AP'S JONATHAN LEMIRE, ZEKE MILLER and ALEXANDRA JAFFE, with a Pittsburgh dateline: "In the closing hours of a campaign shadowed by a once-in-a-century pandemic, President Donald Trump charged across the nation Monday delivering an incendiary but unsupported allegation that the election is rigged, while Democratic challenger Joe Biden pushed to claim states once seen as safely Republican." -- LEMIRE TWEET: "On the campaign's final day, Trump was a torrent of grievance and combativeness. He angrily decried the media's coverage while complaining that he was being treated unfairly by, in no particular order, China, the Electoral College system and Jon Bon Jovi." -- POLITICAL MEMO from NYT'S MAGGIE HABERMAN, ALEX BURNS and JONATHAN MARTIN: "As Election Day Arrives, Trump Shifts Between Combativeness and Grievance": "His mad dash to the finish is a distillation of his four tumultuous years in office, a mix of resentment, combativeness and a penchant for viewing events through a prism all his own — and perhaps the hope that everything will work out for him in the end, the way it did four years ago when he surprised himself, his advisers and the world by winning the White House. "But by enclosing himself in the thin bubble of his own worldview, Mr. Trump may have further severed himself from the political realities of a country in crisis. And that, in turn, has helped enable Mr. Trump to wage a campaign offering no central message, no clear agenda for a second term and no answer to the woes of the pandemic. … "What confounds some Republicans is how little Mr. Trump is discussing last month's confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court; some G.O.P. senators have made that achievement a centerpiece of their campaigns. … Campaigning in Kentucky this weekend in pursuit of his seventh term, Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, repeatedly trumpeted Justice Barrett and the other two Trump-nominated judges on the high court while not mentioning Mr. Biden's name once." DRIVING THE DAY -- THE PRESIDENT will visit the Trump campaign HQ in Virginia at 9:55 a.m. Afterward, he'll return to the White House. JOE BIDEN will be in Scranton, Pa., and Philadelphia. JILL BIDEN will be in St. Petersburg and Tampa, Fla., and Cary, N.C. Sen. KAMALA HARRIS (D-Calif.) will travel to Detroit. DOUG EMHOFF will be in Columbus, Ohio, for a voter mobilization event. BIDEN will speak at an event in Wilmington, Del., in the evening. Jill Biden, Harris and Emhoff will join him. NYT FRONT PAGE (banner headline): "ANXIETY MOUNTS WITH RACE AT A BITTER END" CLICKER -- POLITICO'S election rig: You can track overall results and get real-time updates for the presidency, the Senate and the House. We've also used live data and our Election Forecast to allow users to predict how the electoral math could shake out. Follow our Live Chat this evening for live analysis, and get the latest battleground state polls and updates from our California ballot tracker. ALSO -- FOUR SQUARE HOST Eugene Daniels will break down the latest Election Day news from across the country along with chief political correspondent Tim Alberta, chief Washington correspondent Ryan Lizza and national political reporter Laura Barrón-López. The group will be joined throughout the show by colleagues from across the newsroom to cover exit polling, Trump's and Biden's campaign strategies, and their favorite moments of this long and winding election. Register to watch WAPO: "How is TV news going to cover the weirdest, most fraught election in history? All of your questions answered," by Sarah Ellison and Jeremy Barr FIRST ELECTION DAY VOTES -- AP/DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H.: "Two tiny New Hampshire communities that vote for president just after the stroke of midnight on Election Day have cast their ballots, with one of them marking 60 years since the tradition began. The results in Dixville Notch, near the Canadian border, were a sweep for former Vice President Joe Biden who won the town's five votes. In Millsfield, 12 miles (20 kilometers) to the south, President Donald Trump won 16 votes to Biden's five." MARKET WATCH -- "S&P Futures and Global Stocks Rise Heading Into Election Day," by WSJ's Frances Yoon: "U.S. stock futures and international markets traded higher, in some of the final hours of trading before Election Day begins in earnest." BIG PICTURE -- "Win or Lose, Trump and Biden's Parties Will Plunge Into Uncertainty," by NYT's Lisa Lerer in Plano, Texas: "This year's election seems likely to plunge both Republicans and Democrats into a period of disarray no matter who wins the White House. With moderates and progressives poised to battle each other on the left, and an array of forces looking to chart a post-Trump future on the right (be it in 2021 or in four years), both parties appear destined for an ideological wilderness in the months