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11:55 PM ET, November 8, 2020

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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 …
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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: USA Today and Raw Story
Center for Presidential Transition:
Download (86k)  —  The Partnership for Public Service's Center for Presidential Transition is the nation's premier nonpartisan source of information and resources designed to help presidential candidates and their teams lay the groundwork for a new administration or for a president's second term.
Discussion: Politico, New York Times and The Hill
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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
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.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and TheBlaze
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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 …
Alex Rogers / CNN:
Top congressional Republicans still haven't acknowledged Biden's victory
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Lindsey Graham: If we accept these election results 'you'd never have a Republican president forever'
Discussion: Fox News
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
Washington Post:
A little-known Trump appointee is in charge of handing transition resources to Biden — and she isn't budging  —  A Trump administration appointee is refusing to sign a letter allowing President-elect Joe Biden's transition team to formally begin its work this week, in another sign …
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.
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
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.
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.
Discussion: Axios, The Hill and CBS Philly
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, Breitbart and MSN
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
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
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: HotAir, CANNONFIRE and Washington Post
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: Politico and Mother Jones
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 …
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.”
Discussion: Twitchy
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 …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
New York Times:
Six White House aides, including Trump's chief of staff, have the coronavirus.  —  Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, has contracted the coronavirus, as have five other White House aides and a Trump campaign adviser, officials say, raising fears of another outbreak sweeping through the ranks of the nation's top officials.
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 …
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  —  Please note: The Washington Post is providing this important election information free to all readers.  Get election results and other major news delivered to your inbox by signing up for breaking news email alerts.
Discussion: Raw Story and Bridge Magazine
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: CNN, New Republic and Forbes
 
 
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Maria Arias / Axios:
Trump spokesperson posts fake Washington Times front page of Gore win
Discussion: Snopes.com, Slate and BuzzFeed News
Karin A. Lips / The Hill:
The year of the Republican woman
Discussion: Fox News
Joe Ferullo / The Hill:
The tribal journalism of cable news is at a crossroads
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
America should welcome review for close counts
John Nolte / Breitbart:
Backlash Against Fox News Explodes
 Earlier Items: 
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Election 2020 Live Updates: Biden and Harris Look Toward Transition
Discussion: The Week and The Hill
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
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The media never fully learned how to cover Trump. But they still might have saved democracy.
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
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
Politico:
How ‘Obamagate’ and Hunter's ‘laptop from hell’ fizzled
Discussion: CNN and Breitbart
 

 
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