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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump fears Giuliani, other lawyers in Biden vote challenge are ‘fools that are making him look bad’ — President Donald Trump is worried his campaign's legal team, led by his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, is composed of “fools that are making him look bad,” NBC News reported.
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HotAir, RedState, Raw Story, NBC New York and LGBTQ Nation
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Rush Limbaugh Slams Trump Legal Team: ‘They Promised Blockbuster Stuff and Then Nothing Happened’ — Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is unimpressed by the efforts of President Donald Trump's legal team to advance his baseless claims that the 2020 election was rigged.
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National Review, The Rush Limbaugh Show, Outside the Beltway, TheBlaze, CANNONFIRE, The Daily Caller, Reason and Digby's Hullabaloo
NBC News:
Behind the scenes, Trump frustrated with his legal team's maneuvers — WASHINGTON — While President Donald Trump has publicly praised his legal team's efforts, he has privately expressed frustration with the slapdash nature of his election defense fight, according to several people familiar with the discussions.
Axios:
Scoop: Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman says Trump lost — It's over. That's what Blackstone chairman, CEO and co-founder Steve Schwarzman — one of President Trump's most loyal allies — and other top Republicans are signaling to the defeated president, 16 days after Joe Biden clinched the win.
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Why the Trump campaign's big legal flameout in Pennsylvania seems like a turning point, even for Republicans
Jonathan V. Last / Bulwark+:
Why Won't Republicans Take the Next Step?
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Baltimore Sun, Raw Story and The Hill
Kaylee McGhee White / Washington Examiner:
Trump legal team's election fearmongering could cost Republicans the Senate
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Michael Crowley / New York Times:
Biden Will Nominate First Woman to Lead Intelligence and First Latino to Run Homeland Security — John Kerry, the former secretary of state, will be the climate czar, signaling the new administration's commitment to fighting climate change. — WASHINGTON — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. plans …
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Washington Post:
Republican national security experts call on Trump to concede, begin transition — A group of leading GOP national security experts — including former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge — urged congressional Republicans on Monday to demand President Trump concede the election …
New York Times:
Key Official Acknowledges His Win After Weeks of Delay
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NBC News:
Biden picks Avril Haines as director of national intelligence
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Baltimore Sun, Politico, MSNBC, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Outside the Beltway and The Daily Caller
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden transition names first Cabinet nominees
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Washington Examiner, Mother Jones and TheBlaze
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Former GOP national security officials urge Trump to concede
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Washington Examiner, Reuters, The Hill and Al Jazeera
New York Times:
Business Leaders, Citing Damage to Country, Urge Trump to Begin Transition — At the urging of New York's attorney general, business leaders in New York push for the Trump administration to begin a transfer of power. — Concerned that President Trump's refusal to accept the election results …
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Georgia Recorder, Forbes, The Moderate Voice, CNBC, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, The Gateway Pundit, Business Insider and The Intellectualist
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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
Why Won't Emily Murphy Just Do Her Job? — I don't know for certain that Emily Murphy gets up in the morning, looks in the mirror and says to herself, “You are a good person.” But I am willing to bet that she does. Most people in her position—most people who are undermining the rules of their group …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Snopes.com
CNN:
First on CNN: GSA tells Biden that transition can formally begin
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The Hill, Axios, NBC New York, WWLP-TV, Just The News, Washington Times, One America News Network, The Week, Boing Boing and New York Post
Associated Press:
US agency ascertains Biden as winner, lets transition begin
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The Daily Beast and Talking Points Memo
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Democrats reject GSA offer to delay briefing on transition
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CNBC and Washington Times
Wall Street Journal:
Janet Yellen Is Biden's Pick for Treasury Secretary — If confirmed by Senate, former Fed chief would be first woman to hold job — President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate former Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen, an economist at the forefront of policy-making for three decades …
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CNBC:
Biden chooses former Fed Chair Janet Yellen to be Treasury secretary — President-elect Joe Biden has chosen former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen as Treasury secretary. — If confirmed by the Senate, Yellen would be the first woman to lead the department.
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Associated Press, Bloomberg, New York Times, IJR, The American Independent, Outside the Beltway, UPI and The Guardian
Washington Post:
Michigan board votes to certify the state's election results, dealing Trump another blow — DETROIT — The Michigan Board of Canvassers voted Monday to certify the state's election results, effectively awarding the state's 16 electoral votes to President-elect Joe Biden …
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Detroit Free Press:
Refusing to certify legitimate votes is a felony
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Mother Jones, NBC News, New York Times, The Mahablog, Common Dreams, Raw Story, Outside the Beltway and Voter Protection Program
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How Trump placed a ticking time bomb at the center of our system
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New York Times, The Hill, Patterico's Pontifications, Detroit Metro Times and IJR
Rob Portman / Cincinnati.com:
No proof of mass fraud that would change election result — I have supported the Trump campaign's right to count every lawful vote, request state recounts and pursue lawsuits regarding election fraud or other irregularities. — Based on polling, a substantial majority of the nearly 74 million Americans …
Politico:
Dianne Feinstein to step down as top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary panel — The 87-year-old was criticized for her handling of Amy Coney Barrett's contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearings. — Sen. Dianne Feinstein listens as Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett testifies on Capitol Hill on Oct. 14, 2020.
