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Anna Palmer / Politico:
Poll: Trump's popularity soars after election — Donald Trump's popularity is rising in the days since his election, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll of registered voters. — Forty-six percent of voters now have a very favorable or somewhat favorable opinion of the president-elect.
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Jon Reid / Morning Consult:
Voters Say Trump's Children Should Work Outside Administration
Voters Say Trump's Children Should Work Outside Administration
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Booman Tribune, Hot Air and Washington Times
Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
Trump Needs to Earn His Mandate
Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
Alt-Right Exults in Donald Trump's Election With a Salute: ‘Heil Victory’ — WASHINGTON — By the time Richard B. Spencer, the leading ideologue of the alt-right movement and the final speaker of the night, rose to address a gathering of his followers on Saturday, the crowd was restless.
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Lisa Mascaro / Los Angeles Times:
Meet the new think tank in town: ‘Alt-right’ comes to Washington to influence Trump
Meet the new think tank in town: ‘Alt-right’ comes to Washington to influence Trump
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RedState
Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Trump has a plan for government workers. They're not going to like it. — President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are drawing up plans to take on the government bureaucracy they have long railed against, by eroding job protections and grinding down benefits …
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RedState and Political Wire
New York Post:
The real problem with the ‘Hamilton’ shout-out to Pence — Brandon Victor Dixon's remarks Friday night came from a good place. But they also yet again revealed the peculiar failure of liberal America to practice the empathy it preaches. — The actor who plays Aaron Burr in “Hamilton” …
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
Conway on Trump's Hamilton feud: 'Who is to say that he can't do that' — President-elect Donald Trump's senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said her boss's Twitter outburst against the Broadway musical Hamilton is no indication that the real estate mogul's focus is drifting away from the work of his transition team.
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Jezebel
Leah Barkoukis / Townhall.com:
Israeli Ambassador to US Is ‘Looking Forward’ to Working With Steve Bannon
Israeli Ambassador to US Is ‘Looking Forward’ to Working With Steve Bannon
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The Geller Report
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Low Marks for Major Players in 2016 Election - Including the Winner — Half of voters are happy Trump won; Democrats take a hard line — For most voters, the 2016 presidential campaign was one to forget. Post-election evaluations of the way that the winning candidate, the parties …
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Washington Post, Hot Air, Mediaite, Politico and The Week
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Record-High 77% of Americans Perceive Nation as Divided — PRINCETON, N.J. — Seventy-seven percent of Americans, a new high, believe the nation is divided on the most important values, while 21% believe it is united and in agreement. Over the past 20+ years, the public has tended to perceive …
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Opinion Today
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A thought on the Hamilton storm of the:
A thought on the Hamilton storm of the weekend: — But let me first say that for the last 24 hours I have been focused on one thing, Blake's state championship game. I didn't even hear about this fuss until lunch today. Blake's game was a heart wrenching loss that came in overtime play last night.
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama says he may take on Trump — President Barack Obama on Sunday started mapping out his vision of Democrats' path back—and all but pledged to be part of it himself. — In his fourth press conference in a week of sounding out to Americans and world leaders what he thinks …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Instapundit and New York Times
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
A scramble to assess the dangers of President-elect Donald Trump's global business empire — Turkey is a nation in crisis, scarred by government crackdowns following a failed coup attempt and on a potential collision course with the West. It is also home to a valuable revenue stream …
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
ST. LOUIS • A man being sought as a suspect in the shooting of a St. Louis police officer Sunday night was shot and killed in a shootout with police early Monday. — Undercover officers had found the suspect's car abandoned at a parking garage at Laclede's Landing, police said.
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Fred Lucas / Townhall.com:
Hillary or Blood? Democrats and Post-Election Angry Mobs — It has been difficult to discern exactly what the anti-Trump protesters are protesting. The election is over. Donald Trump will be president after Jan. 20. — As it turns out, they have five demands, according to CNN.
New York Times:
Donald Trump Pivots to Economic and Domestic Policy Posts — With Thanksgiving approaching, the transition team is putting the last touches on President-elect Donald J. Trump's national security leadership even as Mr. Trump pivots to his domestic and economic policy cabinet posts.
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The Week
CNN:
Source: Democratic Rep. Gabbard meeting with Trump, talking top jobs in DC — Washington (CNN)Hawaii Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is meeting with President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team Monday for a possible top job in the new administration, a source said.
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Washington Free Beacon
Globe and Mail:
Monkey incident sparks clashes in southern Libyan city of Sabha, 16 dead — At least 16 people died and 50 were wounded in Libya in four days of clashes between rival factions in the southern city of Sabha, a health official said on Sunday. — According to residents and local reports …
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Jihad Watch and The Geller Report
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: How Tim Ryan decided to challenge his mentor, Nancy Pelosi, for Democratic leader — Tim Ryan, the Ohio congressman challenging Nancy Pelosi, campaigned intensely for Hillary Clinton in his Rust Belt district. “He will gut you and he will walk over your cold dead body …
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Political Wire
Jennifer Senior / New York Times:
Richard Rorty's 1998 Book Suggested Election 2016 Was Coming — Three days after the presidential election, an astute law professor tweeted a picture of three paragraphs, very slightly condensed, from Richard Rorty's “Achieving Our Country,” published in 1998.
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Political Wire
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers — Apple disbands its router division, reassigns engineers — Apple Inc. has disbanded its division that develops wireless routers, another move to try to sharpen the company's focus on consumer products that generate the bulk of its revenue …
greatagain.gov:
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT... Civil Rights & Law Enforcement Groups Are Strongly Supporting Sen. Jeff Sessions for Attorney General — For Immediate Release — (New York, NY) - Civil rights and law enforcement groups are strongly supporting President-elect Donald J. Trump's nomination of U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General.
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The New Civil Rights Movement
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is Democrats' nightmare
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is Democrats' nightmare
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Power Line