Trump Floats Improbable Survival Scenarios as He Ponders His Future  —  There is no grand strategy.  President Trump is simply trying to survive from one news cycle to the next.  —  At a meeting on Wednesday at the White House, President Trump had something he wanted to discuss with his advisers …

Law Firm Stops Representing Trump Campaign in Pennsylvania Suit  —  Porter Wright said in a court filing that it would no longer represent the campaign in a federal lawsuit alleging widespread voter irregularities.  —  Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, the law firm leading the Trump campaign's efforts …

Joint Statement from Elections Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council & the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Executive Committees  —  WASHINGTON - The members of Election Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council (GCC) Executive Committee - Cybersecurity …

Abby Phillip Is Next-Gen CNN  —  In an election dominated by fast-talking policy dudes, her deliberate commentary and context stood out.  —  “Black women did that,” said Abby Phillip, a CNN political correspondent.  —  It was Friday, Nov. 6, and Ms. Phillip, 31, was sitting screen-left of Jake Tapper …

Sam Alito Delivers Grievance-Laden, Ultra-Partisan Speech to the Federalist Society  —  On Thursday night, Justice Sam Alito delivered the keynote address at this year's all-virtual Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention.  The Federalist Society, a well-funded network of conservative attorneys …

Super-spreading wedding party demonstrates COVID-19 risk posed by holiday gatherings  —  If you want to know why public health officials are so nervous about how much worse the COVID-19 pandemic will get as the holiday season unfolds, consider what happened after a single …

Byron York's Daily Memo: NEWSLETTER EXCLUSIVE: Trump talks post-election fight  —  Welcome to Byron York's Daily Memo newsletter.  —  Was this email forwarded to you?  Sign up here to receive the newsletter.  —  NEWSLETTER EXCLUSIVE: TRUMP TALKS POST-ELECTION FIGHT.

The Third Surge Is Breaking Health-Care Workers  —  Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers.  Find the collection here.  —  On Saturday morning, Megan Ranney was about to put on her scrubs when she heard that Joe Biden had won the presidential election.

Biden finds support among Republicans as Trump scrambles to salvage his strategy to contest the election  —  WILMINGTON, Del. — President-elect Joe Biden began seeing more support, if indirectly, from Republicans on Thursday as senior GOP lawmakers called for him to receive classified briefings …

Zuckerberg says Bannon has not violated enough policies for suspension: recording  —  PALO ALTO (Reuters) - Facebook FB.O Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told an all-staff meeting on Thursday that former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon had not violated enough of the company's policies …

Biden carries Arizona, flipping a longtime Republican stronghold  —  Biden's lead grows more decisive as vote count continues  —  (CNN)For just the second time in more than seven decades, a Democrat will carry Arizona in a presidential election, a monumental shift for a state that was once a Republican stronghold.

In the Weeds w/ Tommy Tuberville, Alabama's next senator  —  Today I spoke with Tommy Tuberville, who last week defeated incumbent Democrat Doug Jones to win election to the United States Senate.  Do we call him Senator-elect?  I don't know, people are awfully sensitive about the office-holder-elect thing right now.

Elissa Slotkin Braces for a Democratic Civil War  —  HOLLY, Michigan—  With victory at hand, Elissa Slotkin could not shake the feeling of imminent defeat.  —  Two years to the day after winning her first race for Congress, Slotkin, a former CIA analyst who ran to represent Michigan's …

Is This a Coup, or Just Another Trump Con?  —  A post-election report from Minsk-on-the-Potomac.  —  Ever since Saturday morning, when Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 Presidential election, Donald Trump has been hunkered down in the White House, refusing to concede defeat …

As Trump stews over election, he mostly ignores the public duties of the presidency  —  On Thursday, six American service members were killed in a helicopter crash during a peacekeeping mission in Egypt.  Tropical Storm Eta made landfall in North Florida, contributing to severe flooding.

Outgoing Syria Envoy Admits Hiding US Troop Numbers; Praises Trump's Mideast Record  —  ‘We were always playing shell games,’ says Amb. Jim Jeffrey, who also gives advice to President-elect Biden.  —  Four years after signing the now-infamous “Never Trump” letter condemning …

Trump Campaign Lawyer Caught Using His Business Partner as Witness in ‘Sharpiegate’ Case  —  A campaign attorney for President Donald Trump was caught calling his own business partner as a witness during a Thursday hearing on alleged electoral irregularities in Arizona.

