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11:55 AM ET, January 5, 2021

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Olivia Beavers / Politico:
SCOOP: Inside the GOP's strategy to challenge Biden's win (and the nail biter GA election)  —  With big assists from Melanie, Sarah and Kyle.  —  SCOOP: Sen. Ted Cruz and about nine or 10 other senators joined GOP Reps. Mo Brooks (Ala.), Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Andy Biggs (Ariz.) …
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Washington Post:
Trump sabotaging GOP on his way out of office with push to overturn election  —  President Trump is effectively sabotaging the Republican Party on his way out of office, obsessed with overturning his election loss and nursing pangs of betrayal from allies whom he had expected to bend the instruments of democracy to his will.
Tina Nguyen / Politico:
MAGA activists plot revenge on Republican ‘traitors’  —  MAGA figureheads and pro-Trump activists are vowing to excommunicate Republicans who vigorously oppose the doomed effort to keep President Donald Trump in power.  —  The threats have played out in recent days with Georgia Secretary …
George Will / Washington Post:
Hawley, Cruz and their Senate cohort are the Constitution's most dangerous domestic enemies  —  On a conference call last Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told his caucus that, in his 36 Senate years, he has twice cast votes to take the nation to war and once to remove a president …
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
GOP congressman suggests he regrets his vote for Trump
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Loeffler to object to certification of presidential election results
ABC News:
As he seeks to prevent certification of election, Trump plans to attend DC rally
New York Times:
Pence's Choice: Side With the Constitution or His Boss  —  The vice president will preside on Wednesday when Congress convenes to ratify Joe Biden's victory.  President Trump still seems to hold out hope that his loyal No. 2 could change the outcome.  —  WASHINGTON — Speaking to supporters …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump's Electoral College scheme divides 2024 GOP successors
Discussion: CNN and HotAir
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Bypasses Top Career Prosecutor To Name New Acting US Attorney In Atlanta  —  Following the abrupt Monday resignation of Byung Jin “BJay” Pak, the U.S. attorney in Atlanta, President Trump is bypassing his first assistant, a career prosecutor, to name a new acting leader from outside the office.
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Bobby L. Christine / U.S. Department of Justice:
Meet the U.S. Attorney  —  Bobby earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, and his J.D. from Samford University's Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham.  Bobby worked for a decade in the District Attorney's Office in Augusta, where he prosecuted all manner of crime, including violent felonies and complex thefts.
Discussion: Politico and Raw Story
Kyle Kondik / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
GOP Likely Needs a Big Georgia Turnout Today  —  Closing thoughts on crucial Senate runoffs; join us for star-studded online forum Wednesday evening  —  Dear Readers: With a new president about to take office and a sharply divided Congress, what should we expect of the high-stakes political road ahead?
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Corin Faife / The Markup:
In Georgia, Facebook's Changes Brought Back a Partisan News Feed
Roger Sollenberger / Salon:
Kelly Loeffler's new Facebook ad darkens skin of Raphael Warnock, her Black opponent
Discussion: The Guardian and Raw Story
Teo Armus / Washington Post:
Sen. Josh Hawley says ‘Antifa scumbags’ terrorized his family's Virginia home.  Protesters say they held a peaceful vigil.  —  The activists said they had staged a peaceful vigil on Monday night, protesting the GOP plan to object to Congress's certification of the electoral vote this week.
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Patrick Young / ShutDownDC:
ShutDownDC Drops in on Senator Josh Hawley's House to Encourage him to Reconsider his Attack on Democracy
Rep. Jamie Raskin / Medium:
Statement of Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin on the Remarkable Life of Tommy Raskin  —  TAKOMA PARK, M.D. — Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin today released the following statement about their son Thomas (Tommy) Bloom Raskin:  —  “On January 30, 1995 …
Politico:
Biden transition hoping for victory but bracing for defeat in Georgia  —  Joe Biden is eyeing a more ambitious agenda for the first 100 days of his presidency — if, that is, Democrats can win twin upsets in a pair of Georgia Senate runoffs on Tuesday.  —  But Biden's advisers are privately skeptical …
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
Georgia is experiencing its “worst surge” of Covid-19 ahead of the Senate runoffs
Discussion: The Atlantic
Chiara Giordano / The Independent:
Trump not allowed into Scotland to escape Biden inauguration, Sturgeon warns  —  US president reportedly planning to visit his Turnberry golf resort to avoid opponent being sworn into office  —  Donald Trump will not be allowed to visit Scotland to play golf during Joe Biden's inauguration, Nicola Sturgeon has said.
