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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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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
About 90,000 absentee ballots still need to be counted in Georgia — By Mark Niesse - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Emily Merwin DiRico - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jennifer Peebles - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Isaac Sabetai - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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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 — Ossoff nears runoff territory — Joe Biden pulled within about 18,000 votes of President Donald Trump in Georgia early Thursday as election workers counted tens of thousands of absentee ballots.
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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.
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John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
Yes, Democrats Are Trying To Steal The Election In Michigan, Wisconsin, And Pennsylvania — In the three Midwest battleground states, vote counting irregularities persist in an election that will be decided on razor-thin margins. — As of this writing, it appears that Democratic Party machines …
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Biden may steal an election for the elitists, but Democrats will regret it
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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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New York Times:
Fox's Arizona Call for Biden Flipped the Mood at Trump Headquarters — The Fox News decision left the president fuming, and his team complaining. Then he began casting aspersions on other states' vote counts. — WASHINGTON — With Florida looking red early on Tuesday night …
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Exit Polls Point to the Power of White Patriarchy — Some people who have historically been oppressed will stand with their oppressors. — It is obscene that the presidential race is too close to call at the time this column is published: Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
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William Saletan / Slate:
A Warning Sign for Democrats
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Trump campaign's longshot legal challenges unlikely to swing election, analysts say — See how mail-in votes are being counted in Pennsylvania — Washington (CNN)The series of lawsuits the Trump campaign has announced in multiple states amount to longshot legal arguments focusing …
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
If Biden wins, he'll inherit a mission impossible — For Joe Biden, winning might turn out to be the easy part. — Of course, it doesn't feel that way, with the former vice president not yet certain to secure 270 electoral votes as of Wednesday evening. Of course, preventing President …
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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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Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Trump campaign wins legal battle in Pennsylvania to oversee vote counting — President Trump's legal team won a battle in Pennsylvania that will grant them closer access to vote counting in the state. — On Thursday, appellate Judge Christine Fizzano Cannon overturned a previous ruling …
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Armed Agents Are Allowed in Ballot-Counting Venues, Justice Dept. Tells Prosecutors — Former officials expressed fears that the department's legal interpretation would allow federal investigators to intimidate vote counters or interfere with their work. — WASHINGTON — The Justice …
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Washington Post:
Coronavirus updates: U.S. shatters records with more than 100,000 new cases in a single day — Months ago, the notion of the United States recording more than 100,000 coronavirus infections in a single day seemed inconceivable. But surging caseloads in nearly every state pushed the tally …
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Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
A Dreadful New Peak for the American Pandemic
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American Prospect
Julia Musto / Fox News:
Arizona voters sue Maricopa County over ‘Sharpiegate’ — The suit claimed the use of Sharpie markers at polling locations caused their ballots to be canceled — Fox News Go — Several voters in Maricopa County, the largest in Arizona, brought a lawsuit Wednesday against Democratic …
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Politico:
‘A decade of power’: Statehouse wins position GOP to dominate redistricting — Democrats spent big to take control of state legislatures but lost their key targets. Now they'll be on the sidelines as new maps are drawn. — Protestors march in front of the Capitol in Austin, Texas …
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Democrats' down-ballot misery continues with state legislative battles
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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” …
Ali Gostanian / NBC News:
Viral ‘ballot’ burning video shared by Eric Trump is fake — A viral video claiming to show ballots for President Trump being burned is fake, Virginia Beach officials said on Tuesday. — The video shows an unidentified person putting what appear to be paper ballots in a plastic bag …
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Mulvaney: ‘You can absolutely guarantee a peaceful transition of power’ if Trump loses — Mick Mulvaney, the former acting White House chief of staff, predicted Thursday that President Donald Trump would “absolutely” help facilitate a peaceful transition of power if Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden …
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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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The Intercept
Associated Press:
Election observer says no evidence for Trump's fraud claims — BERLIN (AP) — The head of an international delegation monitoring the U.S. election says his team has no evidence to support President Donald Trump's claims about alleged fraud involving mail-in absentee ballots.
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WXYZ-TV:
Video falsely claims possible voter fraud in Detroit. It actually shows a WXYZ photographer loading camera gear. — (WXYZ) — A video making the rounds on social media and other platforms that claims to show voter fraud and a wagon being loaded outside of the TCF Center in Detroit …
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Oliver Holmes / The Guardian:
Israeli forces leave 41 children homeless after razing Palestinian village, UN says — Demolitions used as a ‘key means’ to ‘coerce Palestinians to leave their homes’ — Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank have razed a Palestinian village, leaving 73 people - including 41 children …
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W.J. Hennigan / TIME:
‘Calm Before The Storm.’ No Widespread Violence on Election Day, But Anxiety Mounts — Despite months of warnings, threats and fears over possible civil unrest, Election Day 2020 came and went in the United States without major incident. It's a welcome development for an anxiety-ridden nation …
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
35,000 ballots remain in Allegheny County, but most won't be counted until Friday — Most of the 35,000 mail ballots left to be counted in Allegheny County won't be counted until tomorrow, according to Amie Downs, county spokesperson. — There will be no canvassing done at the warehouse today …
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