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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 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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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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Richard Hall / The Independent:
I saw Donald Trump's presidency come crashing down at Four Seasons Total Landscaping — The Trump presidency ended in the parking lot of a landscaping company next to an adult bookstore. , Richard Hall was there … t began, as all good 2020 capers do, with a tweet from the president of the United States.
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Bill Whitaker / CBS News:
“It is not cheating, it is democracy”: A first-hand look at ballot counting in Pennsylvania
“It is not cheating, it is democracy”: A first-hand look at ballot counting in Pennsylvania
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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.
No, not that Four Seasons. How Team Trump's news conference ended up at a Northeast Philly landscaping firm.
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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:
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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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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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
Even in defeat, the embers of Trumpism still burn in the Republican Party
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Raw Story, Townhall and The American Conservative
Alex Rogers / CNN:
Top congressional Republicans still haven't acknowledged Biden's victory
Top congressional Republicans still haven't acknowledged Biden's victory
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Raw Story, NBC News, The Gateway Pundit, Townhall, New Jersey Globe, New York Times, RedState and Columbian
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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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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Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY ON THE MEDIA: ‘THEY LIE, THEY LIE, THEY LIE. AND THEN THEY LIE’ — Federalist Senior Editor Mollie Hemingway took aim at corporate media Sunday after some outlets called the presidential race for Democratic candidate Joe Biden Saturday before votes were certified …
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Power Line
Transition / President-Elect Joe Biden:
Biden-Harris Transition Announces COVID-19 Advisory Board — Leading Public Health and Scientific Experts to Advise the Transition on COVID-19 Response — WASHINGTON - Today, the Biden-Harris Transition announced the formation of the Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board …
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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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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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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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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
That's the sound of 75 million Americans exhaling
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