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Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Donald Trump takes over lead in Iowa as Joe Biden fades  —  | Des Moines Register Show Caption Hide Caption … Republican President Donald Trump has taken over the lead in Iowa as Democratic former Vice President Joe Biden has faded, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows just days before Election Day.
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Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Republican Joni Ernst pulls ahead of Democrat Theresa Greenfield in closing days of U.S. Senate race  —  | Des Moines Register Show Caption Hide Caption … Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst has pulled ahead of Democrat Theresa Greenfield in the closing stretch of a contentious U.S. Senate race …
Discussion: Iowa Starting Line
Nick Coltrain / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Poll: Republicans preferred in 3 of 4 U.S. House races; Rep. Finkenauer appears at risk
Discussion: Boston Herald
Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:
Biden needles Joni Ernst in Iowa for not knowing breakeven soybean price
Discussion: Politico
Kate McGee / The Texas Tribune:
Biden camp cancels multiple Texas events after a “Trump Train” surrounded a campaign bus  —  The highway skirmish came as Democrats close ground in a state that is polling competitively in the race for president.  Recent polls indicate the presidential race in Texas between President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Forbes, Axios and Raw Story
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KJ Edelman / Mediaite:
Trump Tweets Support for Fans Who Swarmed Biden Bus: ‘I LOVE TEXAS!’  —  President Donald Trump tweeted in support of a viral video of his fans swarming one of Joe Biden's campaign buses, forcing Democrats to cancel several rallies in Austin, Texas.  —  On Tuesday night, Trump tweeted out the video with the caption “I LOVE TEXAS!”
Discussion: My Canyon Lake, NBC News and Breitbart
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Biden Team Cancels Texas Event After Highway ‘Ambush’ by MAGA Cavalry  —  Dozens of pickup trucks, many with Trump flags, surrounded a Biden campaign bus as it traveled from San Antonio to Austin.  —  Joe Biden's presidential campaign canceled a Friday event in Austin, Texas, after harassment from a pro-Trump contingent.
David R. Montgomery / New York Times:
Vehicles flying Trump flags try to force a Biden-Harris campaign bus off a highway in Texas.  —  AUSTIN, Texas — Multiple vehicles bearing Trump flags and signs surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus heading from San Antonio to Austin on Friday, forcing campaign officials to scrap two campaign events …
Washington Post:
‘A whole lot of hurt’: Fauci warns of covid-19 surge, offers blunt assessment of Trump's response  —  President Trump's repeated assertions the United States is “rounding the turn” on the coronavirus have increasingly alarmed the government's top health experts, who say the country is heading …
Discussion: CNN, Raw Story and Mediaite
Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
U.S. judge to hear Republican bid to void 100,000 votes in Texas  —  (Reuters) - A federal judge in Texas scheduled an emergency hearing for Monday on whether Houston officials unlawfully allowed drive-through voting and should toss more than 100,000 votes in the Democratic-leaning area.
Discussion: Mother Jones and Slate
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CNN:
CNN Polls: Biden leads in Michigan and Wisconsin as campaign ends, with tighter races in Arizona and North Carolina  —  (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden holds an advantage in the upper Midwest states of Wisconsin and Michigan, according to CNN Polls conducted by SSRS …
Discussion: The Hill and Mediaite
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Michael Walsh / New York Post:   Trump's winning hand: How the president can pull off another upset
Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
EXPLAINER: A long night, or more, before president is known
Discussion: Reuters
The Daily Beast:
Cops Pepper-Spray Voters as They March to Polls in NC  —  “I saw a little girl, probably five, being carried off sobbing and coughing.  She was dressed as a fairy or a princess,” one attendee said.  —  GRAHAM, North Carolina—On the final day of early voting in North Carolina …
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Barry Yeoman / Washington Post:
N.C. police arrest at least 8, spray ‘pepper-based vapor’ to disperse voter turnout march that included kids
Discussion: Greg Drumwright
Republican Party of Texas:
Statement Regarding ‘Biden Bus’ Incident  —  Abby Livingston from The Texas Tribune reached out to the RPT today and asked a question about a Biden campaign bus in her attempt to portray conservatives as violent radicals, even though it is leftists from Antifa and BLM who have been assaulting …
Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
