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4:50 PM ET, November 10, 2020

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Washington Post:
White House tells federal agencies to proceed with plans for Trump's February budget in latest sign of election defiance  —  Directive is latest sign that Trump aides are acting as if he won the election and won't leave office on Jan. 20  —  The White House budget office has instructed federal agencies …
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President-Elect Joe Biden:
Agency Review Teams  —  Meet the Biden-Harris agency review teams  —  Agency review teams are responsible for understanding the operations of each agency, ensuring a smooth transfer of power, and preparing for President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris and their cabinet to hit the ground running on Day One.
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Pompeo on election results: ‘There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration’  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo battled reporters over President Trump's refusal to accept the results of the presidential election, predicting “there will be a smooth transition to a second …
NBC News:
Biden not getting intelligence reports because Trump officials won't recognize him as president-elect  —  WASHINGTON —The Trump administration's unwillingness to acknowledge that former Vice President Joe Biden is projected to have won the election has led to an unusual restriction on the flow …
Orion Rummler / Axios:
Pompeo refuses to say Biden has won election
Ed O'Keefe / CBS News:
Biden team considering legal options if Trump administration keeps stalling the transition
Discussion: The Mahablog, The Week and Reuters
Politico:
Biden team launches agency review teams despite GSA standoff
Washington Post:
White House, escalating tensions, orders agencies to rebuff Biden transition team
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
State Department watchdog nears end of one Pompeo probe
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Biden Weighs Legal Action to Force Trump Administration to Recognize Win
Discussion: Washington Times
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: The ‘orchestrated’ push to discredit Georgia's election sparks more GOP infighting  —  By Jim Galloway - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Patricia Murphy - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Greg Bluestein - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tia Mitchell - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Jim Galloway / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Georgia secretary of state who insists that two plus two still equals four  —  We tell ourselves that people of character are capable of wonderous things.  In fact, more often than not, they simply do ordinary things under extraordinary circumstances.  —  On Monday, Secretary …
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Supreme Court appears wary of striking down Obamacare  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday signaled it's unlikely to tear down Obamacare over a Republican-backed lawsuit challenging the landmark health care law.  —  The justices' lines of questioning during a two-hour-long argument session suggest …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo: The election lawsuit Trump should win
Discussion: Reason
Alex Woodward / The Independent:
Supreme Court seems likely to keep Obamacare intact in blow for Trump
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Brett Kavanaugh just sent a strong signal he will vote to uphold Obamacare
Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Fate of Obamacare back before Supreme Court, now with an expanded conservative majority
Politico:
Official who once called Obama a ‘terrorist leader’ takes over Pentagon policy  —  Anthony Tata, a retired brigadier general whose nomination for a top Pentagon job collapsed this summer due to Islamophobic tweets and other controversial statements, began overseeing policy for the Defense Department on Tuesday.
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Associated Press:
Top Pentagon adviser resigns after Esper firing  —  U.S. defense officials said James Anderson, the top policy adviser at the Pentagon, submitted his resignation Tuesday, a day after President Donald Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper.  Anderson has been the acting undersecretary for policy since June.
New York Times:
Barr Hands Prosecutors the Authority to Investigate Voter Fraud Claims  —  The attorney general said that he had authorized “instances” of investigative steps but that inquiries should not be based on specious claims.  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr …
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CNBC:
Amy Klobuchar considered for Biden Cabinet posts including attorney general and Agriculture secretary
Discussion: The Week
CNN:
Republican National Committee staff blindsided by layoffs  —  (CNN)A round of layoffs at the Republican National Committee Monday blindsided staff, three sources familiar with what happened told CNN, as President Donald Trump continues his legal push to contest Joe Biden's victory.
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Jim Acosta / CNN:
Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle make moves to expand RNC influence and possibly takeover, sources say  —  (CNN)Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle are making moves to expand their influence at the Republican National Committee, three GOP sources, including advisers to the President tell CNN.
Kate Kelland / Reuters:
