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6:00 PM ET, November 11, 2020

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Axios:
The Electoral College play  —  As the weaknesses of President Trump's legal cases to overturn Joe Biden's win become clearer, Republicans are talking more about the Electoral College — hinting at an extreme last-chance way for Trump to cling to power.  —  What we're watching …
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Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
How Hard Is It to Overturn an American Election?  —  And so it has come to this: The president of the United States is trying to overturn the results of a national election he unambiguously lost with a combination of petulant whining, spiteful and flailing executive action, and magic.
Howard Kurtz / Fox News:
The endless election: Why both sides keep punching back  —  Howard Kurtz: No TV network has power to call election for Joe Biden  —  We are mired in the politics of perpetual payback.  —  It used to be that presidential elections settled things for awhile, even when power changed hands …
Richard L. Hasen / The Atlantic:
Trump Needs Three Consecutive Hail Mary Passes  —  Despite the clear math showing that Joe Biden has won the election, President Donald Trump has refused to concede.  He has directed his legal team to keep on fighting to try to overturn the results of the election, including in a new 105-page federal-court filing in Pennsylvania.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The corrupt bargain between Trump and Republicans is about to unravel  —  President Trump needs Republicans to help him validate his big lie that the votes of millions of Americans are illegitimate and that the election is being stolen from him.  Meanwhile, Republicans need Trump to keep …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
No, the ‘Hail Mary’ plan for Trump isn't going to work  —  By now, it has become overwhelmingly obvious that President Trump will lose most or all his court battles over the phantom voter fraud he's alleging.  But there's still a scenario for Trump that is rattling around the Internet, one that's widely called a “Hail Mary.”
Discussion: HotAir and Orlando Sentinel
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Can Trump actually stage a coup and stay in office for a second term?
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
An early poll of Georgia's twin Senate runoffs shows tight races  —  A poll from a Republican-leaning national firm shows neither political party with a clear advantage in the twin January runoffs that are likely to decide control of the U.S. Senate.  —  The poll showed Kelly Loeffler at 49% …
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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Florida's Scott aims at Schumer in TV ad for Georgia runoffs
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Ga. doesn't need baseless accusations
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Rubio campaigns in Georgia for Loeffler, Perdue as race for Senate control comes into focus
Matt Naham / Law & Crime:
Lawyers Litigating for Trump Suddenly Remember Their Licenses Are on the Line If They Lie to a Judge  —  There's a big difference between a) waving around a stack of affidavits in a safe space and b) bringing your claims before a judge.  We saw that difference on Tuesday in the Trump campaign's case in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Discussion: The Intellectualist
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump lawyers suffer embarrassing rebukes from judges over voter fraud claims … After that “nonzero” answer, Diamond pressed the Trump campaign lawyer to be more explicit — and he suggestively invoked their standing with the bar: “I'm asking you as a member of the bar of this court …
Discussion: HotAir
Bradley P. Moss / The Atlantic:
No Self-Respecting Lawyer Should Touch Trump's Election-Fraud Claims
Discussion: Associated Press and Salon
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Dallas' Robert Jeffress, leading pro-Trump evangelical conservative: ‘Biden is president-elect’  —  Trump ally concedes that's a ‘bitter pill’ but says ‘Christians are not hypocrites’ and must accept Biden's victory  —  WASHINGTON — One of President Donald Trump's top evangelical Christian allies …
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Elizabeth Thomas / ABC News:
Pastor Robert Jeffress, staunch Trump evangelical supporter, calls Biden president-elect
ABC News:   Biden to name White House chief of staff as soon as this week
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New York Times:
Christopher Miller Named Acting Defense Secretary  —  President Trump's new acting secretary of defense began a since-aborted diplomatic gambit last month to negotiate with a Somali terrorist group — drawing the ire of the secretary of state.  —  WASHINGTON — A little-known counterterrorism …
Discussion: Washington Post
NBC News:
Trump may accept results but never concede he lost, aides say  —  WASHINGTON — There is a growing expectation among President Donald Trump's advisers that he will never concede that he lost re-election, even after votes are certified in battleground states over the coming weeks …
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John R. Bolton / Washington Post:
Time is running out for Trump — and Republicans who coddle him  —  John R. Bolton served as national security adviser under President Trump and is the author of “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir.”  —  As of this writing, the Republican Party has not suffered permanent damage …
Michael Gold / New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: As U.S. Breaks Hospitalization and Case Records, Even N.Y., N.J. and Connecticut Are Worried  —  For the first time, new daily cases in the U.S. passed 139,000 and hospitalizations exceeded 61,000.  The C.D.C. said masks protect the wearer, too.
