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The Philadelphia Inquirer:
No, not that Four Seasons. How Team Trump's news conference ended up at a Northeast Philly landscaping firm. — What began five years ago with the made-for-TV announcement of Donald Trump's presidential ambitions from the escalator of his ritzy Manhattan high-rise, ended Saturday …
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Katelyn Burns / Vox:
The Trump legal team's failed Four Seasons press conference, explained — Rudy Giuliani, President 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
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Crooks and Liars and USA Today
Daniel Politi / Slate:
Trump Team Holds News Conference Outside Drab Landscaping Firm, Next to Adult Book Store
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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.
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Tim Ball / Politico:
That's the sound of 75 million Americans exhaling
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Maria Arias / Axios:
George W. Bush congratulates Biden on election victory
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Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Lindsey Graham: If Trump concedes election, Republicans will ‘never’ elect another president — Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R-S.C.) warned that President Trump should not concede that he was defeated in the 2020 presidential election in part because Republicans will “never” be able to elect another president from their party again.
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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.
Alex Rogers / CNN:
Top congressional Republicans still haven't acknowledged Biden's victory
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Graham: If GOP doesn't fight, there will ‘never be another Republican president elected again’
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Crooks and Liars
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump may not, but many in inner circle accept defeat — Apart from a few die-hards, most people close to President Trump know the race is over — but no one wants to be the sacrificial lamb who tells him to concede, people familiar with their thinking tell me.
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Center for Presidential Transition:
Download (86k) — The Partnership for Public Service's Center for Presidential Transition is the nation's premier nonpartisan source of information and resources designed to help presidential candidates and their teams lay the groundwork for a new administration or for a president's second term.
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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.”
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Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
AOC accuses moderate Dems of being ‘irresponsible’ with anti-progressive criticism
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Talking Points Memo, Politico and The Hill
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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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Chris Wallace: Ted Cruz is like a Japanese soldier who thinks the war is ‘still going on’ — Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday compared Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) to a Japanese soldier who thinks World War II is “still going on” because he refuses to accept the presidential election results.
NBC News:
Stacey Abrams: We will have unprecedented resources for Georgia Senate runoffs — Voting rights activist and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said Sunday that Democrats are going to have unprecedented financial support for the two possible January Senate runoff elections in her state …
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Allan Smith / NBC News:
Chris Christie, close Trump ally, suggests it may soon be ‘time to move on’
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump to continue to hold campaign-style rallies as legal team girds up — President Trump plans to brandish obituaries of people who supposedly voted but are dead — plus hold campaign-style rallies — in an effort to prolong his fight against apparent insurmountable election results …
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Raw Story and Associated Press
Alexis Benveniste / CNN:
Brian Stelter turned off Trump tweet notifications live on air — New York (CNN Business)With 73 days left of the Trump presidency, CNN's Chief Media Correspondent Brian Stelter turned off his notifications for Donald Trump's tweets live on air Sunday during “Reliable Sources.”
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Washington Post:
Even in defeat, the embers of Trumpism still burn in the Republican Party — With President Trump defeated, there is a pivotal question coursing through American politics: What becomes of Trumpism? — Since 2016, that political movement has commandeered the Republican Party …
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Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Digital Chosunilbo, Raw Story and The Daily Poster
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Pete Buttigieg is a near-certainty for Biden's Cabinet — One near-certainty about Joe Biden's Cabinet: Pete Buttigieg will be in it. Biden officials have made clear to donors and party officials the question surrounding Buttigieg is not if, but where, he lands, Democrats close to Biden tell Axios.
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 …
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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 …
Himalaya Australia / GNEWS:
Joe Biden's votes violate Benford's Law (Mathematics) — As the vote counting for the 2020 Presidential Election continues, various facts suggest rampant frauds in Joe Biden's votes. So does mathematics in terms of the votes from precincts. — Benford's law or the first-digit law …
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Washington Examiner, The Gateway Pundit and Instapundit
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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Allison Aubrey / NPR:
President-Elect Biden Has A Plan To Combat COVID-19. Here's What's In It — As coronavirus cases surge around the country, President-elect Joe Biden says voters have given him a mandate to take action. — “Daily cases are skyrocketing,” Biden said in remarks Friday evening in Wilmington …
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Maria Arias / Axios:
Trump spokesperson posts fake Washington Times front page of Gore win — Tim Murtaugh, communications director for President Trump's re-election campaign, posted a fake front page purporting to be from a 2000 issue of the Washington Times that read “President Gore” on Twitter — calling it a …
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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.
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