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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Google Explains Why Search for ‘Where Can I Vote for Harris’ Showed a Map While Similar Trump Search Didn't … Earlier Tuesday, searches on Google for “Where can I vote for Harris?” displayed a “Where to vote” map that lets uses enter their street address to find their polling location.
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
How Trump Accidentally Let His Biggest Advantage Over Harris Slip Away — If you've spent time on social media lately, you've surely encountered the argument that Kamala Harris and Democrats have squandered way too much time and resources on attacking Donald Trump as a sexual predator, dangerous madman, and wannabe fascist dictator.
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Dave Lawler / Axios:
Trump votes in his “last” election: “I don't even want to think about losing” … - He also cast doubt on the efficiency and reliability of voting machines, and called it an “absolute outrage” that key states take so long to count ballots. — But Trump did say there will be “no violence” …
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Haisten Willis / Washington Examiner:
Biden will not attend Harris election night watch party — President Joe Biden will not attend Vice President Kamala Harris's election night watch party in another sign that her campaign is keeping the incumbent at arm's length. — “Tonight, the president and First Lady will watch election results …
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
MAGA outrage over wives voting for Kamala Harris is funny — but it's also dangerous
MAGA outrage over wives voting for Kamala Harris is funny — but it's also dangerous
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Twitchy, Crooks and Liars and Agence France-Presse
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Election Live Updates: A Caustic and Turbulent Race Is in Voters' Hands
Election Live Updates: A Caustic and Turbulent Race Is in Voters' Hands
Juliann Ventura / The Hill:
Mike Johnson on certifying election results: ‘Everybody needs to calm down’
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Advisers urge Donald Trump to declare victory prematurely on election night
Advisers urge Donald Trump to declare victory prematurely on election night
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Raw Story, Wired and Iowa Starting Line
Tom Jones / Poynter:
What to watch — and what to avoid — on election night
What to watch — and what to avoid — on election night
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Hollywood Life, Popular Information and Washington Post
Jack Forrest / CNN:
Harris and Trump tie in Dixville Notch midnight vote to kick off Election Day
Harris and Trump tie in Dixville Notch midnight vote to kick off Election Day
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CNN:
Trump campaign denies and revokes journalists' election night credentials after critical coverage — New York CNN — Journalists from multiple news organizations have been denied credentials to former President Donald Trump's election night watch event in West Palm Beach, Florida …
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Forbes and Politico, more at Mediagazer »
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Adriana Gomez Licon / Associated Press:
Trump snaps at reporter when asked about abortion: ‘Stop talking about that’
Trump snaps at reporter when asked about abortion: ‘Stop talking about that’
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Charlotte Klein / New York Magazine:
Trump Campaign Finishes the Election by Taking Revenge on the Media
Trump Campaign Finishes the Election by Taking Revenge on the Media
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Status and New York Times
CNN:
Non-credible bomb threats against Atlanta-area polling places were from Russia, secretary of state says — Several non-credible bomb threats that briefly disrupted voting at two Georgia polling places originated from Russia, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told reporters Tuesday.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation:
FBI Statement on Bomb Threats to Polling Locations
FBI Statement on Bomb Threats to Polling Locations
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Federal Bureau of Investigation:
FBI Statement on Inauthentic Use of Bureau Name, Insignia in Promoting False Election-Related Narratives
FBI Statement on Inauthentic Use of Bureau Name, Insignia in Promoting False Election-Related Narratives
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Washington Examiner, Washington Times, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, New Republic, Bridge Michigan, CBS News, Mother Jones, ABC News, Axios and The 19th
Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:
A random number generator determined the “favorite” in our forecast — When I say the odds in this year's presidential race are about as close as you can possibly get to 50/50, I'm not exaggerating. — At exactly midnight on Tuesday, I pressed the “go” button for the final time on our election model this year.
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Axios, Reason, Daily Mail, Hollywood Life, The Independent, The Hill, HotAir, Semafor and IJR
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Trump votes, and then utters 15 falsehoods in 15 minutes
Trump votes, and then utters 15 falsehoods in 15 minutes
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Raw Story
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
How the Election Could Unfold: Four Scenarios
How the Election Could Unfold: Four Scenarios
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Digby's Hullabaloo, Fox News and NPR
New York Times:
Musk to Spend Election Night With Trump — Elon Musk has spent $119 million on a super PAC supporting Donald Trump and held events on his behalf. But his ownership of X is especially valuable. — Elon Musk plans to spend election night with former President Donald J. Trump …
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Business Insider, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Futurism, Rolling Stone, The Sun and Semafor
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Shia Kapos / Politico:
Kellyanne Conway worries about Trump's safety on Election Day
Kellyanne Conway worries about Trump's safety on Election Day
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The Hill, Twitchy, Louder With Crowder and New York Post
NBC News:
Election 2024 live updates: Latest news and results as Americans head to the polls to vote for Trump or Harris
Election 2024 live updates: Latest news and results as Americans head to the polls to vote for Trump or Harris
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The Sun, The US Sun, Oregonian, ABC News, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, Time, Townhall, Raw Story, SC Daily Gazette, LGBTQ Nation, Washington Times, Politico, The 19th and Votebeat
Reuters:
Musk and X are epicenter of US election misinformation, experts say — False or misleading claims by billionaire Elon Musk about the U.S. election have amassed 2 billion views on social media platform X this year, according to a report by non-profit group Center for Countering Digital Hate.
