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11:45 AM ET, November 8, 2020

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Associated Press:
Trump considers how to keep up fight, find a graceful exit  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump never admits defeat.  But he faces a stark choice now that Democrat Joe Biden has won the White House: Concede graciously for the sake of the nation or don't — and get evicted anyway.
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Peter Alexander / NBC News:
At least 3 White House aides infected with Covid-19 along with Mark Meadows
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Kushner advises Trump to pursue “legal remedies” to the election  —  A source close to Jared Kushner said he has advised President Trump to pursue “legal remedies” to the election.  A second source close to Kushner confirmed he had not advised Trump to concede.
Washington Post:
Biden plans immediate flurry of executive orders to reverse Trump policies  —  President-elect Joe Biden is planning to quickly sign a series of executive orders after being sworn into office on Jan. 20, immediately forecasting that the country's politics have shifted and that his presidency …
Washington Post:
Trump, a president obsessed with winning, spends the day refusing to admit his loss to Biden  —  On Saturday, Donald Trump finally became the one thing he hates the most: a loser.  —  President Trump had just arrived at his namesake golf course in Sterling, Va., on Saturday morning …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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Ellen Barry / New York Times:
For a Trump Fan, a Week When Victory Ebbed Away  —  Nick Rocco, a passionate Trump follower in the Democratic bastion of Massachusetts, slowly realized it wasn't going his way.  —  WILMINGTON, Mass. — Nick Rocco went into Election Day amped up.  A 26-year-old hair stylist …
Joel Anderson / Slate:
Goodbye, Ben Carson  —  After almost 30 years as a pioneering neurosurgeon, you could have had a glorious—and prosperous—retirement.  You were already a living Black History Month hero, an example to any child whose dreams were bigger and better than their circumstances.
Eric Mack / Newsmax:
Fox News Cancels ‘Justice With Judge Jeanine’ This Weekend Over Trump  —  For those of you that might have tuned in and did not see Fox News' “Justice” with Judge Jeanine Pirro on Saturday night, sources told Newsmax the show was suspended over a spat on the network's coverage of President Donald Trump.
Politico:
How ‘Obamagate’ and Hunter's ‘laptop from hell’ fizzled  —  In the end, “the biggest political scandal in the history of our country” and “the second biggest political scandal in our history” turned out to be neither.  —  President Donald Trump's eleventh-hour efforts to impart a stain …
Mary Trump / The Guardian:
Mary Trump on the end of Uncle Donald: all he has now is breaking things … This is how the most colossal and fragile ego on the planet deals with losing the US election: he does not deal with it at all.  —  My uncle's speech late on election night wasn't just entirely mendacious from beginning to end.
Discussion: Business Insider and Raw Story
ABC News:
Inside the Trump campaign as it grapples with defeat while plowing forward with legal fight  —  Trump staffers are getting prank called while manning a voter fraud hotline.  —  Election 2020 timeline: 11.07.20  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden is the apparent winner of the presidency, defeating incumbent President Donald Trump.
Washington Post:
After Biden's win, parties gird for ferocious Senate runoffs in Georgia  —  Within minutes of Joe Biden becoming president-elect Saturday, top Democrats and Republicans raced to the front lines of 2020's last battlefront: A pair of January Senate runoffs in Georgia where the country's racial …
Lev Facher / STAT:
'It's going to be very, very scary': Before Biden takes office, a precarious 10 weeks for escalating Covid-19 crisis  —  WASHINGTON — Even many public health experts who celebrated President-elect Biden's win this week turned their immediate focus to the crisis it might create …
Norman Ornstein / USA Today:
Donald Trump has lost to Joe Biden, what's next?  The presidential transition from hell.  —  We're in for a parade of horrors during Trump's remaining time in power.  Change is coming, but along the way, fasten seatbelts for severe turbulence.  —  Our long national nightmare, the Trump presidency, is finally nearing an end.
Ayrshire Daily News:
South Ayrshire Golf club owner loses 2020 presidential election  —  Donald Trump, a South Ayrshire golf club owner has lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, after running again to be re-elected for a second presidential term.  —  Donald Trump, currently the 45th president …
Dante Chinni / NBC News:
How Biden won: Three key voter groups in 2020  —  WASHINGTON — Any election victory can be seen from a variety of angles - margins gains here, voter flips there - but the story of Joe Biden's 2020 win, and his narrow recapturing of the northern Democratic “blue wall” states …
Discussion: Associated Press
Vandana Rambaran / Fox News:
Trump accuses Biden of ‘rushing to falsely pose as winner’  —  ‘Our campaign will start prosecuting our case in court to ensure election laws are fully upheld and the rightful winner is seated’  —  Fox News projects Biden to become 46th president  —  While the president insists on Twitter …
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Libby Cathey / ABC News:
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris make victory speeches: ‘A time to heal’
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Trump is attempting a coup in plain sight  —  How do we cover it when it's happening here?  —  SHARE All sharing options  —  This story is part of a group of stories called  —  A few years ago, there was a boom of articles called “If it happened there,” imagining how the American press …
KJ Edelman / Mediaite:
'I Didn't Expect to Be So Overwhelmed': Don Lemon Gives Emotional Monologue About Watching America Celebrate Biden Win  —  CNN's Dom Lemon delivered an emotional monologue following CNN's projection that former Vice President Joe Biden will be named the 46th American president Saturday night.
New York Post:
President Trump, your legacy is secure — stop the ‘stolen election’ rhetoric  —  The math is looking near-impossible for President Trump to win re-election.  But he should take pride in what he's done for the nation and the world these last four years.  It's a legacy he could easily run on in 2024 …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Voices from the fight: An oral history of the four-year movement to defeat Donald Trump  —  Activists, politicians and ordinary citizens reflect on Trump's presidency and the moments that compelled them to rise up.  —  White House Bureau Chief  —  Dan Balz,
Christopher Bedford / The Federalist:
Saturday's Media Declaration Is A Naked Attempt To Silence Republicans, And Nothing Has Changed  —  For large swathes of the corporate media, the work to elect a Democratic president never ended.  —  Nothing has changed since Friday night.  —  You might find that strange …
Reuters:
Mexico's president won't congratulate Biden on election win until legal challenges over … Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said on Saturday he would not congratulate a winner of the US presidential election until legal challenges are concluded …
 
 
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
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Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Russian Media Is Angry and Desperate Over Biden Win
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed News:
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