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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.
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Trump Makes Brief Appearance at G-20, but Skips Pandemic Meeting — 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 the executions of three more death-row inmates.
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 …
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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New York Times:
Duty or Party? For Republicans, a Choice on Whether to Enable Trump
Duty or Party? For Republicans, a Choice on Whether to Enable Trump
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Associated Press:
Week offers snapshot of how Trump, Biden approach presidency
Week offers snapshot of how Trump, Biden approach presidency
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Politico, The Guardian, Alternet.org, Twin Cities and And another thing
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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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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Townhall and The Western Journal
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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Kevin M. Kruse / MSNBC:
Trump's accusations of fraud in Georgia echo decades of racial violence — As the 2020 election season draws to a merciful close, all eyes remain on Georgia. The state voted Democratic in the presidential election — for the first time since 1992 — with Georgia Secretary …
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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.
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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, Law & Crime, The Western Journal, National Review, The Hill, The Daily Beast and Washington Examiner
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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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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Associated Press, CBS News, The Daily Caller, National Review and Axios
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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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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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
People Think Mnuchin Accidentally Said Trump Admin's Most Honest Thing About COVID-19 — Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said, “We're working on mass distribution of the virus,” and Twitter users unanimously agreed. — People think Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's slip of the tongue …
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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.
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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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.
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 …
John Dickerson / The Atlantic:
Why You Don't Mess Around With Presidential Transitions — Being president is a tremendously difficult job. Starting the first day without preparation could set up a presidency to fail. — Contributing writer at The Atlantic — In his new memoir, Barack Obama reveals that there was a terrorist threat on his Inauguration Day.
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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Katherine Morgan / Bitch Media:
How Long Do We Wait for White Women to Learn? — A few days before the 2020 presidential election, I started seeing a message becoming more and more prominent on my social-media feed. Often shared in graphic format, the gist was simple: “No matter who you voted for, we can remain friends.
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 …
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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The Guardian:
Donald Trump Jr says he will pass time in Covid isolation by cleaning his guns … Play Video — Donald Trump Jr, the president's son who has tested positive for the coronavirus, has said he will pass the time in isolation battling with the virus by cleaning his collection of guns.