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Sabato's Crystal Ball:
A Last Word on Virginia — Dear Readers: Join us Thursday, Nov. 4 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. for our annual American Democracy Conference. The virtual event will begin with a presentation by Project Home Fire's Larry Schack and Mick McWilliams on our ongoing polling and data analytics project.
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Bob Barnard / WTTG-TV:
FOX 5 EXCLUSIVE: Youngkin ahead of McAuliffe in FOX 5 exclusive Virginia gubernatorial race poll — FOX 5 EXCLUSIVE: Exclusive new poll shows Youngkin ahead of McAuliffe in Virginia's gubernatorial race — The results of an exclusive new poll reveal just how close Virginia's gubernatorial …
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New York Post, Forbes, Breitbart, Townhall and HotAir
Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
Virginia Buries an Enduring Political Myth — The political universe Tuesday night will look a lot like the start of a NASCAR auto race, with the Virginia governor's election serving as the starting gun for the next year — or two or three — of campaign diagnostics.
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Washington Free Beacon, National Review and Outside the Beltway
Annika Kim Constantino / CNBC:
Early voting hits record high in Virginia ahead of dead-heat governor's race
Early voting hits record high in Virginia ahead of dead-heat governor's race
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Mother Jones, CNN, Fox News, Mediaite, Vanity Fair and Political Wire
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Frustrated Democratic donors threaten to hold back midterm donations over infighting in Congress, tight Virginia race
Frustrated Democratic donors threaten to hold back midterm donations over infighting in Congress, tight Virginia race
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Washington Times, Fox News, The Federalist and Daily Kos
Allahpundit / HotAir:
On second thought: This Virginia race isn't about Trump, says McAuliffe
On second thought: This Virginia race isn't about Trump, says McAuliffe
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The American Independent, RedState, Townhall, Fox News and The Guardian
Jonathan Tamari / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Senate candidate Sean Parnell's wife testified that he tried to choke her and hit their children — BUTLER, Pa. — The estranged wife of Sean Parnell — the candidate endorsed by former President Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania …
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
An unusual alliance appears likely to fracture Texas's abortion ban — Most of the justices seem to understand that SB 8 is a direct attack on the Constitution. — The abortion providers suing to block SB 8, Texas's aggressive anti-abortion law, came into Monday's Supreme Court argument with four votes on their side.
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New York Magazine, Slate, Kaiser Health News, The Daily Signal, SCOTUSblog and Daily Kos
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Appears Open to Letting Providers Challenge Texas Abortion Law — The Supreme Court heard two challenges on Monday to the law, which bars most abortions in Texas after about six weeks of pregnancy. The first was brought by abortion providers in Texas, and the second was brought by the Justice Department.
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The Daily Beast, Insider, Washington Examiner, HuffPost, CNBC, Los Angeles Times, Washington Times, Washington Post, Common Dreams, Roll Call, Reuters, Metro.co.uk, Voice of America, Associated Press, Mercury News, KTLA, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, Politico, Indian Country Today, Bloomberg and UPI
New York Post:
Here's how many NYPD cops are on unpaid leave over vax mandate — Only a few a dozen NYPD members were placed on unpaid leave Monday after refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine — but thousands of unvaccinated employees remain on the job with pending exemption requests, the city's top cop said.
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The New Civil Rights Movement and Alternet.org
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Gun dealers sell parts, ammo using anti-Biden meme 'Let's go, Brandon' — It arose from a crowd chant at the NASCAR racetrack in Talladega, Ala. — Gun dealers are marketing weapon parts and ammunition using a right-wing slogan widely understood as code for profanity directed at President Joe Biden.
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Fox News, The Federalist, Townhall, TheBlaze and Twitchy
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Marist Poll:
NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist National Poll: Trust in Elections, Threat to Democracy, Biden Approval, November 2021 — Americans See a Serious Threat to Democracy; Trust Elections Largely on Partisan Basis — A majority of Americans (62%) say they will trust the results of the 2024 election …
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
More Democrats in new poll want someone other than Biden as party's presidential nominee
More Democrats in new poll want someone other than Biden as party's presidential nominee
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RedState
Sarah D. / Twitchy:
Axios is pleased to report that Twitter will “pre-bunk' climate misinformation,' i.e. any inconvenient truths that hurt preferred climate change narrative — Joe Biden's in Glasgow for the UN Climate Change Conference, because the international community needs to come together to fight for climate justice.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Exclusive: Twitter takes aim at climate misinformation during COP26
Exclusive: Twitter takes aim at climate misinformation during COP26
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Washington Post and Protocol
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo: Note to Democrats: It's not 2020 anymore — Welcome to Byron York's Daily Memo newsletter. — Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to receive the newsletter. — NOTE TO DEMOCRATS: IT'S NOT 2020 ANYMORE. There's been a lot of attention paid to President Joe Biden's falling job approval rating.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Poll shows Democrats want to replace Biden on the ballot in 2024. A look at why.
