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6:55 AM ET, October 29, 2020

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Dan Berman / CNN:
Kavanaugh tweaks voting opinion after Vermont official asks for correction  —  Law professor cited by Kavanaugh responds  —  (CNN)Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday night tweaked a line in his controversial opinion on Wisconsin mail-in voting this week …
Discussion: Raw Story and Law & Crime
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Joyce Vance / MSNBC:
The Supreme Court will not protect our voting rights.  Here's who actually might. … As we make our way to the polls, either in-person or via mail, we need to remember that in addition to sending elected officials to Washington, D.C., we are voting for governors, state legislators, mayors and, in some states, judges.
Discussion: LGBTQ Nation and New York Times
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans' only way to win is to stop people from voting
Discussion: Law & Crime and Washington Times
Doug Richards / WXIA-TV:
Sen. Loeffler: ‘Not familiar’ with Access Hollywood tape  —  Sen. Kelly Loeffler said Wednesday that she will “always” defend President Donald Trump.  —  BUFORD, Ga. — Sen. Kelly Loeffler said Wednesday that she doesn't disagree with anything President Donald Trump has said or done.
Miles Taylor / Medium:
A Statement  —  Why I'm no longer “Anonymous”  —  More than two years ago, I published an anonymous opinion piece in The New York Times about Donald Trump's perilous presidency, while I was serving under him.  He responded with a short but telling tweet: “TREASON?”  —  Trump sees personal criticism as subversive.
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Miles Taylor, a Former Homeland Security Official, Reveals He Was ‘Anonymous’
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Tucker Suggests His Hunter Biden Dirt Was Intercepted in the Mail  —  The Fox News star heavily implied that his “confidential documents” on Hunter Biden were stolen as part of a nefarious plot.  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who has devoted the lion's share of his airtime recently …
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Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Senate Committee Successfully Verifies All Bobulinski Materials Reviewed To Date  —  The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has successfully verified all materials reviewed so far from Hunter Biden's ex-business partner Tony Bobulinski, the Daily Caller has learned.
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Trump's Closing Argument on Virus Clashes With Science, and Voters' Lives  —  The president has continued to downplay he severity of the coronavirus and declare before largely maskless crowds that it is vanishing.  The surge in new cases across the country suggests otherwise.
Discussion: Raw Story, Political Wire and JSOnline
Washington Post:
Millions of mail ballots have not been returned as window closes for Postal Service delivery  —  Election officials said many may belong to those who requested them early, then decided to vote in person  —  Amid a record surge in early voting, millions of mail ballots remained unreturned Wednesday …
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Denise Lavoie / Associated Press:
Judge: Virginia can't count ballots with missing postmarks
Discussion: Breitbart
Christina A. Cassidy / Associated Press:
Millions of mail ballots not yet returned in key states
Discussion: Breitbart and Reuters
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:
Officials Warn of Cyberattacks on Hospitals as Virus Cases Spike  —  Government officials warned that hackers were seeking to hold American hospitals' data hostage in exchange for ransom payments.  —  Hundreds of American hospitals are being targeted in cyberattacks by the same Russian hackers …
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Bloomberg:   FBI, DHS Warn Hospitals of ‘Credible Threat’ from Hackers
NBC News:
‘Quick, quick, quick’: Trump rushes McSally at rally as she fights to hold her Senate seat  —  President Donald Trump offered a not-very warm welcome to Sen. Martha McSally on Wednesday at his campaign rally in Arizona, where his fellow Republican is fighting to hold on to her seat.
Discussion: The Week
Shawna Chen / Axios:
Polls: Biden leads Latino voters in key battleground states  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Trump among Latino voters in Texas, Arizona, Florida and Nevada, with the narrowest margin in Florida, according to a collection of state polls conducted by Telemundo.
