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Senator Harry Reid:
Reid Statement on the Election of Donald Trump — Washington, D.C. - Nevada Senator Harry Reid released the following statement about the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States: — “I have personally been on the ballot in Nevada for 26 elections …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
SCOOP — SCHUMER backs ELLISON for DNC — TRUMP WORLD begins to float cabinet secretaries — SCHOCK indicted — TARGETED VICTORY splits in two — B'DAY: Tucker Bounds — Listen to Playbook in 90 Seconds http://bit.ly/2eP91e4 ... Subscribe on iTunes: http://apple.co/2f1856A — Happy Veterans Day.
MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:
Top Democrats Line up Behind Progressive Keith Ellison for Party Chair
Top Democrats Line up Behind Progressive Keith Ellison for Party Chair
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ThinkProgress, Politico, The Nation, Washington Post, Common Dreams, Daily Kos and alan.com
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Fight erupts among Democrats for control of party in crisis
Fight erupts among Democrats for control of party in crisis
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New York Magazine, Hit & Run, Washington Post, The Hayride and Common Dreams
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Reid: Trump a ‘sexual predator who lost the popular vote’
New York Times:
Vice President-Elect Pence to Take Over Trump Transition Effort — WASHINGTON — Vice President-elect Mike Pence will take over the job of leading Donald J. Trump's transition effort, taking the helm from Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, as Mr. Trump moves to assemble a government …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Pence to take over Trump's transition effort from Christie — President-elect Donald Trump has shaken up his transition team just days after winning the White House, announcing that he is replacing New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie with Vice President-elect Mike Pence at the helm of the effort …
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Politicus USA and alan.com
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Trump Campaigned Against Lobbyists, but Now They're on His Transition Team — WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump, who campaigned against the corrupt power of special interests, is filling his transition team with some of the very sort of people who he has complained have too much clout …
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Insurgent Trump taps GOP insiders, lobbyists for transition
Insurgent Trump taps GOP insiders, lobbyists for transition
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CNN, Business Insider, Washington Post and ABC News
Peter W. Stevenson / Washington Post:
‘Prediction professor’ who called Trump's big win also made another forecast: Trump will be impeached — Few prognosticators predicted a Donald Trump victory ahead of Tuesday night. Polls showed Hillary Clinton comfortably ahead, and much of America (chiefly the media) …
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AOL, Mediaite, No More Mister Nice Blog and Raw Story
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Thoughts for the Horrified — So what do we do now? By “we” I mean all those left, center and even right who saw Donald Trump as the worst man ever to run for president and assumed that a strong majority of our fellow citizens would agree. — I'm not talking about rethinking political strategy.
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Washington Monthly, JustOneMinute and No More Mister Nice Blog
David Brooks / New York Times:
The View From Trump Tower — If your social circles are like mine, you spent Tuesday night swapping miserable texts. Not all, but many of my friends and family members were outraged, stunned, disgusted and devastated. This is victory for white supremacy, people wrote, for misogyny, nativism and authoritarianism.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Willing to Keep Parts of Health Law — President-elect hints at possible compromise after vows to repeal the Affordable Care Act — NEW YORK—President-elect Donald Trump said that, after conferring with President Barack Obama, he would consider leaving in place certain parts …
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greatagain.gov:
Healthcare — It is clear to any objective observer …
Healthcare — It is clear to any objective observer …
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Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Business Insider and www.wnyc.org
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
If you have a preexisting health condition, don't even think about leaving your job
If you have a preexisting health condition, don't even think about leaving your job
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LGBTQ Nation and KTLA
Emily Smith / New York Post:
Chelsea Clinton being groomed to run for Congress — More On: — While some pundits are declaring the Clinton political dynasty dead, sources tell us that it is far from over. Chelsea Clinton is being groomed for the New York seat held by Rep. Nita Lowey.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Paul Ryan Says Medicare Privatization Is On — During the campaign, coverage of the issues was blotted out by coverage of Hillary Clinton's emails and Donald Trump's broad suite of sociopathic tendencies. And of the issues that did receive any attention, a conspicuously missing …
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Patrick Hussion / WYFF-TV:
Sen. Lindsey Graham offers thoughts on Supreme Court nominee … GREENVILLE, S.C. — Sen. Lindsey Graham made a stop Friday in the Upstate. — Graham attended the Veterans Day ceremony at Greenville MemorialHospital and spoke with WYFF News 4's Patrick Hussion about the open seat on the Supreme Court.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Hard Choice for Mitch McConnell: End the Filibuster or Preserve Tradition
Hard Choice for Mitch McConnell: End the Filibuster or Preserve Tradition
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, New York Magazine and Daily Kos
Geoff Earle / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Huma breaks down and weeps openly as she returns to campaign headquarters where she and her aides ran doomed bid to elect Hillary Clinton — Hillary Clinton's closest aide Huma Abedin wept in the street as she approached the failed campaign's headquarters in Brooklyn
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The Geller Report, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Hayride
USA Today:
Keep the Electoral College: Our view — Elections are confusing. Learn what the Electoral College is in under a minute. — A national popular vote would bring its own set of problems. — With Hillary Clinton more than 300,000 votes ahead of President-elect Donald Trump in the popular vote count …
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The Moderate Voice, Big Think, www.wnyc.org, rubber hose, Mother Jones and New York Magazine
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
No, the Electoral College won't make Clinton president instead of Trump
No, the Electoral College won't make Clinton president instead of Trump
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Oath Keepers, Mediaite, Joe.My.God., Glamour, BizPac Review, Law News, The Atlantic, Daily Wire and TheBlaze
Grubhub, Inc.:
Inclusion and Tolerance in the Workplace — This year's presidential election was undoubtedly divisive and left many of our employees feeling concerned. In response, I wrote a company-wide email that was intended to advocate for inclusion and tolerance — regardless of political affiliation …
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The Atlantic, Mediaite, The Hill, Daily Wire, Independent Journal Review, Chicago Tribune, Fox News, Hot Air, RedState, BizPac Review, Townhall.com, TheBlaze, twitchy.com, Fox News Insider, Scared Monkeys, The Week, Don Surber, CBS Boston, Business Insider, Heat Street, The Verge, Patterico's Pontifications and Washington Free Beacon
Anna Palmer / Politico:
Clinton campaign email: Comey letters threw the election to Trump — Hillary Clinton's campaign is still trying to pick up the pieces. — Navin Nayak, the head of Clinton's opinion research division, sent an email to senior campaign staff Thursday night sharing initial takeaways …
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Business Insider, The Daily Caller, The Week and Political Wire
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Clinton aides blame FBI director, media for devastating loss
Clinton aides blame FBI director, media for devastating loss
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Washington Times, Mother Jones and Talking Points Memo
David Plouffe / New York Times:
What I Got Wrong About the Election — Like many people around the world, I expected a comfortable Hillary Clinton victory on Tuesday. But I'm not a random pundit when it comes to understanding presidential races and the electorate — I managed one Obama presidential campaign and oversaw another from the White House.
Jennifer Senior / New York Times:
Review: Megyn Kelly Tells Tales Out of Fox News in Her Memoir, ‘Settle for More’ — Even had there been no news in Megyn Kelly's new memoir, “Settle for More,” the book would have drawn a considerable audience. Ms. Kelly, the 45-year-old anchor on Fox News, has emerged …
Azadeh Ansari / CNN:
Anti-Trump protesters march for 3rd night; Portland police call it a ‘riot’ — Trump tweets response to second day of protests — (CNN)Thousands protesting Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election took to the streets for a third night of demonstrations and vigils in several US cities.
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Chicago Tribune:
Bystanders yell anti-Trump taunts as man beaten after car crash — Social media video captures a West Side beating while onlookers shout about President-elect Donald Trump. Nov. 10, 2016. (Chicago Tribune) — A man shown in a viral video getting punched and kicked as a crowd yells …
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KLFY-TV, Liberty Blitzkrieg, The Daily Caller, The Root, KTLA and DNAinfo Chicago
Julia Harte / Reuters:
Trump seen more moderate on criminal justice, law enforcement — Criminal justice reform advocates said they expect Donald Trump will embrace moderate change once he is in the White House, toning down the punitive but undefined “law and order” image he projected on the campaign trail.
Ken Belson / New York Times:
As Ratings Plummet, N.F.L. Considers Reducing Ads and Length of Games — N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Thursday that the league was looking at a variety of ways to shorten game broadcasts, including trimming some advertising, to keep the action moving.
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Freakout at Princeton — From a letter by a Princeton student to the Daily Princetonian: — . . .I crawled into bed and cried for reasons I still [can't] quite put into words, falling asleep before the election was called. — In the morning, I woke up to a New York Times news alert …
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The Daily Princetonian and Instapundit