ahead as each tries to sort out its identities and priorities. "The questions facing partisans on both sides are sweeping, and remain largely unresolved despite more than a year of a tumultuous presidential campaign. After Democrats cast their eyes backward several generations for a more moderate nominee, does a rising liberal wing represent their future? And what becomes of a Republican Party that has been redefined by the president's populist approach, and politicians like [Texas Sen. John] Cornyn who have been in the long shadow of Mr. Trump for four years?" -- "Republicans publicly silent, privately disgusted by Trump's election threats," by Ryan Lizza and Daniel Lippman A LOOK BACK -- JOHN HARRIS column: "On Election Day, Democrats Are Haunted by the Ghosts of Al Gore and Hillary Clinton": "As we wait for the results of the 2020 election—with at least a little and, potentially, quite a lot of time to kill—it is worth pondering the randomness of history. A slight turn here or there, a little more of this or a little less of that, and we live in a very different world. There is no more vivid recent example of the phenomenon than the two tragic figures of Democratic politics over the past generation: Al Gore and Hillary Rodham Clinton. "Both had limitations as politicians, and by their own reckonings made errors in their campaigns. But let's never forget that both also won the popular vote. Were it not for arguably illegitimate and inarguably freakish circumstances they would have both won the presidency, too. Instead the White House ambitions that they had spent their professional lives advancing were broken like an eggshell and squashed like a gooseberry. "It has been a star-crossed start to the 21st century, which will be one-quarter over by the time whoever is elected today finishes his term. When it comes to Gore and Clinton, no one can say where paths not taken would have led. But both figures invite tantalizing, even agonizing, flights of counter-factual speculation. The lull before this evening's storm is a fitting moment to ponder might-have-beens." LOOK AHEAD … "Also on the ballot: The future of Trump's family political dynasty," by Meridith McGraw and Nancy Cook: "Now, in the final stretch of the election, the Trump clan has been on a mission to save this iteration of the family venture: cultural warriors, GOP takeover artists, and, perhaps, a budding political dynasty. In a frenzied tour across battleground states, Trump's family members are making a personal pitch to voters that it's not just their father who should stay in power, it's them as well. "If Trump pulls off another upset win, it will cement his family's standing in American society. The Trumps will set the cultural and political dialogue for the better part of a decade. They'll continue to elbow their way through the halls of Washington and the GOP. They might run for office. "But if Trump loses, a family brand built on 'winning' will be dealt an embarrassing defeat after years of successfully side-stepping creditors, bankruptcies and cultural comeuppance. Republicans might turn on the Trumps. MAGA politics may fade. And the Trumps likely can't retreat back into the glitzy world of New York galas. Nor do they want to. Instead, they'll try to do what they always do, according to over a dozen current and former senior administration officials and close associates of the Trump family: Keep the Trump brand alive. Expand the family business. Export it when possible." CNN'S MANU RAJU: "Republicans eye 2024 White House bids and debate post-Trump era as 2020 election ends" ALLY MUTNICK: "Trump's suburban crash drags House GOP down with him" DEMS PUSHING INTO RED AMERICA: "Dems embrace the left in some GOP strongholds," by Sarah Ferris and Heather Caygle: "Democrats in 2018 seized the House on the momentum of dozens of centrist candidates who beat the odds in Trump country with their middle-of-the-road, inoffensive appeal. "But several of the Democrats with the greatest odds of flipping GOP seats in 2020 don't hail from the center — but from the Medicare for All and Green New Deal-touting left flank. Nearly a dozen Democrats in some of the nation's most competitive districts, from Texas to Iowa to Nebraska, are running on unabashedly liberal platforms, betting that their brand of progressive populism — single-payer health care, aggressive climate action and eschewing special interest money in politics — can win even in GOP strongholds. "They're running on, rather than away from, left-wing policies that many elected Democrats remain hesitant to embrace. And with final election forecasts predicting Democrats could net up to 20 new seats, these progressives' prospects look increasingly strong. Meanwhile, as the GOP conference shrinks and moves to the right, an even more polarized House is likely." POLITICO | 
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