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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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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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President-Elect Joe Biden:
President-elect Joe Biden Names Ron Klain as White House Chief of Staff
President-elect Joe Biden Names Ron Klain as White House Chief of Staff
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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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The Daily Beast:
Trump's National Security Adviser Tells Staff: Don't Even Mention Biden's Name — No one around Trump is willing to tell him he lost the election. Into the “fucking clown show” stepped Robert O'Brien. — President Donald Trump continues to refuse to cede the election.
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New York Times:
Trump Stacks the Pentagon and Intel Agencies With Loyalists. To What End?
Trump Stacks the Pentagon and Intel Agencies With Loyalists. To What End?
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The Intercept
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Divisive Pentagon hire may rush troop withdrawals before Trump's exit
Scoop: Divisive Pentagon hire may rush troop withdrawals before Trump's exit
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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 …
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CNN:
Republican senator says he will step in if Biden doesn't have access to intelligence briefings by Friday — 9/11 commission says Trump transition refusal makes US vulnerable — (CNN)Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford said Wednesday that he will intervene if the Trump administration …
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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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Dave Boucher / Detroit Free Press:
AG Nessel: Trump's baseless elections lawsuits essentially say ‘Black people are corrupt’
AG Nessel: Trump's baseless elections lawsuits essentially say ‘Black people are corrupt’
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Jon Ward / Yahoo News:
Detroit lawyers say fraud allegations based on ‘extraordinary failure to understand how elections function’
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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Glenna Milberg / WPLG-TV:
Evidence suggests several state Senate candidates were plants funded by dark money — MIAMI - Why would candidates for Florida Senate seats do no campaigning, no fundraising, have no issue platforms, nor make any effort to get votes? — Local 10 News has found evidence to suggest three …
Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
Trump's Post-Election Tactics Put Him in Unsavory Company — Denying defeat, claiming fraud and using government machinery to reverse election results are the time-honored tools of dictators. — MOSCOW — When the strongman ruler of Belarus declared an implausible landslide victory …
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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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Steve Holland / Reuters:
Trump endorses McDaniel to remain RNC chair, ponders 2024 run — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday endorsed Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel to stay on in her position, in what one source said could be a prelude to Trump's announcing plans to run for president in 2024.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump endorses Ronna McDaniel for RNC chair
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 …
President-Elect Joe Biden:
Readout of the President-elect's Foreign Leader Calls — President-elect Joe Biden took part in separate congratulatory calls this evening with the leaders of Australia, Japan, and the Republic of Korea. — The President-elect spoke with Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia.
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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.”
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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
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
How Hard Is It to Overturn an American Election?
How Hard Is It to Overturn an American Election?
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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 …
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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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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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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Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Completely Insane Electoral College Strategy — Why limit yourself to the far-fetched when the utterly fantastical is an option? — President Donald Trump is challenging the outcome of the Nov. 3 presidential election in several razor-thin battleground states, pushing for recounts …
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Robyn Dixon / Washington Post:
Azerbaijan's drones owned the battlefield in Nagorno-Karabakh — and showed future of warfare — MOSCOW — The drone's-eye view over Nagorno-Karabakh defined much of the six-week war in the mountainous enclave within Azerbaijan: The video first showed soldiers below in trenches, then came blasts and smoke, then nothing.
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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 …
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Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
Misinformation by a thousand cuts: Varied rigged election claims circulate — For Trump supporters intent on finding it, proof of the president's claims that the 2020 election was “stolen” is everywhere. — For some, it's in the videos: the one in which a Colorado man claiming to be a poll worker …
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New York Times:
How N.Y.C.'s Conservative Bastion Became a Virus Hot Spot — Staten Island has bristled at coronavirus restrictions, but now has the highest positive test rate in the city. — When supporters flocked to a rally for President Trump on Staten Island last month, many left their masks at home.
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Michael Gold / New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: As U.S. Breaks Hospitalization Records, N.Y. and Other States Add Restrictions
Covid-19 Live Updates: As U.S. Breaks Hospitalization Records, N.Y. and Other States Add Restrictions
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