Poll shows Democrats want to replace Biden on the ballot in 2024. A look at why.
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Insider, The Western Journal, National Review and spectatorworld.com
Harry Enten / CNN:
Why Democrats are in a lot of trouble in Virginia
Why Democrats are in a lot of trouble in Virginia
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Reuters, Mediaite, Forbes, Fox News, Los Angeles Times, Breitbart, CBS News, Washington Monthly, Wall Street Journal and Associated Press
Washington Post:
Manchin calls on Democrats to slow down on $1.75 trillion spending package, putting imminent House vote in jeopardy — West Virginia Democrat raised concerns about debt and inflation and demanded that House lawmakers approve a separate infrastructure bill. — Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) …
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Bill Scher / HotAir:
Taking the infrastructure bill hostage didn't work
Taking the infrastructure bill hostage didn't work
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National Review and Real Clear Politics
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Donald Trump Is Now the Odds-On Favorite to Be President in 2025 — Be very afraid. — So Donald Trump is now the odds-on favorite to be president of the United States in 2025. — I know that lede sentence was also the headline, but I wanted you to read it one more time just to let it really settle …
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Washington Examiner, CNN, Raw Story, Alternet.org, Morning Shots, HotAir and The Atlantic
Natasha Khan / Wall Street Journal:
China Locks 30,000 Visitors Inside Shanghai Disneyland After One Guest Got Covid-19 — Guests are required to take coronavirus test to exit after a positive case shuts down the park — HONG KONG—Shanghai Disneyland was temporarily shut down from Sunday after a visitor was found to be Covid-19-positive …
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National Review, The Daily Caller, TheBlaze, NPR and ABC7
Juan Williams / The Hill:
‘Parents’ rights' is code for white race politics — After white supremacists spilled blood in defense of keeping up Confederate statues in 2017, the GOP candidate for governor of Virginia, Ed Gillespie, said the monuments should stay up as a matter of heritage and history.
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Reason, The Daily Caller, Twitchy and Fox News
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Richard Hanania / Richard Hanania's Newsletter:
Liberals Read, Conservatives Watch TV — Explaining why Trump emerged on the right, why only liberals debate filibuster reform, how anti-vax became a partisan issue, how David Shor is half right, “Dems are the real racists” and much else. … How are conservatives and liberals different?
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Greene accrues at least $48K in fines for ignoring House mask mandate — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has been reprimanded by the House sergeant-at-arms at least 20 times this year for refusing to wear a mask in the chamber, which has added up to $48,000 worth of associated fines.
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Washington Post and Insider
The Atlantic:
What Will Drive China to War? — President Xi Jinping declared in July that those who get in the way of China's ascent will have their “heads bashed bloody against a Great Wall of steel.” The People's Liberation Army Navy is churning out ships at a rate not seen since World War II …
Molly Ball / TIME:
How Big Business Got Woke and Dumped Trump — The CEOs started calling before President Trump had even finished speaking. What America's titans of industry were hearing from the Commander in Chief was sending them into a panic. — It was Nov. 5, 2020, two days after the election …
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Alternet.org and Raw Story
Lindsay Ellis / Chronicle of Higher Education:
U. of Florida's Accreditor Will Investigate Denial of Professors' Voting-Rights Testimony — The University of Florida's accreditor plans to investigate the flagship campus over the revelation that administrators denied three professors' requests to serve as paid experts in a voting-rights lawsuit.
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Washington Post, FIRE, Daily Kos and Reason
Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Trump: Until recently Israel ‘literally owned Congress’ — and that was a good thing — (JTA) — Former President Donald Trump told a conservative Jewish radio host that Israel until recently “literally owned Congress,” a claim similar to those that have triggered accusations of antisemitism against other politicians.
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Alternet.org, Mediaite and Raw Story
Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
A Year Ahead of the Midterms, Suburban Erosion Has Driven Biden's State-by-State Decline — Polling in all 50 states shows suburbanites who have been key to Democratic victories have largely turned on the president — In most states, the change in sentiment about Biden among suburban voters tracks …
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Josh Mandel Might Be Craven Enough to Win — Back when the Ohio Senate candidate Josh Mandel was a young man in politics, he had a spiel in his stump speech about bristling when people told him to wait his turn. Now, as Mandel approaches middle age, it seems that those people were onto something …