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Axios:
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.
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Washington Post, National Review, Washington Free Beacon, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Hill
Erica Werner / Washington Post:
Democrats' ambitious agenda for 2021 runs into unexpected obstacle — McConnell's resilience
Democrats' ambitious agenda for 2021 runs into unexpected obstacle — McConnell's resilience
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The Independent, The Hill, The Daily Beast, Bloomberg, New York Times, redstate.com, CNBC, ABC News, Daily Kos, New York Post, Japan Times, Deseret News and Nevada Current
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 Hill, 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, NPR, Associated Press, Metro.co.uk 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 and Forbes
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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Forbes, VICE, Daily Kos, abc7NY, hotair.com, Los Angeles Times, Discourse.net and Fox News
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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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Houston Public Media, Mercury News, WSPA-TV, MyWabashValley.com and Deseret News
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
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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The Federalist, Washington Examiner, redstate.com, Forbes, The Gateway Pundit, New York Times 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
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, Vanity Fair, 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, 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:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Has anyone seen Donald Trump? — IS ANYONE ELSE SURPRISED the president has not done a news conference or interview in the last 24 hours? As his campaign aides and lawyers fan across the country, President DONALD TRUMP has been uncharacteristically quiet. (Except on Twitter, of course.)
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Foreign Policy, Wall Street Journal, The Wrap and Associated Press
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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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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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Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Democrats' ‘Blue Wave’ Crashed in Statehouses Across the Country
Democrats' ‘Blue Wave’ Crashed in Statehouses Across the Country
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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Metro.co.uk, 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
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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PRESS RUN, Texas Scorecard, Mediaite, Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit
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 »
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, Liberty Unyielding, Althouse, LGBTQ Nation, Slate, Advocate, Breitbart, The Daily Signal and Vox
Axios:
New GOP campaign: Argue election stolen, Biden illegitimate — President Trump and his allies are setting the stage to claim a Joe Biden presidency would be illegitimate, baselessly questioning everything from how ballots are counted to whether “fake” polls suggesting blue waves that never came are tantamount to voter suppression.
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Mother Jones, Slate, The Guardian, Associated Press, Roll Call, Louder With Crowder and OutKick
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
Jacob Shamsian / Business Insider:
Ex-Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is trying to stop Florida from obtaining his psychiatric records so they could take his guns away … - Attorneys for Brad Parscale, President Donald Trump's former 2020 campaign manager, want to stop the city of Ft. Lauderdale from obtaining his psychiatric records.