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10:25 AM ET, September 23, 2020

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John F. Harris / Politico:
McConnell Is On The Losing Side of History — And He Knows It  —  Mitch McConnell may be driving American politics to the brink of insanity, but let's assume that the majority leader himself is entirely sane.  —  There are two possible reasons why it would be rational for him to act …
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Manu Raju / CNN:
Democrats weigh how to handle Trump's potential Supreme Court pick after past flap over Barrett's faith  —  Barrett in Indiana ahead of Trump announcement  —  (CNN)In a tense exchange between Amy Coney Barrett and Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2017, the California Democrat sharply questioned whether …
Daniel Trotta / Reuters:
Handmaid's Tale? U.S. Supreme Court candidate's religious community under scrutiny
Abby Livingston / The Texas Tribune:   Ted Cruz blocks a U.S. Senate resolution to honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, citing a “partisan” amendment
Politico:
Senate Republicans bet it all on the Supreme Court — again
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
It's not just Roe v Wade. Trump's Supreme Court pick could challenge Brown v Board of Education
Discussion: NBC News
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Cindy McCain Endorses Biden, Citing Trump's Disparagement of Troops  —  The widow of Senator John McCain praised Joe Biden's “character and integrity” and noted that both he and her family had children who had served in the military.  —  WASHINGTON — Cindy McCain, the widow of Senator John McCain …
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Politico:
Trump falls into the trap he set for Biden  —  Donald Trump will face Joe Biden within days for the first of three presidential debates, and some of the president's supporters are already bracing for a humiliating loss.  —  White House allies, Republican donors and some of Trump's closest advisers worry …
Discussion: The Hill, Common Dreams and Forbes
Washington Post:
Post-ABC polls: Trump and Biden in tight races in Florida, Arizona  —  Sunbelt battlegrounds could hold key to 2020 election outcome  —  President Trump and former vice president Joe Biden are locked in close races in Florida and Arizona, according to a pair of Washington Post-ABC News polls …
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Trump dismisses Cindy McCain's endorsement of Biden
Washington Post:
GOP senators' report calls Hunter Biden's board position with Ukraine firm ‘problematic,’ but fails to show how it changed U.S. policy  —  A pair of Senate Republican committee chairmen released a report Wednesday arguing that Hunter Biden's board position with a Ukrainian energy company was …
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Wall Street Journal:
Republican Probe Finds Hunter Biden's Ukraine Work Raised Concerns With Obama Officials  —  Findings don't support accusation that Joe Biden sought to remove a prosecutor to protect a gas firm whose board Hunter Biden served on  —  WASHINGTON—Two Obama administration officials raised concerns …
Politico:
GOP senators' anti-Biden report repackages old claims  —  For a year, Senate Republicans have teased a bombshell investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden that could rock the former vice president's campaign for the White House.  —  But an interim report, issued by Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) …
Discussion: Axios, New York Times and Breitbart
Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
Senate Report Accuses Hunter Biden Of Paying For Hookers Who May Have Been Trafficked
Discussion: Redstate
Jack Crowe / National Review:   Senate Report Details Hunter Biden's Extensive Foreign Business Dealings — and Obama Officials' Efforts to Distance From Him
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
GOP-led committees release interim report on Hunter Biden, Burisma probe
Discussion: NBC News and Townhall
Barton Gellman / The Atlantic:
The Election That Could Break America  —  Illustrations by Guillem Casasús / Renderings by Borja Alegre  —  There is a cohort of close observers of our presidential elections, scholars and lawyers and political strategists, who find themselves in the uneasy position of intelligence analysts in the months before 9/11.
New York Times:
White House Accused of Intervening to Keep Bolton's Book From Becoming Public  —  A career official said political appointees “commandeered” the prepublication review process.  —  WASHINGTON — White House aides improperly intervened to falsely assert that a manuscript by the former national …
Discussion: The Week and Political Wire
New York Times:
The Russian Trolls Have a Simpler Job Today.  Quote Trump.  —  As part of their attempt to interfere with the 2020 election, Russians are grabbing screenshots of President Trump's tweets, or quoting his own misleading statements, analysts and officials say.
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
CIA clamps down on flow of Russia intelligence to White House  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Gina Haspel and President Donald Trump attend the swearing-in ceremony for Haspel as CIA director May 21, 2018, in Langley, Va. |  The CIA has made it harder for intelligence about Russia to reach …
Jessica Taylor / The Cook Political Report:
Colorado Senate Moves From Toss Up to Lean Democrat  —  With a Supreme Court nominee now all but certain to be confirmed by the GOP-controlled Senate this year (either before or after the election), it looks like there will only be two defections from Republican ranks — Maine Sen. Susan Collins …
Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
U.S. Ambassador to Netherlands Faces Questions About Political Interference  —  The outspoken conservative envoy, Pete Hoekstra, has been criticized for hosting a fund-raiser for a Dutch populist party at the U.S. Embassy.  —  BRUSSELS — One of President Trump's most outspoken ambassadors …
Discussion: Politico
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Tyler Pager / Bloomberg:
Kamala Harris Downplays Debate Skills as Buttigieg Stands In for Pence  — Former prosecutor known for withering attacks on opponents  — Harris created viral moments in presidential primary debates  —  Kamala Harris's team is working to manage public expectations that her upcoming debate …
Discussion: PinkNews, The Hill and Raw Story
Will Weissert / Associated Press:
‘Bidin’ his time': Joe Biden battles being chronically late  —  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden was running late.  Again.  —  On a recent Friday, he'd already apologized for the delayed start to a speech, then taken more questions than expected at a subsequent press conference.
