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9:45 PM ET, October 20, 2016

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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
GOP braces for Trump loss, roiled by refusal to accept election results  —  LAS VEGAS — A wave of apprehension and anguish swept the Republican Party on Thursday, with many GOP leaders alarmed by Donald Trump's refusal to accept the outcome of the election and concluding it is probably …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Jonathan Swan / The Hill:
Trump: I'll accept election results — if I win … opened up a Thursday campaign rally by saying he'll accept the results of the presidential election as long as he wins.  —  “I will totally accept the result of this great and historic presidential election,” Trump told supporters in Delaware, Ohio.
Madeline Conway / Politico:
LePage calls Trump's election results comment ‘an absolute stupid move’
Discussion: State & Capitol and Politicker
Nathaniel Meyersohn / BuzzFeed:
Paul LePage On Trump's Election Results Answer: “C'mon, Get Over Yourself”
Discussion: Hot Air, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Associated Press:
GOP, Democrats React to Trump on Accepting Election Outcome
Discussion: ABC News and Politico
New York Times:
Donald Trump Says He Will Accept Election Outcome ('if I Win')
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump national political director ‘steps back’ from campaign  —  Jim Murphy, Donald Trump's national political director, is no longer playing an active role on the campaign, according to three sources briefed on the move - a troubling development for the Republican nominee coming just 19 days before the election.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Flake says it might be Garland time  —  Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake has maintained for months that Republicans should take up Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination if it looks like the presidential contest is a lost cause for the GOP.  —  It's looking about that time, Flake said in an interview on Thursday.
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Libby Nelson / Vox:
Watch Michelle Obama's Arizona speech: live stream and what to expect after the Clinton-Trump debate  —  First lady Michelle Obama, whose last major campaign appearance for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton was an emotional speech on Donald Trump's comments about women …
Discussion: ABC News
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Liz Plank / Vox:
“Nasty woman” becomes the feminist rallying cry Hillary Clinton was waiting for
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard:
How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell's Gmail Accounts  —  On March 19 of this year, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta received an alarming email that appeared to come from Google.  —  The email, however, didn't come from the internet giant.
Discussion: Esquire, RedState, Hot Air and The Week
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Tim Johnson / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
WikiLeaks claims sham U.S. firm is trying to smear Assange
Discussion: RedState and Sputnik International
Eric Geller / Politico:
Russian hackers infiltrated Podesta's email, security firm says
Discussion: AOL and Motherboard
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton, Mocking and Taunting in Debate, Turns the Tormentor  —  She mansplained him.  “Let me translate that if I can,” Hillary Clinton said dryly after Donald J. Trump talked up his tax plan.  —  She interrupted him.  When Mr. Trump boasted of the gilded Las Vegas hotel that bears his name …
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Kevin Tampone / Syracuse Post-Standard:
SUNY professor says Trump win at least 87 percent certain; other polls ‘bunk’  —  Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the South Florida Fairgrounds in West Palm Beach, Fla  —  Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the South Florida Fairgrounds in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Daily Wire
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Obama Roasts Rubio: You Call Trump A ‘Con Artist’ But You'll Vote For Him?  —  President Barack Obama read Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), and, by proxy, the entire Republican Party, the riot act on Thursday for supporting Donald Trump despite previously condemning him.
Discussion: alan.com
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Associated Press:
Obama: Trump ‘Dangerous’ for Suggesting He Won't Concede
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Ali Rogin / ABC News:
Obama Calls For Public Option, Which He Once Hedged Against
Discussion: Politico
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Chris Wallace said Trump's debate answers didn't surprise him — but he did have a glass of wine (or more) once it was over  —  Asked if he will accept the results on election day, Donald Trump tells the country he wants to “leave you in suspense.”  —  Fox News anchor Chris Wallace landed …
Discussion: Mediaite and TVNewser
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Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Why Fox's Chris Wallace was a debate night winner  —  So Debate No. 3 had one clearcut winner: Fox News' Chris Wallace.  —  This has has been a challenging year indeed for presidential debate moderators, in a campaign filled with all manner of bizarre side issues and a boisterous …
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Trump used his foundation to fund guerrilla filmmaker James O'Keefe  —  He funneled at least $10,000 to O'Keefe's Project Veritas  —  In Wednesday's presidential debate, Donald Trump claimed that new videos proved that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had “hired people” and “paid them $1,500” …
John DiStaso / WMUR:
WMUR poll: Hassan takes 8 percentage point lead over Ayotte … DURHAM, N.H. —  For the first time in New Hampshire's blockbuster U.S. Senate campaign, the race is no longer a virtual dead heat.  Gov. Maggie Hassan has taken an 8 percentage point lead over Sen. Kelly Ayotte, according to a new poll.
Chris Lehmann / The Baffler:
Trump TV?  —  Until very recently, it seemed self-evident that Donald Trump was the biggest raging moron in American public life.  But that was before CNN president Jeff Zucker's star turn before the guardians of establishment wisdom at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
Rasmussen Reports:
White House Watch: Trump Edges Ahead  —  It's too early to measure the impact of last night's final presidential debate, but Republican Donald Trump now has a three-point lead nationally on Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.  —  The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone …
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Video shows Trump being turned away at polling sites in 2004  —  being turned away by multiple polling sites in 2004 made the rounds on social media Thursday in the wake of the candidate's refusal to say that he will accept losing the presidential race.  —  The video, from an episode of NBC's …
Discussion: Raw Story
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Washington's foreign policy elite breaks with Obama over Syrian bloodshed  —  There is one corner of Washington where Donald Trump's scorched-earth presidential campaign is treated as a mere distraction and where bipartisanship reigns.  In the rarefied world of the Washington foreign policy establishment …
Stephen L. Carter / Bloomberg:
Trump or No Trump, Elections Have Been Stolen  —  If Donald Trump loses the presidential race, I hope that he will concede and move on.  That's what democracy demands.  But the current histrionics over his insistence that the process is rigged against him are overblown.
 
 
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Bryan Lowry / Wichita Eagle:
Kansas House leader calls Hitler's words ‘profound’ in Facebook post
Discussion: Raw Story
Jim Michaels / USA Today:
U.S. service member killed in northern Iraq
Discussion: The Week
Guardian:
Trump loyalists plan own exit poll amid claims of ‘rigged’ election
WCMH-TV:
WATCH: Colleen Marshall's 1-on-1 interview with Donald Trump
Discussion: Politicus USA and alan.com
Emma Dumain / Post and Courier:
South Carolinians raise eyebrows at Trump's suggestions of rigged election
The Intercept:
Debate Moderators Under the Spell of Deficit-Obsessed Billionaire Pete Peterson
Mark Steyn / Steyn Online:
Laws are for the Little People
Discussion: The Resurgent and Power Line
Derek Hunter / Townhall.com:
The System Really Is Rigged
Discussion: NewsBusters
 Earlier Items: 
Esther Yu Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
Another woman just came forward to say Trump assaulted her
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation
Ben Shapiro / National Review:
The Media Will Learn to Love Trump in Due Time
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Hillary Clinton in 2002: George W. Bush Was ‘Selected, Not Elected’
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
With 19 Days to Go, Clinton's Lead Is Bigger Than Ever
Discussion: Florida Politics