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Thomas P. Bossert / New York Times:
I Was the Homeland Security Adviser to Trump.  We're Being Hacked.  —  The magnitude of this national security breach is hard to overstate.  —  Mr. Bossert was the homeland security adviser to President Trump and deputy homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush.
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Politico:
How suspected Russian hackers outed their massive cyberattack
Jennifer Horn / USA Today:
Texas lawsuit was the last straw.  I'm leaving the Republican Party: Former NH GOP chair  —  The GOP has ransacked our Constitution and attempted a coup.  The Republican Party of Lincoln is no more.  I'm switching my registration to independent.  —  My mother spent a lifetime trying to teach me to stand for what is right.
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David Siders / Politico:
'Everything's great': GOP ditches election post-mortems  —  Democrats in Texas and New Hampshire are forming committees to examine the party's failings in last month's election.  Less formal autopsies are underway in states across the country.  —  But the party that lost the presidential election isn't soul-searching at all.
Politico:
Pence prepares to oversee Trump's loss — and then leave town  —  On Jan. 6, Vice President Mike Pence will oversee final confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden's victory.  —  Then he'll likely skip town.  —  As vice president, Pence has the awkward but unavoidable duty of presiding …
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Margaret Carlson / The Daily Beast:
Mike Pence's Mission Is Slavish Devotion Every Day Til Jan. 20
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
French President Macron tests positive for the coronavirus after showing symptoms  —  PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for the coronavirus, the country's presidential palace announced Thursday.  —  He was administered a test after he began to show symptoms associated with the virus.
Discussion: Axios and Business Insider
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Sylvie Corbet / Associated Press:
French President Macron tests positive for COVID-19
Discussion: Center for Inquiry
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Dominion demands that Sidney Powell retract ‘baseless and false allegations’ about voting machines.  —  Dominion Voting Systems sent a blistering letter on Wednesday night to the right-wing lawyer Sidney Powell, demanding that she publicly retract her “wild, knowingly baseless and false accusations” …
Lisa Bonos / Washington Post:
Pete Buttigieg is right.  Airports are romantic.  —  In accepting his pending appointment to be the next U.S. transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg spoke about how travel, in his mind, “is synonymous with growth, with adventure — even love.”  Then he went for a laugh line, adding …
Discussion: National Review, NPR, Twitchy, CNN and USA Today
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Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:   Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary is something Frank Kameny could have only dreamed of
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Biden transition team deletes old ad hammering Buttigieg's lack of experience
Henry Grabar / Slate:   Pete Buttigieg Doesn't Deserve to Be Transportation Secretary, but He Could Be Great at It
Kyle Smith / National Review:
Jill Biden's Doctorate Is Garbage Because Her Dissertation Is Garbage  —  Her dissertation is not an addition to the sum total of human knowledge.  —  You can tell someone is smarting from an inferiority complex when he insists on being addressed as “Dr.” on the basis of holding an academic doctorate rather than being a physician.
Discussion: Arizona Mirror
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Newsweek:   We Need a Special Counsel
Andrew Kerr / The Daily Caller:   EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden Was Due To Receive ‘Significant’ Payments From Chinese Private Equity Firm Starting In 2019, Emails Show
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mitch McConnell gives away the game: ‘Kelly and David are getting hammered’  —  Pressure works.  That's what we're learning from the news that congressional negotiators are moving toward a deal on an economic rescue package that includes stimulus checks for individuals.
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E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
Joe Biden may be tougher than the GOP expects
Axios:
O'Malley Dillon's line that GOP are “f-ckers” worries some Biden aides  —  Some advisers close to President-elect Joe Biden are frustrated over a Glamour magazine interview in which incoming White House deputy chief of staff Jen O'Malley Dillon referred to Republicans on Capitol Hill as “f*ckers.”
