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Mark Becker / The Bulwark:
My Call With Ron Johnson: He Knows Biden Won But Won't Admit It — The Wisconsin senator says it would be “political suicide.” — November 14, 8:37 a.m. my phone rings. I do a double take on my caller ID and realize who is calling. I take a deep breath and answer the phone.
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Biden: 'We're Going to Fight Like Hell by Investing in America First' — My talk with Joe Biden on his first few months, and his next four years. — President-elect Joe Biden was in a good mood as we talked on the phone Tuesday evening for an hour — he in Delaware and me in Bethesda, Md. He apologized, though, for being late.
NBC News:
Release of PPP loan recipients data reveals troubling patterns — Following months of litigation between the Small Business Administration and news organizations seeking data about who benefited from pandemic relief programs, the agency on Tuesday night released a sweeping dataset …
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Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
MAGA-ite in Manhattan?: Ivanka Trump's political ambitions seek new home after the White House — Friends and former associates say they expect the first daughter to think about running for office, or at least get involved in some way in Republican politics.
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Jennifer Rodgers / The Daily Beast:
Here's How Rudy Giuliani's Push for a Preemptive Pardon Could Backfire
Here's How Rudy Giuliani's Push for a Preemptive Pardon Could Backfire
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Justice Department investigating potential presidential pardon bribery scheme, court records reveal
Justice Department investigating potential presidential pardon bribery scheme, court records reveal
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New York Times:
Trump Has Discussed With Advisers Pardons for His 3 Eldest Children and Giuliani
Trump Has Discussed With Advisers Pardons for His 3 Eldest Children and Giuliani
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Politico:
Congress shoots down Trump's threat to veto defense bill — Congress is moving forward on a must-pass defense policy bill without repealing a legal shield for social media companies, rejecting a last-minute veto threat from President Donald Trump. — The final version of the National …
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The Hill:
GOP chairman: Defense bill to include renaming Confederate bases, but not Section 230 repeal
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Trump threatens to veto major defense bill unless Congress repeals Section 230, a legal shield for tech giants
Trump threatens to veto major defense bill unless Congress repeals Section 230, a legal shield for tech giants
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
Confessions of a Clintonworld Exile — Doug Band worked alongside Bill Clinton every day for nearly two decades, first as a body man and then as one of the primary architects of his lucrative and often-fraught post-presidency. Then came a seismic falling out with accusations of self-dealing and soap-opera-level psychodrama.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Why to be optimistic — and pessimistic — about Covid relief — HAPPY MIDWEEK. OK — Here's why you should be a tad bit optimistic about the status of Covid relief negotiations: The two sides are talking, they are exchanging paper, and both sides say they want an agreement.
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Wall Street Journal
Michelle Roberts / BBC:
Covid-19: Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine judged safe for use in UK from next week — The UK has become the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for mass vaccination. — Britain's medicines regulator, the MHRA, says the jab …
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Wall Street Journal:
U.K. Authorizes Pfizer, BioNTech's Covid-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use
U.K. Authorizes Pfizer, BioNTech's Covid-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use
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Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
C.D.C. Shortens Quarantine Guidance and Warns Against Holiday Travel
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
GOP leader McDaniel to run for 3rd term with Trump's backing — Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chairwoman, is launching her bid for a third two-year term heading the GOP's governing organization after the party's stronger-than-anticipated showing in November's election, even though President Donald Trump lost.
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Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Ronna McDaniel launches bid for third term as GOP chair
Ronna McDaniel launches bid for third term as GOP chair
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Washington Examiner and Bloomberg
Mica Soellner / Washington Examiner:
Mitch McConnell chokes up during goodbye floor speech to longtime friend Lamar Alexander
Mitch McConnell chokes up during goodbye floor speech to longtime friend Lamar Alexander
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Melanie Zanona / Politico:
The GOP's electoral mischief — MO PROBLEMS — Scooplet: Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) has been telling colleagues and allies that he plans to challenge the Electoral College votes when Congress officially certifies Joe Biden's victory on Jan. 6, as long as a Senate Republican joins him in the long-shot effort, sources tell your Huddle host.
