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3:30 PM ET, November 15, 2020

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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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Colin Keatinge / Bloomberg:
Trump Pulls Back From Concession, Tweets Vote Was ‘Rigged’
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Fauci says delayed transition is a public health issue as Covid-19 cases soar nationwide … Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious disease expert, said Sunday that it “is obvious” that delaying the presidential transition is not good from a public health perspective as daily Covid-19 cases continue to soar and set records.
Discussion: UPI
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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.
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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?
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 …
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?
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Hill and POLITICUSUSA
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 …
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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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
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.
New York Times:
A Watchdog Accused Officers of Serious Misconduct.  Few Were Punished.  —  An analysis by The New York Times found that the N.Y.P.D. has reduced or rejected recommendations for stiff discipline of officers in about 71 percent of 6,900 serious misconduct charges.
Elaine Kurtenbach / Associated Press:
ASEAN, China, other partners sign world's biggest trade pact  —  China and 14 other countries agreed Sunday to set up the world's largest trading bloc, encompassing nearly a third of all economic activity, in a deal many in Asia are hoping will help hasten a recovery from the shocks of the pandemic.
Discussion: New York Times, CNBC and The Week
Dennis Romero / NBC News:
Federal judge rules acting DHS head Chad Wolf unlawfully appointed, invalidates DACA suspension  —  A federal judge in New York City on Saturday said Chad Wolf has not been acting lawfully as the chief of Homeland Security and that, as such, his suspension of protections for a class …
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Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
Biden Faces Early Test With Immigration and Homeland Security After Trump
Discussion: The Week and unz.com
 
 
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Barak Ravid / Axios:
Scoop: Pompeo, Netanyahu to attend normalization talks with Bahrain
Discussion: Political Wire
Caleb Parke / Fox News:
AT&T reportedly looking to sell CNN after ‘hit’ from ‘hating Trump’: Gasparino
Discussion: Washington Examiner
CBS News:
Barack Obama speaks out on politics, the presidency, and Donald Trump
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
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Why Biden didn't do better in big cities
Paul Thornton / Los Angeles Times:
We turned over our letters page to Trump readers for a day. Here's what they wrote
 Earlier Items: 
Will Weissert / Associated Press:
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
Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Top Pentagon adviser has said ‘Israeli lobby’ funds government officials who want war
Lauren Egan / NBC News:
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham holds off stiff challenge from Jaime Harrison, NBC News projects
Zeynep Tufekci / The Atlantic:
It's Time to Hunker Down  —  Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers.
 

 
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