Leta Powell Drake on Her Viral Twitter Clip, Interviewing Celebrities, and Johnny Carson  —  Leta Powell Drake has been a celebrity to the residents of Lincoln, Nebraska, for more than 40 years, thanks to her decades of work as a beloved local TV personality.

GOP senators say Warren nomination would divide Republicans  —  Senate Republicans are warning that President-elect Joe Biden would spark “a fight” if he were to nominate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) or former National Security Advisor Susan Rice to his Cabinet.

Trump, stewing over election loss, silent as virus surges  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has publicly disengaged from the battle against the coronavirus at a moment when the disease is tearing across the United States at an alarming pace.  —  Trump, fresh off his reelection loss …

Beloved businesses are going bankrupt waiting for federal help.  It will get worse  —  Last Friday, as Americans waited to learn who their next president would be, Debbe Andrews-Lewis of Lincoln, Nebraska, knew her life was about to change either way.  At the end of the day, she would lose her boutique, The Funky Sister.

Trump's eldest children split on his path forward  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump has long sought advice from different perspectives throughout his career, but at a pivotal moment in defining his legacy as President, he is receiving conflicting advice from his closest and most trusted advisers …

Trump's most loyal senator is still on the ballot  —  Data: Axios research and FiveThirtyEight's Trump Score.  See our methodology here.  Chart: Naema Ahmed, Sara Wise, Juliet Bartz, Orion Rummler/Axios  —  Sen. David Perdue, whose upcoming runoff election in Georgia could help determine …

Trump's Crazy and Confoundingly Successful Conspiracy Theory  —  In fundraising emails and text messages as well as social media strafes, in the mornings and in the evenings and throughout the wee hours, President Trump is peddling a vague, vast conspiracy of “ILLEGAL VOTES” and “ILLEGAL BALLOTS” …

Commentary: Stop the ‘investigation’ and finalize Michigan's vote for Biden  —  Democracy in Michigan could be in peril.  We don't say this to be hyperbolic.  —  Rather, we say it to be blunt about the very real prospect the Republicans who control the Senate and House in Lansing might nullify …

Why Susan Collins won  —  According to the pundits, Sen. Susan Collin (R-Maine) had no business running for reelection this year, let alone winning the race.  In a country as polarized as ours, moderates seemed sure to go the way of the dinosaurs.  Collins was the last Republican …

Obama says Trump's baseless election fraud claims put democracy on a “dangerous path”  —  The former president says he's troubled by Republicans going along with President Trump's claims.  See the interview, Sunday on 60 Minutes.  —  In a new interview with 60 Minutes …

Trump's Down Right Now—and Republicans Should Kick Him  —  If they want to thrive, Republicans need a Trump-free future.  But why do I fear we're going to see a repeat of 2015-2016?  —  BEAST INSIDE … If Republicans want to win in the future, they should drop Donald Trump like a bad habit.

Lawsuit on behalf of Trump seeks to exclude votes from Milwaukee, Dane and Menominee counties  —  MADISON - Three voters in northeast Wisconsin have filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to throw out votes in three of the counties that delivered Wisconsin to President-elect Joe Biden: Milwaukee, Dane and Menominee.

Biden team reaching out to former Mattis officials for help with transition  —  Biden is aiming to build an effective, bipartisan Defense Department leadership team, said one former Trump Pentagon official.  —  Then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis at an April 26, 2018 Senate hearing on Capitol Hill.

A closer look at the Trump campaign's election lawsuits — and why they've mostly failed  —  As President Trump continues to deny his Election Day loss to President-elect Joe Biden and falsely claim that  —  widespread fraud occurred in battleground states, his campaign and its Republican allies have unleashed a

Ted Olson, Who Argued Bush v. Gore, Says the 2020 Election ‘Is Over’  —  “I do believe the election is over, we do have a new president,” Olson said during a panel hosted by the Federalist Society.

‘Shameful’: Trump-appointed chief election administrator says the president's voting-fraud claim ‘hurts the fabric of our nation’ … - In an interview with Insider, Benjamin Hovland, the US Election Assistance Commission chairman, says he considers Joe Biden the president-elect.

The Chump Effect  —  James B. Meigs, the former editor of Popular Mechanics who lately has been writing an insightful column about tech for Commentary, is also doing superb work for City Journal.  His latest essay carries a title that is useful shorthand for so much of what is going on around us today: “The Chump Effect.”