Axios:
Trump likely to announce 2024 bid, but GOP rivals say power will fade post-White House — President Trump is likely to announce he'll run again in 2024, perhaps before this term even ends, sources tell Axios. — Why it matters: Trump has already set in motion two important strategies …
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Election-Fraud Business Is Booming
Trump's Election-Fraud Business Is Booming
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New York Times:
Presidential Transition Live Updates: Biden to Discuss Virus-Weakened Economy Amid Stalemate Over Aid — President-elect Joe Biden is set to meet virtually with small-business owners and workers hurt by the pandemic. The Justice Department is investigating a potential bribery scheme for a Trump pardon.
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Jim Galloway / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Kelly Loeffler, Raphael Warnock runoff crosses a line — One of Kelly Loeffler's first public appearances as a U.S. senator came last January at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. — “I am so humbled to be here with you today in this sacred place …
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Justice Namaste / Jezebel:
Hey Obama... Some People Actually Do Want to Defund the Police — During an interview on the Snapchat political show “Good Luck America” (because apparently that's a thing?), former President Barack Obama decided to stick his foot in his mouth once again by telling host Peter Hamby …
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Jamie Ross / The Daily Beast:
Roger Stone, Who Had His Ass Saved by Barr, Turns on ‘Deep State’ Attorney General — SNAKE PIT — Remember in February when Attorney General Bill Barr trashed his department's reputation to override the recommended prison term for Roger Stone and push for a much shorter sentence?
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David Brennan / Newsweek:
Michael Flynn's Call for ‘Martial Law’ Comes Amid Violent Threats Over Trump Election Defeat — Former national security adviser Michael Flynn—controversially pardoned by President Donald Trump last week—on Tuesday retweeted a call for the White House to declare martial law and re-run last month's presidential election.
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Peter Montgomery / Right Wing Watch:
Pro-Trump Attorney Lin Wood and Pardoned Michael Flynn Call for Trump to Declare Martial Law
Pro-Trump Attorney Lin Wood and Pardoned Michael Flynn Call for Trump to Declare Martial Law
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Raw Story, Jezebel and Talking Points Memo
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
RNC blasts Politico over Michigan election story — Politico chief political correspondent Tim Alberta packed a lot into his sizzling Nov. 24 feature, “The Inside Story of Michigan's Fake Voter Fraud Scandal.” There's a tight narration of the Trump campaign's destructive effort to undo the Michigan vote …
Jemima McEvoy / Forbes:
1 In Every 800 North Dakota Residents Now Dead From Covid — Just two weeks after joining the growing list of states where at least one in every 1,000 residents has died from coronavirus-linked causes, North Dakota's grim statistic has escalated: as of Tuesday, one in every 800 North Dakotans has been claimed by Covid-19.
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R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr / The American Spectator:
This Election Stinks — Is something rotten in Denmark? — W — ashington — I have been on the fence. Ever since the election on November 3, I have been on the fence. I am prepared to accept the will of the people, and only in the election of 1960 was there evidence of a presidential election being stolen by either party.
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FiveThirtyEight:
There Wasn't That Much Split-Ticket Voting In 2020 — The narrative of the 2020 election is that Joe Biden did pretty well ... but down-ballot Democrats, not so much. And while this is true if you look simply at the results — Republicans defended most of their vulnerable Senate seats …
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Damian Carrington / The Guardian:
No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time — Singapore's approval of chicken cells grown in bioreactors is seen as landmark moment across industry — Cultured meat, produced in bioreactors without the slaughter of an animal, has been approved for sale by a regulatory authority for the first time.
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TechCrunch and Marginal REVOLUTION
Veronique de Rugy / National Review:
Walter Williams, R.I.P. — The great economist and freedom fighter Walter Williams has died. This is an incredibly sad news. Walter was a great communicator of ideas and a prolific, provocative and uncompromising writer. He was the John M. Olin distinguished professor of economics at George Mason University.
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Isabella Kwai / New York Times:
U.N. Reclassifies Cannabis as a Less Dangerous Drug — A United Nations commission voted to remove marijuana for medical use from a list of the most risky narcotics, such as heroin. — A United Nations commission voted on Wednesday to remove cannabis for medicinal purposes from a category …
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