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GOP Senate wins wreak havoc on Biden transition plans — Republicans' likely hold on the Senate is forcing Joe Biden's transition team to consider limiting its prospective Cabinet nominees to those who Mitch McConnell can live with, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The 2020 Election Has Brought Progressives to the Brink of Catastrophe — This week, the American left clambered out of hell, only to find itself condemned to political purgatory. — Barring an act of malign intervention, Donald Trump will be a one-term president.
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Biden Appears to Hold Edge in the Key Votes Left to Be Counted — The tabulations continue in the states too close to call, but some things are becoming clearer. — Joe Biden looks to be on the cusp of winning the election. Here's a look at where the vote count stands in the key states.
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VICE, Los Angeles Times, IJR, The Week, Discourse.net, Fox News and hotair.com
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NPR:
Where Presidential Election Votes Are Still Being Counted … Loading... With both President Trump and Joe Biden still short of the 270 electoral votes needed to claim victory, anxious Americans are left with little to do but be patient and wait as election officials in key swing states furiously work …
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Politico, USA Today, Mercury News, Houston Public Media, Al Jazeera, Deseret News, Japan Times, WSPA-TV, MyWabashValley.com and Vox
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
About 90,000 absentee ballots still need to be counted in Georgia — By Mark Niesse - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Emily Merwin DiRico - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jennifer Peebles - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Isaac Sabetai - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Fox News, The American Independent, Breitbart and Slate
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Trump campaign wins legal battle in Pennsylvania to oversee vote counting — President Trump's legal team won a battle in Pennsylvania that will grant them closer access to vote counting in the state. — On Thursday, appellate Judge Christine Fizzano Cannon overturned a previous ruling …
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Politico, The Daily Beast, ABC News, CBS Philly and The Post Millennial
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Associated Press:
Biden pushes closer to victory as Trump presses legal moves — WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden pushed closer Thursday to the 270 Electoral College votes he needed to win the White House, securing victories in the “blue wall” battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Michigan and narrowing President Donald Trump's path to reelection.
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The Hill, Associated Press, NBC News, Metro.co.uk, Louder With Crowder, NPR and CBS Chicago
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Trump campaign's longshot legal challenges unlikely to swing election, analysts say
Trump campaign's longshot legal challenges unlikely to swing election, analysts say
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Bloomberg, Law & Crime, KRDO and Forbes
WSB-TV:
LIVE UPDATES: Judge dismisses President Trump's lawsuit in Georgia — ATLANTA — The country is watching Georgia as it remains one of the key battleground states that has not been called in the presidential election. — Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, North Carolina, Arizona and Alaska races have not been called by ABC News.
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Washington Examiner, The Federalist, Forbes, redstate.com, The Gateway Pundit, New York Times, The Root and UPI
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Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Trump's lead shrinks in Georgia as officials race to finish counts — Ossoff nears runoff territory — Joe Biden pulled within about 18,000 votes of President Donald Trump in Georgia early Thursday as election workers counted tens of thousands of absentee ballots.
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NBC News, Deadline, hotair.com, Washington Post and Washington Examiner
John Daniel Davidson / The Federalist:
Yes, Democrats Are Trying To Steal The Election In Michigan, Wisconsin, And Pennsylvania — In the three Midwest battleground states, vote counting irregularities persist in an election that will be decided on razor-thin margins. — As of this writing, it appears that Democratic Party machines …
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Biden may steal an election for the elitists, but Democrats will regret it
Biden may steal an election for the elitists, but Democrats will regret it
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The Guardian, TheBlaze and Washington Post
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Almost everything Trump has said after Election Day is wrong
Fact check: Almost everything Trump has said after Election Day is wrong
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The Week, The Post Millennial, Vanity Fair, The American Independent, New York Times, Detroit Free Press, Mashable and Forbes
Emily Dreyfuss / New York Times:
Trump's Tweeting Isn't Crazy. It's Strategic, Typos and All. — A network of right-wing operatives and activists — and the president himself — spread disinformation about Joe Biden with one simple hashtag. — Ms. Dreyfuss is a journalist at the Harvard Shorenstein Center's Technology and Social Change project.
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Summit News and Twitchy
New York Sun:
Justice Samuel Alito, Prophet — Is it but coincidence, we wonder, that Samuel Alito is the Justice who led the dissenters against the decision of the Supreme Court last week to take a powder on Pennsylvania? That is, could it be merely coincidence that the justice who seems to grasp …
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justoneminute.typepad.com and SCOTUSblog
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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
If Biden wins, he'll inherit a mission impossible
If Biden wins, he'll inherit a mission impossible
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redstate.com, BuzzFeed News, The Guardian, Investor's Business Daily, Raw Story and Bloomberg
New York Times:
Fox's Arizona Call for Biden Flipped the Mood at Trump Headquarters — The Fox News decision left the president fuming, and his team complaining. Then he began casting aspersions on other states' vote counts. — WASHINGTON — With Florida looking red early on Tuesday night …
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Washington Post, Business Insider, hotair.com, Mediaite, The Guardian, Jewish Insider, Common Dreams, Forbes, Variety, CNN, The Week, The Daily Beast, The Hill, FOX News Radio, Raw Story, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Gateway Pundit, Vanity Fair, Washington Times, KTAR.com, Townhall, Twitchy and Washington Examiner, more at Mediagazer »
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John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
The Repudiation — The 2020 election, it appears, was a staggering repudiation of Donald Trump. Of him. Personally. — You're not hearing this right now because the right is in denial about the results as it works through the stages of Kubler-Ross grief.
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The Intercept
Politico:
‘A decade of power’: Statehouse wins position GOP to dominate redistricting — Democrats spent big to take control of state legislatures but lost their key targets. Now they'll be on the sidelines as new maps are drawn. — Protestors march in front of the Capitol in Austin, Texas …
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The Pew Charitable Trusts and National Review
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Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Democrats' down-ballot misery continues with state legislative battles
Democrats' down-ballot misery continues with state legislative battles
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Reuters, The Colorado Sun, Kansas Reflector and Bangor Daily News
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Democrats' ‘Blue Wave’ Crashed in Statehouses Across the Country
Democrats' ‘Blue Wave’ Crashed in Statehouses Across the Country
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National Review, Althouse, Washington Free Beacon and No More Mister Nice Blog
Ali Gostanian / NBC News:
Viral ‘ballot’ burning video shared by Eric Trump is fake — A viral video claiming to show ballots for President Trump being burned is fake, Virginia Beach officials said on Tuesday. — The video shows an unidentified person putting what appear to be paper ballots in a plastic bag …
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VBgov.com, WAVY-TV and The Gateway Pundit
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Katie Benner / New York Times:
Armed Agents Are Allowed in Ballot-Counting Venues, Justice Dept. Tells Prosecutors — Former officials expressed fears that the department's legal interpretation would allow federal investigators to intimidate vote counters or interfere with their work. — WASHINGTON — The Justice …
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Fox News, Vanity Fair, The Daily Caller, TheGrio, The Sun, Business Insider, Common Dreams, Raw Story, Newsy, Mediaite and The Hill
Washington Post:
Coronavirus updates: U.S. shatters records with more than 100,000 new cases in a single day — Months ago, the notion of the United States recording more than 100,000 coronavirus infections in a single day seemed inconceivable. But surging caseloads in nearly every state pushed the tally …
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Gothamist, Reuters and ekathimerini.com
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Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic:
A Dreadful New Peak for the American Pandemic
A Dreadful New Peak for the American Pandemic
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American Prospect
Anneken Tappe / CNN:
Another 751,000 Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week — New York (CNN Business)The election is yet to be decided, but for one thing is certain: the next President will have to deal with America's massive unemployment problem. — Another 751,000 Americans claimed …
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Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Unemployment Claims Held Nearly Steady Last Week
U.S. Unemployment Claims Held Nearly Steady Last Week
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Washington Examiner, CBS News and The Daily Caller
Emily Yahr / Washington Post:
Late-night TV hosts express shock at close election: ‘I feel like I overestimated the American people’ — Most of the late-night TV hosts had a critical caveat when they delivered their monologues Wednesday night. — “There's never been a more important time to mention that we tape this show …
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Washington Examiner, Townhall and Twitchy
WXYZ-TV:
Video falsely claims possible voter fraud in Detroit. It actually shows a WXYZ photographer loading camera gear. — (WXYZ) — A video making the rounds on social media and other platforms that claims to show voter fraud and a wagon being loaded outside of the TCF Center in Detroit …
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Texas Scorecard, Mediaite, Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Exit Polls Point to the Power of White Patriarchy — Some people who have historically been oppressed will stand with their oppressors. — It is obscene that the presidential race is too close to call at the time this column is published: Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
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Out Magazine, Washington Free Beacon, Conservative News Today, Slate, Liberty Unyielding, Althouse, LGBTQ Nation, Advocate, Breitbart, The Daily Signal and Vox
Ali Breland / Mother Jones:
A Massive “Stop the Count” Facebook Group Has Ties to Republican Operatives — For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter. — A rapidly growing Facebook group falsely accusing Democrats of “scheming” …
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The Daily Beast, BuzzFeed News and Forbes, more at Techmeme »
Julia Musto / Fox News:
Arizona voters sue Maricopa County over ‘Sharpiegate’ — The suit claimed the use of Sharpie markers at polling locations caused their ballots to be canceled — Fox News Go — Several voters in Maricopa County, the largest in Arizona, brought a lawsuit Wednesday against Democratic …
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The Hill, CBS News, Check Your Fact, The Intercept, CBS17.com and KNXV
Associated Press:
Election observer says no evidence for Trump's fraud claims — BERLIN (AP) — The head of an international delegation monitoring the U.S. election says his team has no evidence to support President Donald Trump's claims about alleged fraud involving mail-in absentee ballots.
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CBS News, Washington Examiner, Fortune, OSCE, NBC News and The Guardian
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
35,000 ballots remain in Allegheny County, but most won't be counted until Friday — Most of the 35,000 mail ballots left to be counted in Allegheny County won't be counted until tomorrow, according to Amie Downs, county spokesperson. — There will be no canvassing done at the warehouse today …
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The American Independent, Forbes, The Week, Mediaite, The Post Millennial, The Daily Caller, Boston Herald, Raw Story and New York Post
Oliver Holmes / The Guardian:
Israeli forces leave 41 children homeless after razing Palestinian village, UN says — Demolitions used as a ‘key means’ to ‘coerce Palestinians to leave their homes’ — Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank have razed a Palestinian village, leaving 73 people - including 41 children …
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CBS News, middleeastmonitor.com, One America News Network, Foreign Policy, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and NPR
New York Times:
‘Count Every Vote’: Protests Over Ballot Tallies Sweep Through U.S. Cities — Protesters marched in Minneapolis, New York and elsewhere against President Trump, while some of his supporters gathered near a Phoenix building where crucial votes were being counted.
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Vox, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Associated Press, Forbes and IJR