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10:30 AM ET, November 28, 2016

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Louis Nelson / Politico:

GOP Rep. Collins: Romney is ‘a self-serving egomaniac’ — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a former GOP opponent of President-elect Donald Trump whose name has nonetheless been floated as a potential secretary of state, is “self-serving” and an “ego-maniac” according to New York Rep. Chris Collins.

Discussion: Hot Air and Mediaite

Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:

Conway calls MSNBC report ‘sexist’ … Donald Trump — 's top aide, Kellyanne Conway, on Monday slammed an MSNBC report that said the president-elect was “furious” over comments she made Sunday about Mitt Romney. — Conway called the reporting “sexist” and said she could have any job she wants, according to MSNBC.

Discussion: Business Insider, Hot Air and Raw Story

CNBC:

Trump ‘furious’ over Kellyanne Conway comments on Sunday shows about Romney: Sources — Two sources at the top of the Donald Trump transition team confirmed to MSNBC that they spoke to the president-elect today and that Donald Trump was “furious” at Kellyanne Conway's comments Sunday suggesting Trump …

Discussion: NBC News, CNN, Politicus USA, Political Wire and Associated Press

Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:

Tug of War Delays Some of Donald Trump's Key Hires — Secretary of state choice slows the president elect's filling of other posts — PALM BEACH, Fla.—President-elect Donald Trump, coming off a steady two-week flow of personnel announcements for his nascent administration …

Discussion: Politico, Political Wire, Washington Post, Patterico's Pontifications and The Guardian

Associated Press:

THE LATEST: PRIEBUS SAYS CLINTON, TRUMP TEAMS ‘CUT A DEAL’ — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump's transition (all times EST): — Donald Trump's incoming chief of staff suggests Hillary Clinton is backing away from a deal worked out between the two presidential campaigns …

Discussion: ABC News, Associated Press and The Gateway Pundit

CNN:
STATE OF THE UNION

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Media Helps Boost Donald Trump's False Claim That ‘Millions’ Voted Illegally — Newsrooms are still coming to grips with a soon-to-be-president able to distract and distort on Twitter. — NEW YORK On Sunday afternoon, Politico editorial director for digital Blake Hounshell rightly pointed …

Discussion: Washington Post and The Verge, more at Mediagazer »

Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump's baseless assertions of voter fraud called ‘stunning’

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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's bogus claim that millions of people voted illegally for Hillary Clinton

Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump is now questioning the legitimacy of the election he won

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Stephanie Petit / People.com:
Donald Trump Falsely Claims He Won the Electoral College and Popular Vote by a ‘Landslide’

Tom LoBianco / CNN:
Trump falsely claims ‘millions of people who voted illegally’ cost him popular vote

Discussion: Daily Kos, Washington Post, Mother Jones and The Gateway Pundit

Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trump: ‘I won the popular vote if you deduct’ illegal votes

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Seth Barrett Tillman / THE NEW REFORM CLUB:

How The Recounts Pose A Risk To Mike Pence — At American Thinker, Richard Baehr explains: … Richard Baehr, The Democrats' real strategy in launching recounts, American Thinker (Nov. 27, 2016), http://tinyurl.com/gllh85f. Baehr is right, but the Stein-Democrat recount strategy only works …

Richard Baehr / American Thinker:

The Democrats' real strategy in launching recounts — The recount in Wisconsin, and the coming ones in Michigan and Pennsylvania will not change the outcomes in any of the states. No recount ever changes thousands of votes. I do not think that is the purpose.

Discussion: Chicago Boyz and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Zack Beauchamp / Vox:

What the alt-right actually wants from President Trump — The so-called “alt-right” is a loose online movement made up mostly, though not entirely, of white nationalists. They've gotten famous recently for being some of Donald Trump's earliest and most vocal backers, seeing …

Discussion: The Week

Bloomberg:

Trump Walks Business-Politics Tightrope on Cuba After Castro — Backlash possible from companies if he keeps campaign pledges — Priebus reiterates message that the U.S. needs a ‘better deal’ — The death of Cuba's Fidel Castro offers an early glimpse at how U.S. President-elect Donald …

Discussion: Politico and The Week

David Hookstead / The Daily Caller:
Fidel Castro Supporter Colin Kaepernick Greeted By Thunderous Boos In Miami [VIDEO]

Discussion: Infowars and Daily Wire

David Caplan / ABC News:
Former Cuban Castaway Elian Gonzalez Remembers Fidel Castro as a Father Figure-Turned-Friend

Discussion: Associated Press and Law News

Ted Cruz / National Review:
The Truth about Fidel and Raul

Discussion: TheBlaze, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Mediaite and ABC News

Shawn Boburg / Washington Post:

For Trump son-in-law and confidant Jared Kushner, a long history of fierce loyalty — Jared Kushner was just an undergrad at Harvard when politicians began receiving big-dollar campaign donations bearing his name. — In reality, the money was sent by his father, a powerful New Jersey real estate mogul.

Discussion: Political Wire, Mediaite, The Week, Politico and Talking Points Memo

Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Jared Kushner Told Christie Ally Behind Bridgegate That Scheme Was ‘Badass’

Discussion: Raw Story

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Why Corruption Matters — Remember all the news reports suggesting, without evidence, that the Clinton Foundation's fund-raising created conflicts of interest? Well, now the man who benefited from all that innuendo is on his way to the White House. And he's already giving us an object lesson …

Melissa Leon / The Daily Beast:

Mark Hamill Blasts Trump's Cabinet: 'It's a Who's-Who of Really Despicable People' — A week after Election Day, on the first Tuesday in America's new, uncertain reality, the man who once symbolized a rebellion's hope against a white supremacist empire is aghast.

Discussion: Hot Air, The Hill, BizPac Review, Daily Wire, Mediaite, Raw Story, Fox News Insider, Washington Times and twitchy.com

Delaware County Times:

Police: Road-rage incident in Upper Darby tied to ethnic slurs — UPPER DARBY >> An apparent road-rage incident in a Wawa parking lot involving a white Armenian man and two Muslim black women quickly escalated, police said, resulting in a tense, ugly incident for the women and the man's arrest …

Discussion: Raw Story and CBS Philly

Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:

Democrats, Not Trump, Racialize Our Politics — A party obsessed with race won't have much luck reaching out to non-elite whites. — Politics and law — The Social Order — Democratic pundits are calling on their party to court working-class and non-coastal whites in the wake of this month's electoral rout.

Scott Shane / New York Times:

Combative, Populist Steve Bannon Found His Man in Donald Trump — When Julia Jones arrived at her office in Santa Monica at 8 a.m. — by Hollywood screenwriter standards, the crack of dawn — she found Stephen K. Bannon already at his desk, which was cluttered with takeout coffees.

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