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Katelyn Burns / Vox:
The Trump legal team's failed Four Seasons press conference, explained  —  Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer, speaks during a press conference held in the parking lot of a landscaping company on November 7 in Philadelphia.  Chris McGrath/Getty Images
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and USA Today
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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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Crisis of American Democracy Is Not Over  —  The 2020 campaign was long and brutal, unfolding before a backdrop of death and economic decline.  When all the votes are counted, a challenger will have unseated an incumbent president for only the 10th time in American history.  Donald Trump's presidency is over.
Discussion: Salon, Daily Kos and Business Insider
Maria Arias / Axios:
George W. Bush congratulates Biden on election victory  —  Former President George W. Bush issued a statement on Sunday congratulating President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their election victory.  —  Why it matters: Every living president has now congratulated Biden …
Tim Ball / Politico:
That's the sound of 75 million Americans exhaling  —  On a day that started with U.S. President Donald Trump heading to Virginia for a round of golf and ended with his opponents, the Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, delivering victory speeches, there was a palpable sigh of relief …
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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CNN:
Jared Kushner, Melania Trump advise Trump to accept election loss  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's inner circle is beginning to split over his ongoing refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election, as Jared Kushner and first lady Melania Trump advised him to come to terms …
NBC News:
Stacey Abrams: We will have unprecedented resources for Georgia Senate runoffs  —  Voting rights activist and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said Sunday that Democrats are going to have unprecedented financial support for the two possible January Senate runoff elections in her state …
Discussion: Associated Press and Mother Jones
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Chris Christie, close Trump ally, suggests it may soon be ‘time to move on’
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Lindsey Graham: If we accept these election results 'you'd never have a Republican president forever'  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) warned on Sunday that there will never be another Republican president if the current 2020 elections results are allowed to stand.
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Graham: If GOP doesn't fight, there will ‘never be another Republican president elected again’
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
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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New York Times:   Six White House aides, including Trump's chief of staff, have the coronavirus.
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.”
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Eric Martin / Bloomberg:   Bush Says Vote Was ‘Fair,’ and Outcome ‘Clear’: Election Update
Alexis Benveniste / CNN:
Brian Stelter turned off Trump tweet notifications live on air  —  New York (CNN Business)With 73 days left of the Trump presidency, CNN's Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter turned off his notifications for Donald Trump's tweets live on air Sunday during “Reliable Sources.”
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Chris Wallace: Ted Cruz is like a Japanese soldier who thinks the war is ‘still going on’  —  Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday compared Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to a Japanese soldier who thinks World War II is “still going on” because he refuses to accept the presidential election results.
Discussion: Breitbart
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 …
Discussion: CNN and Breitbart
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 …
Maria Arias / Axios:
Trump spokesperson posts fake Washington Times front page of Gore win  —  Tim Murtaugh, communications director for President Trump's re-election campaign, posted a fake front page purporting to be from a 2000 issue of the Washington Times that read “President Gore” on Twitter — calling it a …
Discussion: Slate and Political Wire
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Tries to Tell Trump Through the TV: The Party's Over  —  THANK U, NEXT  —  The president's favorite network has really tried to hammer home the message that it's time for him to face reality and move on.  —  President Donald Trump's favorite network has spent the weekend trying …
Discussion: NPR, Raw Story, Washington Post and Mediaite
Himalaya Australia / GNEWS:
Joe Biden's votes violate Benford's Law (Mathematics)  —  As the vote counting for the 2020 Presidential Election continues, various facts suggest rampant frauds in Joe Biden's votes.  So does mathematics in terms of the votes from precincts.  —  Benford's law or the first-digit law …
Joe Ferullo / The Hill:
The tribal journalism of cable news is at a crossroads  —  The tumultuous presidential campaign and its razor-thin result place much of the mainstream news media at a crossroads: They can continue to aid and abet polarization in the search for profits, or they can dial back and help shift the tone of the country.
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
America should welcome review for close counts  —  Just when you thought the 2020 election could not be more bizarre, a hearing in Las Vegas on challenges by the Trump campaign went full Monty Python.  After days of charges of fraud, we are finally at that “bring out your dead” moment from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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 …
John Nolte / Breitbart:
Backlash Against Fox News Explodes  —  Once the hysteria over the presidential election recedes, it should be interesting to see what the Fox News Channel's ratings look like.  Online, there is definitely a backlash growing against the disgraced outlet.  —  What should worry Fox above …
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National Review:
Biden's Empty Victory  —  CNN Suggests Harris Is ‘Presumed Frontrunner’ for 2024, Biden May Serve Only One Term  —  Who Won?  —  Biden Declares ‘a Time to Heal’ after Election Win  —  Did Biden's Victory Come Down to Fewer Votes Than Trump's in 2016?  —  Trump Campaign Refuses to Concede as Networks Call Election for Joe Biden
Discussion: CANNONFIRE
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
In Pennsylvania, Trump Voter Fury Foretells a Nation Still Divided  —  President Trump has presented no hard evidence of voter fraud, but his charges have riled supporters in Pennsylvania who now insist the election has been stolen.  —  PITTSBURGH — Like many Trump supporters …
Discussion: Newsmax and Bloomberg
 
 
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Allison Aubrey / NPR:
President-Elect Biden Has A Plan To Combat COVID-19. Here's What's In It
Discussion: Forbes and New Republic
Karin A. Lips / The Hill:
The year of the Republican woman
Discussion: Fox News
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Election 2020 Live Updates: Biden and Harris Look Toward Transition
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Clyburn: Things Like ‘Defund the Police’ Did NOT Help Dems During Election, I Believe It Hurt Jaime Harrison's Senate Race
Discussion: Townhall
Bill McKibben / New Yorker:
Trump Is Out of a Job Because So Many Did the Work
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The media never fully learned how to cover Trump. But they still might have saved democracy.
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Nursing home COVID-19 cases rise four-fold in surge states
Dante Chinni / NBC News:
How Biden won: Three key voter groups in 2020
Discussion: Politico
Norman Ornstein / USA Today:
Donald Trump has lost to Joe Biden, what's next? The presidential transition from hell.
Joel Anderson / Slate:
Goodbye, Ben Carson
Mary Trump / The Guardian:
Mary Trump on the end of Uncle Donald: all he has now is breaking things
Discussion: Business Insider and Raw Story
Lev Facher / STAT:
'It's going to be very, very scary': Before Biden takes office, a precarious 10 weeks for escalating Covid-19 crisis
Discussion: HotAir
 

 
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