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5:05 PM ET, November 14, 2020

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Washington Post:
Trump greets thousands of supporters gathered in D.C. to falsely claim he won election  —  A week after the election was called for Joe Biden, thousands of President Trump's supporters gathered in the nation's capital Saturday to falsely claim that the race had been stolen from the man they adore …
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Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Pro-Trump supporters descend on DC for ‘Million MAGA March’ near White House  —  President Trump tweeted support for the demonstration  —  Women for America First ‘March for Trump’ rally  —  Crowds of President Trump supporters are gathering in Washington, D.C., for demonstrations to urge …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Giuliani wrecks Trump campaign's well-laid legal plans  —  President Donald Trump's senior campaign aides were gathered in their headquarters Saturday morning when word emerged that Rudy Giuliani would be holding a news conference in the parking lot of a Philadelphia landscaping business.
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Zeeshan Aleem / Vox:
Trump's far-fetched legal campaign to question the election seems to be falling apart  —  Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani speaks at a Philadelphia press conference on election lawsuits.  Bryan R. Smith/AFP/Getty Images  —  Trump is losing lawsuits in key states — and has lost some key members of his legal team as well.
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Trump team persists in Pa. court fights despite COVID quarantine, quitting lawyers, and courtroom losses  —  President Donald Trump's effort to contest the Nov. 3 election in court suffered a series of setbacks Friday, leaving his house-of-cards legal strategy to reverse the results in Pennsylvania teetering on the edge of collapse.
Discussion: CNN, Talking Points Memo and WHYY
Wall Street Journal:
Parler, Backed by Mercer Family, Makes Play for Conservatives Mad at Facebook, Twitter  —  The libertarian-minded platform aims to challenge tech giants through a focus on free speech; surge in users since the election  —  As Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. have taken a harder line …
Star Tribune:
Minnesota GOP sent virus alert only to its side of the aisle  —  Some Republicans tested positive, but no DFLers were told before session.  —  By Staff reports  —  TEXT SIZE  —  MORE  —  A day after it was revealed that GOP state Sen. Dave Senjem tested positive for COVID-19 after attending …
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Washington Post:
We opposed each other in Bush v. Gore.  Now we agree: Biden won.  —  David Boies is chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner.  Theodore B. Olson, a former U.S. solicitor general, is a partner of the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  —  Twenty years ago, we represented the opposing sides in Bush v. Gore.
Discussion: Forbes, Mother Jones and New York Times
Michael P. Rellahan / Daily Local News:
Charges filed in father-son voter fraud case in Chester County  —  EAST GOSHEN — A Willistown man's clumsy attempt at trying to cast a false ballot in the 2020 presidential election has led to one of the only verified instances in Chester County of alleged voter fraud.
Kate Ng / The Independent:
Secret intelligence exists that ‘would cast Trump in very negative light’, warns ex-FBI chief  —  'It's almost incomprehensible to me that he would want that information out,' says Andrew McCabe  —  Former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe has warned that classified intelligence …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
The End Is Here: Last Two States Called in the Presidential Election  —  Yes, Donald Trump and his Republican enablers will keep denying defeat and firing off legal challenges that are 99.9 percent certain not to flip any of the states that have been called for Joe Biden by all the relevant experts.
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Nicholas Reimann / Forbes:   Biden Now Leads In Pennsylvania By Large Enough Margin To Avoid Recount
Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
Trump's Men in Moscow  —  When Donald Trump unexpectedly won the presidential election four years ago, the pro-Kremlin political establishment in Moscow literally toasted him with champagne and Vladimir Putin's servile parliament, the Duma, cheered him with a round of applause.
Discussion: Raw Story and Truthout
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Thomas Kent / Jamestown:   US Messaging to Russian Citizens: Time to Step It Up?
Jerry Lambe / Law & Crime:
DHS Admits It Likely Made False Statement to Federal Court When Justifying Chad Wolf's Appointment  —  Attorneys at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday notified a federal judge that a previous claim relied upon to justify the controversial and likely unlawful appointment of Chad Wolf as Acting Secretary was not true.
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Biden Asked Republicans to Give Him a Chance.  They're Not Interested.  —  Joe Biden promised not only to win, but to “restore the soul of the nation.”  But the deep divisions that animated President Trump's tenure show no signs of receding.  —  MASON, Texas — The change at the Sunday prayer service …
Associated Press:
GOP leaders in 4 states quash dubious Trump bid on electors  —  Republican leaders in four critical states won by President-elect Joe Biden say they won't participate in a legally dubious scheme to flip their state's electors to vote for President Donald Trump.
