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12:15 PM ET, November 10, 2020

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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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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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NBC News:
In appeasing Trump, the GOP toys with a constitutional crisis  —  WASHINGTON — In 2016, Donald Trump won Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin by a combined 77,000 votes; he got 306 electoral votes; and he received a concession speech by Hillary Clinton and a White House meeting with Barack Obama 48 hours after the election.
Washington Post:
Top Republicans back Trump's efforts to challenge election results  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans on Monday backed President Trump's efforts to contest his loss to President-elect Joe Biden, despite the lack of evidence of significant fraud and sharp rebukes …
Politico:
Pentagon's top policy official resigns after clashing with the White House  —  The Pentagon's acting policy chief resigned on Tuesday after falling out of favor with the White House, raising fears of a post-election purge at the Defense Department.  —  The departure of James Anderson …
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Associated Press:   Top Pentagon adviser resigns after Esper firing
New York Times:
Helping to Shape the Words of the President-Elect: A Presidential Historian  —  Jon Meacham, best known for writing about past presidents like Andrew Jackson and George Bush, has helped shape some of Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s most significant speeches.  —  WASHINGTON — Jon Meacham …
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Washington Post:
White House, escalating tensions, orders agencies to rebuff Biden transition team  —  The Trump White House on Monday instructed its senior government leaders to block cooperation with President-elect Joe Biden's transition team, escalating a standoff that threatens to impede his takeover of the federal government in January.
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Ed O'Keefe / CBS News:
Biden team considering legal options if Trump administration keeps stalling the transition
Discussion: The Week
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden transition starts congressional outreach
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
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 …
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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CNN:
Republican National Committee staff blindsided by layoffs
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 …
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 …
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: Alternet.org
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Schumer, McConnell re-elected as Senate leaders
Discussion: Politico, The Hill, IJR and POLITICUSUSA
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
USA Today:
Supreme Court, again, entertains Republican challenge to Obamacare  —  Our View: Failing to repeal, replace Affordable Care Act, Republicans keep testing justices' independence.  Just what Americans need in a pandemic.  —  The Editorial BoardUSA TODAY
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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 …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Joy Pullmann / The Federalist:
12 Ways For Trump To Bomb The Battlefield While Biden Claims The Presidency  —  President Trump needs a skunkworks team coming up with as many political land mines as possible to embed in the landscape against Democrats if Republicans are forced to retreat from the White House in January.
Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Kyle Rittenhouse's Mom Says ‘Protesters Should Not Have Been There’ on Night He Shot Them  —  Wendy Rittenhouse has broken her silence—but she expressed little sympathy for the Kenosha victims' families, and blamed the victims and law enforcement for the deadly incident.
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Chicago Tribune:
Kyle Rittenhouse's mother didn't know what he was doing on night of fatal Kenosha protest shootings
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post, Axios and HotAir
Brookings:
Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America's economy.  What does this mean for the nation's political-economic divide?  —  Even with a new president and political party soon in charge of the White House, the nation's economic standoff continues.  Notwithstanding President-elect Joe Biden's …
Discussion: Business Insider and Bloomberg
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
Ashton Pittman / Mississippi Free Press:
Top Mississippi Republicans Fail to Acknowledge Biden Victory as Fitch Joins Trump Lawsuit  —  Two days after all major national networks called the 2020 presidential election for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, none of Mississippi's top Republican leaders has acknowledged the Democrats' victory.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Brittle Grip, No. Infinity  —  As this election blurred forward I was taking notes for more editions of our “Brittle Grip” Series, the phenomenon of the super powerful and super rich feeling increasingly insecure in their power and wealth even as both wax.
Sarah Jones / The Cut:
Who Dies COVID took my grandfather.  But it wasn't what killed him.  —  We cremated my grandfather the week I was supposed to get married.  The white dress I bought a year ago still hangs in my closet, next to the black dress I brought home with me to Virginia.
Washington Post:
Why Texas's overwhelmingly Latino Rio Grande Valley turned toward Trump  —  SAN ANTONIO — While President-elect Joe Biden did not win Texas, he came closer than any Democratic presidential candidate in years, losing the state by six points — a narrowing made possible by Latino voters from urban strongholds.
Discussion: Politico
Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
Did Sen. Kelly Loeffler take advantage of a Trump tax loophole to write off campaign jet?  —  Records suggest Loeffler may have deducted a jet she used on campaign trips, letting the government eat the cost  —  Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a Georgia Republican now seeking to hold her seat …
Discussion: Political Wire
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Colorado joins list of states seeking to bench the Electoral College  —  Colorado became the latest state to try and do away with the Electoral College system.  —  On Election Day, Coloradans passed Proposition 113 by a narrow margin, signing the state up for the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and NBC News
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Final Hissy Fit Is Petty, Illegal and Stupid  —  Joe Biden will be the 46th president of the United States.  We're done.  It's all over but the weeping and rending of MAGA garments.  —  BEAST INSIDE … The Trump regime is in full and robust collapse.  It's not just his loss at the polls.
Discussion: Raw Story
Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Tweets Erode Trust in Elections Among Supporters, Study Finds  —  President Trump's tweets questioning the U.S. election's legitimacy are effective in shaping his supporters' beliefs on that topic, while his tweets boosted his detractors' confidence in elections, according to a study believed …
 
 
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Kevin Johnson / USA Today:
‘We did our job’: Former deputy FBI chief Andrew McCabe to defend Russia investigation
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Stuti Mishra / The Independent:
US police chief resigns over ‘death to all Democrats’ posts
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Jack Goldsmith / New York Times:
Trump Loves to Use the Pardon Power. Is He Next?
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BBC:
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Washington Examiner:
Election Day should not last two months  —  The absurd delays in ballot-counting across …
Patrick Reevell / ABC News:
Former Marine Paul Whelan speaks from Russian prison: ABC News exclusive
Tim Stickings / Agence France-Presse:
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Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Nate Cohn Explains What the Polls Got Wrong
 

 
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
How Trump and his allies could go after the media in his second term through harassment campaigns and lawsuits, draining the companies of time, money, and trust

Reuters:
Canada orders TikTok's business in the country to be dissolved, citing national security risks, but says it is not blocking Canadians' access to the app
 
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