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The Economist:
Estimated Senate seats  —  Our model is updated every day, blending the latest data on polls and fundraising with “fundamental” factors like incumbency and each state's partisan lean.  Below is a chart over time of our best estimate of the most likely number of Senate seats each party will win …
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Five Things Biden and His Allies Should Be Worried About  —  Interestingly, the suburban vote may not be one of them.  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  There are at least five reasons Joe Biden's consistent lead …
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
DHS awarded $6 million in contracts to firm where Acting Secretary Wolf's wife is executive … WASHINGTON — The consulting firm where the wife of acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf is an executive has been awarded more than $6 million in contracts from the Department …
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Says Reporters Covering Protests Deserve to Be Attacked  —  At his rally Tuesday night, President Trump delivered an extended riff on the glories of police attacking journalists.  First, he repeated a mangled version of a story that he told this weekend, about Ali Velshi being struck …
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
House Democrats unveil reforms to ‘prevent future presidential abuses’  —  House Democrats unveiled a sweeping package of reforms Wednesday morning designed to strengthen Congress's ability to check the executive branch and prevent abuses of power, especially by the president.
BuzzFeed News:
The Victims Of Violence During The Kenosha Protests Are Suing Facebook  —  Four people are suing Facebook for its alleged role in enabling the violence that overtook the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August.  —  The five-count civil complaint filed late Tuesday in a Wisconsin federal court argues …
Discussion: The Intercept
New York Times:
Vladimir Putin Thinks He Can Get Away With Anything  —  Why has the poisoning of Alexei Navalny been met with Western silence?  —  The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.  It is separate from the newsroom.
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company:
Facebook will let Trump run ads on election night prematurely claiming victory  —  Facebook banned political ads a week before the election, but it's the period after the election that it should be worried about.  Here's why.  —  At 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on election night …
Discussion: Common Dreams
Alona Ferber / New Statesman:
Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”  —  Thirty years ago, the philosopher Judith Butler, now 64, published a book that revolutionised popular attitudes on gender.  Gender Trouble, the work she is perhaps best known for, introduced ideas of gender as performance.
Discussion: PinkNews
Detroit Free Press:
West Michigan man says yard signs were stolen.  So he put up Joe Biden freeway billboards.  —  After he said eight yard signs were stolen or vandalized, Marshall Stern had had enough.  —  Stern, a Democrat who lives in Newaygo County, a historically red area in west Michigan …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Elena Schneider / Politico:
The RNC is wiring cash to Texas.  Is it a 2020 battleground?  —  The Republican National Committee cut million-dollar checks to six state parties in August as it prepared for the fall campaign.  But one payment stands out amid a torrent of money flowing to traditional battleground states: $1.3 million to once-brick red Texas.
 
 
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Rick Santorum / National Review:
Liberal Bias and All, Social Media Is Still Conservatives' Best Electoral Tool
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Eric Trump Gave ‘False’ Reason for Dodging Deposition, New York AG Says
Greg Palast:
Palast Lawsuit Threat to Georgia Sec of State Raffensperger
Vernon Jones / The National Pulse:
EXC - Democrat Vernon Jones: Trump Did More for Black Americans in 4 Years Than Biden Has in Over 40
David Wasserman / NBC News:
Demographic shifts since 2016 could be enough to defeat Trump. But it's complicated.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Laurence Jarvik / THE LATEST:
Scientific American's Scientifically Indefensible Biden Endorsement
Discussion: Common Dreams
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
In apparent play for QAnon supporters, GOP attack ads claim Democrat lawmakers are defending ‘sex offenders’
 Earlier Items: 
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Trust on the economy bolsters Trump in oh-so-close Florida and Arizona: POLL
Discussion: Washington Post and Bloomberg
Jim Kolbe / Arizona Daily Star:
I'm a conservative and I'm voting for Joe Biden
Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:
Mike Pompeo Hits Campaign Trail for Trump in Shift for Top Diplomat
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Meadows puts agencies on notice about staff shake-up
Discussion: New York Post and ABC News
Wall Street Journal:
Reopening Colleges Likely Fueled Covid-19 Significantly, Study Finds
Discussion: Raw Story and CNN