One in five COVID-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days - study  —  LONDON (Reuters) - Many COVID-19 survivors are likely to be at greater risk of developing mental illness, psychiatrists said on Monday, after a large study found 20% of those infected with the coronavirus are diagnosed …
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Forms PAC in Hopes of Keeping Hold on G.O.P.  —  The PAC can accept donations from an unlimited number of people and spend to benefit other candidates, allowing the president to retain influence in a party remade largely in his image.  —  President Trump is has formed …
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New York Times:
Biden Condemns ‘Far-Right Ideologues’ Seeking to Strike Down Obamacare
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
GOP's Steel wins California House race after Democrat Rouda concedes  —  GOP candidate Michelle Steel will be the new representative for California's 48th Congressional District after Rep. Harley Rouda (D-Calif.) conceded on Tuesday.  —  “We did not win this election.
Discussion: RedState, KTLA and The Daily Caller
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USA Today:
Nine legal experts say Trump's lawsuit challenging election results in Pennsylvania is dead on arrival  —  Kevin McCoy Kristine Phillips Dennis Wagner Donovan SlackUSA TODAY  —  President Donald Trump's campaign launched its broadest challenge yet to the results of the election that appears destined …
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Shane Harris / Washington Post:
As an ex-president, Trump could disclose the secrets he learned while in office, current and former officials fear  —  As president, Donald Trump selectively revealed highly classified information to attack his adversaries, gain political advantage and to impress or intimidate foreign governments …
Arizona Republic:
Republican challenge to Maricopa County election involves fewer than 200 ballots, attorneys say  —  Maria Polletta Andrew OxfordArizona Republic  —  Republican officials behind a lawsuit alleging poll workers “incorrectly rejected” votes cast in person on Election Day will make their case …
Washington Post:
‘My faith is shaken’: The QAnon conspiracy theory faces a post-Trump identity crisis  —  President Trump's defeat and the week-long disappearance of its anonymous prophet have forced supporters of the baseless movement to rethink their beliefs: ‘Have we all been conned?’
Discussion: New York Times and Hackwhackers
Elana Fishman / Page Six:
How ‘SNL’ recreated Kamala Harris' white suit in under 90 minutes  —  When Kamala Harris took the stage in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday night around 8:30 p.m. to address the nation as its new vice president-elect, she did so wearing a white Carolina Herrera suit that nodded to the suffragette movement.
Discussion: The Wrap
Kerry Picket / Washington Examiner:
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis wins reelection in North Carolina  —  Republican Sen. Thom Tillis won reelection against Democrat Cal Cunningham in North Carolina's Senate race.  —  Cunningham, a former state senator who became embroiled in a sexting scandal late in the campaign …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Inside the Lincoln Project's new campaign targeting Trump's law firm  —  President Trump is trying to steal the election, but he couldn't get far if it weren't for his enablers.  There's Attorney General William P. Barr, who has granted prosecutors approval to pursue fake voter fraud cases to make them appear real.
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Be Alarmed  —  I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen amongst us.  —Abraham Lincoln, Lyceum Address, January 27, 1838 I know, I know.  Donald Trump is a petulant child, and congressional Republicans are just humoring him.
Discussion: Raw Story
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
One pollster's explanation for why the polls got it wrong  —  Voters line up to cast their ballots at a polling station in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on November 3.  Xinhua/Joel Lerner via Getty Images  —  The kind of people who answer polls are really weird, and it's ruining polling.
Discussion: National Review
 
 
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
What Went Wrong With Polling? Some Early Theories
Discussion: HotAir
USA Today:
FBI arrests Cincinnati councilman after undercover agents reveal ‘brazen’ bribery scheme, feds say
Donald J. Trump / American Greatness:
Fox News STILL Hasn't Rescinded Its Inaccurate Election Night Prediction Dems Would Gain Five House Seats
Discussion: Power Line and RedState
Jeremy Turley / Grand Forks Herald:
With North Dakota hospitals at 100% capacity, Burgum announces COVID-positive nurses can stay at work
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Brookings:
Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America's economy. What does this mean for the nation's political-economic divide?
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Brittle Grip, No. Infinity
Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Tweets Erode Trust in Elections Among Supporters, Study Finds
Discussion: Political Wire
Joy Pullmann / The Federalist:
12 Ways For Trump To Bomb The Battlefield While Biden Claims The Presidency
Glenn Greenwald:
Obama Official Ben Rhodes Admits Biden Camp is Already Working With Foreign Leaders: Exactly What Flynn Did
Politico:
'We're not some demonic cult': Democrats fume over faulty messaging
 

 
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New York Times:
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