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9:15 AM ET, November 19, 2020

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New York Times:
Threats and Tensions Rise as Trump and Allies Attack Elections Process  —  Confrontations have escalated in swing states, with elections officials in both parties facing threats of violence, as the president and other Republicans try to subvert the country's voting system.
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Washington Post:
Wayne County Republicans ask to ‘rescind’ their votes certifying election results  —  DETROIT — After three hours of tense deadlock on Tuesday, the two Republicans on an election board in Michigan's most populous county reversed course and voted to certify the results of the Nov. 3 election …
John Solomon / Just The News:
In dramatic reversal, Wayne County election board Republicans rescind votes certifying results  —  In affidavits, GOP canvass board members claim they were bullied and say there are too many irregularities in Detroit vote to justify accepting election results.
Washington Post:
As defeats pile up, Trump tries to delay vote count in last-ditch attempt to cast doubt on Biden victory  —  Please note: The Washington Post is providing this important election information free to all readers.  Get election results and other major news delivered to your inbox by signing up for breaking news email alerts.
Clark Kauffman / Iowa Capital Dispatch:
Lawsuit: Tyson managers bet money on how many workers would contract COVID-19  —  A wrongful death lawsuit tied to COVID-19 infections in a Waterloo pork processing plant alleges that during the initial stages the pandemic, Tyson Foods ordered employees to report for work …
Discussion: HuffPost and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ben Terris / Washington Post:
All the president's ‘Guys’  —  Remember Rob Goldstone?  He was the portly British publicist who took selfies wearing wacky hats, and who sent Donald Trump Jr. an email offering documents from the Russians that would “incriminate” Hillary Clinton.  —  “If it's what you say I love it,” …
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
'It's complicated': Biden team weighs whether to retain Deborah Birx  —  President-elect Joe Biden's transition team is weighing whether to give Trump administration coronavirus coordinator Deborah Birx a role in its Covid-19 response, even as it prepares a broader purge of officials closely tied …
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Politico:
Biden mounts lobbying blitz to crack GOP resistance to his transition
CNN:
Current and former Trump officials quietly reach out to Biden team
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
Biden approaches 80 million votes in historic victory  —  President-elect Joe Biden's winning tally is approaching a record 80 million votes as Democratic bastions continue to count ballots and the 2020 election cracks turnout records.  —  Biden has already set a record for the highest number …
Discussion: The Hill, abc7NY, Arizona Mirror and IJR
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Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Analysis: For Trump, sowing post-election chaos is the goal
NBC News:
Pompeo becomes first secretary of state to visit Israeli settlement  —  America's top diplomat Mike Pompeo made history Thursday becoming the first secretary of state and highest ranking U.S. official to visit an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.
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Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Fury at Pompeo's West Bank trip as he arrives in Israel to celebrate Abraham Accords
Discussion: CBS News
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Jewish Group Denounces White House Pick for Preservation Commission  —  Darren Beattie was fired as a speechwriter in 2018 for attending a conference with white nationalists.  This week, he was appointed to a commission that helps preserve sites related to the Holocaust.
Discussion: Business Insider
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Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Trump appoints speechwriter fired for attending conference with white nationalists to commission that preserves Holocaust memorials
CNN:
Trump's legal adviser Jenna Ellis in 2016 called him an ‘idiot’ and said his supporters didn't care about ‘facts or logic’  —  (CNN)Jenna Ellis has been one of President Donald Trump's most ardent defenders since joining his campaign as a legal adviser and surrogate a year ago …
Discussion: Mediaite, The Week and The Daily Beast
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Sen. Perdue Helped Defense Contractor—and Sold Off Its Stock  —  SUB-OPTIMAL … Sen. David Perdue had never invested in the Navy supplier BWX Technologies until right before he assumed control of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower.  —  Right before he was put in charge …
The Daily Poster:
Tucker Carlson And Media Elites Cozy Up To Private Equity Moguls  —  The Fox News host holds himself out as a populist while speaking at ritzy private equity conferences, according to documents obtained by The Daily Poster.  —  1 hr ago  —  Tucker Carlson slammed former President Barack Obama …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
White House Sought Suit Against Omarosa Manigault Newman After News of Her Memoir  —  A day after the 2018 announcement that she had written a negative book about President Trump, the White House escalated an unrelated dispute by referring it to the Justice Department.
Discussion: The Hill
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NBC News:   White House killed deal to pay for mental health care for migrant families separated at border
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Trump campaign revises Pennsylvania suit, again  —  The latest version of the lawsuit asks the court to declare Trump the winner in Pennsylvania.  —  Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference in Philadelphia on Nov. 7, 2020.
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Jerry Lambe / Law & Crime:
Trump Campaign Attorneys Admit ‘There Is No Evidence’ of ‘Any Fraud’ in Connection with Challenged Ballots in Bucks County, Pa.
