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New York Post:
Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad  —  Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing …
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New York Post:
Hunter Biden emails show leveraging connections with his father to boost Burisma pay  —  Hunter Biden discussed leveraging his connection to his father in a bid to boost his pay from a Ukrainian natural-gas company, according to an e-mail he sent around the time he joined the firm's corporate board.
New York Post:
Obama conference call leaked to Burisma: Biden emails
Discussion: Townhall
Miranda Devine / New York Post:   Voters have right to know what Joe Biden did for son Hunter
Caleb Parke / Fox News:
Alyssa Farah slams Pelosi for calling CNN apologist for GOP: ‘News to me’
Discussion: The Federalist and Townhall
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
The Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court Hearings Are an Enlightening Sham  —  If Supreme Court nomination hearings are thought of as quasi-judicial proceedings to determine whether someone deserves to spend decades on the nation's highest legal bench, it was clear well before Tuesday morning …
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Sarah Jones / New York Magazine:
Amy Coney Barrett Is the Perfect Victim for the Christian Right
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
NBC Says Trump Will Hold Town Hall Meeting Thursday, Competing Against Biden  —  President Trump may not be debating Joseph R. Biden Jr. on the same stage on Thursday night as originally planned.  But the two candidates will still face off head-to-head.  —  NBC News confirmed on Wednesday …
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NBC News:
NBC News to host town hall with Trump on Thursday  —  President Donald Trump will take part in an NBC News town hall event in Miami on Thursday, the network announced on Wednesday.  —  The town hall, moderated by “TODAY” anchor Savannah Guthrie, will take place on the same evening …
Washington Post:
‘Unmasking’ probe commissioned by Barr quietly concludes without charges or any public report  —  The federal prosecutor appointed by Attorney General William P. Barr to review whether Obama-era officials improperly requested the identities of individuals whose names were redacted …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
As Trump's chief conspiracy theory suffers a major blow, he reaches for more desperate ones  —  It was a crystallizing moment in our current political reality: The president, staring down an increasingly likely reelection loss, saw one of his favorite conspiracy theories about his 2020 opponent crumble.
Discussion: Reuters, Newsweek, The Week and CNN
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Famed Navy SEAL pushes back after Trump amplifies baseless bin Laden conspiracy theory
Discussion: Raw Story
Troy Closson / New York Times:
Amy Cooper Made 2nd 911 Call to Falsely Accuse Black Bird-Watcher  —  Prosecutors said Ms. Cooper called the police twice, saying she had not only been threatened but had been assaulted by a man in Central Park who had asked her to leash her dog.  —  Amy Cooper, the white woman who called …
New York Times:
North Carolina Voters Distrust Trump and Tillis, Poll Finds, Imperiling G.O.P.  —  President Trump trails Joseph R. Biden Jr. by four points in the latest Times/Siena survey of North Carolina, and Senator Thom Tillis is lagging behind his Democratic challenger in a crucial Senate race.
Discussion: Bloomberg
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Montana State University:
MSU releases its Treasure State pre-election poll  —  The 1,787 Montanans who responded to the 2020 Treasure State mail-in poll consisting of about 80 questions revealed a tight race in key elections.
Discussion: Political Wire
Axios:
Joe Biden is the luckiest, least scrutinized frontrunner  —  Eight months ago, Joe Biden was in danger of losing the Democratic nomination.  Now he's a prohibitive favorite for president — who got there with lots of luck and shockingly little scrutiny.  —  Why it matters …
Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
White House Cites Herd-Immunity Petition Signed by Fake Experts Including ‘Dr. Johnny Bananas’  —  BEYOND THE PEEL  —  The White House has reportedly embraced a declaration by a group of scientists arguing for a “herd immunity” strategy to deal with America's coronavirus pandemic …
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Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
Proposal to hasten herd immunity to the coronavirus grabs White House attention but appalls top scientists
Discussion: Mediaite and WHDH-TV
Robert O'Harrow / Washington Post:
Videos show closed-door sessions of leading conservative activists: 'Be not afraid of the accusations that you're a voter suppressor'  —  As the presidential campaign entered its final stages, a fresh-faced Republican activist named Charlie Kirk stepped into the spotlight at a closed-door gathering …
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:
Biden Is Not Out of the Woods  —  Unanticipated electoral developments are affecting both presidential campaigns in surprising ways.  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  With 20 days to go, most signals favor Joe Biden …
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
What Kamala Harris Learned About Power at Howard  —  As a college student, she wanted to have an impact.  The answer she landed on — working inside institutions — set her on the path to the vice-presidential nomination.  —  WASHINGTON — Lita Rosario remembers when she first noticed the girl named Kamala.