Todd Richmond / Associated Press:
Prosecutor: Wisconsin pharmacist thought vaccine was unsafe  —  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin pharmacist convinced the world was “crashing down” told police he tried to ruin hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccine because he believed the shots would mutate people's DNA, according to court documents released Monday.
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Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
‘Borat 2’ Director Reveals What Really Happened With Rudy Giuliani: ‘My Jaw Hit the Floor’  —  THE LAST LAUGH  —  The director of ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’ tells ‘The Last Laugh’ podcast how Maria Bakalova infiltrated OAN to get to Rudy Giuliani—and what really went down in that hotel room.
Discussion: Raw Story
Anita Chabria / Los Angeles Times:
Its freezer kaput, this NorCal hospital had two hours to give out 600 vaccine shots  —  About the time Gov. Newsom took to Facebook on Monday to lament the pace of vaccine distribution statewide, one Northern California hospital was injecting local residents at a furious pace …
Politico:
Biden to tap more Obama vets to fill key national security roles  —  President-elect Joe Biden and his transition team have begun to fill out top positions on the incoming National Security Council and at the State Department, with key roles like deputy national security adviser and deputy secretary …
David Rothkopf / USA Today:
Sedition fatigue: For Trump and many Republicans, betrayal is now politics as usual  —  A treacherous president is behaving precisely as his party trained him to behave: Be Trump.  You are above the law.  We like your Gambino family values.  —  It was one thing when the steady drumbeat …
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Lou Dobbs Asks Why It Has Been So Hard ‘Finding Actual Proof’ of Trump's Baseless Election Claims  —  Fox Business' Lou Dobbs is continuing to side with President Donald Trump's baseless claims about the election being “stolen” from him.  —  On Monday, Dobbs said the following:
Washington Post:
Olivier Knox joins The Washington Post to anchor The Daily 202  —  The Washington Post today announced it has hired Olivier Knox, a veteran political reporter and broadcast journalist, to anchor The Daily 202, The Post's flagship politics newsletter on the inner-workings of Washington politics and policy.
more at Mediagazer »
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Kamala Harris accused of plagiarizing MLK anecdote in October interview with Elle magazine  —  Critics say story told by VP-elect resembles 1965 reminiscence by King  —  Harris is being an ‘understudy’ for Biden, stepping away from spotlight: Deroy Murdock
New York Times:
Georgia Runoffs Live Updates: Voters Head to the Polls  —  In Democratic-heavy Atlanta and G.O.P. strongholds in North Georgia, voters eagerly line up.  —  ATLANTA — Whitney Leonard, 24, walked out of the West Hunter Street Baptist Church in Atlanta's West End neighborhood on Tuesday morning …
 
 
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Nolan Rappaport / The Hill:
Could we learn from how Canada manages its foreign workers?
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Unlearning an Answer Charter schools deliver extraordinary results, but their political support among Democrats has collapsed. What will Biden do?
Alan Judd / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Experts say Trump may have broken law trying to overturn Georgia election
Clifford Michel / THE CITY:
Three Men Gave $250 Each to a Candidate for City Comptroller — and Say They Never Heard of Him
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CBS News:
Ohio governor signs controversial gun bill expanding “stand your ground” right
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Even if you judge Trump by his preferred economic measures, he's still a loser
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Bob McManus / New York Post:
NYT discovers crime wave but goes silent on Black Lives Matter's role
Discussion: HotAir and DNyuz
Washington Examiner:
They really are ‘defunding’ the police, and it's not going well
Lori Rozsa / Washington Post:
Mar-a-Lago should be shut down after New Year's Eve party violated covid rules, state lawmaker says
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