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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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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.
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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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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Gregory J. Wallance / The Hill:
Why so gloomy, Democrats? You have a lot to celebrate — If there is such a thing as political postpartum depression, Democrats are clearly suffering from it. For the last four years, and not without justification, Democrats regarded President Trump as a threat to democracy in America …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Thoughts On Where We Stand Now [with question from Paul]
Thoughts On Where We Stand Now [with question from Paul]
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Axios:
Biden's nearly insurmountable math
Biden's nearly insurmountable math
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Biden predicts win, calls for unity, as presidential race still undecided
Biden predicts win, calls for unity, as presidential race still undecided
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David Siders / Politico:
3 storylines driving the election Saturday — Joe Biden is on the cusp of history. Donald Trump and the GOP base aren't ready to let go. — One day after Joe Biden pulled ahead of Donald Trump in Georgia and Pennsylvania and expanded his lead in Nevada, we still don't have a call.
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
As Trump's Chances Fade, Murdoch's Fox News Faces Wrath And Tough Choices
As Trump's Chances Fade, Murdoch's Fox News Faces Wrath And Tough Choices
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Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Trump shrinks Arizona gap to 30K votes with 173K left to count: Secretary
Trump shrinks Arizona gap to 30K votes with 173K left to count: Secretary
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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 …
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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CNN:
Report: Armed men arrested in Philadelphia were trying to deliver fake ballots — (CNN)Two armed Virginia men who were arrested Thursday outside the Philadelphia Convention Center were “coming to deliver a truck full of fake ballots” to the city, CNN affiliate KYW reported, citing prosecutors.
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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.
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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Bryan Walsh / Axios:
How expectations — informed by off-the-mark polls — shaped our perception of the election — Joe Biden appears close to an electoral win that will likely be narrower than election forecasts projected, and the initial sense that he underperformed expectations, which were themselves off base …
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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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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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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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