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10:00 PM ET, November 6, 2020

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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says He Will Keep Fighting as Aides Doubt Path Forward  —  President's advisers point fingers over campaign's legal strategy  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump said Friday he would continue to fight election results that showed him on the cusp of losing to former Vice President Joe Biden.
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The Final Gasp of Donald Trump's Presidency  —  Donald Trump going out with a limp seems like an oxymoron," a senior adviser to the president told me.  In width and in word, in soaring skyscrapers and Brioni suits and arena rallies and various euphemisms for great (yuge, bigly), the man has been defined by and obsessed with largeness.
Politico:
‘My sense is that we lost’: Trump campaign aides grapple with dwindling odds  —  Only a small number of those in the president's inner circle have adamantly encouraged Trump not to concede.  —  President Donald Trump walks off after delivering a statement Thursday in the White House briefing room.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trumpworld rages behind the scenes  —  Senior White House and Trump campaign officials are complaining bitterly about poor internal communication, blaming colleagues, pondering what jobs they might try to get next year, and lashing out at their new enemy: Fox News.
New York Times:
Biden's Team Steps Up Transition Plans, Mapping Out a White House
Discussion: Slate, Foreign Policy and Vanity Fair
CNN:
Trump has told people he has no plans to concede even if his path to victory is blocked
Mica Soellner / Washington Examiner:
David Axelrod not on board with ‘aggressive’ Biden team statement about escorting Trump out of White House
Discussion: The Hill and Townhall
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Steve Bannon's Lawyers Are Running for the Hills After Client's Insane Call for Dr. Fauci's Head
Discussion: The Intellectualist
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Photo: Naked Cowboy exchanges words with Biden supporter in N.Y.C.'s Times Square  —  GOP Sen. Perdue's campaign is preparing for ‘coming runoff’ in Georgia  —  NBC News has yet to make a projection in their race, but Sen. David Perdue's campaign said Friday that it's preparing for a runoff election …
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Senate Majority in Limbo as Perdue Re-election Race Goes to Runoff in Georgia
Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Fundraising for Legal Challenges Would Also Pay Down Debt  —  President Trump is racing to raise money for an “official election defense fund.”  But the fine print on the solicitations tells a different story: Half — or more — of any contribution will be used to retire debt from his re-election campaign.
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
New York Post Shifts Tone on Trump as a Top Editor Plans His Own Exit  —  Rupert Murdoch's tabloid has turned critical as the president seems headed to defeat.  Col Allan, a wizard there, says he plans to retire next year.  —  Last month The New York Post called President Trump …
Reuters:
Pennsylvania court orders some provisional election ballots set aside  —  WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania court on Friday ordered election officials to set aside provisional ballots cast on Election Day by voters whose absentee or mail-in ballots were received on time.
Discussion: VTDigger, USA Today, Forbes and Axios
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Is Trump campaign urging Pennsylvania supporters to mail late ballots?
Axios:
Biden's nearly insurmountable math  —  Joe Biden has nearly insurmountable math on his side, as the stunningly close count continued all day.  —  The state of play: Network morning shows stayed live as long as 1 p.m. ET, with the nation's news machinery poised to resolve Election week.
Kevin Draper / New York Times:
Election 2020 Live Updates: Biden Inches Closer to the Presidency With Lead in Pennsylvania … Senate tally includes 65 seats not up for election.  —  More than 4,000 votes are left to be counted in Georgia, as well as an unknown number of overseas and military ballots that are still arriving, an elections official said.
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Trump's odds of winning through a recount are nearly impossible
Discussion: Boston Herald and New York Times
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Ronna McDaniel asks for ‘time’ to produce specific claims of alleged voter fraud  —  Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel did not present concrete examples of alleged voter fraud in her home state of Michigan and elsewhere when pressed by Fox News anchors on Friday …
Discussion: Bridge Magazine, Vox and ABC News
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Two men outside Philly vote count in Hummer with QAnon stickers face weapons charges, police say  —  Two Virginia men who drove to Philadelphia in a silver Hummer displaying stickers for the QAnon conspiracy movement are facing firearms charges for carrying guns without proper permits outside …
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Washington Post:
Trump-associated firm tied to unmarked texts urging vote protests in Philadelphia
6abc:
Philly police investigating alleged plot to attack Pennsylvania Convention Center
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Sidelined After ‘Close Contact’ Tests Positive for Coronavirus … Rachel Maddow, the most-watched anchor in the MSNBC lineup, will come off the air for a period of time after a close contact tested positive for coronavirus.  —  “I've tested negative thus far …
Brian Greer / Lawfare:
How to Ensure That Trump Preserves Official Documents  —  Vice President Joe Biden is the presumptive winner of the presidential election.  There are surely many things on Biden's to-do list, but it's not at all implausible that the Biden administration—and a Democrat-controlled House of Representatives …
Cade Metz / New York Times:
Study Considers a Link Between QAnon and Polling Errors  —  Polls in several key states underestimated the breadth of support for President Trump before the Nov. 3 election, just as they did in 2016.  —  But why?  —  Early results from a study by researchers at the University …
Discussion: Washington Post and hotair.com
CNN:
Second-highest-ranking official at USAID ousted  —  Washington (CNN)The second highest-ranking official at the US Agency for International Development was ousted Friday, two sources familiar with the situation told CNN.  —  Bonnie Glick, the deputy administrator of the agency …
Discussion: Washington Post and KRDO
Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
So You Want to Go to War With Philadelphia?  —  Donald Trump's loyalists are fixated on Philadelphia, and its affection for Joe Biden, as the president's reelection prospects fizzle.  Ted Cruz called Philadelphia “lawless” and “the worst in the country.”  Another pro-Trump pundit tweeted, “I'm going to Philly tomorrow.
Anand Giridharadas / New York Times:
Joe Biden's Magic  —  He has the power to make real, transformational progress look like common sense.  Will he use it, given the chance?  —  Mr. Giridharadas is the author of “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World.”  —  Let's never do that again.
Appleton Post-Crescent:
Sen. Ron Johnson says half of country won't accept a Biden win  —  MADISON - Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said Friday that half the country will not accept the outcome of the presidential election if Democrat Joe Biden wins.  —  Johnson, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump …
Discussion: CNN and Associated Press
Jack Nicas / New York Times:
How Claims of Dead Michigan Voters Spread Faster Than the Facts  —  Run-of-the-mill clerical errors have been used as false evidence of voter fraud in Michigan.  —  The tweets began to arrive Wednesday night, carrying explosive claims that people in Michigan were voting under the names of dead people.
Discussion: Twin Cities
 
 
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Kendall Karson / ABC News:
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