CNN: “More US Secret Service agents have been sent to Wilmington, Delaware, in anticipation of a potential Joe Biden presidential win, CNN has learned. The extra Secret Service agents were sent to Delaware Thursday, two sources said, with one law enforcement source telling CNN, ‘This was anticipated.’ Upon a presidential win, the USSS detail for a president-elect would get larger and mirror the size and scope of a president’s. Additional airspace security measures are also implemented, a source familiar with USSS protocols said. A team for Biden has been on standby since last week, the source said. On Wednesday, CNN observed additional security assets in Biden’s motorcade consistent with Presidential entourages that are equipped to handle a wide variety of threats and situations and are not part of the typical secret service teams a candidate receives, in addition to Biden’s original detail.”

“Philadelphia police took at least one man into custody Thursday night as they probed an alleged plot to attack the city’s convention center where the swing state’s votes are still being counted, according to reports. Tensions have been high outside of the Pennsylvania Convention Center since Election Day, with opposing groups of President Donald Trump and Joe Biden supporters gathering to protest outside the building. But Philly police appear to have prevented something much more dangerous” The Daily Beast reports.

“According to multiple reports, a heavily-armed armed group is said to have driven a Hummer up from Virginia to carry out the alleged plot. No one was reported injured, and police did not identify the detained suspect or provide details about the threat. But video showed the suspect being taken away in handcuffs and police retrieving a large gun. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the group was armed with AR-15 rifles. The Inquirer also reported that a Hummer matching the description was seen with stickers linked to the QAnon conspiracy movement, including a large ‘Q’ and ‘#WWG1WGA,’ which the pro-Trump conspiracy theorists use to stand for “Where we go one, we go all”—the group’s motto. The Hummer has now been seized by police, according to Reuters.”

Washington Post: “Biden has taken a narrow lead over Trump in Georgia, a state Trump must carry to maintain a pathway to an electoral college win and that no Democrat has carried since 1992, on the strength of mail-in ballots. As of 6 a.m., Biden was leading by 1,096 votes out of nearly 4.9 million cast. The state’s most populous and Democratic-leaning counties of Fulton, DeKalb and Chatham finished counting absentee ballots on Thursday, helping Biden overcome Trump’s lead. But the vote counting is not yet complete. There are 8,899 requested overseas and military ballots that may arrive by the Friday deadline, plus provisional ballots left to count.”

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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2020

The Blue Angels, the precision flying demonstration team of the US Navy, took their legacy F/A 18 Hornets on their final “sundown” flights over Pensacola, Florida, their home base.

The team prepares to upgrade to the F/A 18E/F SuperHornet in the coming months.

According to Michael Crowley of the New York Times, election officials and Democrats in Georgia are urging people to “cure” their ballots if they’re notified of a problem with it.

The Nevada GOP announced on Thursday that it has made a criminal referral to the Department of Justice for 3,062 voters who they claim, without evidence, voted illegally in the election, the Washington Post reports.

The complaint claims that the people who voted in Nevada are no longer residents of the state.  Nevada allows people to vote in Nevada if they are in the military and stationed elsewhere; a family member with a member of the military stationed elsewhere; a students in another state; or on a job assignment out of state.

Former astronaut Mark Kelly, the husband of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, has officially been declared the winner of the Arizona Senate race, defeating republican incumbent Martha McSally, Business Insider reports.

Kelly took 51.71% of the vote.  He will be the fifth member of Congress who has been to space.   John Glenn (D-Ohio Senator) and Harrison “Jack” Schmitt (R-New Mexico Senator) were both elected after their space travels.  Two sitting members of Congress, Jake Garn (R-Utah Senator) and Bill Nelson (D-Florida Senator) flew on space shuttle missions.

Jack Swigert, who was part of the historic and heroic Apollo 13 mission, was elected to the House from Colorado, but died before taking office.

UPDATE (10:54 p.m. ET):  More votes from Philadelphia has been reported, further lowering Trump’s lead to 26,319.

Vote counts from Delaware and Bucks Counties have cut incumbent republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s lead in the state from just over 42,000 to 36,572, according to the New York Times vote tracker.

It’s estimated that Philadelphia still has 70,000 votes to report; they’re working through the night.  Allegheny County, home of Pittsburgh, has 35,000 outstanding that will be counted Friday.

Pennsylvania:  Officials will continue to count ballots throughout the night.  If the pace of the count continues as it has Thursday, Biden could overtake Trump around 4 a.m. or 5 a.m., and the final count from the state could come sometime tomorrow.  Allegheny County has stopped counting votes until tomorrow, so the 35,000 ballots there would likely be the last reported around noon Friday.  There are approximately 150,000 votes left to count, according to reports.

Georgia:  With about 16,000 ballots left to count around the state, not including thousands of military, provisional and overseas ballots, according to the Atlanta Constitution Journal.   Greg Bluestein of the AJC said on MSNBC says 4,000 of the remaining votes are coming from Clayton Co., the most Democratic-leaning county in the state, which should wrap by midnight.  Also, up to 8,900 military ballots are yet uncounted.  Counting will continue into the night. Gwinnett County will report numbers Friday after fixing a problem with the scanner.

IGN: “Scientists have discovered a ‘hell planet’ — an infernal exoplanet covered in oceans of lava and where it rains rocks. Designated K2-141b and located 200 light-years from us, the Earth-sized hellhole is among the most ‘extreme’ exoplanets scientists have found. Lava planets are like this because they orbit so close to their host star. Details on K2-141b were published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Scientists from McGill University, York University, and the Indian Institute of Science Education used computer simulations to predict weather and environmental conditions on K2-141b.”

In the second day of no media coverage for the coronavirus, a claim based on incumbent republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made during the campaign, the United States recorded a new daily record of coronavirus cases.

More than 116,000 cases were confirmed in the United States, according to the COVID Tracking Project. The US also recorded 1,124 fatalities, the fourth consecutive day with more than 1,000 deaths. Trump claimed that media coverage of the coronavirus would disappear after the election, but with new records being set daily, the media continues to inform the public, contrary to Trump assertion.

NBC News: “Twitter banned an account associated with Steve Bannon on Thursday and YouTube removed one of his videos after the former Trump adviser called for the beheadings of two federal officials. Bannon, in a video for his podcast recording, had said he wanted to behead FBI Director Christopher Wray and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious diseases expert. Bannon said he would ‘put the heads on pikes’ as a ‘warning to federal bureaucrats,’ referencing Tudor-era England. ‘The @WarRoomPandemic account has been permanently suspended for violating the Twitter Rules, specifically our policy on the glorification of violence,’ Twitter said in a statement. The platform has an established policy against the glorification of violence.”

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Per Steve Kornacki and MSNBC:  There are 250,000 outstanding ballots in Pennsylvania, with mail-in ballots going toward Biden at a 75% rate.

Biden currently trails Trump by just less than 64,000 votes in the state, but if this pace continues, Biden will end up with a lead of about 55,000 votes in the state.

If Biden takes 64% of the outstanding vote, he wins the state.

BuzzFeed: “As votes are being tallied across the country to determine the next US president, internal Facebook data shows that the company has seen a significant increase in what it calls ‘violence and incitement trends.’ In a post to a group on Facebook’s internal message board, one employee alerted their colleagues to a nearly 45% increase in the metric, which assesses the potential for danger based on hashtags and search terms, over the last five days. The post, which was seen by BuzzFeed News, notes that trends were previously rising ‘slowly,’ but that recently ‘some conspiracy theory and general unhappiness posts/hashtags’ were gaining popularity.”

“‘The ‘probable violence and incitement’ metric for explore has been slowly rising over the last few days,’ the post’s author wrote, referring to Facebook’s ‘Explore’ search tool. ‘The risky hashtags seem conspiracy-theory-esque.’ The internal metric, which has not previously been reported, had been at around a score of 400 on Oct. 31. It rose to a 24-hour average of nearly 580 as of Thursday morning.”

Reuters:  “The U.S. Office of Special Counsel has opened an investigation into allegations that the Trump campaign’s use of the White House as an Election Day command center violated federal law, Democratic Representative Bill Pascrell said on Thursday. In a statement, Pascrell said the federal watchdog responded on Thursday to his call for a probe, telling him a special unit ‘has opened an investigation into these allegations to determine if the Hatch Act was violated.'”

Saying that “I have a feeling that ultimately judges are going to have to rule,” an obviously weary and distressed incumbent republican presidential nominee Donald Trump stood behind the podium at the White House briefing room and claimed that he’s leading in the election if you “don’t count the fraudulent votes” which he apparently defines as those received after Election Day.

In a speech short on facts and long on lies, Trump claimed that republicans lost “zero races in the House,” although Democrats are expected to win the majority of the House seats.  He stated that the election was decided by “Big Media, Big Donors and Big Tech.”

He had many grievances about the continuing count of legal ballots, griping that mail in ballots are so one-sided, falsely claiming that no observers were allowed in the vote counting centers.