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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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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.
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 …
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NPR:
Where Presidential Election Votes Are Still Being Counted
Where Presidential Election Votes Are Still Being Counted
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Biden's campaign insists former VP ‘will be the next president’
Biden's campaign insists former VP ‘will be the next president’
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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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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
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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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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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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
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
‘Come on Now’: Michigan Judge Scoffs at and Tosses Trump Campaign Lawsuit Backed by ‘Hearsay’ Evidence — In President Donald Trump's second loss in court in a single day, a Michigan judge rejected the Trump campaign's bid to stop counting ballots without their inspectors present.
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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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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
Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Georgia Judge Throws Out Trump Campaign Lawsuit That Produced Exactly Zero Evidence of Fraud
Georgia Judge Throws Out Trump Campaign Lawsuit That Produced Exactly Zero Evidence of Fraud
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BuzzFeed News:
Facebook Has An Internal Metric For “Violence And Incitement Trends.” Right Now It's Rising. — As votes are being tallied across the country to determine the next US president, internal Facebook data shows that the company has seen a significant increase in what it calls “violence and incitement trends.”
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Ali Breland / Mother Jones:
A Massive “Stop the Count” Facebook Group Has Ties to Republican Operatives
A Massive “Stop the Count” Facebook Group Has Ties to Republican Operatives
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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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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 …
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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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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.
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Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Trump's Special Twitter Treatment 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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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.
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 …
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Two states to require masks in public at all times, regardless of distance from others — Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) and Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) issued a stricter mask mandates this week as coronavirus cases continue to surge across the nation.
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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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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.)
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Ebony Bowden / New York Post:
Trump to speak from White House as vote count leans toward Biden — WASHINGTON — President Trump will address the nation on Wednesday evening as he trails his opponent and remaining swing states lean toward a Joe Biden presidency. — The commander in chief will deliver remarks …
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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George Conway / Washington Post:
A presidency fueled by lies finishes with the worst of them all — It's somehow fitting. A presidency launched with lies, and fueled by them ever since, was destined to finish with the worst of them all. — Donald Trump's presidency began on Jan. 20, 2017, with what he asserted was …
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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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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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Omaha World-Herald:
Thousands of Omaha-area voters backed Democrat Biden, Republican Bacon — Jay C. Jackson describes himself as a pro-life Republican whose Papillion yard sported campaign signs this cycle for Rep. Don Bacon and Sen. Ben Sasse. — Next to that pair of Nebraska Republicans, however …
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