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Katelyn Burns / Vox:
The Trump legal team's failed Four Seasons press conference, explained  —  Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, speaks during a press conference held in the parking lot of a landscaping company on November 7 in Philadelphia.  Chris McGrath/Getty Images
Discussion: crooksandliars.com and USA Today
Bush Center:
Statement by President George W. Bush  —  President Bush congratulates President-elect Biden and Vice President-Elect Harris  —  DALLAS, TEXAS — I just talked to the President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.  I extended my warm congratulations and thanked him for the patriotic message he delivered last night.
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Crisis of American Democracy Is Not Over  —  The 2020 campaign was long and brutal, unfolding before a backdrop of death and economic decline.  When all the votes are counted, a challenger will have unseated an incumbent president for only the 10th time in American history.  Donald Trump's presidency is over.
Maria Arias / Axios:
George W. Bush congratulates Biden on election victory  —  Former President George W. Bush issued a statement on Sunday congratulating President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their election victory.  —  Why it matters: Every living president has now congratulated Biden …
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.”
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NBC News:
Stacey Abrams: We will have unprecedented resources for Georgia Senate runoffs
Discussion: Associated Press
Washington Post:
After Biden's win, parties gird for ferocious Senate runoffs in Georgia
Allan Smith / NBC News:
Chris Christie, close Trump ally, suggests it may soon be ‘time to move on’
Eric Martin / Bloomberg:
Bush Says Vote Was ‘Fair,’ and Outcome ‘Clear’: Election Update
Discussion: NBC News and The Guardian
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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Alexis Benveniste / CNN:   Brian Stelter turned off Trump tweet notifications live on air
ABC News:
Inside the Trump campaign as it grapples with defeat while plowing forward with legal fight
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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New York Times:
Six White House aides, including Trump's chief of staff, have the coronavirus.
Discussion: The Guardian
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Lindsey Graham: If we accept these election results 'you'd never have a Republican president forever'  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) warned on Sunday that there will never be another Republican president if the current 2020 elections results are allowed to stand.
Discussion: Washington Times
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Tries to Tell Trump Through the TV: The Party's Over  —  THANK U, NEXT  —  The president's favorite network has really tried to hammer home the message that it's time for him to face reality and move on.  —  President Donald Trump's favorite network has spent the weekend trying …
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John Nolte / Breitbart:   Backlash Against Fox News Explodes
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 …
Discussion: Breitbart, Business Insider and Fortune
Isaac Schorr / National Review:
Why the Voter-Fraud Canard?  —  No one in their right mind believes that Donald Trump will still be president come January 20.  This is not Bush v. Gore.  In that instance, the candidates were separated by barely 1,000 votes in a single state.  Trump, in contrast, has lost the electoral college …
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 …
Joe Ferullo / The Hill:
The tribal journalism of cable news is at a crossroads  —  The tumultuous presidential campaign and its razor-thin result place much of the mainstream news media at a crossroads: They can continue to aid and abet polarization in the search for profits, or they can dial back and help shift the tone of the country.
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
America should welcome review for close counts  —  Just when you thought the 2020 election could not be more bizarre, a hearing in Las Vegas on challenges by the Trump campaign went full Monty Python.  After days of charges of fraud, we are finally at that “bring out your dead” moment from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Karin A. Lips / The Hill:
The year of the Republican woman  —  Two congresswomen from New York are celebrating the election, but only one victory is getting national attention from traditional women's outlets.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and her Democratic “Squad” all won reelection.
Discussion: Columbian and Fox News
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.
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
 
 
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
In Pennsylvania, Trump Voter Fury Foretells a Nation Still Divided
Discussion: New York Post
Gerald F. Seib / Wall Street Journal:
How Biden Could Turn a Fractured Picture to His Advantage
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Election 2020 Live Updates: Biden and Harris Look Toward Transition
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Clyburn: Things Like ‘Defund the Police’ Did NOT Help Dems During Election, I Believe It Hurt Jaime Harrison's Senate Race
Discussion: Townhall
Bill McKibben / New Yorker:
Trump Is Out of a Job Because So Many Did the Work
Discussion: The Guardian
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
The media never fully learned how to cover Trump. But they still might have saved democracy.
 Earlier Items: 
Dante Chinni / NBC News:
How Biden won: Three key voter groups in 2020
Discussion: Associated Press
Joel Anderson / Slate:
Goodbye, Ben Carson
Lev Facher / STAT:
'It's going to be very, very scary': Before Biden takes office, a precarious 10 weeks for escalating Covid-19 crisis
Discussion: Bloomberg and hotair.com
Washington Post:
Biden plans immediate flurry of executive orders to reverse Trump policies
 

 
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