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6:05 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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Arlette Saenz / CNN:
People of color make up nearly half of Biden transition team
Discussion: Business Insider
Allan Smith / NBC News:   Fauci says delayed transition is a public health issue as Covid-19 cases soar nationwide
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
CNN:
Trump says for the first time Biden won the election but later insists he's not conceding
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.
Discussion: NBC New York
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Washington State Governor's Office:
Inslee announces statewide restrictions for four-weeks
Discussion: Bloomberg
Kate Sheehy / New York Post:
Gov. Cuomo threatens to sue Trump administration over vaccine distribution  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday fired the latest salvo in his and President Trump's ongoing COVID-19 vaccine war — threatening to sue the Republican administration if it moves ahead with its COVID-19 vaccine-distribution plan.
Discussion: Fox News, CBS News and Townhall
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Teri Weaver / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Cuomo threatens to sue Trump administration if vaccine plan burdens Black, Brown communities
Discussion: The Hill and The Guardian
Bill Mahoney / Politico:
Cuomo threatens to sue Trump for equitable vaccine distribution
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Peter Aitken / Fox News:
Hispanic Democrat says far-left socialist message is ‘killing us’: report
Discussion: Axios and HotAir
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Lack of influence means it's time to dismiss the Lincoln Project  —  The two entities that had the worst election night were a.) the pollsters and b.) the Lincoln Project.  —  Most pollsters forecast a Democratic landslide, including Joe Biden easily taking the White House …
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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Adia Robinson / ABC News:
Transparency is ‘an issue of public health and saving American lives’: Adm. Brett Giroir
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 …
CNN:
Georgia Sen. David Perdue declines to debate opponent ahead of January 5 runoff  —  Fight for Georgia's Senate seats intensifies as races head to runoffs  —  (CNN)Georgia Republican Sen. David Perdue has declined an invitation to debate Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff ahead …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Axios:
Scoop: Trump plans last-minute China crackdown  —  President Trump will enact a series of hardline policies during his final 10 weeks to cement his legacy on China, senior administration officials with direct knowledge of the plans tells Axios.  —  Why it matters: He'll try …
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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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 …
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?
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 …
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 …
Glenn Greenwald:
The Ongoing Death of Free Speech: Prominent ACLU Lawyer Cheers Suppression of a New Book  —  Free speech has always been more than a Constitutional guarantee: it's also a crucial societal value.  And it's more imperiled than ever.  —  5 hr ago  —  In May of 2019, a source in Brazil provided …
Discussion: Instapundit
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 …
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: Breitbart and Townhall
 
 
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Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Wanted: a Brzezinski for the post-Trump world
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and HotAir
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.
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
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: 
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Why Biden didn't do better in big cities
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
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
Discussion: Culture Study
Lauren Egan / NBC News:
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham holds off stiff challenge from Jaime Harrison, NBC News projects