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Unrest in Philadelphia after police kill a Black man roils the presidential campaign  —  The deadly police shooting of a Black man in Philadelphia has roiled the presidential campaign in a key battleground state just days before the election, igniting tensions over race …
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CNN:
Jared Kushner bragged in April that Trump was taking the country ‘back from the doctors’  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, boasted in mid-April about how the President had cut out the doctors and scientists advising …
Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Trump's COVID Advisers: He's Now Pushing Herd Immunity  —  Scott Atlas, the president's most favored adviser, says it's not true.  But others working on the pandemic say it's merely a game of semantics.  The policy is increasingly clear.  —  Despite publicly downplaying it …
Detroit News:
Whitmer kidnap plotter also wanted to hang Trump, other politicians, FBI says  —  A Delaware man accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer also threatened to hang President Donald Trump and posted a hit list on Facebook targeting other elected leaders, including former President Barack Obama …
Laina G. Stebbins / Michigan Advance:
Nessel: Capitol officials stalling gun ban are ‘cowards’  —  Attorney General Dana Nessel has had a lot on her plate during the COVID-19 pandemic.  —  Most recently, her office has been collaborating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Michigan State Police to thwart …
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
Jared Kushner, Peggy Noonan and White problems with Black ambition  —  When you're Black in America, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.  You're either shiftless or too ambitious.  If you're too ambitious, you better not for one moment show a sense of comfort in your own skin lest …
Discussion: Mediaite and Los Angeles Times
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
After 12 Years, Arrest Made in Abduction of Former Times Journalist David Rohde  —  A former Taliban commander was arrested in the November 2008 kidnapping of Mr. Rohde and two others in Afghanistan.  He was brought to the United States to face charges.  —  Twelve years after a New York …
Discussion: The Hill and Justice News
Vicky Prodeline / Monmouth University Polling …:
Swing Toward The Democrats  —  But most voters still expect Trump to win  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The race for Georgia's electoral votes remains very close, but Joe Biden has gained ground on Donald Trump in the latest Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.
SpyTalk:
Moscow on the Potomac?  —  A D.C. Council candidate's father has longtime business ties to Russia, worrying some CIA veterans  —  Are the Russians meddling in a Washington D.C. city council election?  —  That's the question that keeps Lauren Wolfe up at night.
Politico:
Trump's path begins in Florida  —  With help from Renuka Rayasam and Myah Ward  —  TAMPA TWO — Good evening and hello from the state of election cliffhangers, where on Thursday, in a rare crossing of paths, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden will campaign in the same city, Tampa.
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Girl Scouts deletes social media congratulations to Amy Coney Barrett on Supreme Court seat after angry backlash  — The Girls Scouts sparked a wave of angry comments — and praise — with Facebook and Twitter posts congratulating the conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett for her controversial appointment to the Supreme Court.
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Fox News and Townhall
 
 
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Andy Kroll / Rolling Stone:
‘We Merely Need to Dampen Turnout’: Leaked Docs Show Top Trump Allies' 2016 Plan to Suppress Black Voters
Reuters:
Exclusive: Biden, if elected, would consult allies on future of U.S. tariffs on China - advisers
Discussion: Axios and Associated Press
Nick Aspinwall / Foreign Policy:
Guo Wengui Is Sending Mobs After Chinese Dissidents
Sydney Morning Herald:
Vaccine is imminent, but virus fight has long way to go: Fauci
Discussion: Townhall, Breitbart and The Week
Chuck Lindell / Austin American-Statesman:
New challenge seeks to void thousands of Harris County drive-thru votes
Discussion: Texas Monthly
Tawnell D. Hobbs / Wall Street Journal:
Hacker Releases Georgia County Election Data After Ransom Not Paid
ABC News:
Man arrested at Trump rally with South Dakota's Noem
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The Daily Beast:
Why Hasn't Trump Come to Lindsey Graham's Rescue?
Discussion: The Week and Raw Story
Amanda Holpuch / The Guardian:
Trump aide Stephen Miller preparing second-term immigration blitz
Discussion: Foreign Policy
Wall Street Journal:
Russian in Cyprus Was Behind Key Parts of Discredited Dossier on Trump
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