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7:15 AM ET, November 1, 2020

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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 …
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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 …
Discussion: Althouse
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, Raw Story and Breitbart
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 …
Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast:
Biden Team Cancels Texas Event After Highway ‘Ambush’ by MAGA Cavalry
New York Times:
Election at Hand, Biden Leads Trump in Four Key States, Poll Shows  —  Joseph R. Biden Jr. leads President Trump in Pennsylvania, Florida, Arizona and, by a wide margin, in Wisconsin, according to a Times/Siena College poll.  —  Joseph R. Biden Jr. holds a clear advantage over President Trump across four …
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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 and ABC News
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 …
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
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
Jolie McCullough / The Texas Tribune:
“It's wholly un-American”: Harris County drive-thru voters await court rulings as Texas Republicans push to invalidate 127,000 votes  —  A conservative activist and three Republican candidates have asked state and federal courts to toss the votes and shut down drive-thru voting in the state's most populous …
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Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
U.S. judge to hear Republican bid to void 100,000 votes in Texas
Discussion: Mother Jones
Washington Post:
Post-ABC polls: Biden has slight lead in Pennsylvania; Florida a toss-up  —  Trump is rated high on the economy but low on coronavirus as case numbers rise  —  As the presidential race enters its final days, competition remains fierce in two of the most important battleground states …
Discussion: The Guardian
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Florida maintains toss-up status while Biden leads slightly in Pennsylvania: POLL  —  There's been little change from September in two critical swing states.  —  Trump, Biden make final pitches ahead of Election Day  —  President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden have delivered …
Barry Yeoman / Washington Post:
N.C. police arrest at least 8, spray ‘pepper-based vapor’ to disperse voter turnout march that included kids  —  GRAHAM, N.C. — Law enforcement officers fired a spray they described as a “pepper-based vapor” that left demonstrators — including children — coughing at an “I Am Change” march for voter turnout.
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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: Associated Press and Forbes
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: CNN and Politico
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 …
Washington Examiner:
The Trump administration scores another win for peace  —  Although subsumed by the final week of election campaigning, we congratulate Sudan, Israel, and the United States on another landmark diplomatic agreement.  The exchange of full diplomatic relations between Sudan and Israel is the third such Israeli-Arab agreement in two months.
Discussion: The National Interest
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.
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 …
Merrill Matthews / The Hill:
Could Blacks and Hispanics hand Trump a November victory?  —  Think 2020 can't get any stranger?  What if Black and Hispanic voters provided just enough of a bump to give a Republican the presidential victory?  —  According to the polls, it could happen.  —  Unlike most Republican politicians …
Masha Gessen / New Yorker:
If We Are Going to Recover from Trumpism, We Must Deny Charity to Trump's Henchmen  —  The problem with anonymity is that you don't know who is speaking.  That's not as obvious as it sounds: we tend to think that ideas can exist entirely outside of the people who bring them to light.
 
 
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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
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