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9:45 AM ET, November 9, 2020

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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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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.
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 …
Discussion: BuzzFeed News and KRDO
Associated Press:
The Latest: Ousted vaccine expert on Biden virus task force
Discussion: NBC News
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 …
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump may not, but many in inner circle accept defeat
Discussion: USA Today and Raw Story
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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New York Times:
Pfizer's Early Data Shows Vaccine Is More Than 90% Effective  —  Pfizer announced positive early results from its coronavirus vaccine trial, cementing the lead in a frenzied global race that has unfolded at record-breaking speed.  —  The drug maker Pfizer announced on Monday that an early analysis …
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.
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.
Discussion: New York Times
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Katelyn Burns / Vox:
The Trump legal team's failed Four Seasons press conference, explained
Discussion: CBS News and USA Today
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 …
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 …
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: Vanity Fair and Raw Story
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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.
Jeff Peterson / The Hill:
Progress toward managing rising seas  —  On Nov. 10, NASA will launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air force Base in California.  Its payload: a Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, equipped with instruments that will dramatically improve measurement of changes in sea level around the world.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Power Line
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 …
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: NBC News and Raw Story
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
 
 
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Susannah Luthi / Politico:
Obamacare faces Supreme Court remade by Trump
Discussion: Axios and Poynter
Rogerlsimon / theepochtimes.com:
Media ‘Calling’ Elections in a Democracy Is Post-Modern Fascism
Discussion: Instapundit
Politico:
‘I loved John McCain’: Inside Arizona's GOP movement to defeat Donald Trump
Discussion: The Bulwark
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
Allison Aubrey / NPR:
President-Elect Biden Has A Plan To Combat COVID-19. Here's What's In It
Discussion: CNBC, CNN, New Republic and Forbes
 Earlier Items: 
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Chris Wallace: Ted Cruz is like a Japanese soldier who thinks the war is ‘still going on’
Discussion: Mediaite and Breitbart
National Review:
Biden's Empty Victory
Discussion: The Week, HotAir and CANNONFIRE
Alexis Benveniste / CNN:
Brian Stelter turned off Trump tweet notifications live on air
Discussion: Twitchy
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
America should welcome review for close counts
NBC News:
Stacey Abrams: We will have unprecedented resources for Georgia Senate runoffs
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