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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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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.
Discussion: Fox News, NPR and New York Times
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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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.
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 …
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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NBC News:
Nov. 6 highlights: Ballot counting continues in presidential race
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 …
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  —  There may be no figure more important in preparing Republicans and President Trump himself for a post-Trump period than media magnate Rupert Murdoch.  —  Among his properties, the top-rated Fox News Channel stands out …
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.
Discussion: Fox News, Energy.gov and Defense News
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump's post-election purge has begun  —  This column has been updated.  —  Late Friday afternoon, the White House fired Bonnie Glick, the Senate-confirmed deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, without any justification offered, making her the first senior …
Bloomberg:   U.S. Nuclear Bomb Overseer Quits After Clash With Energy Chief
CNN:
Second-highest-ranking official at USAID ousted
Discussion: KRDO
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]
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Biden predicts win, calls for unity, as presidential race still undecided
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.
Discussion: CBS Philly and VICE
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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.
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.
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Trump shrinks Arizona gap to 30K votes with 173K left to count: Secretary … Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs on Friday night announced that 173,000 ballots remain to be counted in Arizona after President Trump narrowed Democratic challenger Joe Biden's lead in the swing state to fewer than 30,000 votes.
Discussion: Power Line and KTAR.com
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Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
What are ‘provisional ballots’ and why it takes time to count them
Discussion: USA Today
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.
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 …
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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Courtney Connley / CNBC:
How Stacey Abrams, LaTosha Brown and other Black women changed the course of the 2020 election
Discussion: New York Times, Vogue and Fortune
ABC News:
Judges want more evidence from Trump campaign as election cases get tossed
Jack Fink / CBS Dallas / Fort Worth:
For First Time In 20 Years, US Senate Candidate Wins More Votes Than Presidential Candidate In Texas
Dan Friedman / Mother Jones:
Trump's Election Lawyers Are a Very Swampy Crew
Sarah Lazare / In These Times:
Joe Biden Said He's Against the Yemen War. He Needs To End It on Day One.
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Sidelined After ‘Close Contact’ Tests Positive for Coronavirus
Appleton Post-Crescent:
Sen. Ron Johnson says half of country won't accept a Biden win
Brian Greer / Lawfare:
How to Ensure That Trump Preserves Official Documents
Cade Metz / New York Times:
Study Considers a Link Between QAnon and Polling Errors
Discussion: hotair.com
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept:
A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft

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