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11:50 AM ET, November 7, 2020

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CNN:
Joe Biden to become the 46th president of the United States, CNN projects  —  (CNN)America has chosen Democrat Joe Biden as its 46th president, CNN projects, turning to a veteran voice who has projected calm and compassion, promised a more empathetic and scientific approach to the pandemic …
Associated Press:
Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided US  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Saturday, positioning himself to lead a nation gripped by historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil.
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Biden defeats Trump to win White House, NBC News projects  —  WILMINGTON, Del. — Joe Biden became president-elect Saturday after winning the pivotal state of Pennsylvania, NBC News projected.  —  The former vice president amassed 273 Electoral College votes after winning Pennsylvania's 20 electors …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Another Trump ally contracted coronavirus  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  HAPPY SATURDAY.  It seems like it's going to get near 70 degrees today in D.C., so get outside, if you can.  —  PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S decision to dump on absentee and mail-in balloting for months …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Aides Frustrated After Meadows's Silence on Infection  — Campaign aide Nick Trainer, several others also contract virus  — Meadows is latest in series of cases linked to White House  —  Some of Donald Trump's White House and campaign aides are frustrated that the president's chief of staff …
NBC News:
Nov. 6 highlights: Ballot counting continues in presidential race
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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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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 …
Steven Nelson / New York Post:
Trump shrinks Arizona gap to 30K votes with 173K left to count: Secretary
Discussion: Power Line and KTAR.com
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.
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
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.
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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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: Energy.gov, Defense News and Fox News
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Bloomberg:   U.S. Nuclear Bomb Overseer Quits After Clash With Energy Chief
Mikey Smith / Mirror.co.uk:
Confusion as Donald Trump announces legal press conference outside gardening firm  —  He then clarified that he didn't mean the hotel  —  Donald Trump sparked confusion today as he announced a press conference by his legal team would take place outside a landscape gardening firm.
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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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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