 more ballots on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, President Donald Trump received almost the exact share …
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Julia Musto / Fox News:
Arizona voters sue Maricopa County over ‘Sharpiegate’
Arizona voters sue Maricopa County over ‘Sharpiegate’
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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.
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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.
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.
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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 …
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