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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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.

James Jeffrey Leaves Post, Expects ‘No Change’ in US Policy on Syria  —  US Special Representative for Syria James Jeffrey has contacted several European and Arab officials and Syrian opposition figures to inform them that his mission was coming to an end and that the US policy would not change if Joe Biden won the presidency.

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.