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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 …
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Raw Story, SCOTUSblog, Washington Free Beacon and Eschaton
The Daily Beast:
Trump Whines: Why Isn't Barr Coming to Save Me? — The desire within Trump and his senior staff for a DOJ rescue was palpable, as the vote count kept going more and more in Joe Biden's direction. … In the days since an inconclusive election night likely threw his presidency into the heap of one-termers …
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Is Trump campaign urging Pennsylvania supporters to mail late ballots? — President Donald Trump's campaign in Wisconsin has desperately sought volunteers to call Pennsylvanians and urge them to mail in absentee ballots by Friday — even as the president himself rails against late votes and the ongoing vote count.
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Boston Herald
The Daily Beast:
Trump National Security Officials Horrified by His Election Lies — Top national security officials are preparing for the president of the United States to refuse to listen to the election results, even when they are officially declared. … Even members of President Trump's own national security team …
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Raw Story, USA Today, Politico and The Guardian
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 …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Election 2020 live updates: Biden takes lead over Trump in Georgia count; Pa. continues to tighten
Election 2020 live updates: Biden takes lead over Trump in Georgia count; Pa. continues to tighten
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NBC News, KCLO-TV, Washington Times, The Guardian, The Sun, One America News Network and Japan Times
Kathleen Hunter / Bloomberg:
Biden Takes Lead From Trump in Georgia for First Time
Biden Takes Lead From Trump in Georgia for First Time
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Patricia Murphy / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Kelly Loeffler donates to Trump recount fund
Kelly Loeffler donates to Trump recount fund
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Financial Times
Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
Donald Trump Declares Election Fraud, ‘If You Count the Legal Votes I Win’
Donald Trump Declares Election Fraud, ‘If You Count the Legal Votes I Win’
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New York Times, NPR, The Gateway Pundit, POLITICUSUSA, hotair.com, CBS News, Foreign Policy, The Hill, Reuters and Los Angeles Times
Ebony Bowden / New York Post:
Trump to speak from White House as vote count leans toward Biden
Trump to speak from White House as vote count leans toward Biden
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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 …
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Politico:
Georgia preps for war with Senate majority 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, but both parties are still short of a majority in the chamber.
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Politico:
Dem leaders warn liberal rhetoric could blow Georgia races
Dem leaders warn liberal rhetoric could blow Georgia races
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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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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 …
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USA Today:
Donald Trump's attack on election integrity cries for Republican come-to-Goldwater moment — Our View: It's time for GOP elders to truly put America first and stand up for the nation's democratic processes. … Americans have been blessed with steady leadership at critical moments …
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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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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Heart of John Lewis' district deals blow to Trump — It wasn't absentee ballots in populous Fulton or DeKalb counties that pushed Joe Biden beyond President Donald Trump in Georgia, nor was it one of the newly-minted Democratic northern suburbs.It was Clayton, the south metro county that's …
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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.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trumpworld rages behind the scenes — Senior White House and Trump campaign officials are complaining bitterly about poor internal communication, blaming colleagues, pondering what jobs they might try to get next year, and lashing out at their new enemy: Fox News.
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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.
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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Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Facebook, Alarmed by Discord Over Vote Count, Is Said to Be Taking Action
Facebook, Alarmed by Discord Over Vote Count, Is Said to Be Taking Action
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The Verge, Mashable, Business Insider, Politico and The Markup, more at Techmeme »
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 …
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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 …
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Fox News, Portland Mercury, NBC News, Business Insider, Political Wire, Mock Paper Scissors and Vanity Fair
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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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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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.