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4:25 PM ET, November 15, 2020

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New York Times:
Presidential Transition Live Updates: As More Republicans Break With Trump, He Refuses to Budge  —  Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s team will deploy “people, money, resources” to Georgia, reflecting the high stakes of two Senate races.  Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has kept a low public profile since her acceptance speech last weekend.
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Fauci says delayed transition is a public health issue as Covid-19 cases soar nationwide
Discussion: UPI
David Cohen / Politico:
Trump edges closer to conceding the election, then backs off  —  President Donald Trump has yet to concede the presidential election, but on Sunday he briefly came close to acknowledging that he lost in a tweet.  —  “He won because the Election was Rigged,” Trump tweeted.
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Kristina Peterson / Wall Street Journal:
‘He Won,’ Trump Tweets About the Election
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Breitbart
Reuters:
Trump in tweet says Biden ‘won’ but reiterates false claim election was rigged
Discussion: USA Today
Colin Keatinge / Bloomberg:
Trump Pulls Back From Concession, Tweets Vote Was ‘Rigged’
Michael Crowley / New York Times:
Largely Out of Sight in Washington, Kamala Harris Preps for White House  —  Ms. Harris has barely appeared on the public radar since her acceptance speech last Saturday in Wilmington, Del., where she declared “a new day for America.”  —  WASHINGTON — At a chic cafe in the West End neighborhood here …
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Arlette Saenz / CNN:
People of color make up nearly half of Biden transition team
Discussion: Business Insider
Washington Post:   Harris's allies wonder anxiously: Will she have real clout?
Theo Keith / FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul:
Minnesota Senate GOP held large, in-person dinner party just before COVID outbreak  —  (FOX 9) - Days before a coronavirus outbreak in the Minnesota Senate Republican caucus, the GOP held a large, in-person dinner party to celebrate their election results.  —  A GOP spokeswoman confirmed …
Washington Post:
Biden won places that are thriving.  Trump won ones that are hurting.  —  In a trend that's been unfolding since 2000, Democrats continue to gain votes in prosperous, highly educated urban areas.  Republicans are gaining in small cities and rural communities.  —  Are you better off than you were four years ago?
Washington Post:
The federal government's chief information security officer is helping an outside effort to hunt for alleged voter fraud  —  The federal government's chief information security officer is participating in an effort backed by supporters of President Trump to hunt for evidence of voter fraud …
KING-TV:
WATCH LIVE: Inslee announces closures of indoor dining, in-store retail occupancy restrictions  —  The governor has announced several statewide restrictions to help curb the spread of coronavirus.  These restrictions go into effect on Monday and go until Dec. 14.
Dexter Filkins / New Yorker:
Why Trump Carried Out His Pentagon Purge  —  In 2018, as American officials in Kabul were sitting down to negotiate with the Taliban, a bleak joke circulated in the U.S. Embassy that at any moment the talks could be derailed by “the Tweet of Damocles”—a unilateral decision by President …
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Trump is putting this country through something unprecedented.  Here are three scenarios.  —  We are living through something unprecedented — all the more alarming because we can't be sure what that something is.  —  Three scenarios fit the known facts:  —  Scenario 1: President …
ABC News:
'It's critical' for Republican leaders to explain to voters Trump lost the election: John Bolton  —  Jeh Johnson also discussed national security implications of delayed transition.  —  Presidential transition turmoil  —  President Donald Trump is refusing to concede as President-elect Joe Biden proceeds with his transition plans.
Susan J. Demas / Michigan Advance:
Republican convicted of election fraud helps lead Trump rally baselessly claiming election fraud  —  Another pro-President Trump rally was held at the Michigan Capitol on Saturday as the “Million MAGA March” attracted thousands, including several far-right groups like the Proud Boys, in Washington, D.C.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Allies Explored Buyout of Newsmax TV as Fox News Alternative  —  Hicks Equity Partners, a firm with ties to a co-chair of the Republican National Committee, is pitching investors on a new conservative news channel  —  For nearly two years, allies of President Trump have been exploring ways …
CNBC:
Asia forms world's biggest trade bloc, a China-backed group excluding U.S.  — Fifteen Asia-Pacific economies formed the world's largest free trade bloc on Sunday, a China-backed deal that excludes the United States.  — The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was signed at a regional summit in Hanoi.
Discussion: New York Times
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Elaine Kurtenbach / Associated Press:
ASEAN, China, other partners sign world's biggest trade pact
Discussion: The Week
James Arkin / Politico:
Health care vs. ‘radical leftists’: Parties re-running 2020 playbooks in Georgia runoffs  —  COLUMBUS, Ga. — Republicans want to save Georgians from socialism.  Democrats want to save their health care and flip the Senate.  —  The dueling messages last week defined the kickoff …
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CBS News:
Barack Obama speaks out on politics, the presidency, and Donald Trump  —  “We all good?  We got speed?  Let's go!”  Almost four years after he left the White House, former President Barack Obama is ready to talk.  —  He's been looking back while writing the first volume of a memoir about his presidency, “A Promised Land” (Crown).
Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
Tax filings reveal Biden cancer charity spent millions on salaries, zero on research  —  A cancer charity started by Joe Biden gave out no money to research, and spent most of its contributions on staff salaries, federal filings show.  —  The Biden Cancer Initiative was founded in 2017 …
Discussion: Townhall and Breitbart
 
 
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Kate Sheehy / New York Post:
Gov. Cuomo threatens to sue Trump administration over vaccine distribution
Discussion: Fox News, CBS News and Townhall
Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Pompeo, Netanyahu to attend normalization talks with Bahrain
New York Times:
A Watchdog Accused Officers of Serious Misconduct. Few Were Punished.
Caleb Parke / Fox News:
AT&T reportedly looking to sell CNN after ‘hit’ from ‘hating Trump’: Gasparino
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Anti-Defamation League:
Extremists and Mainstream Trump Supporters Gather for “Million MAGA March”
Discussion: The Federalist and The Guardian
New York Times:
More than 1 in 400 Americans test positive in a week, pushing New Jersey to a record and prompting restrictions in North Dakota.
Discussion: The Root
David Lynch / Washington Post:
Raging virus triggers new shutdown orders and economy braces for fresh wave of pain
Discussion: IJR
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Biden Faces Early Test With Immigration and Homeland Security After Trump
Discussion: The Week and unz.com
 Earlier Items: 
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Biden's beach hideaway has political sun shining on Rehoboth
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Family Business Faces Post-Election Reckoning
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo and Raw Story
Brad Polumbo / Washington Examiner:
The political class's coronavirus credibility crisis endangers public health
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
Trump the Genius, Trump the Incompetent, Trump the Bogeyman
Grant Schulte / Associated Press:
Surging virus cases get a shrug in many Midwestern towns
Lauren Egan / NBC News:
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham holds off stiff challenge from Jaime Harrison, NBC News projects