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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Floats Improbable Survival Scenarios as He Ponders His Future — There is no grand strategy. President Trump is simply trying to survive from one news cycle to the next. — At a meeting on Wednesday at the White House, President Trump had something he wanted to discuss with his advisers …
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Rob Crilly / Washington Examiner:
Trump ready to plot way out of White House as he ponders defeat — Aides and advisers to President Trump believe he has accepted that he is unlikely to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's election victory and will begin to plot life after the White House, including a 2024 run, once his campaign had exhausted all its lawsuits.
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Reuters:
Senior U.S. cybersecurity official tells associates he expects to be fired: sources — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top U.S. cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs has told associates he expects to be fired by the White House, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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CyberScoop, The Hill, Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA, HotAir and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
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CISA:
Joint Statement from Elections Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council & the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Executive Committees — WASHINGTON - The members of Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council (GCC) Executive Committee - Cybersecurity …
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Bloomberg, Business Insider, Reuters, NASED, UPI, New York Times, Daily Kos, TheBlaze, The Daily Caller, HotAir, Alternet.org, POLITICUSUSA and electionlawblog.org
Christopher Bing / Reuters:
Senior U.S. cybersecurity official asked to resign amid Trump transition tumult
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Bloomberg, Politico, Forbes, Mediaite, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, CyberScoop and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »
Shawna Chen / Axios:
Department of Homeland Security calls election “the most secure in American history”
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Washington Examiner, NBC News and Bloomberg
Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
Trump Campaign Lawyer Caught Using His Business Partner as Witness in ‘Sharpiegate’ Case — A campaign attorney for President Donald Trump was caught calling his own business partner as a witness during a Thursday hearing on alleged electoral irregularities in Arizona.
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Adam Klasfeld / Law & Crime:
Trump Campaign Lawyer Admits to Judge: Our Search for Evidence of Fraud Produced Obvious Lies and ‘Spam’ — A Trump campaign attorney conceded in court on Thursday morning that he tried to enter hundreds of dodgy form-filed affidavits into evidence, even though their own investigation found …
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Arizona Republic and Mediaite
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
BUSTED: Voter fraud ‘witness’ admits in court that his business partner is the Trump campaign's lawyer
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Washington Examiner
CNN:
Post-election audits find no fraud in Arizona
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Arizona Republic, Breitbart and Townhall
CNN:
Trump's eldest children split on his path forward — (CNN)President Donald Trump has long sought advice from different perspectives throughout his career, but at a pivotal moment in defining his legacy as President, he is receiving conflicting advice from his closest and most trusted advisers …
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Talking Points Memo and The American Independent
Washington Post:
Biden finds support among Republicans as Trump scrambles to salvage his strategy to contest the election — WILMINGTON, Del. — President-elect Joe Biden began seeing more support, if indirectly, from Republicans on Thursday as senior GOP lawmakers called for him to receive classified briefings …
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Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
Joe Biden considering Hillary Clinton for ambassador to the United Nations: report — President-elect Joe Biden is continuing to prepare to assume office on January 20th despite Donald Trump's refusal to concede after losing the 2020 election. — “The president-elect on Thursday also traveled …
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electionlawblog.org and Washington Post
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
As Trump stews over election, he mostly ignores the public duties of the presidency
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The New Arab
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Pennsylvania court: Secretary of state lacked authority to change deadline 2 days before Election Day — Judge ruled ballots that were previously set aside should not be counted — Pennsylvania Supreme Court change to state election law challenged — A Pennsylvania judge ruled in favor …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Is This a Coup, or Just Another Trump Con? — A post-election report from Minsk-on-the-Potomac. — Ever since Saturday morning, when Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 Presidential election, Donald Trump has been hunkered down in the White House, refusing to concede defeat …
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Washington Times, Breitbart and One America News Network
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Max Boot / Washington Post:
Never Trumpers played a critical role in beating him. The numbers prove it.
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The Atlantic, Sabato's Crystal Ball, Breitbart and Townhall
Associated Press:
Trump, stewing over election loss, silent as virus surges — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has publicly disengaged from the battle against the coronavirus at a moment when the disease is tearing across the United States at an alarming pace. — Trump, fresh off his reelection loss …
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The Moderate Voice, Raw Story and Political Wire
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Monica Alba / NBC News:
RNC chief of staff tests positive for Covid-19
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Reuters, NBC News, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner, MSNBC and TheBlaze
Katie Paul / Reuters:
Zuckerberg says Bannon has not violated enough policies for suspension: recording — PALO ALTO (Reuters) - Facebook FB.O Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told an all-staff meeting on Thursday that former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon had not violated enough of the company's policies …
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New York Times:
Small Cracks Emerge in G.O.P. Support for Trump's Baseless Fraud Claims — President Trump retains a powerful hold on his party. But a growing number of Republican elected officials and party leaders have signaled they will indulge his conspiracy theories for only so long.
