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News from the note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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BREAKING: Trump has told confidants he'll claim victory Tuesday night if it appears he's "ahead" — even if the outcome still hinges on uncounted votes in key states like Pennsylvania — according to three people familiar with his comments. https://t.co/9047ogoDGh
— Axios (@axios) November 1, 2020
Joe Biden leads President Trump by 10 points in final pre-election NBC News/WSJ poll. https://t.co/hplokpklgL
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 1, 2020
The FBI is investigating the alleged harassment of a Joe Biden campaign bus by motorists displaying Trump 2020 flags, a law enforcement source familiar with the probe tells CNN https://t.co/sKQy6GpEl5
— CNN (@CNN) November 1, 2020
Trump advisers said their best hope was if the president wins Ohio and Florida is too close to call early in the night, depriving Biden a swift victory and giving Trump the room to undermine the validity of uncounted mail-in ballots in the days after. https://t.co/IMVciQtWJC
— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 1, 2020
This is the second time in recent weeks the all-Republican Supreme Court in Texas has blocked attempts to dismantle drive-thru voting there https://t.co/QJfZCEuZWS
— CNN (@CNN) November 1, 2020
With coronavirus infections spiking in more than three dozen states, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), predicted Sunday that the Thanksgiving holiday will be an "inflection point" for the pandemic. https://t.co/IMf4nnAN4E
— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 1, 2020
.@GStephanopoulos repeatedly presses Jason Miller on Trump’s false claims on doctors and COVID-19: Why does he "repeatedly attack doctors working on the frontlines?”
— ABC News (@ABC) November 1, 2020
Miller: “I don’t think he was attacking anybody at all.”
G.S.: “We all just saw it.” https://t.co/81xC1YKoIl pic.twitter.com/SfrDvVqm8H
Early in the pandemic, it became clear that Covid-19 makes its way into the digestive system and can be found in human feces.
— CNN (@CNN) November 1, 2020
Cities and universities across the US have been testing sewage — and the research suggests things are going to get a lot worse. https://t.co/RNBc5gqoLL
Rescue workers extricated a 70-year-old man from a collapsed building in Turkey on Sunday, some 34 hours after an earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Turkey and Greece, killing at least 57 people and injuring more than 900. https://t.co/FunIzJYDSy
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 1, 2020