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5:30 PM ET, November 11, 2016

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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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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

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

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

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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 …

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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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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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Shuffles Transition Team, Making Mike Pence Chairman

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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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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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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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Jim Norman / Gallup:
Trump Victory Surprises Americans; Four in 10 Afraid

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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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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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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.

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

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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

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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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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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USA Today:
Anti-Trump protests, some violent, erupt for 3rd night nationwide

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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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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:

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

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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.

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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 …

William Mauldin / Wall Street Journal:

Obama Administration Gives Up on Pacific Trade Deal — Congressional GOP leaders indicated they wouldn't consider Trans-Pacific Partnership in lame-duck session — The Obama administration on Friday gave up all hope of enacting its sweeping Pacific trade agreement, a pact designed …

Discussion: Political Wire

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 …

Asra Q. Nomani / Washington Post:

I'm a Muslim, a woman and an immigrant. I voted for Trump. — Asra Q. Nomani is a former Wall Street Journal reporter and a co-founder of the Muslim Reform Movement. She can be found on Twitter at @AsraNomani. — A lot is being said now about the “silent secret Trump supporters.”

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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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