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ABC News:
Secret Service members asked about protecting soon-to-be-former president Trump full time in Florida: Sources — Agents in Trump's detail have been asked about relocating to West Palm Beach. — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan tells Trump to concede — As Michigan state officials decide …
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and The Week
Brock Colyar / The Cut:
Sin City New York nightlife never stopped. It just moved underground. — It's 2 a.m., or, per the guy sitting next to me, “the hour where nothing is awkward,” on a Friday night less than two weeks before the presidential election and three weeks before COVID-19 positivity rates would creep …
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HotAir
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
G.M. Drops Its Support for Trump Climate Rollbacks and Aligns With Biden — General Motors said it would no longer back President Trump's lawsuit seeking to strip California of the power to set fuel economy standards. — WASHINGTON — General Motors abandoned President Trump's battle …
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Tom Krisher / Associated Press:
GM flips to California's side in pollution fight with Trump
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Axios, CBS News, Wall Street Journal, Roll Call, CBS Sacramento, TechCrunch, Associated Press and One America News Network
James Gordon / Daily Mail:
Trump attorney Lin Wood tells Republican supporters NOT to back GOP candidates in the Georgia runoff election because they've ‘failed’ to help the President's fight to overturn the election — Trump Attorney Lin Wood has suggested voters should not back Republican candidates David Perdue (R-GA) and Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA)
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HotAir, The American Independent, Conservative News Today, Townhall and The Intellectualist
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Majority say they want GOP in control of Senate: poll
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Washington Examiner, Breitbart, Townhall and The Federalist
Renée DiResta / The Atlantic:
Right-Wing Social Media Finalizes Its Divorce From Reality — When Fox News called Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden shortly after the polls closed there on Election Night, right-wing social media erupted in fury. Fox is the most conservative of the nation's major news outlets …
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Washington Post and Business Insider, more at Mediagazer »
Zachary Petrizzo / Mediaite:
Dan Bongino Floats 2024 Presidential Bid If Trump Isn't On The Ballot: ‘I Will Consider Entering Politics Again’ — Pro-Trump pundit Dan Bongino floated on his podcast Monday that he would consider running for president of the United States in 2024. — “I hate politics,” Bongino said.
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The Daily Caller and CBS News
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Absurd ‘You Did It First’ Argument for Stealing the Election — Senator Kevin Cramer appeared on Meet the Press Sunday to deliver the freshest version of the Republican party line on President Trump's efforts to cancel the elections and reinstall himself in office.
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Gallup, Berkeley News, The Hill, Washington Times and Common Dreams
NBC News:
Trump set on veto of defense bill over renaming bases honoring Confederates — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is threatening to veto legislation to fund the military as one of his final acts in office unless a widely supported, bipartisan provision to rename military bases honoring …
Richard L. Hasen / New York Times:
Trump's Legal Farce Is Having Tragic Results — There is nothing funny about the Republican Party's multipronged attack on voting rights. — Mr. Hasen is the author of “Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust and the Threat to American Democracy.” — Even as the campaign lawsuits brought …
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Eric L. Muller / The Atlantic:
The One Word That Bars Trump From Pardoning Himself — As Donald Trump's tenure in office comes in for its landing, a major question is whether the president—facing questions about liability for offenses including bank and tax fraud—can pardon himself. — This might seem like the right …
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Raw Story
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
All Base All the Time Fails to Deliver — One of the theories given for why pre-election polling underestimated President Trump's share of the vote was that pollsters failed to anticipate the huge surge in turnout among Trump's base. One hypothesis is that these voters presented themselves …
Margaret Besheer / Voice of America:
Biden Taps Veteran US Diplomat Linda Thomas-Greenfield as UN Ambassador — NEW YORK - U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has named veteran diplomat Linda Thomas-Greenfield to join his forthcoming Cabinet as his pick for U.N. ambassador, his transition team announced Monday.
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Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE:
Secret Amazon Reports Expose the Company's Surveillance of Labor and Environmental Groups — Dozens of leaked documents from Amazon's Global Security Operations Center reveal the company's reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on warehouse workers and the extensive monitoring of labor unions …
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