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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.
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National Review, Washington Post, Washington Free Beacon, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Hill
Megan Messerly / The Nevada Independent:
Biden slightly expands lead over Trump as Nevada releases first results in 24 hours — Joe Biden slightly expanded his narrow lead over President Donald Trump in Nevada on Thursday, though the number of outstanding ballots in urban Clark County suggests that the race in the Silver State is still the former vice president's to lose.
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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, WSPA-TV, MyWabashValley.com and Deseret News
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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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Biden's campaign insists former VP ‘will be the next president’
Biden's campaign insists former VP ‘will be the next president’
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Associated Press:
Biden pushes closer to victory as Trump presses legal moves
Biden pushes closer to victory as Trump presses legal moves
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The Hill, NPR, Metro.co.uk, Raw Story 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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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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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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hotair.com, Deadline, NBC News, 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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Associated Press:
Judges dismiss Trump claims in Georgia, Michigan
Judges dismiss Trump claims in Georgia, Michigan
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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
New York Times:
N.Y.P.D. Anti-Harassment Official Accused of Racist Rants — The official was relieved of his command after City Council investigators amassed evidence that he posted vitriolic messages online under the name “Clouseau.” — For more than 20 years, an online chat board called the Rant …
Arizona Republic:
In latest batch, Trump gets share of votes he would need to reclaim Arizona. But next rounds of ballots present new challenges — As Maricopa County released the results from 140,000 more ballots on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, President Donald Trump received almost the exact share …
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NBC News:
Long at odds with Trump, Defense Secretary Esper has prepared a resignation letter, say officials — WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Mark Esper has prepared a letter of resignation, according to three current defense officials. — It's not uncommon for Cabinet secretaries to prepare undated letters …
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Political Wire
Tim Fitzsimons / NBC News:
French bulldog named Wilbur elected mayor of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky — The Kentucky hamlet of Rabbit Hash has a new mayor — Wilbur, a 6-month-old French bulldog. — “Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, has never had an actual person or human as a mayor,” Amy Noland, Wilbur's human, told NBC News.
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Jordan Davidson / The Federalist:
Presidential And Senate Races Tighten In Georgia As Key County Ballots Pour In
Presidential And Senate Races Tighten In Georgia As Key County Ballots Pour In
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Washington Examiner, ABC News, Twitchy and GAGOP
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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Breitbart, Summit News and Twitchy
The Pew Charitable Trusts:
Republicans Fend off Democrats in Statehouse Fights — Democrats failed to break the GOP's grip on state legislatures Tuesday, bolstering conservative policy priorities and giving Republicans increased power leading into the crucial redistricting process in 2021.
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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
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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The final implosion of Trump's Fox News propagandists — With President Trump mounting a frantic, last-ditch effort to stop the counting of votes that could doom his reelection, his Fox News propagandists are wheeling into action: One after another, they are raging that the election …
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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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Washington Post, Common Dreams and The Intellectualist
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
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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Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Election splits Congress, GOP bolstered as Democrats falter — WASHINGTON (AP) — The election scrambled seats in the House and Senate but ultimately left Congress much like it began, deeply split as voters resisted big changes despite the heated race at the top of the ticket for the White House.
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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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Stephen Gandel / CBS News:
Federal Reserve leaves interest rates unchanged — The Federal Reserve is holding its benchmark short-term interest rate near zero in an effort to offset the continuing economic impact of the coronavirus. The U.S. central bank said Wednesday that “in these challenging times” …
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NBC News
BBC:
Hong Kong: People invited to snitch on their neighbours — Police in Hong Kong have launched a hotline where residents can report breaches of the national security law imposed by Beijing earlier this year. — The law criminalises secession, subversion and collusion with foreign forces.
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Breitbart, Hong Kong Free Press HKFP and New York Post
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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Slate, Mother Jones, The Guardian, Associated Press and OutKick
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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Washington Post, The Wrap, PRESS RUN, Texas Scorecard, Raw Story, Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit