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12:45 PM ET, November 19, 2020

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Washington Post:
Wayne County Republican who asked to ‘rescind’ her vote certifying election results says Trump called her  —  DETROIT — President Trump called a GOP canvassing board member in Wayne County who announced Wednesday she wanted to rescind her decision to certify the results of the presidential election …
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Associated Press:
Trump targets vote certification in late bid to block Biden  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Getting nowhere in the courts, President Donald Trump's scattershot effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory is shifting toward obscure election boards that certify the vote as Trump and his allies seek …
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.
Craig Mauger / Detroit News:
Top GOP state lawmakers set to visit White House amid election fight
Discussion: Political Wire and Vox
John Solomon / Just The News:
In dramatic reversal, Wayne County election board Republicans rescind votes certifying results
Washington Post:
As defeats pile up, Trump tries to delay vote count in last-ditch attempt to cast doubt on Biden victory
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: The corrosive consequences of GOP leaders humoring Trump as he sows doubt in democracy
Chuck Goudie / ABC7:
Disturbing new details in alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer  —  CHICAGO (WLS) — There is new and disturbing information in the alleged militia plot against the governor of Michigan.  —  The 14 men charged had far more violent plans than just a kidnapping, according to federal and state authorities.
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,” …
Discussion: The Hill, POLITICUSUSA and The Week
Glen Johnson / Axios:
Trump's election challenges are revealing how obvious and unassailable his loss was  —  President Trump's frantic post-election challenges are having the opposite effect of what he intended: He's documenting his demise through a series of court fights and recounts showing Joe Biden's victory to be all the more obvious and unassailable.
Discussion: CNN
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Washington Post:
Disarray and defeats mark post-election period as Trump struggles to govern and fails to change vote results
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 …
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Associated Press:
GOP increasingly accepts Trump's defeat — but not in public
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 …
Wajahat Ali / New York Times:
‘Reach Out to Trump Supporters,’ They Said.  I Tried.  —  I give up.  —  73 million Americans voted for Donald Trump.  He doubled down on all his worst vices, and he was rewarded for it with 10 million more votes than he received in 2016.  —  The majority of people of color rejected his cruelty and vulgarity.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
In the waning days of Trump's presidency, White House press pool reports are getting snarkier  —  The pool reports shared by White House correspondents can be as mundane as a grocery list and about as informative — the who, what and when of the president's daily comings and goings …
Laura Kelly / The Hill:
US to label goods from Israeli settlements in West Bank as ‘Made in Israel’  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday issued new guidelines to label Israeli goods made in settlements in the West Bank as “Made in Israel,” a move likely to draw cheers from the pro-settlement community …
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New York Times:
Pompeo Visits West Bank Settlement and Calls Boycott of Israel Anti-Semitic
Cincinnati.com:
Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld arrested on federal corruption charges  —  Sharon Coolidge Dan HornCincinnati Enquirer  —  FBI agents arrested Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld Thursday morning on federal charges accusing him of accepting bribes in exchange for favorable votes …
Discussion: Washington Free Beacon and WXIX-TV
Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Senate 2022: An Early Look  —  Dear Readers: Our 22nd annual American Democracy Conference is now available on our YouTube channel, UVACFP, and at this direct link.  It features New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, CNN commentator Tara Setmayer, and Democratic strategist John Lapp discussing …
Politico:
Biden mounts lobbying blitz to crack GOP resistance to his transition  —  Joe Biden's transition team has tried to project calm as President Donald Trump refuses to concede and many Republicans — and even one key part of the federal government — continue to have his back.
Discussion: Business Insider, CNN, HotAir and IJR
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Broadens His Efforts to Overturn Election Outcome  —  As key states prepare to certify their results, the president is pressuring Republicans to back his fraud claims and refusal to concede  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump has broadened his push to overturn the election outcome …
Noah Higgins-Dunn / CNBC:
Biden Covid advisor says more people ‘will get infected and die’ the longer Trump delays transition  — Without the formal approval from the General Services Administration, Biden's coronavirus advisors can't coordinate with federal government employees on the nation's pandemic response.
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Adam Cancryn / Politico:
'It's complicated': Biden team weighs whether to retain Deborah Birx
Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
Will Biden Name a Deficit Hawk to Head OMB?  —  There is a big risk that he will—at a time when we need massive public investment.  —  Bruce Reed, chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, in 2011  —  Yesterday, I reported that Bruce Reed, one of Biden's top campaign advisers and his most conservative …
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The GOP's Big Self-Own  —  Congressional Republicans may be engaged in the political equivalent of a murder-suicide by abetting Donald Trump's claims that the election was stolen from him.  —  By reinforcing Trump's baseless narrative that he actually won the vote, Republicans …
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 …
Discussion: Jacobin
Devan Cole / CNN:
Mitt Romney says consequences of lame duck period are ‘potentially more severe’ than delayed transition  —  What's at risk when the President doesn't concede  —  Washington (CNN)Republican Sen. Mitt Romney is warning that the consequences of actions taken by President Donald Trump during …
Discussion: The Hill and POLITICUSUSA
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: New Delays In Final Stage Of Census Could Foil Trump's Plan To Rig It  —  The Census Bureau has identified issues in the data from the 2020 decennial census that will take an additional 20 days or so for it to fix, and thus delay the release of survey's apportionment data until …
Discussion: The National Interest
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 …
CBS News:
Joe Biden's top Cabinet contenders come into focus  —  Wilmington, Delaware — With a little more than 60 days until inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden does not appear to be in a hurry to name nominees for top Cabinet positions.  But that isn't stopping speculation — or the jockeying to serve in his administration.
Discussion: CBS Boston
Erin Brockovich / The Guardian:
Dear Joe Biden: are you kidding me? … For years, I've been trying to impart a simple concept that Superman is not coming.  —  Dare I say, I had hopes that this new administration would usher in the dawning of a new day.  As picks for President-elect Joe Biden's Environmental Protection Agency …
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 …
Sinéad Baker / Business Insider:
A childhood friend of Ivanka Trump's wrote a tell-all essay in an effort to stop her from reentering elite society after Trump leaves office … - Ivanka Trump's childhood friend wrote a tell-all essay for Vanity Fair that she hopes will make it harder for Trump to reclaim her old social life after her father's presidency.
Discussion: East Bay Times
Elisabeth Rosenthal / New York Times:
When Will We Throw Our Masks Away?  I Asked Dr. Fauci  —  In a new interview, he tells us how to survive the coming months, and confesses how stunned he is when people still insist the virus is “fake news.”  —  As a health journalist, a physician and a former foreign correspondent …
Discussion: Kaiser Health News
Jessica Bennett / New York Times:
What if Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In?  —  Prof. Loretta J. Ross is combating cancel culture with a popular class at Smith College.  —  Nyla Conaway, 19, remembers being “called out” for changing her profile picture on Instagram in solidarity for ... something.
 
 
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Rasmussen Reports:
61% Think Trump Should Concede to Biden
David Zweig / Wired:
Are Covid Patients Gasping 'It Isn't Real' As They Die?
Discussion: USA Today and National Review
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump Has Abdicated in the Face of Disaster
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
Make fun of the “Million MAGA March” all you want — white supremacy has not been defeated
Discussion: bellingcat
Joe Concha / The Hill:
The new marshmallow media
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Checkmate in Pennsylvania for the Trump Campaign
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Self-interest nudged me to join Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine trial. Here's how it's going
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Jonah Goldberg / The Dispatch:
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