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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
GOP fears conceding Trump loss would spark base revolt and loss of seats — Top Republicans in Washington are reluctant to call Joe Biden the president-elect publicly, fearing a rebellion by grassroots conservatives loyal to President Trump that would sink the party's Senate majority.
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Top Republicans back Trump's efforts to contest election results
Top Republicans back Trump's efforts to contest election results
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Axios:
McConnell defends Trump's refusal to concede to Biden
McConnell defends Trump's refusal to concede to Biden
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump allies brace for 30-day legal war
Scoop: Trump allies brace for 30-day legal war
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell declines in floor speech to congratulate Biden as president-elect
McConnell declines in floor speech to congratulate Biden as president-elect
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Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Barr OKs election probes despite little evidence of fraud — WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr has authorized federal prosecutors across the U.S. to pursue “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities before the 2020 presidential election is certified, despite little evidence of fraud.
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CNN:
Trump fires Secretary of Defense Mark Esper — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Monday that he has fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and that Christopher Miller, who serves as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, will become acting secretary “effective immediately.”
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Meghann Myers / Military Times:
Exclusive: Esper, on his way out, says he was no yes man — As had long been expected, President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Monday, cutting short what would have otherwise been his final months at the Pentagon, in anticipation of President-elect Joe Biden's transition in January.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump privately discussing 2024 run — President Trump has already told advisers he's thinking about running for president again in 2024, two sources familiar with the conversations tell Axios. — Why it matters: This is the clearest indication yet that Trump understands he has lost …
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Quint Forgey / Politico:
Trump campaign adviser: Conceding ‘is not even in our vocabulary right now’
Trump campaign adviser: Conceding ‘is not even in our vocabulary right now’
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Money raised for Trump's election fights would help cover campaign debt
Money raised for Trump's election fights would help cover campaign debt
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Politico:
GOP-led states back Trump's legal drive to challenge election — Republican-controlled state governments on Monday began throwing their weight behind President Donald Trump's legal drive to challenge the results of last week's presidential election. — A coalition of Republican attorneys general filed …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Trump's quest to end the Affordable Care Act arrives at Supreme Court
Trump's quest to end the Affordable Care Act arrives at Supreme Court
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Maryclaire Dale / Associated Press:
Trump faces long odds in challenging state vote counts
Trump faces long odds in challenging state vote counts
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New York Times:
Growing Discomfort at Law Firms Representing Trump in Election Lawsuits — Some lawyers at Jones Day and Porter Wright, which have filed suits about the 2020 vote, said they were worried about undermining the electoral system. — Like many big law firms, Jones Day, whose roots …
Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
Trump campaign sues to halt Pennsylvania from certifying Biden win — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign on Monday filed a lawsuit in a Pennsylvania federal court, seeking an emergency injunction to stop state officials from certifying Joe Biden's victory in the state.
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Trump Campaign Files Federal Lawsuit Seeking to Block Pennsylvania from Certifying Election Results
Trump Campaign Files Federal Lawsuit Seeking to Block Pennsylvania from Certifying Election Results
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:
Facebook takes down a large network of pages tied to Stephen Bannon for pushing misinformation — The pages, which pushed the ‘Stop the Steal’ effort and other misleading messages, were removed over the weekend, while the former top Trump strategist's account was frozen
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Religion News Service:
Bishop Harry Jackson Jr., Trump evangelical adviser, has died — Bishop Harry Jackson of Maryland speaks at the unveiling of the “Justice Declaration,” a statement by Christian leaders on criminal justice, in Washington, D.C., on June 20, 2017. RNS photo by Adelle M. Banks — Flip
Politico:
Meadows doesn't expect GSA standoff to end before Friday — Welcome to POLITICO's 2020 Transition Playbook, your guide to one of the most consequential transfers of power in American history. — BIDEN STAND-OFF WITH GSA CONTINUES — The General Services Administration is not expected …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Leaked call audio shows Trump officials denying election results
Leaked call audio shows Trump officials denying election results
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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 …
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Pfizer:
Pfizer and BioNTech Announce Vaccine Candidate Against COVID-19 Achieved Success in First Interim Analysis from Phase 3 Study
Pfizer and BioNTech Announce Vaccine Candidate Against COVID-19 Achieved Success in First Interim Analysis from Phase 3 Study
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Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine is more than 90 percent effective in first analysis, company reports
Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine is more than 90 percent effective in first analysis, company reports
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Adviser Leading Post-Election Legal Fight Has Coronavirus — Aide David Bossie was diagnosed Sunday in White House test — Bossie helping with strategy after Meadows tested positive — David Bossie, an outside adviser to Donald Trump who is leading his post-election fight over vote counts …
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Trump's election challenge is continuing, but the campaign is already shedding staff — WASHINGTON — Two days after Joe Biden was declared the winner in the presidential election, President Trump and his allies have vowed to keep on fighting, but his campaign team has already let go of some staff …
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Matt Friedman / Politico:
Man featured at Giuliani press conference is a convicted sex offender — The first person Rudy Giuliani, the attorney for President Donald Trump, called up as a witness to baseless allegations of vote counting shenanigans in Philadelphia during a press conference last week is a sex offender …
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Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
The former CEO of Google has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus — Eric Schmidt is effectively buying a passport that he can use to enter the European Union. — The former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, is finalizing a plan to become a citizen of the island of Cyprus, Recode has learned …
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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Why Trump Can't Afford to Lose — The President has survived one impeachment, twenty-six accusations of sexual misconduct, and an estimated four thousand lawsuits. That run of good luck may well end, perhaps brutally, if Joe Biden wins. — The President was despondent.
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Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Pulling Our Politics Back from the Brink — After a bitterly contested election, the country teeters between persuasion and force. — In the hours after Election Day, as Donald Trump seemed on the point of losing the Presidency, he spiralled through emotions like Lear on the heath …
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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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