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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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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump allies brace for 30-day legal war — GOP leaders and confidants of President Trump tell Axios his legal fight to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory — which they admit is likely doomed — could last a month or more, possibly pushing the 2020 political wars toward Christmastime.
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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.
Politico:
Pandemic on course to overwhelm U.S. health system before Biden takes office — The United States' surging coronavirus outbreak is on pace to hit nearly 1 million new cases a week by the end of the year — a scenario that could overwhelm health systems across much of the country …
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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.
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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.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
No, not that Four Seasons. How Team Trump's news conference ended up at a Northeast Philly landscaping firm. — What began five years ago with the made-for-TV announcement of Donald Trump's presidential ambitions from the escalator of his ritzy Manhattan high-rise, ended Saturday …
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Bill Whitaker / CBS News:
“It is not cheating, it is democracy”: A first-hand look at ballot counting in Pennsylvania
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Richard Hall / The Independent:
I saw Donald Trump's presidency come crashing down at Four Seasons Total Landscaping
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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 …
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Matthew Herper / STAT:
Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech is strongly effective, early data from large trial indicate — Pfizer and partner BioNTech said Monday that their vaccine against Covid-19 was strongly effective, exceeding expectations with results that are likely to be met with cautious excitement …
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Haley Ott / CBS News:
Pfizer says trials show its COVID vaccine is “more than 90% effective” — London — U.S. drugmaker Pfizer said Monday that human trials suggest its coronavirus vaccine is 90% effective at preventing COVID-19 infections in people not known to have had the virus already.
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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 …
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Lindsey Graham: If Trump concedes election, Republicans will ‘never’ elect another president
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Alex Rogers / CNN:
Top congressional Republicans still haven't acknowledged Biden's victory
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Republicans already racing to fill Trump power vacuum — President Donald Trump's defeat has set off a flurry of activity as would-be successors start to position themselves for 2024 and a battle to lead a Trump-less Republican Party begins to take shape. — Likely Republican candidates …
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Sara Kehaulani Goo / Axios:
Worried pollsters admit huge problem — Four years later, it's still easy to hate on the polls. Even if they called the presidential race “right” this time, the national polls vastly underestimated support for President Trump once again, leading to a major industry soul searching about how to fix some fundamental problems.
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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
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Himalaya Australia / GNEWS:
Joe Biden's votes violate Benford's Law (Mathematics)
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Crisis of American Democracy Is Not Over
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Alex Trebek, Longtime Host of ‘Jeopardy!,’ Dies at 80 — A good host, he once said, could set his ego aside and let contestants be all they could be. But he let them know when he thought they missed easy answers. — At a restaurant several years ago, a stranger went up to Alex Trebek …
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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 …
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David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
Putin won't congratulate Biden until ‘legal procedures’ are settled — Russian President Vladimir Putin will not congratulate Joe Biden until the U.S. election results are finalized, the Kremlin's top spokesman said Monday. — “Anticipating your possible question about Putin congratulating …
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Center for Presidential Transition:
A MESSAGE FROM THE CENTER FOR PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION ADVISORY BOARD — 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 …
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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 …
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Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
How Democrats Missed Trump's Appeal to Latino Voters — The election was a referendum on Trump's America, but plenty of Latino voters liked it just fine. — PHOENIX — Democrats thought it would be enough. — After four years of draconian Trump immigration policies and divisive messaging …
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