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9:16 PM ET, November 9, 2020

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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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and electionlawblog.org
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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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump allies brace for 30-day legal war
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell declines in floor speech to congratulate Biden as president-elect
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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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.”
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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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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Maryclaire Dale / Associated Press:
Trump faces long odds in challenging state vote counts
Discussion: USA Today, Washington Post and Fox News
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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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Graham: Trump should consider running again in 2024 if he loses
Discussion: HotAir, Fox News and Townhall
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
Discussion: 6abc and NBC10 Philadelphia
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
Matthew Herper / STAT:
Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech is strongly effective, early data from large trial indicate
Carolyn Y. Johnson / Washington Post:
Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine is more than 90 percent effective in first analysis, company reports
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
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
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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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 …
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Gingrich Says Trump Commitment to Election Legal Battle Has Intensified  —  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a vocal proponent of the Trump campaign's continuing efforts to fight the election outcome, said President Trump's commitment to the legal battle has only intensified in recent days.
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.
Discussion: New Republic
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 …
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 …
New York Times:
How Trump's Refusal to Concede Affects Biden's National Security Transition  —  President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has yet to receive a presidential daily briefing, and it was unclear whether his team would have access to classified information.  —  President Trump's refusal to concede …
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Too many men of color got conned by Trump  —  I am a Black man.  I was born in a Latin country.  I grew up in a Spanish-speaking family.  —  So it stuns me to see that President Trump set a record last week by attracting the highest percentage of the non-white vote of any Republican presidential candidate in the last 60 years.
Discussion: Fox News and RedState
Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:
No Evidence of Systematic Fraud in U.S. Elections, International Observer Mission Reports  —  A team of international observers invited by the Trump administration has issued a preliminary report giving high marks to the conduct of last week's elections—and it criticizes President …
 
 
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Manveen Rana / The Times:
I was asked to lie about Hunter Biden, admits Ukrainian businessman
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Victoria Bekiempis / The Guardian:
Ivanka Trump will lose White House status and job - what will she do next?
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John Quigley / Bloomberg:
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Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:
Eli Lilly Covid Antibody Drug Gets Emergency FDA Clearance
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Michael Lee / Washington Examiner:
Republicans flip plurality-black state House district that was considered safely Democratic
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