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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Presidential Transition Live Updates: Trump Returns to Golf Course as World Leaders Discuss Pandemic — President Trump briefly met with the Group of 20 on Saturday after facing two setbacks in his attempt to undo election results in Michigan and Georgia. The Trump administration has scheduled …
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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.
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 …
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Michigan Legislators Face Calls For Possible Criminal Charges After Meeting With President Trump On Certification — We have been discussing the campaign of The Lincoln Project and others to harass and abuse lawyers who represent the Trump campaign or other parties bringing election challenges.
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Detroit Free Press:
Trump tweets undermine Michigan leaders; images show Chatfield drinking at Trump hotel — Dave Boucher Clara HendricksonDetroit Free Press — Public skepticism that Michigan's Republican legislative leaders focused on COVID-19 assistance during a Friday meeting with President Donald …
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Washington Post:
Republican leaders ask Michigan election board to delay certification of results, in latest GOP effort to cast doubt on the vote
Republican leaders ask Michigan election board to delay certification of results, in latest GOP effort to cast doubt on the vote
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Conservative News Today
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Using Last Days to Lock in Policies and Make Biden's Task More Difficult — At a wide range of departments and agencies, Mr. Trump's political appointees are going to extraordinary lengths to try to prevent Mr. Biden from rolling back the president's legacy.
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Raw Story, Florida Politics and The Guardian
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Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Trump tries to drum out GOP election officials who won't play his games — President Donald Trump has driven senators into retirement and tweeted wayward Republicans into primary defeat during four years leading the GOP. Now, as a lame duck, he's launched a new campaign against GOP election officials who won't bend to his will.
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Caroline Linton / CBS News:
Georgia governor calls for audit after state certifies election results
Georgia governor calls for audit after state certifies election results
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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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Raw Story, HotAir, The Western Journal, Law & Crime, National Review, The Hill, The Daily Beast and Washington Examiner
Beth LeBlanc / Detroit News:
Michigan, national GOP seek to delay certification of election results — The state and national Republican parties have asked the Board of State Canvassers to delay certification of the state's election results in a bid to investigate “anomalies and irregularities” alleged to have occurred in Michigan's Nov. 3 election.
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.
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Susan Edelman / New York Post:
Secret plans helped Brooklyn synagogue pull off massive, maskless wedding — A Hasidic synagogue in Brooklyn planned the wedding of a chief rabbi's grandson with such secrecy it was able to host thousands of maskless celebrants without the city catching on.
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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ABC News, New York Times and Dissent
Mark Wilson / Fast Company:
COVID-19 deniers are still all too real. Here's how we can convince them — COVID-19 has killed 250,000 Americans and counting. We're nine months into the pandemic, and our infection rates are worse than ever. — A majority of people across the political spectrum acknowledge the danger of COVID-19.
Washington Post:
Justice Dept. meets Trump, Giuliani vote-fraud claims with silent skepticism — The Justice Department has met President Trump's fantastical claims of widespread voter fraud with two weeks of skeptical silence, not taking any overt moves to investigate what Trump's lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani …
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Leah Wright Rigueur / The Atlantic:
The Major Difference Between Black Male and Female Voters — Black male turnout for Trump wasn't indicative of the president's successful outreach efforts, but rather the long-standing relationship between this voting bloc and the GOP. — Since the years following the New Deal …
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New York Times:
Duty or Party? For Republicans, a Test of Whether to Enable Trump — In pushing his false claims to the limits and cowing Republicans into acquiescence or silence, President Trump has revealed the fragility of the electoral system — and shaken it. — For the next three weeks …
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New York Times:
Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You? — There are now businesses that sell fake people. On the website Generated.Photos, you can buy a “unique, worry-free” fake person for $2.99, or 1,000 people for $1,000. If you just need a couple of fake people — for characters in a video game …
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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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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Adam Shaw / Fox News:
Ben Carson was ‘desperately sick’ with COVID, is now ‘out of the woods’
Ben Carson was ‘desperately sick’ with COVID, is now ‘out of the woods’
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Democracy Docket:
Pennsylvania VBM Certification Challenge — Several Republican candidates and voters filed a lawsuit against Pennsylvania, the General Assembly, the governor, and Secretary of State. The lawsuit seeks to block the state from certifying the election results and asks the court to exclude mail …
Shannon McMahon / Washington Post:
A traveler tested negative for covid-19 before a flight. He had the virus and infected 4 passengers. — The study details an outbreak linked to one passenger on an 18-hour flight from Dubai to New Zealand in September. — Health officials in New Zealand, a country that has a strict 14 …
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
No, State Legislatures May Not Reverse the Result of the Election — The Trump Elector Strategy That Dare Not Speak Its Name — How We Know Dominion Voting Machines Didn't Affect the Election Outcome — Lamar Alexander Calls on Trump Admin. to Give Biden Presidential Briefings
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Bypassing McConnell: Democrats push Biden to aggressively use executive power — WASHINGTON — Democratic senators are calling on President-elect Joe Biden to use executive power to advance goals such as tackling climate change, relieving student debt and creating a more progressive immigration system.
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Raw Story and Boing Boing
Tracy Connor / The Daily Beast:
Inside the Neo-Nazi Cabal Tied to Marines and a Porn Star — The evidence includes a sickening video of live-fire weapons training that ended with the masked participants giving “Heil Hitler” salutes. — An active-duty Marine assigned to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina has been charged …
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Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
The Founders didn't prepare for a president who refuses to step down, historians say — President Trump continued Friday to deny the results of the election, pressuring state officials in Michigan and Georgia to overturn the will of voters, and increasing fears that he might refuse to cede power to President-elect Joe Biden.
Lisa Mascaro / Associated Press:
Analysis: With silence, GOP enables Trump's risky endgame — WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans in Congress are engaged in a risky but calculated bet that once President Donald Trump has exhausted his legal challenges to the election, he will come to grips with his loss to President-elect Joe Biden.
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Lindsay Wise / Wall Street Journal:
Some Republicans Call for Trump to Back Up Claims of Fraud
Some Republicans Call for Trump to Back Up Claims of Fraud
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