Discussion: Vanity Fair and Raw Story
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
What's wrong with the media  —  The young/urban/educated bubble in an era of growing polarization  —  Welcome to Thursday!  —  I've been reading some interesting policy reports about everything from maternal mortality to how to target student loan forgiveness but at the moment there is a lot …
Discussion: Althouse
Jonah Goldberg / The Dispatch:
For Your Own Good, Read Widely  —  If your media consumption is a steady diet of one-sided partisan news, you may start inventing catastrophes where there are none.  —  11 hr ago  —  Hi,  —  Here's a small life hack: If you're a right-winger, you should read more left-wing stuff …
Gabby Orr / Politico:
‘Traitors to the president’: Conservatives fear public preparation for Biden term  —  The conservative movement has become handicapped.  —  Organizations can't sound the alarm about President-elect Joe Biden's agenda.  Conservative reporters won't take pitches about Biden's rumored Cabinet contenders …
Politico:
Republicans seek to stymie Biden with final Trump nominees  —  Two months before Joe Biden assumes the presidency, Senate Republicans are racing to install a series of conservative nominees that will outlast Donald Trump.  —  While Trump still refuses to concede the election …
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
The Problem With Coronavirus School Closures  —  Children have suffered because many mayors and governors were too willing to close public schools.  —  Some things are true even though President Trump says them.  —  Trump has been demanding for months that schools reopen, and on that he seems to have been largely right.
Discussion: New York Daily News
Associated Press:
GOP increasingly accepts Trump's defeat — but not in public  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — When Kamala Harris returned to the Senate this week for the first time as vice president-elect, her Republican colleagues offered their congratulations and Sen. Lindsey Graham greeted her with a fist bump.
John Yang / STAT:
Self-interest nudged me to join Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine trial.  Here's how it's going  —  I volunteered to take part in a Covid-19 vaccine trial.  I wish I could say I did it to help hasten the defeat the coronavirus or to further science.  But I really just wanted a chance to get a vaccine as soon as possible.
Discussion: The Dispatch
Gwynn Guilford / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Unemployment Claims Rise Amid Coronavirus Surge  —  Initial claims for unemployment benefits increased to 742,000 last week as pandemic weighs on labor market  —  The number of applications for unemployment benefits rose sharply last week, indicating continued challenges …
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Barack Obama Memoir Sells More Than 887,000 Copies on First Day  —  ‘A Promised Land’ logs highest opening-day sales of any Penguin Random House title  —  Former President Barack Obama's memoir sold more than 887,000 copies on Tuesday, a sizzling debut that publisher Penguin Random House …
Amy Harder / Axios:
How running helps to explain climate change  —  Running a race can help illustrate how efforts on climate change should change over time.  —  The big picture: Climate change, unlike most other public-policy challenges, is cumulative.  The longer we wait, the bigger the problem it becomes …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Mike Allen / Axios:
Tom Donohue — CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and longtime confidant of Republican presidents — tells Axios that Joe Biden is president-elect, and President Trump “should not delay the transition a moment longer.”  —  What he's saying: “President-elect Biden and the team around …
Discussion: Business Insider and NAM
Jonathan D. Salant / New Jersey Online:
N.J. congressman says Trump should be tried for ‘crimes against our nation and Constitution’  —  New Jersey Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., one of Donald Trump's fiercest critics on Capitol Hill, is demanding the president and his aides be investigated and prosecuted after they leave office.
Discussion: Big League Politics
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
With Senate Control Hanging in Balance, ‘Crazytown’ Cash Floods Georgia  —  After the state went blue in the presidential race, more than $135 million in TV ads have been booked in two Senate runoff elections.  —  The two Georgia runoff elections that will determine control of the Senate …
Michelangelo Signorile / The Signorile Report:
Why Trump views his loss as “psychological annihilation” … An expert on authoritarians says this is the “most dangerous time.” … As Donald Trump rages on with vengeful firings by tweet, fizzling court battles and useless recounts two weeks after a presidential election he clearly lost to Joe Biden …
Discussion: CNN, IJR and ABC News
Issues & Insights:
Don't ‘Californicate’ The Rest Of America  —  California was once a shining exemplar of everything a state should be — inventive, creative, energetic, freewheeling, fast-growing and conservative.  No more.  Today, it's a giant welfare economy run by far-left kleptocrats and union shills who can't even keep the lights on.
 
 
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Wajahat Ali / New York Times:
‘Reach Out to Trump Supporters,’ They Said. I Tried.
Discussion: NBC News and Opinion Today
Alex Wickham / Politico:
Boris Johnson announces UK's biggest defense spending boost since Cold War
Discussion: Fox News and The Times
Washington Post:
America's 250,000 covid deaths: People die, but little changes
Lawrence Lessig / USA Today:
State legislatures do not have the power to veto the people's choice in an election
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
House Republicans demand investigation into ‘integrity’ of 2020 election, call for hearings ‘immediately’
Discussion: Washington Examiner
David Shortell / The Daily Beast:
DEA Investigators Fuming Over Dropped Case Against Mexican General
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
 Earlier Items: 
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Georgia elections chief: ‘Emotional abuse’ to mislead voters about fraud
New York Times:
States That Imposed Few Restrictions Now Have the Worst Outbreaks
Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
Election Night with Biden's Data Guru
Discussion: Truthout
Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Sources say outgoing Democratic Rep. Max Rose is mulling run for NYC mayor