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TechCrunch, The Hill, The Independent and Center for Countering …, more at Techmeme »
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Joedy McCreary / USA Today:
Video of man planning to vote twice for Harris is Russian disinformation | Fact check
Video of man planning to vote twice for Harris is Russian disinformation | Fact check
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CBS News, Washington Examiner and Associated Press
Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Rapid spread of election disinformation stokes alarm
Rapid spread of election disinformation stokes alarm
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Axios, Google Help Center and The Times of Israel, more at Mediagazer »
NBC News:
NBC News Exit Poll: Voters express deep concern about America's democracy and economy — Women are twice as likely as men to rank abortion as their top issue, according to preliminary results from the national survey. — The state of democracy and the economy in the United States …
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Josef Federman / Associated Press:
Israel's Netanyahu dismisses his defense minister as wars rage. Protests erupt across country — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday dismissed his popular defense minister, Yoav Gallant, in a surprise announcement that came as the country is embroiled in wars on multiple fronts across the region.
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Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Giuliani Moved Possessions From N.Y. Apartment as Creditors Closed In — Lawyers for the two election workers seeking to collect on a $148 million defamation judgment against Rudolph W. Giuliani found that he had largely cleared out his Upper East Side home.
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Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
X Is a White-Supremacist Site … X has always had a nazi problem. I've covered the site, formerly known as Twitter, for more than a decade and reported extensively on its harassment problems, its verification (and then de-verification) of a white nationalist, and the glut of anti-Semitic hatred that roiled the platform in 2016.
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Associated Press and Check Your Fact
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Trump-loving evangelical leader busted with hard drive full of appalling images — The former head of a Christian conservative voter outreach has been arrested for possession of child sexual abuse materials. — Jason C. Yates, former CEO of My Faith Votes, has been charged in Minnesota …
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Elon Musk is sued over $1 million election giveaway — Elon Musk was sued in a proposed class action on Tuesday by registered voters who signed his petition to support the Constitution for a chance to win his $1 million-a-day giveaway, and now claim it was a fraud.
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Vance says he's lost friends over Trump support — Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, said Tuesday that he's lost friends over his support for former President Trump. — “We can't discard friends, and we can't discard family members,” Vance said in a clip …
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Politico:
Judge shreds RNC's ‘red herring’ attempt to invalidate Georgia votes — A federal judge in Georgia said an eleventh-hour bid by the Republican Party to set aside some absentee votes from Democratic-leaning counties was rife with dishonesty, “red herrings” and demands that would have required him to break his oath to the Constitution.
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Rolling Stone, Election Law Blog, Scripps News, The Hill, RedState and The Political Insider
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
Short On Cash After 2016 Election, Trump Secured Secret Loan — Even as Americans head to the polls, secrets are still emerging from the former president's first stint in office, like the fact that he got a hidden loan around the time he became president. — The last time Donald Trump won …
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Yash Roy / The Hill:
Capitol Police arrest man who ‘smelled like fuel’ and had torch and flare gun — The U.S. Capitol Visitors Center was closed Tuesday afternoon, after Capitol Police arrested a man during their security screening process who was carrying a torch and flare gun.
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Fox News:
Police arrest man at US Capitol smelling of fuel who had manifesto, flare gun and blow torch
Police arrest man at US Capitol smelling of fuel who had manifesto, flare gun and blow torch
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Politico, HotAir, Townhall, The Western Journal, Reuters, RedState, Foreign Policy, Sun-Sentinel, IJR, Bridge Michigan, The Gateway Pundit, E&E News, Associated Press and Washington Times
Julia Mueller / The Hill:
Michigan on pace to break voter turnout records, official says — Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) said Tuesday that the Great Lake State, a critical battleground in the presidential race, is on track to break voter turnout records. — “Michiganders are already voting in record numbers.
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Foreign Policy, PolitiFact, Bridge Michigan and Michigan Advance
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
How are things looking in Pennsylvania? Dems are feeling cautiously optimistic — How are Democrats feeling in Pennsylvania, the most pivotal battleground in the country? Cautiously optimistic. I surveyed 10 Dem elected officials and strategists across the state and, to a person …
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