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1:50 PM ET, November 8, 2020

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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.
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ABC News:
Inside the Trump campaign as it grapples with defeat while plowing forward with legal fight
Bush Center:
Statement by President George W. Bush  —  President Bush congratulates President-elect Biden and Vice President-Elect Harris  —  DALLAS, TEXAS — I just talked to the President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.  I extended my warm congratulations and thanked him for the patriotic message he delivered last night.
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Maria Arias / Axios:
George W. Bush congratulates Biden on election victory
Discussion: Reuters and Atlantic Council
Vandana Rambaran / Fox News:
Trump accuses Biden of ‘rushing to falsely pose as winner’
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Daniel Politi / Slate:
Trump Team Holds News Conference Outside Drab Landscaping Firm, Next to Adult Book Store  —  On Saturday morning, shortly before the AP and other news outlets called the election for Joe Biden, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to announce that his lawyers would be holding a “big press conference” in Philadelphia.
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
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Biden's Win, House Losses, and What's Next for the Left  —  The congresswoman said Joe Biden's relationship with progressives would hinge on his actions.  And she dismissed criticism from House moderates, calling some candidates who lost their races “sitting ducks.”
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
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.
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.
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.
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 …
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The media never fully learned how to cover Trump.  But they still might have saved democracy.  —  As the cowbells clanged, car horns blasted and anti-Trumpers partied Saturday on my New York City street corner not long after TV networks called the presidential race for Joe Biden, I did what comes most naturally.
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Nursing home COVID-19 cases rise four-fold in surge states  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite Trump administration efforts to erect a protective shield around nursing homes, coronavirus cases are surging within facilities in states hard hit by the latest onslaught of COVID-19.
Discussion: Chicago Sun-Times
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 …
Discussion: Bloomberg and hotair.com
Isaac Schorr / National Review:
Why the Voter-Fraud Canard?  —  No one in their right mind believes that Donald Trump will still be president come January 20.  This is not Bush v. Gore.  In that instance, the candidates were separated by barely 1,000 votes in a single state.  Trump, in contrast, has lost the electoral college …
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Chris Christie, close Trump ally, suggests it may soon be ‘time to move on’ … Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, said the president needs to show proof of his various claims of electoral fraud or else Republicans “can't do this” anymore.
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Biden Victory Brings Sighs of Relief Overseas
 
 
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Bill McKibben / New Yorker:
Trump Is Out of a Job Because So Many Did the Work
Discussion: The Guardian
Mike Schneider / Associated Press:
Census takers say they were told to enter false information
Discussion: Forbes
Nina Turner / Washington Post:
Working people delivered Biden his victory. Now he needs to deliver for them.
Dante Chinni / NBC News:
How Biden won: Three key voter groups in 2020
Discussion: Associated Press
 Earlier Items: 
Christopher Bedford / The Federalist:
Saturday's Media Declaration Is A Naked Attempt To Silence Republicans, And Nothing Has Changed
KJ Edelman / Mediaite:
'I Didn't Expect to Be So Overwhelmed': Don Lemon Gives Emotional Monologue About Watching America Celebrate Biden Win
David Brand / Queens News:
Queens man evicted
Discussion: Political Wire