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Associated Press, Reuters, CNN, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, POLITICUSUSA, TheBlaze, Alternet.org and CBS Pittsburgh
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
How to cover a coup — or whatever it is Trump is attempting
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The Hill, IJR, Alternet.org and Common Dreams
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Trump's contempt for democratic norms could haunt us for years
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CNN, Outside the Beltway, Wall Street Journal, Slate, NBC10 Philadelphia, FactCheck.org, The Gateway Pundit and The Moderate Voice
Michael Edison Hayden / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Far-Right Extremists Heading to Washington Amid Talk of Trump “Coup” — A cluster of far-right extremists including neo-fascists, white nationalists and militia members are expected to descend on Washington D.C. Saturday, amidst President Trump's refusal to accept his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
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Katie Bo Williams / Defense One:
Outgoing Syria Envoy Admits Hiding US Troop Numbers; Praises Trump's Mideast Record — ‘We were always playing shell games,’ says Amb. Jim Jeffrey, who also gives advice to President-elect Biden. — Four years after signing the now-infamous “Never Trump” letter condemning …
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Raw Story
Hanna Trudo / The Daily Beast:
Stacey Abrams Will Run for Governor Again, Allies Say — Stacey Abrams is credited with making President-elect Joe Biden's mission of flipping Georgia blue possible. … Stacey Abrams' political future is the subject of intense speculation after she helped turn Georgia blue for President-elect Joe Biden.
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HotAir, Fox News, Washington Examiner and Newsbusters
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Mitch Smith / New York Times:
New U.S. Virus Cases Surpass 160,000 in a Day, Again Shattering Record — Dr. Fauci's remarks were made just hours before California reported its millionth case on Thursday, the second state to do so (Texas was first). More cases are being recorded than ever before: The 142,000 reported …
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The Hill, CNBC, KTOO, NewsHounds blog, The Daily Caller, Axios, New York Post, Washington Times, Mother Jones and UPI
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Nathaniel Herz / Alaska Public Media:
Alaska Rep. Don Young, 87, says he's been diagnosed with COVID-19
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The Hill, CNN, Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Todd Stacy / In the Weeds with Alabama Daily News:
In the Weeds w/ Tommy Tuberville, Alabama's next senator — Today I spoke with Tommy Tuberville, who last week defeated incumbent Democrat Doug Jones to win election to the United States Senate. Do we call him Senator-elect? I don't know, people are awfully sensitive about the office-holder-elect thing right now.
CBS News:
Obama says Trump's baseless election fraud claims put democracy on a “dangerous path” — The former president says he's troubled by Republicans going along with President Trump's claims. See the interview, Sunday on 60 Minutes. — In a new interview with 60 Minutes …
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Politico, NBC News, The Hill, POLITICUSUSA, Washington Times, Breitbart and Deadline
Molly Beck / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Lawsuit on behalf of Trump seeks to exclude votes from Milwaukee, Dane and Menominee counties — MADISON - Three voters in northeast Wisconsin have filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to throw out votes in three of the counties that delivered Wisconsin to President-elect Joe Biden: Milwaukee, Dane and Menominee.
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Republicans raise Warnock's 2002 arrest as Senate runoffs heat up — Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock's arrest 18 years ago on charges of obstructing a police investigation have become a focus of Republican attacks in the pivotal Jan. 5 runoffs that could decide control of the U.S. Senate.
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National Review, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Washington Examiner, Townhall, HotAir and Breitbart
Karin Brulliard / Washington Post:
At dinner parties and game nights, casual American life is fueling the coronavirus surge — A record-breaking surge in U.S. coronavirus cases is being driven to a significant degree by casual occasions that may feel deceptively safe, officials and scientists warn — dinner parties, game nights, sleepovers and carpools.
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Buffalo News and Slate
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Pompeo to make unprecedented visit to West Bank settlement — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is planning to visit the Golan Heights and an Israeli settlement in the West Bank next week, both firsts for a U.S. secretary of state. — Why it matters: Since 1967, all previous U.S. administrations …
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Breitbart, Washington Examiner, The Daily Caller and Sputnik News
Margaret White / The Hill:
Why Susan Collins won — According to the pundits, Sen. Susan Collin (R-Maine) had no business running for reelection this year, let alone winning the race. In a country as polarized as ours, moderates seemed sure to go the way of the dinosaurs. Collins was the last Republican …
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Judge dismisses Trump campaign's lawsuit against CNN — New York (CNN Business)A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit President Donald Trump's campaign had filed against CNN for a 2019 opinion piece about former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election meddling.
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Antonio Garcia-Martinez / The Pull Request:
LatinX-plaining the election — Or, WTF Miami? Texas? — 7 hr … I've lived and traveled in many parts of the world, but the biggest culture shock of my life was moving to the United States for college from my hometown of Miami. That's right, Miami wasn't then, and certainly isn't now …
Danielle Allen / Washington Post:
Me, Tucker Carlson and the danger to democracy posed by false allegations — In an important recent book, “How Democracies Die,” the political scientists Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky argue that healthy democracies depend on two key norms: mutual toleration and institutional forbearance.
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HuffPost:
Democrats Question Decision To Give Up Canvassing During Election — It may have been the right decision during the pandemic, but it also likely had political consequences. — A number of Democratic elected officials, candidates and campaign operatives believe that the national party's decision …
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Washington Post and Montana Free Press
Barack Obama / The Atlantic:
I'm Not Yet Ready to Abandon the Possibility of America — The Atlantic is pleased to offer, below, an adapted and updated excerpt from former President Barack Obama's new memoir, A Promised Land, which will be published on Tuesday by Crown. Yesterday, The Atlantic's editor in chief …
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John Sundholm / Comic Sands:
Resurfaced Letter Joe Biden Sent To His Staff As Vice President Has Twitter Feeling All The Emotions — There's been no shortage of outpourings of love for President-Elect Joe Biden over the past week, as many in the country adjust to the prospect of a change in leadership for the country.
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