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4:45 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.
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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 …
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Fauci says delayed transition is a public health issue as Covid-19 cases soar nationwide
Discussion: UPI
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?
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’
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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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?
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.
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 …
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 …
Teri Weaver / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Cuomo threatens to sue Trump administration if vaccine plan burdens Black, Brown communities  —  Syracuse, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said today New York would sue President Donald Trump's administration if the federal coronavirus vaccine distribution plan makes it harder for Black and Brown people to get the vaccinations.
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
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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
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 …
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 …
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.
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).
 
 
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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
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Why Biden didn't do better in big cities
 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
Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
Tax filings reveal Biden cancer charity spent millions on salaries, zero on research
Discussion: Townhall and Breitbart
Lauren Egan / NBC News:
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham holds off stiff challenge from Jaime Harrison, NBC News projects
 

 
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