memeorandum: Pence to take over Trump's transition effort from Christie (Louis Nelson/Politico)

4:50 PM ET, November 11, 2016

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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 …

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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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 …

Discussion: ABC News, 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 …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Vox, Politicus USA, Balkinization, NBC News, Business Insider, Occupy Democrats, Scripting News, Daily Kos and GeekWire

Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Okay With Keeping Parts Of Obamacare Despite Calling It ‘Disaster’

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Dean Baker / cepr.net:
Surviving the Age of Trump

Discussion: Mother Jones

greatagain.gov:
Healthcare — It is clear to any objective observer …

Discussion: Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Business Insider and www.wnyc.org

New York Times: Shake-Up at Donald Trump's Transition Team: Enter Mike Pence

Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
If you have a preexisting health condition, don't even think about leaving your job

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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.

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MaryAlice Parks / ABC News:
Top Democrats Line up Behind Progressive Keith Ellison for Party Chair

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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Fight erupts among Democrats for control of party in crisis

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Burgess Everett / Politico: Reid: Trump a ‘sexual predator who lost the popular vote’

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) …

Discussion: AOL, Mediaite, No More Mister Nice Blog and Raw Story

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.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, No More Mister Nice Blog and JustOneMinute

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.

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News

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.

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Brooke Seipel / The Hill:

Jane Sanders: ‘Absolutely’ Bernie could have beat Trump — Jane Sanders, wife of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, said Friday that she “absolutely” believes he could have won Tuesday's election if he'd been the Democratic nominee. — In an interview on CNN, Wolf Blitzer asked Sanders …

The Huffington Post:
Hillary Clinton's Vaunted GOTV Operation May Have Turned Out Trump Voters

Discussion: Hot Air and Politico

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.

Discussion: Raw Story

Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Hard Choice for Mitch McConnell: End the Filibuster or Preserve Tradition

Discussion: 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

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Politicus USA, Big Think, www.wnyc.org, rubber hose and Mother Jones

Andrew Prokop / Vox:
No, the Electoral College won't make Clinton president instead of Trump

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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 …

John Judis / Talking Points Memo:

Why Trump Won - And Clinton Lost - And What It Could Mean for the Country and the Parties — There is rarely one single reason why a presidential candidate wins an election. The results are “overdetermined,” as Freud used to say of the content of dreams. And Donald Trump's victory …

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.

Mark Dent / Billy Penn:

‘N—er Lynching’ group text shocks Penn freshmen — Penn students and staff are in an uproar after black freshmen students were added to a GroupMe group titled “Nigger Lynching.” — Student Calvary Rogers posted on Facebook about the group earlier today:

David Leonhardt / New York Times:

Clinton's Substantial Popular-Vote Win — Hillary Clinton didn't just win the popular vote. She won it by a substantial margin. — By the time all the ballots are counted, she seems likely to be ahead by more than 2 million votes and more than 1.5 percentage points, according to my Times colleague Nate Cohn.

Discussion: Townhall.com, Occupy Democrats, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Week, American Prospect and Vox

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 …

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 …

Discussion: KLFY-TV, Liberty Blitzkrieg, The Daily Caller, The Root, KTLA and DNAinfo Chicago

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.

Discussion: ProFootballTalk

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.