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18 Nov

GOP Sen. Rob Portman, a member of Senate Homeland Security, defends the work of Chris Krebs after Trump fired the DHS official for asserting that the elections were secure and fair

"I know Chris, I've worked well with him. I think he's a real professional," Portman told me.

Portman suggested "there's a little disconnect" about what Krebs' main points were: That there was a lack of successful cyberattacks on election systems. "He was not talking about fraud.” (Krebs did though push back on some of Trump's unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud.)

“I was on two calls with Chris 10 days before the election with a bipartisan group of senators," Portman recalled. "He was always responsible, and helpful."

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17 Nov

An interesting scene on the Senate floor when several GOP senators congratulated Kamala Harris (most Rs still siding with Trump in his fight over election.)

Sens. Tim Scott, Mike Rounds, James Lankford all congratulated her, as did Ben Sasse. Lindsey Graham gave her a fist bump

“How is the food fight behind you in California?” Lankford said to Harris, an apparent reference to the effort to fill her Senate seat.

Asked about his fist bump to Kamala Harris, Sen. Lindsey Graham told me this: “Just saying hello - I haven’t a seen in her in a while. If it works out and they make it, I told her I wish her well and try to work where we can. We will know here in a month or so or less.”

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16 Nov

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Asked if he was trying to pressure the Georgia secretary of state to toss legal ballots, Lindsey Graham told us: “That’s ridiculous.”

GOP Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger responds on @CNNSitRoom: “The implication is look hard and see how many ballots you can throw.”

Graham on his conversation: “What I'm trying to find out was, how do you verify signatures on mail-in ballots in these states..So when you mail in a ballot, you got to have some way to verify that the signature on the envelope actually matches the person who requested the ballot”

Asked why as the senator from South Carolina, he's calling Georgia's secretary of state, Graham told me: "Because it affects the whole nation," adding he's "very interested" in the results.

Graham said he didn’t talk to Trump about his conversation.

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5 Nov

On a caucus call, Pelosi is giving a positive assessment of the outcome of Tuesday's election, despite House Democratic losses that likely mean she will hold a smaller majority in the new Congress.

"We did not win every battle but we won the war," she said, per source

Pelosi told her caucus that Tuesday was a “big win” for the party. But she’s explaining the D losses by noting that 2020 was a more difficult cycle for some House Dems with Trump on ballot, particularly ones in deep red districts who in 2018 when Trump wasn't running, per sources

Rep. Cheri Bustos, who chairs DCCC and has faced criticism from Dems, blamed bad polling for the outcome and for the bullish predictions headed into election day, per two sources.

"Voters looked more like 2016 than projected," Bustos told Democrats.

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3 Nov

GA
·         Polls close: 7:00 pm ET
·         Final day for mail ballots to arrive: 11/3

NC
·         Polls close: 7:30 pm ET
·         Final day for mail ballots to arrive: 11/12

OHIO
·         Polls close: 7:30p
·         Final day for mail ballots to arrive: 11/13

FLORIDA
·         Polls close: 8pm ET
·         Final day for mail ballots to arrive: 11/3

PA
·         Polls close: 8p ET
·         Final day for mail ballots to arrive: 11/6

AZ
·         Polls close: 9pm ET
·         Final day for mail ballots to arrive: 11/3

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MI
·         Polls close: 9p ET
·         Last day for mail ballots to arrive: 11/3

TEXAS
·         Polls close: 9p ET
·         Final day for mail ballots to arrive: 11/4

WI
·         Polls close: 9p ET
·         Final day for mail ballots to arrive: 11/3
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31 Oct

CNN POLLS CONDUCTED BY SSRS
October 23-30
LIKELY VOTERS WOMEN
Choice for President
Biden Trump
Arizona 56% 41%
Wisconsin 55% 40%
N. Carolina 59% 37%
Michigan 59% 37%

Margin of error: +/-6.1% pts

cnn.com/2020/10/31/pol…

CNN POLLS CONDUCTED BY SSRS
October 23-30
LIKELY VOTERS MEN
Choice for President
Biden Trump
N. Carolina 42% 53%
Arizona 44% 50%
Wisconsin 47% 48%
Michigan 47% 46%

LIKELY VOTERS WHITE NO DEGREE
Choice for President
Biden Trump
N. Carolina 33% 64%
Arizona 39% 57%
Michigan 40% 55%
Wisconsin 46% 51%

Margin of error: +/-6.5% pts

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