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6:50 AM ET, November 6, 2020

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6abc:
Philly police investigating alleged plot to attack Pennsylvania Convention Center  —  PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Philadelphia police are investigating an alleged plot to attack the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on Thursday night.  —  Action News has learned that police got a tip about a group …
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The Daily Beast:
Local GOP Pushes Trump Voters to Cast Ballots After Election  —  An email obtained by The Daily Beast shows Republicans in Wisconsin urging volunteers to contact Pennsylvania Trumpers to get them to turn in ballots days after the election … Hours before President Donald Trump went …
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump prepares to launch a second term early, even without winning  —  President Donald Trump has struggled to convince the country he already won the election.  So he's just going to do the next best thing: Act like he's starting his second term early.  —  Trump and his aides have settled …
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Washington Post:
Trump turns angry and despondent as possible defeat looms  —  By Thursday morning, President Trump was angry and defiant.  —  The polls had closed more than a full 24 hours before, and as several key states continued to update their ballot counts, the election increasingly felt …
New York Times:
In Torrent of Falsehoods, Trump Claims Election Is Being Stolen  —  Most television networks cut away from the statement President Trump gave Thursday night from the White House briefing room on the grounds that what he was saying was not true.  —  WASHINGTON — Even for President Trump …
Ebony Bowden / New York Post:
Trump to speak from White House as vote count leans toward Biden
Politico:
Dems and GOP gear up for overtime in Georgia with Senate on the line  —  Democrats and Republicans are gearing up for an unprecedented two-month battle for control of the Senate that centers on just one state: Georgia.  —  Democrats failed to deliver in Senate battlegrounds this week …
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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.
Patricia Murphy / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Kelly Loeffler donates to Trump recount fund
Discussion: Financial Times
Kathleen Hunter / Bloomberg:
Biden Takes Lead From Trump in Georgia for First Time  —  Democratic nominee Joe Biden edged ahead of President Donald Trump in the state of Georgia, a major shift in the Republican stronghold that hasn't backed a Democrat for president since 1992.  —  Biden only needs a win in one more state …
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Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Donald Trump Declares Election Fraud, ‘If You Count the Legal Votes I Win’
David Ingram / NBC News:
Twitter bans Steve Bannon after call for beheadings; YouTube removes video  —  Twitter banned an account associated with Steve Bannon on Thursday and YouTube removed one of his videos after the former Trump adviser called for the beheadings of two federal officials.
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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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BuzzFeed News:
Facebook Has A Metric For “Violence And Incitement Trends.”  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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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.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Chris Christie tells Trump to stop inflaming and show the evidence  —  One of President Trump's top allies publicly rebuked him on Thursday night for failing to produce evidence to support his unfounded claims that Democrats were stealing the election from him.
Discussion: The Week and Mediaite
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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Adav Noti / Just Security:
No, State Legislatures Cannot Overrule the Popular Vote  —  One of the very last-ditch efforts Trump proponents have floated since Election Day has been that state legislatures should simply overrule the results of the presidential election in their states.  This proposition is so radically un-American …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Vox
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 …
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
What's Trump's Endgame if the Race Is Called for Biden?  —  This piece was originally published on the Election Law Blog.  —  Although things remain uncertain, it appears that Joe Biden could soon be declared by news organizations as the winner of the presidential race.
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Secret Service plans to ramp up protection of Biden in anticipation of his possible win  —  The Secret Service is sending reinforcements to Wilmington, Del., starting Friday to help protect former vice president Joe Biden as his campaign prepares for the possibility he may soon claim victory …
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 …
Arizona Republic:
Trump draws closer to Biden in Arizona ballot count, but falls off pace needed to win state  —  President Donald Trump inched closer to former Vice President Joe Biden as results from Thursday's ballot counting were released, but he fell off the pace needed to win Arizona's 11 electoral votes.
Discussion: Slate and Political Wire
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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
 
 
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Tom Nichols / USA Today:
Donald Trump's most historic and dishonest press conference
Elisha Maldonado / Washington Examiner:
Taiwan fears it will become the next Hong Kong
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
One Day in America: More Than 117,000 Virus Cases
John Sexton / hotair.com:
Vox: The Left Should Reconsider Its Commitment To Intersectional Politics (Aka 'the Latinx Problem')
Discussion: Vox and New York Times
David Marcus / The Federalist:
The U.S. Supreme Court Should Act On Pennsylvania's Vote Count
Blake Montgomery / The Daily Beast:
Special Counsel's Office Opens Hatch Act Investigation Into Trump's Use of White House for Campaign Events
Discussion: Reuters and Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
George Conway / Washington Post:
A presidency fueled by lies finishes with the worst of them all
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Two states to require masks in public at all times, regardless of distance from others
Discussion: Washington Examiner
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Michael S. Rosenwald / New York Times:
Mike Shatzkin, a publishing consultant who was among the first in the industry to shake publishers into confronting the digital disruption, died on Nov. 7 at 77

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft

 
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