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Democrats dominate early voting in Florida  —  MIAMI — Republicans typically hold a slight edge in absentee ballot returns in Florida elections.  But this year, there's been a stunning development.  —  For the first time ever at this stage of a general election, Democrats here are outvoting Republicans …
Tim Alberta / Politico:
'He's just so angry all the time': Trump hemorrhaging support among suburban women  —  LANSING — Michigan is looking less competitive by the day, and there's a growing likelihood of Joe Biden blowing out Donald Trump here come November 3.  —  All three Rust Belt states that Trump improbably won in 2016 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jeremy Wallace / Houston Chronicle:
Texas surpassed 1 million votes on first day of early voting  —  More than a million Texans have already cast ballots after just the first day of early voting.  —  And the state isn't even finished counting the first day's numbers.  —  Record breaking early voting, combined with unusually high mail …
Discussion: Political Wire
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Last Exit From Autocracy  —  The most important ballot question in 2020 is not Joe Biden versus Donald Trump, or Democrat versus Republican.  The most important question is: Will Trump get away with his corruption—will his crooked and authoritarian tactics succeed?  —  If the answer is yes, be ready for more.
New York Times:
‘Straight to Gunshots’: How a U.S. Task Force Killed an Antifa Activist  —  New accounts from the scene raise questions about whether Michael Reinoehl, suspected of killing a far-right Trump supporter, pulled out a gun before officers fatally shot him.  —  Michael Reinoehl was on the run.
Discussion: ProPublica, The Week and opb
The Daily Beast:
Trump's COVID Task Force Is Now Openly Rebelling Against Him  —  From Fauci, to Birx, to Redfield, the president's top health officials appear to be at their wits' end.  —  Standing outside of one of the main buildings on the University of Connecticut campus last week, Dr. Deborah Birx …
Discussion: Raw Story
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
Donald Trump has turned the White House into a bribe factory  —  For years now it has been clear that Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in American history.  No previous president has continued to operate a vast personal business empire while in office — creating more than 3,000 identifiable conflicts of interest.
Discussion: Politico
Ricochet Podcast:
House of Deplorables: Victor Davis Hanson Makes His Final “Case For Trump”  —  SUBSCRIBE WITH:  —  With a little over three weeks to go before the election, we thought it would a good time to have a heart to heart discussion with our good friend Victor Davis Hanson. the Classics professor …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Foreign Operatives and Rudy Try to Bail out Trump Again  —  Right on time we seem to have our first Giuliani-linked foreign intelligence drops into the 2020 campaign.  The New York Post ran a story today purporting to suggest Hunter Biden had introduced a Burisma colleague to his father in 2015.
 
 
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Emily Langer / Washington Post:
Bernard Cohen, lawyer who won victory for interracial marriage in Loving v. Virginia, dies at 86
Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Trump makes plea to suburban women in Pennsylvania
Cody Goodwin / Des Moines Register:
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Discussion: Bloomberg and The Daily Caller
Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Conservative think tank: Biden proposals would cut taxes for most in 2021
Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:
Pompeo Says Doing ‘Everything We Can’ to Release Clinton Emails
Discussion: Political Wire
 Earlier Items: 
Kurt Bardella / USA Today:
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Discussion: Raw Story
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Emily Gray / Ipsos MORI:
Scottish independence  — Among those who would be likely to vote in an independence referendum …
Discussion: Politico and Bloomberg
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Trump's Great “Unmasking” Hoax Is Finally Dead
Discussion: Bulwark+
Tom LoBianco / Business Insider:
Trump's campaign nearly went broke for the 2020 home stretch amid Brad Parscale's $200 million budgeting misfire, Republicans tell Insider