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CNN:
'It's turned crazy': Inside the scramble for Trump pardons
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Georgia Senate Runoffs: Breaking Down November, Looking to January  —  Dear Readers: This is the last issue of the Crystal Ball this year.  We wanted to finish off our 2020 publishing schedule by taking a deep look at the Georgia Senate runoffs, which will decide control of the Senate on Tuesday, Jan. 5.
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
'It's nonstop': Georgia Senate battles rage far from Atlanta
Discussion: Washington Post and WTOP
Washington Post:
Interior Secretary Bernhardt tests positive for covid-19  —  Two other top Interior officials contracted the virus last month  —  Interior Department Secretary David Bernhardt, 51, tested positive for covid-19 Wednesday, the department spokesman confirmed after an inquiry from The Post.
Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
This hedge-fund billionaire is a huge fan of Sen. Kelly Loeffler — but why?  —  Finance mogul Ken Griffin gave big chunks of cash to Kelly Loeffler's PAC — and the timing is intriguing  —  On Oct. 9, billionaire Ken Griffin, the head of a multinational financial services company …
Michelle Ruiz / Vogue:
How Savannah Guthrie and Kristen Welker Won the 2020 Election Coverage  —  FIVE MINUTES before NBC called the 2020 election for Joe Biden, Kristen Welker was sprinting.  After rising at 4 a.m. and coanchoring Weekend Today in New York, the White House correspondent darted into a car …
Justine Coleman / The Hill:
Trump cuts $200M in health care funds to California over abortions  —  President Trump's administration announced on Wednesday an upcoming cut of $200 million in federal Medicaid funding to California over the state's requirement for abortions to be covered under health care plans.
Discussion: HHS News Releases and Fox News
Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Trump states shut out COVID headlines as virus rages  —  States that voted for President Trump tend to have high coronavirus caseloads compared to how much COVID content they read online, while the opposite is true of states that voted for President-elect Biden, according to exclusive data …
Christopher Bedford / The Federalist:
This Series Of Fact-Checks On America's Mission To Defeat COVID Exposes Media Hatred  —  Fact checks on the United States' COVID vaccine timeline expose how outlets like NBC, The New York Times, and The Washington Post are willing to attack American aspirations to score political points.
Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal:
Robinhood Financial to Pay $65 Million to Settle SEC Probe  —  The brokerage firm settles investigation over early failure to highlight deals with high-speed trading firms  —  WASHINGTON—Robinhood Financial LLC has agreed to pay $65 million to settle regulatory claims that it didn't sufficiently disclose …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
We've finally identified the source of fraud in the 2020 election.  It's Ron Johnson.  —  Finally, significant fraud has been identified in the 2020 election.  It is being perpetrated by Sen. Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin.  —  President Trump lost the election.  He lost the recounts.
Washington Examiner:
Raphael Warnock's embrace of anti-Semite Farrakhan is disqualifying for Senate service  —  It was once said of a famously vulnerable Senate candidate that, with respect to the opposition research that could be used against her in a campaign, “there's a haystack of needles.”
Sarah Kliff / New York Times:
The Vaccines Are Supposed to Be Free.  Surprise Bills Could Happen Anyway.  —  “It is the American health care system, so there are bound to be loopholes.”  —  When Americans receive a coronavirus vaccine, federal rules say they shouldn't have to pay anything out of pocket.
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Trump's Latino gains suggest a key progressive theory of politics is wrong  —  White backlash or education polarization?  —  1 hr ago  —  Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson in their widely-cited Trump book write, for example, that: “To advance an unpopular plutocratic agenda …
 
 
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George Skelton / Los Angeles Times:
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Biden shouldn't reject all Trump's foreign policies. Here are three he should keep.
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Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
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Kevin Roose / New York Times:
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Dave Boucher / Detroit Free Press:
New Supreme Court filing includes blatantly wrong information about Michigan
Discussion: Law & Crime and Business Insider
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
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Alaska Health Worker Had a Serious Allergic Reaction After Pfizer's Vaccine
Andrew Cain / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
State panel recommends Barbara Johns statue to replace Lee at U.S. Capitol