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Trump Called Fox Owner To Rage About Arizona Call

Vanity Fair reports: A civil war is raging between Fox News and Donald Trump over Fox’s controversial decision to be the first media outlet to call Arizona for Joe Biden just before 11:30 p.m. last night. According to a source, Trump phoned Fox owner Rupert Murdoch to scream about the call and demand a retraction. Murdoch refused, and the call …

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All Four “Squad” Members Easily Win Reelection

The Hill reports: All four members of the ‘squad’ — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Illhan Omar (D-Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Rashida Tlaid (D-Mich.) — easily won reelection Tuesday night after fending off conservative challengers. According to the New York Times, Ocasio-Cortez’s seat was the second most expensive House race in the country after Republican challenger John Cummings raised over …

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Associated Press Projects Trump Will Win Texas

The Dallas Morning News reports: Donald Trump survived a scare in Texas, though Election Day ended without a verdict on whether his tumultuous presidency will continue for another term – or of the huge blue wave that Joe Biden’s supporters had hoped for. The former vice president held a substantial lead in national polls before the polls opened but that …

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Multiple Outlets Project That Trump Will Win Ohio

Cleveland’s ABC News affiliate reports: It’s official. Ohio is staying red. President Donald Trump has claimed Ohio in the 2020 election against Democratic candidate Joe Biden. It’s the second time Ohio has voted in favor of President Trump after he defeated Hillary Clinton in the Buckeye State back in 2016. In the weeks leading up to the election, President Trump …

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Fox News Projects That Trump Has Won Florida

Fox News reports: President Donald Trump has won Florida and its 29 electoral college votes, FOX News projects. With 91 percent of the vote counted, the president had 51.29 percent of the state’s vote to Joe Biden’s 47.81 percent. That’s a difference of 381,887 votes. The largest group of uncounted votes is in Osceola County, where an internet outage is …

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Michael Cohen Tweets His Vote For Biden And Harris

The New York Daily News reports: Michael Cohen is trying to say sorry with his ballot. The former Trump fixer posted a photo of himself Tuesday after voting against his ex-boss near his home on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Cohen also used the hashtag #meaculpa and #disloyal, presumably to express his regret for once supporting the president. The disgraced lawyer, …

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Deutsche Bank Seeks To Dump Trump After Election

Reuters reports: Deutsche Bank AG is looking for ways to end its relationship with President Donald Trump after the U.S. elections, as it tires of the negative publicity stemming from the ties, according to three senior bank officials with direct knowledge of the matter. Deutsche Bank has about $340 million in loans outstanding to the Trump Organization, the president’s umbrella …

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Trump Tweets Two-Minute “YMCA” Dance Video

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump’s closing argument in his bid for presidential reelection appears to be a two-plus minute montage of dancing to The Village People’s YMCA. That’s it. That’s the tweet. Trump added his own message of “VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!” to a video credited to the self-described “Digital Graffiti” artist and Twitter user Som3thingwicked. Future historians will almost certainly …

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Four Former Top RNC Officials Vote Against Trump

The Hill reports: Four former communications directors at the Republican National Committee (RNC) voted against President Trump this year, they said Monday. In a tweet posted Monday, Ryan Mahoney, who ran communications for the party apparatus during President Trump’s first two years in office, showed his ballot filled out for former Vice President Joe Biden. Doug Heye, who directed communications …

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Superspreader Election Night Party Planned For WH

The New York Daily News reports: President Trump will end his reelection campaign how he began the home stretch: by hosting a crowded event in defiance of health precautions in the midst of a raging pandemic. Trump plans to entertain about 400 people on Election Night at the White House. The move comes as the president considers proclaiming himself the …

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Trump Fantasizes About Physically Assaulting Biden: “You Wouldn’t Even Have To Close The Fist” [VIDEO]

The Daily Beast reports: As this dreadful election cycle hurtles toward its sorry climax, we have reached a point that was perhaps always inevitable—the incumbent president threatening to kick his Democratic rival’s ass. At a Sunday night rally in Florida, the recently hospitalized president, who famously believes that doing exercise makes people die young because humans have a finite amount …

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Thousands Stranded After Trump Rally For Third Time

Newsweek reports: Supporters of President Donald Trump were left stranded overnight after a campaign rally in Georgia ended in chaos. Thousands were bussed into the Richard B. Russell Regional Airport in Rome, leaving their cars in parking lots, but were left waiting for hours after coaches failed to pick them up. The Georgia rally was Trump’s fourth and penultimate campaign …

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Trump Campaign Again Strands Thousands In Cold

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, PA had a chilling ending — literally — with thousands of the president’s supporters left stranded in the dark and cold, waiting for almost two hours for buses to take them back to their cars. And it wasn’t the first time this had happened. A similar scene had unfolded Tuesday night at …

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STUDY: Trump Rallies Led To 30K Cases, 700 Deaths

The Washington Post reports: A new study from Stanford University estimates that 18 of Trump’s recent large-scale campaign rallies ultimately resulted in 30,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and probably led to more than 700 deaths among attendees and others infected by them. The study, released Friday by Stanford economics professor B. Douglas Bernheim and three doctoral students, examined rallies …

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Berlin Museum Loads Wax Trump Into Dumpster

Reuters reports: The waxwork museum Madame Tussauds in Berlin loaded its effigy of TV star-turned Republican president Donald Trump into a dumpster on Friday, a move apparently intended to reflect its expectations of next Tuesday’s presidential election. In what seemed a further calculated insult, the statue of his predecessor and nemesis Barack Obama, who counted Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel among …

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Trump Gives Shortest Rally Speech Due To Small Crowd

The Independent reports: As Minnesota reached its highest-ever single-day coronavirus case count, Donald Trump attacked the state’s governor Tim Walz for limiting his campaign rally attendance before a brief campaign speech to the roughly 250 people in attendance. “All because the governor wants to play games,” the president said before shaking hands and tossing campaign hats to supporters in an …

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Lobbyists Have Spent $13.7M At Trump Properties

CREW reports: CREW estimates that special interests seeking to gain favor with the administration have likely spent more than $13 million at President Trump’s businesses since he took office. These groups — many of which spend heavily to lobby the federal government for favorable policies — have learned that holding lavish events at Trump properties is part of the cost …

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Report: Trump To Skip Election Night Party At DC Hotel

The New York Times reports: President Trump has called off plans to appear at the Trump International Hotel on election night and is likely to be at the White House instead, according to a person familiar with the plans. Advisers had said privately that Mr. Trump was going to appear at his namesake hotel in Washington for an election night …

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WI GOP: Hackers Stole $2.3M From Our Trump Fund

The Associated Press reports: Hackers stole $2.3 million from the Wisconsin Republican Party’s account that was being used to help reelect President Donald Trump in the key battleground state, the party’s chairman told The Associated Press on Thursday. The party noticed the suspicious activity on Oct. 22 and contacted the FBI on Friday, said Republican Party Chairman Andrew Hitt. Hitt …

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Rick Scott Makes Huge Ad Buy For Trump In Florida

Politico reports: Florida GOP Sen. Rick Scott is rallying behind President Donald Trump in signature fashion: with a big TV ad buy. Scott’s political committee announced Wednesday he was making a “significant six-figure buy” boosting Trump and attacking Democrats on the airwaves in the president’s must-win state. Scott’s direct-to-camera ad isn’t only about advancing the president’s interests. It also raises …

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