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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
This Election Result Won't Be Overturned — Recounts occasionally change margins in the hundreds, never in the tens of thousands. — It has been an eventful, unsettling year: A deadly virus struck without warning and claimed almost a quarter-million American lives; a lockdown demolished personal routines …
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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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Associated Press, Politico, CNBC, New York Magazine, No More Mister Nice Blog, New Republic, Raw Story, Forbes, Washington Examiner and Political Wire
New York Times:
Biden Names Ron Klain as White House Chief of Staff — Mr. Klain, a lawyer and veteran Democratic operative who first worked for the president-elect in 1989 when he was a senator, has been a sharp critic of President Trump's handling of the coronavirus. — WILMINGTON, Del. …
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Biden's choice of Ron Klain to run White House signals rejection of Trump-era chaos — President-elect Joe Biden has chosen longtime Washington operative Ronald A. Klain as White House chief of staff, sending an early signal that he intends to rely heavily on experience …
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Foreign Policy
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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Althouse, CBS News, Associated Press, Alternet.org, Real Clear Politics, HotAir, Politico, The Intellectualist and Political Wire
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Howard Kurtz / Fox News:
The endless election: Why both sides keep punching back
The endless election: Why both sides keep punching back
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Washington Post, Mother Jones, ABC News, Axios, alicublog, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mediaite, Conservative News Today, The Nation, Raw Story, The Guardian, Townhall, The Wrap and USA Today
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
No, the ‘Hail Mary’ plan for Trump isn't going to work
No, the ‘Hail Mary’ plan for Trump isn't going to work
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WISN, HotAir, Orlando Sentinel and Vox
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The corrupt bargain between Trump and Republicans is about to unravel
The corrupt bargain between Trump and Republicans is about to unravel
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Politico, ABC7, Forbes and Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Richard L. Hasen / The Atlantic:
Trump Needs Three Consecutive Hail Mary Passes
Trump Needs Three Consecutive Hail Mary Passes
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Washington Post, Law & Crime, Forbes, RedState, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, electionlawblog.org and Arizona Republic
Sam Levine / The Guardian:
Can Trump actually stage a coup and stay in office for a second term?
Can Trump actually stage a coup and stay in office for a second term?
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Newsmax, Arizona Mirror, Fox News, New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, New York Sun, Denver Post, Daily Maverick, NBC4 Washington and The Mahablog
Edward Foley / Washington Post:
Relax. Biden will be sworn in Jan. 20.
Relax. Biden will be sworn in Jan. 20.
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NBC News, Raw Story, Slate, New York Times and Religion News Service
Washington Post:
In poll watcher affidavits, Trump campaign offers no evidence of fraud in Detroit ballot-counting — Inside Detroit's absentee-ballot-counting center, one Republican poll watcher complained that workers were wearing Black Lives Matter gear. She thought one of them — a “man of intimidating size” — had followed her too closely.
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Leon Wolf / TheBlaze:
The Trump campaign has released 234 pages of affidavits regarding alleged voting regularities in Michigan. Here's what they say.
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
‘Karen Was Upset’: Trump Suit Cites Mostly Trivial Complaints By GOP Poll-Watchers
‘Karen Was Upset’: Trump Suit Cites Mostly Trivial Complaints By GOP Poll-Watchers
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CANNONFIRE and Mother Jones
David Thomas / Reuters:
Snell & Wilmer withdraws from election lawsuit as Trump contests Arizona results — The largest law firm representing the Trump campaign or its allies in post-election litigation challenging votes in key states has withdrawn from an election lawsuit in Maricopa County, Arizona.
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Maria Polletta / Arizona Republic:
Judge rejects Trump team's request for secret evidence in lawsuit over Maricopa County votes
Judge rejects Trump team's request for secret evidence in lawsuit over Maricopa County votes
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Washington Examiner, National Review, Bloomberg, POLITICUSUSA, Fox News, HotAir and 12news.com
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.
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Raw Story and The Intellectualist
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump lawyers suffer embarrassing rebukes from judges over voter fraud claims
Trump lawyers suffer embarrassing rebukes from judges over voter fraud claims
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HotAir
Bradley P. Moss / The Atlantic:
No Self-Respecting Lawyer Should Touch Trump's Election-Fraud Claims
No Self-Respecting Lawyer Should Touch Trump's Election-Fraud Claims
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Associated Press and Salon
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 …
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, MSNBC, CNN, NBC New York, HotAir, The Hill, Washington Times, VICE and New York Post
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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CNN, Forbes, NPR, The Hill, Fox News, Raw Story, Mediaite, TheBlaze, Political Wire and NBC Chicago
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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.