CNN:
Jared and Ivanka are poised to return to a Manhattan social scene that no longer welcomes them  —  New York (CNN)If the celebrations that spilled into the streets of New York City in the wake of Joe Biden's victory made one thing clear, it's that the Trumps aren't welcome here.
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Biden likely to break barriers, pick woman to lead Pentagon  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden is expected to take a historic step and select a woman to head the Pentagon for the first time, shattering one of the few remaining barriers to women in the department and the presidential Cabinet.
Discussion: Bangor Daily News and NBC News
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Trump's Post-Election Litigation Crusade  —  How Texas Republicans Kept Their State Red  —  Judge Smacks Down Detroit Voter Fraud Lawsuit: ‘Rife with Speculation’  —  GOP State Legislative Leaders Rule Out Appointing Pro-Trump Electors in Defiance of Vote  —  Trump Wins Battleground State of North Carolina
Financial Times:
Conspiracy and disinformation: America's new politics  —  False and misleading claims have proliferated across platforms at unprecedented levels  —  Ten days before the US election, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweeted a short video of Joe Biden with the caption: “BIDEN ADMITS TO VOTER FRAUD!”
Discussion: Daily Kos
Andrew Solender / Forbes:
Pence, Met With Chants Of ‘Four More Years,’ Replies: 'That's The Plan'  —  Vice President Mike Pence on Friday offered yet another signal that the Trump administration has no plans to concede any ground to Joe Biden's claims to the presidency amid President Trump's continued refusal to acknowledge his clear loss in his reelection bid.
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Warnock: Americans Must ‘Repent’ for Backing Trump and ‘Worship of Whiteness’  —  ‘If it is true that a man who has dominated the news and poisoned the discussion for months needs to repent, then it is doubly true that a nation that can produce such a man and make his vitriol go viral needs to repent’
Molly Jong-Fast / Vogue:
Why the Success of the Pfizer Vaccine Trial Is Personal for Me  —  When Pfizer announced on Monday that an early analysis of its coronavirus vaccine trial suggested that the vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19, the world reacted with surprise, relief and nearly unbridled optimism.
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
How Trump's Voter Fraud War Room Became a Fart-Infused ‘Room From Hell’  —  The president's campaign built a tip line.  Instead, it traumatized their own staff, just as staffers felt Team Trump had hung them out to dry.  —  On Friday, the remnants of Donald Trump's failed re-election campaign informed staff …
Discussion: Raw Story
Kevin D. Williamson / New York Post:
Why Trump supporters are here for good  —  If people living in Trump country seem like they live in a different world from that inhabited by Silicon Valley executives and the editors of The New York Times, there is a reason for that: They do.  —  Before the election, I talked to Democratic partisans …
Discussion: Instapundit
Sridhar Pappu / New York Times:
Savannah Guthrie,'Today' Host Who Took on Trump  —  Since she held President Trump's feet to the fire at a crucial turning point of the campaign, her future at NBC News appears bright.  —  “Nobody's sorry to see someone say something nice,” said Savannah Guthrie, the 48-year-old co-host of the “Today” show.
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Big Tech and Big Law dominate Biden transition teams, tempering progressive hopes  —  WASHINGTON — For six years, Brandon Belford worked as an economic policy adviser to President Barack Obama in the White House and federal agencies.  He moved to the Bay Area when Donald Trump became president …
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Warner blames Democratic losses on ‘defund the police’  —  Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said progressives' calls to “defund the police” were in part to blame for Democratic losses in the House in a cycle when the party was expected to gain seats.  —  “I think the ability, using terms like 'defund …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Gabrielle Reyes / Breitbart:
Ann Coulter: What America Wants Is ‘Trumpism without Trump’  —  “Trumpism without Trump” is what America needs in four years, said conservative author Ann Coulter during a lecture at the University of Texas at Austin on Thursday night hosted by the university's Young Conservatives of Texas.
Discussion: Raw Story and Facebook Watch
 
 
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Marshall Cohen / CNN:
How a post-election crisis was manufactured in Pennsylvania
Joseph Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed / HuffPost:
Race For Key Foreign Policy Post Heats Up As Major Progressive Groups Back Joaquin Castro
Discussion: Common Dreams and The Hill
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Democrats regroup after Texas eludes them — again
Discussion: New York Times and Breitbart
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Biden HUD secretary frontrunner praised top communist as her ‘mentor’
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Biden changed the electoral map, but can Democrats capitalize in the future?
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats Work to Defy History in Georgia Runoffs That Have Favored G.O.P.
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