Trump campaign rallies led to more than 30,000 coronavirus cases, Stanford researchers say  — Researchers looked at 18 Trump rallies held between June 20 and Sept. 22 and analyzed Covid-19 data the weeks following each event.  — The researchers found that the rallies ultimately resulted …
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Lincoln Project targets 3 deep red states with million-dollar ad buy as election map ‘turning against’ Trump  —  WASHINGTON — With just three days left until the election, President Trump's enemies are seeing new opportunities in staunchly red states.  The Lincoln Project …
Discussion: Raw Story
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump Can Still Win, But The Polls Would Have To Be Off By Way More Than In 2016  —  To borrow from Cook Political Report's Dave Wasserman, “I've seen enough.”  —  No, I don't know who's going to win the election.  According to our forecast, President Trump still has a chance at a second term …
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New York Times:
Trump Dismisses Virus Coverage and Biden Dismisses Virus Leadership: This Week in the 2020 Race
Discussion: NBC4 Washington
Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
Joe Biden has finally disclosed who is raising him big money just days before Election Day  —  Biden has been sharply breaking from precedent, only releasing the names after 90 million people have already voted.  —  SHARE All sharing options  —  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden finally disclosed …
Discussion: Politico
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Jackie Calmes / Los Angeles Times:
Barack Obama is making the argument for Joe Biden — by roasting Trump
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Trump Camp Uses Online Gimmick to Fuel Donations Into December  —  The Trump campaign is now automatically checking a box to create recurring weekly donations from supporters until mid-December.  —  President Trump's campaign is raising money for a prolonged political and legal fight long …
ABC News:
American hostage Philip Walton rescued in dramatic military operation: Officials  —  Walton was abducted recently in Niger, where he had been living.  —  Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.  —  An American citizen abducted last week in Niger has been rescued during …
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Lucas Tomlinson / Fox News:
American hostage rescued in West Africa by SEAL Team 6 in daring raid
New York Times:
The President's Taxes: A Reader's Guide  —  Over the past four years, The New York Times has independently obtained and published information on several decades of Donald J. Trump's taxes.  —  Over the last several weeks, The New York Times has published the findings of its investigation …
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Boris Johnson announces month-long COVID-19 lockdown in England  —  A new national lockdown will be imposed in England, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Saturday, as the number of COVID-19 cases in the country topped 1 million.  —  Details: Starting Thursday, people in England must stay at home …
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Democrats grow more anxious about Pennsylvania  —  Joe Biden on Saturday prepared to mount a last-minute, two-day blitz of Pennsylvania, amid concern among some local Democrats about a potential late shift that would threaten his narrow advantage there and mirror President Trump's 2016 comeback.
Julie Strauss Levin / Tennessee Star:
Commentary: The Nightmare Scenario of Biden-Harris and the Ascendancy of Kamala  —  Kamala Harris is a radical with anti-America positions who will be within a hair's breadth of the Oval Office should Joe Biden win the presidency.  It's not just because Kamala has had her eye on the top slot, which she does.
Discussion: Washington Post
 
 
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Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
DHS and FBI warn Iranian hackers are targeting state election websites and pushing disinformation
Discussion: redstate.com and NBC News
Marcia Brown / American Prospect:
The Facebook Group That Could Flip Pennsylvania
Discussion: The Hill
Kate Chesley / Stanford News:
Academic freedom questions arise on campus over COVID-19 strategy conflicts
Jeb Lund / NBC News:
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Washington Post:
Trailing in the polls, Trump enlists his administration and co-opts the government to bolster his reelection
Discussion: E&E News
Tresa Baldas / Detroit Free Press:
Whitmer kidnap suspect wants out of jail. He's diabetic, and fears COVID-19
 Earlier Items: 
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Intercept Staffers Roll Their Eyes Over Glenn Greenwald's Censorship Claim
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
Third-Party Candidates Had An Impact In 2016. In 2020, They've Struggled To Gain Traction.
Discussion: Reason
Molly Jong-Fast / Vogue:
I'm Still Reeling From 2016. Am I Now Allowed to Hope Again?
James Hamblin / The Atlantic:
Trump's Pathology Is Now Clear
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Show your work: AP plans to explain vote calling to public
 

 
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