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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.
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Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
It Sure Sounds Like Trump May Barricade Himself in the Oval Office and Refuse to Come Out If Biden Wins — The president has reportedly told allies he'll never concede. — By now you've likely heard that after pulling ahead in Georgia and, most crucially, Pennsylvania …
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New York Times:
Biden's Team Steps Up Transition Plans, Mapping Out a White House — With Joe Biden leading in several important battleground states, his advisers and allies have moved rapidly to discuss hiring in critical roles, especially those overseeing the coronavirus response.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows Infected With Coronavirus — Campaign aide Nick Trainer, several others also contract virus — Meadows is latest in series of cases linked to White House — President Donald Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has told associates he has coronavirus …
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Katherine Doyle / Washington Examiner:
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and two aides test positive for coronavirus — President Trump's chief of staff has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to reports, along with at least four other White House aides. — Mark Meadows, 61, told people that he has tested positive …
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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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Washington Post:
Advisers urge Trump to prepare for defeat — but maybe without a concession speech — President Trump vowed on Friday to continue to fight the election results, privately urging allies and advisers to defend him publicly and insisting that he still had a path to victory over former vice president Joe Biden.
Wall Street Journal:
The Presidential Endgame — Trump has the right to fight in court, but he needs evidence to prove voter fraud. — By The Editorial Board — Perhaps it was inevitable that Donald Trump's re-election campaign would end as his Presidency began: with the President claiming victory …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Thoughts On Where We Stand Now [with question from Paul] — The presidential election seems to be going South and a Joe Biden administration may be in the offing. It is a bitter pill to swallow and I am profoundly depressed. Nevertheless, here are a few mostly-optimistic observations on the current scene.
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Axios:
Biden's nearly insurmountable math
Biden's nearly insurmountable math
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Associated Press:
Incendiary texts traced to outfit run by top Trump aide — BOSTON (AP) — A texting company run by one of President Donald Trump's top campaign officials sent out thousands of targeted, anonymous text messages urging supporters to rally where votes were being counted in Philadelphia on Thursday …
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Two men outside Philly vote count in Hummer with QAnon stickers face weapons charges, police say
Two men outside Philly vote count in Hummer with QAnon stickers face weapons charges, police say
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Ayesha Rascoe / NPR:
Trump Dumps 3 Agency Leaders In Wake Of Election — The sudden departures included: — Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, the first woman to oversee the agency in charge of the nuclear stockpile. She was required to resign on Friday.
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Nuclear Bomb Overseer Quits After Clash With Energy Chief — Lisa Gordon-Hagerty was told that Trump didn't support her — Gordon-Hagerty, Brouillette were embroiled in budget dispute — The U.S. official overseeing the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile resigned Friday …
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.
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New York Times:
Steve Bannon Loses Lawyer After Suggesting Beheading of Fauci — Mr. Bannon, the former adviser to President Trump, said the heads of the F.B.I. director and Dr. Anthony Fauci should be put on pikes, leading Twitter to ban one of his accounts. — Stephen K. Bannon, the former adviser …
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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
Steve Bannon's Lawyers Are Running for the Hills After Client's Insane Call for Dr. Fauci's Head
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Washington Examiner, CNBC and The Intellectualist
Tim Alberta / Politico:
The election that broke the Republican Party — By lashing themselves to the president's desperate conspiracies of fraud, GOP officials have undermined their own legitimacy. — Rep. Jim Jordan stands with dozens of people calling for stopping the vote count in Pennsylvania due to alleged fraud against President Donald Trump.
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Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Ronna McDaniel asks for ‘time’ to produce specific claims of alleged voter fraud
Ronna McDaniel asks for ‘time’ to produce specific claims of alleged voter fraud
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Bronson Stocking / Townhall:
SCOTUS Orders Pennsylvania to Separate Ballots Arriving After Election Day — A few hours after the Trump campaign filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court over late-arriving ballots in Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court ordered Pennsylvania election officials to separate ballots arriving …
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John Yoo / Fox News:
Trump-Biden presidential race could be decided by Pennsylvania case before Supreme Court
Trump-Biden presidential race could be decided by Pennsylvania case before Supreme Court
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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 …
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Senate Majority in Balance as Perdue Re-election Race Goes to Runoff in Georgia — Mr. Perdue, a first-term Republican, narrowly failed to clear 50 percent of the vote, sending the race to a January runoff that, along with another runoff contest, will probably determine which party controls the Senate.
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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 …
Washington Post:
Republicans are amplifying the president's lies. This has never been more dangerous. — THE NATION is in a perilous moment. Never in modern times has an apparently outgoing president behaved so disgracefully, fanning baseless claims of election fraud rather than preparing to concede, as anyone who cared about democracy would.
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CBS News:
Watch live: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to deliver remarks — Joe Biden is expected to address the public on Friday evening in Delaware, as the Democratic nominee has pulled ahead of President Trump in the critical battleground states of Georgia and Pennsylvania.
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Jack Fink / CBS Dallas / Fort Worth:
For First Time In 20 Years, US Senate Candidate Wins More Votes Than Presidential Candidate In Texas — DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - When U.S. Senator John Cornyn won his fourth term this week, he not only defeated Democratic challenger MJ Hegar by ten percentage points, he also won more votes in Texas than President Donald Trump.
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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