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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.
Katelyn Burns / Vox:
The Trump legal team's failed Four Seasons press conference, explained  —  The bizarre venue overshadowed Rudy Giuliani's conspiracy-theory-laden election rant, providing a poetic stage for the end of Trump's presidency.  —  SHARE All sharing options  —  President Donald Trump's legal …
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
Eric Martin / Bloomberg:
Bush Says Vote Was ‘Fair,’ and Outcome ‘Clear’: Election Update
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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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.
ABC News:
Inside the Trump campaign as it grapples with defeat while plowing forward with legal fight
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.
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Graham: If GOP doesn't fight, there will ‘never be another Republican president elected again’  —  Graham warned Republicans will pay dearly if they do not challenge the 2020 election  —  Sen. Graham: Trump administration election allegations ‘need to be looked at’
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
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 …
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: Business Insider, Breitbart and Fortune
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.
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.
New York Times:
Six White House aides, including Trump's chief of staff, have the coronavirus.  —  Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, has contracted the coronavirus, as have five other White House aides and a Trump campaign adviser, officials say, raising fears of another outbreak sweeping through the ranks of the nation's top officials.
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
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.
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Clyburn: Things Like ‘Defund the Police’ Did NOT Help Dems During Election, I Believe It Hurt Jaime Harrison's Senate Race  —  Congressman James Clyburn (D- SC) has been taking a victory lap of sorts, given how his endorsement of Joe Biden during the Democratic primary catapulted …
Discussion: Townhall
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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Goodbye, Ben Carson
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Washington Post:
Biden plans immediate flurry of executive orders to reverse Trump policies