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Michigan attorney general ponders criminal probes of state and local officials who bend to Trump's will on overturning election results — Michigan's attorney general is exploring whether officials there risk committing crimes if they bend to President Trump's wishes in seeking to block …
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Trump suffers twin defeats in his effort to overturn Biden's victory in key states — President Trump received twin blows to his effort to overturn his defeat on Friday, with Georgia officials certifying President-elect Joe Biden's slim victory there and Michigan Republicans declaring …
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JONATHAN TURLEY:
Michigan Legislators Face Calls For Possible Criminal Charges After Meeting With President Trump On Certification
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Analysis: With silence, GOP enables Trump's risky endgame
Analysis: With silence, GOP enables Trump's risky endgame
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Al Jazeera, Breitbart and CBS News
Detroit News:
Michigan GOP leaders after White House meeting: ‘We will follow the law’
Michigan GOP leaders after White House meeting: ‘We will follow the law’
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The Hill, Washington Times, Washington Post, Raw Story, HotAir and NPR
Washington Post:
Most Republicans greet Trump's push to overturn the election with a customary response: Silence
Most Republicans greet Trump's push to overturn the election with a customary response: Silence
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Jonah Goldberg / The Dispatch:
This Was Always the Plan — President Trump telegraphed that he would try to steal the election if he didn't win. — Dear Reader (including those of you who are starting to layer up like Steve Bannon to deal with the cold), — I rather enjoy not writing about Donald Trump.
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The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Leaders, Including Campaign Manager Bill Stepien, Have No Faith in Rudy
Team Trump Leaders, Including Campaign Manager Bill Stepien, Have No Faith in Rudy
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Raw Story
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Jonah Goldberg Goes Off on Trump Team's ‘Unpatriotic Lie’: Trying to Steal Election With an ‘Insane Bat Guano Conspiracy Theory’
Jonah Goldberg Goes Off on Trump Team's ‘Unpatriotic Lie’: Trying to Steal Election With an ‘Insane Bat Guano Conspiracy Theory’
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HotAir
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Trump's Legal Team Sets a Precedent for Lowering the Bar
Trump's Legal Team Sets a Precedent for Lowering the Bar
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Salon, The Guardian, Raw Story, American Thinker, USA Today, Daily Mail, Snopes.com and Slate
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
There Was a Second Pro-Trump Conspiracy Hearing Thursday We Didn't Even Notice
There Was a Second Pro-Trump Conspiracy Hearing Thursday We Didn't Even Notice
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Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Trump tries to drum out GOP election officials who won't play his games — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's family has received threats and he expects a primary challenge in 2022. — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. President Donald Trump has driven senators …
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Raw Story, Slate, IJR and Georgia Public Broadcasting
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Caroline Linton / CBS News:
Georgia governor calls for audit after state certifies election results — Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Kemp certified the state's election results Friday, saying that now that the results are certified, the Trump campaign can pursue other legal options to call for a recount.
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Townhall, National Review and The Western Journal
Dustin Jones / NPR:
Ben Carson Says He Was ‘Desperately Ill’ With The Coronavirus — Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson took to Facebook Friday to report he has been “extremely sick” with the coronavirus. But Carson, one of several individuals in the Trump administration …
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Conservative News Today and Townhall
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Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Ben Carson says he was ‘desperately ill’ from Covid but is now ‘out of the woods’
Ben Carson says he was ‘desperately ill’ from Covid but is now ‘out of the woods’
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Politico
CNN:
Donald Trump Jr. tests positive for coronavirus
Donald Trump Jr. tests positive for coronavirus
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The Wrap, USA Today and New York Times
Natalie Allison / The Tennessean:
Staff of U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn says she misspoke by calling Biden ‘president-elect’ — U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a stalwart supporter of President Donald Trump, on Friday referred to Joe Biden as the country's “president-elect,” a comment her staff later said was a mistake.