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Detroit Free Press, The American Mind, Washington Post, Reason, Los Angeles Times, Townhall, The Root, Raw Story and Political Wire
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Of course Republicans are doing this. It's who they are.
Of course Republicans are doing this. It's who they are.
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Raw Story
Elizabeth Warren / Washington Post:
What a Biden-Harris administration should prioritize on its first day — Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, represents Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate. — As Democrats celebrate the election of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris, we need to have an important conversation …
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Wall Street Journal:
What Is Trump's Legal Strategy? Try to Block Certification of Biden Victory in States. — Effort to get state Republicans to appoint pro-Trump Electoral College votes is a long shot, president's advisers and election-law experts say — President Trump's campaign is pursuing a patchwork …
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New York Times, Fox News, Alternet.org, CNBC, Los Angeles Times, The Gateway Pundit, The Western Journal, Washington Times, Cagle Post, abc7NY, Roll Call, POLITICUSUSA and Breitbart
The Daily Beast:
The New Yorker to Jeffrey Toobin: Beat It! — 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 into an incident in which he exposed himself during a video call with colleagues last month.
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Russell Mills / 102.3 KRMG:
Lankford guarantees “peaceful transition,” talks about COVID vaccine prospects — The Oklahoma Senator says Friday becomes the next important date, as the GSA can then start certifying the states' results — TULSA — Twin crises continue to create confusion for people across the country …
Kylie Atwood / CNN:
State Department is preventing Biden from accessing messages from foreign leaders — Washington (CNN)A stack of messages from foreign leaders to President-elect Joe Biden are sitting at the State Department but the Trump administration is preventing him from accessing them …
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Washington Post, Informed Comment and The Root
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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ABC News, The American Independent, Crooks and Liars, TheBlaze, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, Mediaite and The Intellectualist
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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FiveThirtyEight, HotAir, The American Independent, The Hill and National Review
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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 …
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Washington Examiner, CNN, Breitbart, HotAir, TheBlaze, RedState, The Gateway Pundit and Twitchy
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.”
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The Daily Beast and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Divisive Pentagon hire may rush troop withdrawals before Trump's exit — President Trump's newly installed acting Pentagon chief is bringing on a senior adviser in a sign the administration wants to accelerate the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Middle East before the end …
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Fox News, Washington Examiner, Mother Jones, ThePalmieriReport, Vox, CNN, NBC News, The Daily Caller, Raw Story and Washington Post
CNN:
To my family who chose Trump over me: Was it worth it? — Richard L. Eldredge is a contributing editor at Atlanta magazine and the founder and editor in chief of the digital arts magazine, Eldredge ATL. The views expressed here are his own. Read more opinion on CNN. — (CNN)"Was it worth it?"
Jon Ward / Yahoo News:
Detroit lawyers say fraud allegations based on ‘extraordinary failure to understand how elections function’ — The city of Detroit has rejected claims of cheating brought by Trump supporters, stating in — a court filing that the allegations made by a handful of election observers …
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.
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The Hill, Washington Examiner, Mock Paper Scissors, HotAir and HBR.org
Wall Street Journal:
Biden Grants Waivers to Lobbyists to Serve On Transition — At least 40 people serving on President-elect Joe Biden's transition team are or were once registered lobbyists, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal. — The Biden transition team has sought to limit the influence …
Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Amid White House COVID-19 outbreak, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner pulled their 3 kids from a DC Jewish school — WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump pulled their children out of a Jewish day school in Washington, D.C., two weeks before Election Day and three weeks after an outbreak …
John Nolte / Breitbart:
Fox's Contempt for Trump Supporters Exposed in Off-Air Video — Watch this video of Fox News anchor Sandra Smith as she expresses her elitist contempt after a Trump supporter dares question The Mighty Fox News Channel's decision to declare His Fraudulency Joe Biden the winner of a hotly contested presidential election.
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The Hill, Power Line and The Western Journal
Reuters:
Donations under $8K to Trump ‘election defense’ instead go to president, RNC — (Reuters) - As President Donald Trump seeks to discredit last week's election with baseless claims of voter fraud, his team has bombarded his supporters with requests for money to help pay for legal challenges to the results …
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The Daily Caller and Washington Post