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12:55 PM ET, November 8, 2020

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Associated Press:
Trump considers how to keep up fight, find a graceful exit  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump never admits defeat.  But he faces a stark choice now that Democrat Joe Biden has won the White House: Concede graciously for the sake of the nation or don't — and get evicted anyway.
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Peter Alexander / NBC News:
At least 3 White House aides infected with Covid-19 along with Mark Meadows
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Kushner advises Trump to pursue “legal remedies” to the election  —  A source close to Jared Kushner said he has advised President Trump to pursue “legal remedies” to the election.  A second source close to Kushner confirmed he had not advised Trump to concede.
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Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Biden's Win, House Losses, and What's Next for the Left  —  The congresswoman said Joe Biden's relationship with progressives would hinge on his actions.  And she dismissed criticism from House moderates, calling some candidates who lost their races “sitting ducks.”
Daniel Politi / Slate:
Trump Team Holds News Conference Outside Drab Landscaping Firm, Next to Adult Book Store  —  On Saturday morning, shortly before the AP and other news outlets called the election for Joe Biden, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to announce that his lawyers would be holding a “big press conference” in Philadelphia.
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Washington Post:
Biden plans immediate flurry of executive orders to reverse Trump policies  —  President-elect Joe Biden is planning to quickly sign a series of executive orders after being sworn into office on Jan. 20, immediately forecasting that the country's politics have shifted and that his presidency …
Ellen Barry / New York Times:
For a Trump Fan, a Week When Victory Ebbed Away  —  Nick Rocco, a passionate Trump follower in the Democratic bastion of Massachusetts, slowly realized it wasn't going his way.  —  WILMINGTON, Mass. — Nick Rocco went into Election Day amped up.  A 26-year-old hair stylist …
Mary Trump / The Guardian:
Mary Trump on the end of Uncle Donald: all he has now is breaking things … This is how the most colossal and fragile ego on the planet deals with losing the US election: he does not deal with it at all.  —  My uncle's speech late on election night wasn't just entirely mendacious from beginning to end.
Discussion: Business Insider and Raw Story
Joel Anderson / Slate:
Goodbye, Ben Carson  —  After almost 30 years as a pioneering neurosurgeon, you could have had a glorious—and prosperous—retirement.  You were already a living Black History Month hero, an example to any child whose dreams were bigger and better than their circumstances.
Politico:
How ‘Obamagate’ and Hunter's ‘laptop from hell’ fizzled  —  In the end, “the biggest political scandal in the history of our country” and “the second biggest political scandal in our history” turned out to be neither.  —  President Donald Trump's eleventh-hour efforts to impart a stain …
Eric Mack / Newsmax:
Fox News Cancels ‘Justice With Judge Jeanine’ This Weekend Over Trump  —  For those of you that might have tuned in and did not see Fox News' “Justice” with Judge Jeanine Pirro on Saturday night, sources told Newsmax the show was suspended over a spat on the network's coverage of President Donald Trump.
Norman Ornstein / USA Today:
Donald Trump has lost to Joe Biden, what's next?  The presidential transition from hell.  —  We're in for a parade of horrors during Trump's remaining time in power.  Change is coming, but along the way, fasten seatbelts for severe turbulence.  —  Our long national nightmare, the Trump presidency, is finally nearing an end.
ABC News:
Inside the Trump campaign as it grapples with defeat while plowing forward with legal fight  —  Trump staffers are getting prank called while manning a voter fraud hotline.  —  Election 2020 timeline: 11.07.20  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden is the apparent winner of the presidency, defeating incumbent President Donald Trump.
Washington Post:
After Biden's win, parties gird for ferocious Senate runoffs in Georgia  —  Within minutes of Joe Biden becoming president-elect Saturday, top Democrats and Republicans raced to the front lines of 2020's last battlefront: A pair of January Senate runoffs in Georgia where the country's racial …
Dante Chinni / NBC News:
How Biden won: Three key voter groups in 2020  —  WASHINGTON — Any election victory can be seen from a variety of angles - margins gains here, voter flips there - but the story of Joe Biden's 2020 win, and his narrow recapturing of the northern Democratic “blue wall” states …
Discussion: Associated Press
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Nursing home COVID-19 cases rise four-fold in surge states  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite Trump administration efforts to erect a protective shield around nursing homes, coronavirus cases are surging within facilities in states hard hit by the latest onslaught of COVID-19.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The media never fully learned how to cover Trump.  But they still might have saved democracy.  —  As the cowbells clanged, car horns blasted and anti-Trumpers partied Saturday on my New York City street corner not long after TV networks called the presidential race for Joe Biden, I did what comes most naturally.
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Biden Victory Brings Sighs of Relief Overseas
Lev Facher / STAT:
'It's going to be very, very scary': Before Biden takes office, a precarious 10 weeks for escalating Covid-19 crisis  —  WASHINGTON — Even many public health experts who celebrated President-elect Biden's win this week turned their immediate focus to the crisis it might create …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Trump is attempting a coup in plain sight  —  How do we cover it when it's happening here?  —  A few years ago, there was a boom of articles called “If it happened there,” imagining how the American press would cover this-or-that story if it happened in another country.
Ayrshire Daily News:
South Ayrshire Golf club owner loses 2020 presidential election  —  Donald Trump, a South Ayrshire golf club owner has lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, after running again to be re-elected for a second presidential term.  —  Donald Trump, currently the 45th president …
Matt Bai / Washington Post:
Yes, Trumpism was repudiated  —  From the first reporting of the election returns Tuesday, a narrative took hold among commentators and disappointed liberals: Win or lose, they said, the electorate hadn't repudiated President Trump and his party in the way he deserved.
 
 
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Mike Schneider / Associated Press:
Census takers say they were told to enter false information
Discussion: Forbes
Nina Turner / Washington Post:
Working people delivered Biden his victory. Now he needs to deliver for them.
Christopher Bedford / The Federalist:
Saturday's Media Declaration Is A Naked Attempt To Silence Republicans, And Nothing Has Changed
KJ Edelman / Mediaite:
'I Didn't Expect to Be So Overwhelmed': Don Lemon Gives Emotional Monologue About Watching America Celebrate Biden Win
New York Magazine:
How We're Feeling As the Presidential Race Finally Ends
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
How Joe Biden Won the Presidency
Discussion: The Week and Los Angeles Times
David Brand / Queens News:
Queens man evicted
Discussion: Political Wire
Libby Cathey / ABC News:
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris make victory speeches: ‘A time to heal’
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Goodbye, Bill Barr
 

 
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