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9:50 PM ET, December 5, 2016

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Christopher Suprun / New York Times:
Why I Will Not Cast My Electoral Vote for Donald Trump  —  Dallas — I am a Republican presidential elector, one of the 538 people asked to choose officially the president of the United States.  Since the election people have asked me to change my vote based on policy disagreements with Donald J. Trump.
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Rogue electors brief Clinton camp on anti-Trump plan  —  Advocates of the long-shot bid to turn the Electoral College against Donald Trump have been in contact with close allies of Hillary Clinton, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions, but the Clinton camp …
Discussion: Hot Air and Political Wire
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Republican Texas elector won't vote for Trump  —  A Republican member of the Electoral College vowed Monday that he will not cast his vote for Donald Trump  —  , saying the president-elect lacks the necessary foreign policy experience and demeanor to be commander-in-chief.
Discussion: Politico
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Incoming national security adviser's son, who peddles conspiracies, has a government transition email  —  (CNN)The son of incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn, who Sunday night peddled a false conspiracy theory about a DC pizzeria, has an official government transition email address.
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German Lopez / Vox:
Pizzagate, the fake news conspiracy theory that led a gunman to DC's Comet Ping Pong, explained
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Stelter says Trump is a ‘conspiracy theorist’
Discussion: Vox
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Michael Flynn's tweet wasn't actually about #PizzaGate, but his son is now defending the baseless conspiracy theory
Christine Wang / CNBC:
Joe Biden predicts he will run for president in 2020, adds that he is not yet ‘committed’  —  Vice President Joe Biden told a small group of reporters Monday that he may run for president in 2020.  —  “Yeah, I am.  I am going to run in 2020,” Biden said when asked if he would run for office again.
Discussion: AOL
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Biden raises possibility of 2020 presidential bid  —  Vice President Biden on Monday raised the possibility of a presidential bid in 2020.  —  “I am going to run in 2020,” Biden told a group of reporters in the Capitol when asked about his political future.  “What the hell man, anyway.”
Associated Press:
Biden in 2020? With a Smile, He Says He's Not Ruling It Out
Discussion: Politico
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Why Pat McCrory Lost and What It Means in Trump's America  —  Pat McCrory's now official defeat in the race for Governor of North Carolina has real implications for the progressive movement nationally in the era of Trump.  —  The dominant reason given for McCrory's defeat will be the unpopularity of HB2 …
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Pentagon buries evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste  —  The Pentagon has buried an internal study that exposed $125 billion in administrative waste in its business operations amid fears Congress would use the findings as an excuse to slash the defense budget, according to interviews …
Discussion: The Week
David Wright / CNN:
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner plan move to DC  — Kushner is expected to play a significant role in the new Trump administration, while Ivanka Trump may take a lead role in managing her father's sprawling business interests  —  (CNN)Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner …
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Tal Kopan / CNN:
Donald Trump meets with Al Gore on climate change  — Republicans are critical of the scientific consensus that human activities are exacerbating global climate change  —  Washington (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump met on Monday with Al Gore — one of the most vocal advocates of fighting climate change.
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Al Gore has ‘extremely interesting’ meeting with Trump
Discussion: ABC News
Elana Schor / Politico:
Democrats to give Trump Cabinet picks the Garland treatment  —  Senate Democrats are preparing to put Donald Trump's Cabinet picks through a grinding confirmation process, weighing delay tactics that could eat up weeks of the Senate calendar and hamper his first 100 days in office.
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Juan Williams / The Hill:   McConnell won big by blocking Obama
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
GOP wagers Americans don't care about Trump's conflicts
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Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Mistrial declared in case of South Carolina officer who shot Walter Scott after traffic stop
Stephanie Land / Washington Post:
Trump's election stole my desire to look for a partner  —  In August, I went on six dates in one week.  I had decided that I was ready to look for a partner.  Enough of this dating unavailable men a half-decade younger than me.  They'd never seriously consider a relationship with me, my two children and our needy dog.
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
In Dakota Access pipeline controversy, Obama's ties to tribes played pivotal role … Three months ago a young Malaysian woman asked President Obama about the protests taking place over the Dakota Access pipeline: She wanted to know what the president was doing “to ensure the protection of the ancestral land …
Discussion: ABC News
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Business Wire:
Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics Partners Respond to the Statement from the Department of the Army
Evan McMullin / New York Times:
Trump's Threat to the Constitution  —  WASHINGTON — On July 7, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump, met privately with House Republicans near the Capitol.  I was present as chief policy director of the House Republican Conference.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump's Agents of Idiocracy
Discussion: Raw Story
Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times:
Heightened security at L.A. transit stations after threat to blow up Universal City station  —  People on the platform at the Metro Red Line Universal City station in 2014 (Christina House / For The Times)  —  Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is stepping up security …
Discussion: LAist
Nathan McDermott / CNN:
Trump adviser on Taiwan call: 'If China doesn't like it, screw ‘em’  —  President-elect Trump slams China on Twitter_00013714.jpg  —  (CNN)Stephen Moore, an economic adviser to Donald Trump, defended the President-elect's recent call with the president of Taiwan, saying in a local radio interview that he didn't care if it upset China.
Megan Brilley / fox4kc.com:
Woman with incurable disease faces backlash from Social Security after Royals fans raise money to get her to a game  —  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One Royals fan feels like she is being punished for the good deed of others.  —  Joyce Jeter has a debilitating medical condition …
Discussion: Raw Story and Fox 59
 
 
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Criminal Complaint in Comet Ping Pong Shooting
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Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Republicans look to make it easier to install Mattis as defense secretary
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
GOP leader declines to back Trump tariff plan
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Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
U.S. court puts Obamacare case on hold until Trump takes office
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