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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 …
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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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.
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 …
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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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Brendan Keefe / WXIA-TV:
Two accused ‘dead’ Georgia voters very much alive despite claims - and they voted legally — 11Alive confirmed that two of the four Georgia voters the president accused of fraudulently voting “dead” are alive. — Accusations of voter fraud continue to be in the headlines …
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Issues On-Air Apology After Touting Now-Debunked Trump Claim of Dead Georgia Voter — During his program this week, Tucker Carlson opened his show talking up reported cases of dead people voting in the election, touting claims from the Donald Trump campaign.
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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.
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Cathy Young / The Bulwark:
Trump's Men in Moscow — Russian media revels in Trump's nonsensical claims of fraud as enemies of democracy reap propaganda harvest. — When Donald Trump unexpectedly won the presidential election four years ago, the pro-Kremlin political establishment in Moscow literally toasted …
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Thomas Kent / Jamestown:
US Messaging to Russian Citizens: Time to Step It Up?
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.
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.
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Washington Post:
Sore loser or victim? Trump voters struggle with president's role in defeat. — Markay Harlan has been on the Trump train from the start and she's not getting off now. The 70-year-old real estate developer from suburban Pittsburgh revels in President Trump's body blows to the status quo.
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New York Times:
Al Qaeda's No. 2, Accused in U.S. Embassy Attacks, Is Secretly Killed in Iran — Israeli agents shot Abu Muhammad al-Masri on the streets of Tehran at the behest of the U.S., officials said, but no one — Iran, Al Qaeda, the U.S. or Israel — has publicly acknowledged the killing.
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 …
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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.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats Work to Defy History in Georgia Runoffs That Have Favored G.O.P. — The special elections were devised by white Republicans to dilute the power of Black voters. But those involved in earlier contests say demographic change and Democratic energy could allow the party to finally beat the odds.
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
‘We are the firewall’: Loeffler and Perdue form GOP unity ticket in Georgia Senate races
‘We are the firewall’: Loeffler and Perdue form GOP unity ticket in Georgia Senate races
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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 …
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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.
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Washington Post:
In Trump's final days, a 30-year-old aide purges officials seen as insufficiently loyal — Over the past week, President Trump has axed his defense secretary and other top Pentagon aides, his second-in-command at the U.S. Agency for International Development, two top Homeland Security officials …
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New York Times, Political Flare and The Guardian
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Democrats regroup after Texas eludes them — again — Texas Democrats were certain: 2020 would be the year when the Lone Star State would finally turn blue. — Instead, more than a week after Election Day, the party is scrambling to regroup after failing to make gains …
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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.
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Associated Press:
Trump putting democracy to the test after his loss to Biden — WASHINGTON (AP) — Winston Churchill was not known for leaving his thoughts unspoken. One of them was this: “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried.”
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Holly Bailey / Washington Post:
Minneapolis violence surges as police officers leave department in droves — MINNEAPOLIS — The sound of gunfire has become so familiar across North Minneapolis that Cathy Spann worries she has grown numb to it. — Day and night the bullets zip through this predominantly Black neighborhood, hitting cars and homes and people.
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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 …
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The Daily Caller
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.
Chris Pandolfo / TheBlaze:
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem won't comply if Biden pursues national mask mandate — Biden 'doesn't have the authority to institute a mask mandate,' Noem's office said — As former Vice President Joe Biden proposes a nationwide lockdown and a national mask mandate in response …
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New York Times:
'It's Traumatizing': Coronavirus Deaths Are Climbing Once Again — Deaths are far below the rate of the spring, when as many as 2,200 people were dying every day, but experts warn they are rising fast. — By the time Doug Raysby's wife was allowed to enter his hospital room …
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Rogerlsimon / theepochtimes.com:
Pfizer, Biden, and the Birth of ‘Socialism With American Characteristics’ — One of the more disturbing events of our disturbing times was the revelation Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla informed the Biden campaign of the success of his company's COVID-19 vaccine before the current president and his administration.