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Bloomberg:
Two White House Aides, Guest of Giuliani Test Positive for Virus
Discussion: CNBC and Talking Points Memo
Peter Alexander / NBC News:   Another Trump ally who attended Election Night party tests positive for Covid
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Civil war brewing inside Proud Boys as top leader says he's done pretending he isn't a Nazi  —  The far-right Proud Boys gang has long denied that it is a white nationalist organization and has instead claimed that it only exists to defend “Western Civilization.”
Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
There Is No Return to Normalcy  —  In defeat, Donald Trump has perfected the grievance-fueled conspiracy machine in the Republican Party.  —  The day after the firing of the secretary of defense who resisted the use of troops against peaceful American protesters is probably not a great …
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Rubio says the GOP needs to reset after 2020  —  After the 2020 election, Republicans need to rebrand their party as the champions of working-class voters and steer away from its traditional embrace of big business, Sen. Marco Rubio said in an interview with Axios.
Discussion: HotAir and HBR.org
The Daily Beast:
The New Yorker Fires Jeffrey Toobin After Investigation Into Zoom Masturbation Incident  —  The top writer had been suspended last month after exposing himself during a video call with colleagues.  —  The New Yorker has fired staff writer Jeffrey Toobin after a weeks-long investigation …
New York Times:
Fact-Checked on Facebook and Twitter, Conservatives Switch Their Apps  —  Since the election, millions have migrated to alternative social media and media sites like Parler, Rumble and Newsmax.  —  Corey Adam, a political comedian from Minneapolis, joined a mass social media switcheroo last week.
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Politico:
Pelosi floats above Democrats' civil war  —  Shortly before Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team faced a gauntlet of angry Democrats disappointed by the election, they held a private call to strategize.  —  The message, Pelosi and others agreed, was clear: If they didn't rein in the far left …
Discussion: Fox News and Outside the Beltway
Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Top Republican says an investigation of Wisconsin's election is unlikely to take away Biden's win in the state  —  MADISON - Wisconsin lawmakers plan to issue their first subpoenas in decades as part of an investigation into the Nov. 3 election, even as the top Republican in the Assembly acknowledges …
Discussion: Political Wire
Teo Armus / Washington Post:
Mississippi Republican calls for his state to ‘succeed from the union’ after Biden victory  —  As the dust settles from the 2020 presidential election, one disappointed Mississippi lawmaker has a proposition for the Magnolia State.  Instead of being governed by President-elect Joe Biden …
Will Feuer / CNBC:
Biden Covid advisor says U.S. lockdown of 4 to 6 weeks could control pandemic and revive economy  — Dr. Michael Osterholm, a coronavirus advisor to President-elect Joe Biden, said a nationwide lockdown would help bring the virus under control in the U.S.  — He said the government …
Discussion: RedState
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Why Trump Fears Leaving the White House  —  Losing the presidency leaves him vulnerable to financial and legal danger.  —  Donald Trump is the luckiest man alive.  Unlike almost, well, everyone, he's been protected from the consequences of his own mistakes his entire life.
Discussion: Washington Post
Washington Post:
How Biden aims to amp up the government's fight against climate change  —  A new administration would enlist departments like Transportation, Agriculture and Treasury to advance its climate goals  —  President-elect Joe Biden is poised to embed action on climate change across the breadth …
Maria Polletta / Arizona Republic:
Judge rejects Trump team's request for secret evidence in lawsuit over Maricopa County votes  —  An attorney representing President Donald Trump's reelection team, in a lawsuit alleging poll workers “incorrectly rejected” Election Day votes, asked a Maricopa County Superior Court judge …
Leon Wolf / TheBlaze:
The Trump campaign has released 234 pages of affidavits regarding alleged voting regularities in Michigan.  Here's what they say.  —  They mostly concern an alleged ‘atmosphere of intimidation’ at a major Detroit counting location  —  In recent days, the Trump campaign has touted a number …
E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Of course Republicans are doing this.  It's who they are.  —  No. Not this time.  Not again.  —  We knew that President Trump had no respect for democracy or the Constitution.  So we're not surprised that he's lying, and lying, and lying again to claim he prevailed in the election …
 
 
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