Wall Street Journal:
Georgia Certifies: Donald Trump Lost — A recount changed little, as the evidence of ballot fraud fails to appear. — By The Editorial Board — The recount in Georgia is finished, after workers examined five million ballots by hand, but President Trump still lags Joe Biden by 12,000 votes.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Danger (and Ineptitude) of Trump's Failed Coup — In his address to the Democratic National Convention in August, Barack Obama warned that the Trump administration “has shown it will tear our democracy down if that's what it takes to win.” Kamala Harris began her first speech …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Tucker Carlson Dared Question a Trump Lawyer. The Backlash Was Quick. — The president's allies quickly closed ranks behind Sidney Powell and her pro-Trump conspiracy theory, accusing the Fox host of betrayal. — For more than a week, a plain-spoken former federal prosecutor named Sidney Powell …
Sean McMinn / NPR:
1,000 U.S. Hospitals Are ‘Critically’ Short On Staff — And More Expect To Be Soon — More than 1,000 hospitals across the United States are “critically” short on staff, according to numbers released this week by the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Blue Virginia
Peter Nicholas / The Atlantic:
The 3 Norms Trump Could Still Break — America has seen little of Donald Trump since the election. Speaking to the nation largely through Twitter, he's barely strayed outside the White House as he absorbs a defeat that shattered the myth he created of his own invincibility.
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Stacey Abrams' group finances grassroots efforts to win Senate runoffs — The voting rights group founded by Stacey Abrams is pumping $2.7 million to boost the work of a network of grassroots organizations ahead of the Jan. 5 runoffs - not to finance more TV ads but to strengthen their get-out-the-vote apparatus.
HudsonValley360:
Hinchey claims victory in 46th Senate District — Democrat Michelle Hinchey declared victory Friday afternoon in the 46th Senate District race more than two weeks after Election Day while absentee ballots continue to be finalized for retiring state Sen. George Amedore's position.
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Culture wars fuel Trump's blue-collar Latino gains — Donald Trump lost the presidency, but showed Republicans a way to win the culture wars with working-class Hispanics. — Despite four years of being defined as a racist for his rhetoric and harsh immigration policies …
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Dissent
Mark Weiner / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Brindisi-Tenney House race shrouded in secrecy, confusion as campaigns battle over ballots — Central New Yorkers who voted in one of the most competitive House races in the nation still don't know the results 18 days after the election, whether their vote counted, or exactly what's happening …
New York Times:
Business and World Leaders Move On as Trump Fights to Reverse Election — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is seizing the moment, not to aggressively confront the president he defeated, but to act presidential in his stead. — WASHINGTON — Inside the wrought-iron fences that surround …
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Dan Hinkel / Chicago Tribune:
Kyle Rittenhouse freed from Kenosha jail after attorneys post $2 million bail despite pleas from families of men he shot — Kyle Rittenhouse was released from jail in Wisconsin on Friday afternoon after his attorneys posted $2 million bail, setting the teenager free as he awaits trial …
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Jackson Danbeck / TMJ4:
Kyle Rittenhouse released from custody on $2 million cash bond
Kyle Rittenhouse released from custody on $2 million cash bond
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Lee Davidson / Salt Lake Tribune:
Mitt Romney's inspirations for bucking his party: his dad and his Black grandson — Mitt Romney is once again showing himself to be a GOP maverick, this week calling the president's efforts to overturn election results “undemocratic” while most of his Republican colleagues stay aboard the Trump train.
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Raw Story
Steven Ahle / David Harris Jr.:
Sidney Powell Says They Have many Smoking Guns, Some of Whom May Need Witness Protection — Attorney Sidney Powell was on the Howie Carr Show and she claimed that their team is in possession of many smoking guns. — Some of them may require witness protection.
William Bredderman / The Daily Beast:
The Desperate Final Gasps of Team Trump's Flailing ‘Mini-Coup’ — Experts agree: Trump's legal effort is dead, and rigor mortis is setting in. — The past week saw Team Trump piling up losses and running out of road. — The campaign dropped its lawsuit to stop the certification …
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Nancy Scola / Politico:
Twitter will hand @POTUS to Biden on Inauguration Day, even if Trump doesn't concede — The presidential @POTUS Twitter handle will automatically transfer to President-elect Joe Biden the moment he's sworn in at noon on Inauguration Day — whether or not President Donald Trump has conceded, the company confirmed to POLITICO on Friday.
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