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2:50 PM ET, September 23, 2020

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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: Raw Story, The Hill and Common Dreams
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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 …
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Cindy McCain Endorses Biden, Citing Trump's Disparagement of Troops
ABC News:
Democrat Mark Kelly says winner of Arizona special Senate election should be ‘promptly seated’
Discussion: Vox and The Hill
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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Peter Baker / New York Times:
With Nothing Else Working, Trump Races to Make a New Supreme Court Justice the Issue
Politico:
Democrats worry Feinstein can't handle Supreme Court battle  —  As the Senate prepares for yet another brutal Supreme Court nomination fight, one particularly sensitive issue is creating apprehension among Democrats: what to do with 87-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee.
Discussion: Breitbart, Law & Crime and The Hill
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Democrats shoot down talk of expanding Supreme Court
Manu Raju / CNN:
Democrats weigh how to handle Trump's potential Supreme Court pick after past flap over Barrett's faith
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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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden
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.
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Washington Post:   Breonna Taylor grand jury will present its report to judge this afternoon
Jim Acosta / CNN:
A ‘distressed’ Birx questions how long she can remain on White House task force, sources say  —  (CNN)Once a fixture at the administration's coronavirus briefings, Dr. Deborah Birx has confided to aides and friends that she has become so unhappy with what she sees as her diminished role …
Vicky Prodeline / Polls:
Countervailing Shifts in a Stable Race  —  Democrat makes gains in special Senate election  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Donald Trump and Joe Biden remain locked in a tight race for Georgia's electoral votes according to the Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.
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QU Poll:
Release Detail  —  September 23, 2020 - Biden Keeps Above 50 Percent Mark With Steady Lead Over Trump, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 63% Don't Expect To Know Winner Of 2020 Race On Election Night  —  In the race for the White House, former Vice President Joe Biden leads President …
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.
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Kate Nocera / Axios:
House Democrats unveil sweeping reforms package to curtail presidential abuses
Discussion: Townhall, POLITICUSUSA and Bloomberg
Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Allegations of racism have marked Trump's presidency and become key issue as election nears  —  In unguarded moments with senior aides, President Trump has maintained that Black Americans have mainly themselves to blame in their struggle for equality, hindered more by lack of initiative …
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 …
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 …
Nancy Benac / Associated Press:
Dear Donald, Dear Mr. President: A Trump-Nixon '80s tale  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — They were two men in Manhattan who craved the same thing: validation.  One was a brash, young real estate developer looking to put his stamp on New York, the other a disgraced elder statesman bent on repairing his reputation.
Michael S. Schmidt / NBC News:
The story of how Trump chose children over country — and the men who tried to stop him  —  This piece has been adapted from “Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President” by Michael S. Schmidt.  —  Counterintelligence officials had concerns about the attempts …
Erica Chayes Wida / TODAY.com:
Costco pulls Palmetto Cheese from 120 stores after owner calls BLM ‘terror organization’  —  Costco recently removed a popular pimento cheese brand from 120 of its stores after the owner called the Black Lives Matter movement a “terror organization” on his public Facebook.
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
The Metropolitan Opera Won't Reopen for Another Year  —  The nation's largest performing arts organization, shut by the coronavirus pandemic, sends a chilling signal that American cultural life is still far from resuming.  —  The Metropolitan Opera announced Wednesday that the still-untamed …
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 …
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 …
 
 
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Mueller Failed to Follow Trump's Money Trail
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The Hate at the Heart of Conspiracy Theory
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump again minimizes the pandemic as officials warn of a fall surge
Emily Stewart / Vox:
We can end America's unemployment nightmare
John Caniglia / Plain Dealer:
Voters' groups say poor face 90-minute travel time to deliver ballots to Cuyahoga County's lone drop box
Ned Ryun / American Greatness:
In Michigan and Pennsylvania, the Democrats Plan to Cheat
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 Earlier Items: 
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company:
Facebook will let Trump run ads on election night prematurely claiming victory
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Eric Trump Gave ‘False’ Reason for Dodging Deposition, New York AG Says
New York Times:
White House Accused of Improperly Politicizing Review of John Bolton's Book
Alona Ferber / New Statesman:
Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”
Discussion: PinkNews
New York Times:
The Russian Trolls Have a Simpler Job Today. Quote Trump.
Discussion: Bulwark+ and Raw Story