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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump to continue to hold campaign-style rallies as legal team girds up  —  President Trump plans to brandish obituaries of people who supposedly voted but are dead — plus hold campaign-style rallies — in an effort to prolong his fight against apparent insurmountable election results …
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump may not, but many in inner circle accept defeat  —  Apart from a few die-hards, most people close to President Trump know the race is over — but no one wants to be the sacrificial lamb who tells him to concede, people familiar with their thinking tell me.
Discussion: Raw Story and USA Today
Norman Ornstein / USA Today:
Donald Trump has lost to Joe Biden, what's next? The presidential transition from hell.
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Lindsey Graham: If Trump concedes election, Republicans will ‘never’ elect another president  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R-S.C.) warned that President Trump should not concede that he was defeated in the 2020 presidential election in part because Republicans will “never” be able to elect another president from their party again.
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Washington Post:
Even in defeat, the embers of Trumpism still burn in the Republican Party  —  With President Trump defeated, there is a pivotal question coursing through American politics: What becomes of Trumpism?  —  Since 2016, that political movement has commandeered the Republican Party …
Discussion: Townhall and Raw Story
David Edwards / Raw Story:   Lindsey Graham: If we accept these election results 'you'd never have a Republican president forever'
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Katelyn Burns / Vox:
The Trump legal team's failed Four Seasons press conference, explained
Discussion: USA Today and Slate
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Pete Buttigieg is a near-certainty for Biden's Cabinet  —  One near-certainty about Joe Biden's Cabinet: Pete Buttigieg will be in it.  Biden officials have made clear to donors and party officials the question surrounding Buttigieg is not if, but where, he lands, Democrats close to Biden tell Axios.
Discussion: The Week and Althouse
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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Tim Ball / Politico:
That's the sound of 75 million Americans exhaling
Discussion: Washington Post
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Infamous ‘Hoax’ Artist Behind Trumpworld's New Voter Fraud Claim  —  CAUGHT  —  He tricked the Bush administration into thinking he could detect terrorist signals in al Jazeera broadcasts.  Now Dennis Montgomery has a new set of believers.  —  As Donald Trump refuses to concede the election …
Discussion: Raw Story
Bill Whitaker / CBS News:
“It is not cheating, it is democracy”: A first-hand look at ballot counting in Pennsylvania  —  In Philadelphia, the birthplace of American democracy, election officials carry out their duties while facing unfounded attacks on the integrity of the vote by a sitting president.  Bill Whitaker reports.
Politico:
Pandemic on course to overwhelm U.S. health system before Biden takes office  —  The country's health care system is already buckling under the load of the resurgent outbreak that's approaching 10 million cases nationwide.  —  The United States' surging coronavirus outbreak is on pace …
Discussion: CNN and BuzzFeed News
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The post-Trump era begins  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  HAPPY MONDAY MORNING.  TODAY marks the beginning of the post-TRUMP era in American politics.  To the extent that he still has political currency, it dwindles every day as Jan. 20, 2021 draws closer.
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Biden unveils coronavirus crisis team tasked with curbing surging cases  —  President-elect Joe Biden declared tackling the pandemic “one of the most important battles our administration will face” as he announced a new 12-member Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board on Monday.
Susannah Luthi / Politico:
Obamacare faces Supreme Court remade by Trump  —  President Donald Trump will leave office without making good on his pledge to wipe out Obamacare.  But the Supreme Court he reshaped will soon indicate if it'll finish the job.  —  The court will hear a lawsuit Tuesday that likely represents Republicans …
Discussion: Axios
Politico:
‘I loved John McCain’: Inside Arizona's GOP movement to defeat Donald Trump  —  PHOENIX — Two years and two months before Arizona's rebuke of President Donald Trump, hundreds of Republican leaders of the Grand Canyon State crowded into North Phoenix Baptist Church to bid farewell to their hero and mentor, John McCain.
Discussion: The Bulwark
Rogerlsimon / theepochtimes.com:
Media ‘Calling’ Elections in a Democracy Is Post-Modern Fascism  —  More or less unnoticed for decades, the media habit of “calling” elections—presidential or otherwise—is not only a betrayal of the democratic process, it has become a leading factor in a new form of post-modern fascism in which we are apparently living.
Discussion: Instapundit
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: Mediaite and Breitbart
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: The Week, CANNONFIRE and HotAir
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: Reuters, Politico and Mother Jones
Allison Aubrey / NPR:
President-Elect Biden Has A Plan To Combat COVID-19.  Here's What's In It  —  As coronavirus cases surge around the country, President-elect Joe Biden says voters have given him a mandate to take action.  —  “Daily cases are skyrocketing,” Biden said in remarks Friday evening in Wilmington …
Discussion: New Republic and Forbes
 
 
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Jason Chaffetz / Fox News:
President-elect Biden calls for ‘unity’ - but where was ‘unity’ from Dems when Trump won?
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
‘We will not allow anyone to stop us’: Day and night, under historic scrutiny, the nation's vote counters carried on
Discussion: Raw Story
Maria Arias / Axios:
Trump spokesperson posts fake Washington Times front page of Gore win
Discussion: Slate, BuzzFeed News and Snopes.com
Alexis Benveniste / CNN:
Brian Stelter turned off Trump tweet notifications live on air
Discussion: Twitchy
Karin A. Lips / The Hill:
The year of the Republican woman
Joe Ferullo / The Hill:
The tribal journalism of cable news is at a crossroads
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
In Pennsylvania, Trump Voter Fury Foretells a Nation Still Divided
Discussion: Rolling Stone
 Earlier Items: 
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
America should welcome review for close counts
John Nolte / Breitbart:
Backlash Against Fox News Explodes
Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
How Biden Could Turn a Fractured Picture to His Advantage
New York Times:
Six White House aides, including Trump's chief of staff, have the coronavirus.
Discussion: The Guardian
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
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.