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6:10 PM ET, November 17, 2020

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New York Times:
Giuliani Is Said to Seek $20,000 a Day Payment for Trump Legal Work  —  Last week, the president put the former New York mayor in charge of the court challenges to his loss in the election.  Since then they have suffered nothing but setbacks.  —  Rudolph W. Giuliani, who has helped oversee …
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Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Rudy Giuliani joins Trump campaign's sputtering legal effort in Pennsylvania
Discussion: Politico, Bloomberg, Law & Crime and CNN
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Giuliani Has Sought $20,000 a Day From Trump Campaign for Post-Election Work
Discussion: CNBC
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Georgia secretary of state had witnesses on call when Lindsey Graham plotted to ‘throw out’ ballots  —  Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said that at least two members of his staff witnessed Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) apparent effort to suppress the counting of legal votes in the state.
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Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal:
Georgia's GOP Secretary of State at Odds With GOP Senator Graham Over Counting Ballots  —  Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested he throw out certain legal ballots during the recount of the presidential race, an allegation that Mr. Graham denied.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
We need an investigation into Lindsey Graham's intervention in Georgia  —  The Post reports on an interview with Georgia's Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who said he spoke on Friday to Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.):
Bloomberg:
Trump Attacks on Voting by Mail Cost Him in Georgia, GOP Official Says  — Raffensperger says Republican absentee voters skipped election  — Hand recount should give voters confidence, Raffensperger says  —  The Republican secretary of state in Georgia said he believes that President Donald …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
A Disturbing Number of Republicans Support Trump's Coup Attempt
Discussion: Newsbusters
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejects Trump campaign claim of problems with ballot observers  —  The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected the Trump campaign's claim that Philadelphia violated state election law in the way it handled observers at a city ballot counting center.
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Jeremy Roebuck / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Pa. Supreme Court rejects Trump campaign claim that Republicans lacked access to Philly vote count
Discussion: Political Wire and Reason
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
House asks justices to put off case over Russia grand jury
NBC News:
President-elect Biden wary of Trump-focused investigations, sources say  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden has privately told advisers that he doesn't want his presidency to be consumed by investigations of his predecessor, according to five people familiar with the discussions …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
What Obama gets right — and very wrong — about the media  —  Everybody's a media critic these days — and Barack Obama is an astute one.  But for those who remember certain aspects of his presidency, he's got a bit of a credibility problem.  —  He's certainly right when he frets that America …
Allan Smith / NBC News:
McConnell says there will be ‘orderly transfer’ of power … Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said there will be an “orderly transfer” between administrations on Jan. 20, though he did not mention President-elect Joe Biden or President Donald Trump, who is refusing to concede, by name.
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Jonathan Oosting / Bridge Magazine:
Joe Biden won, Michigan elector coup ‘not going to happen,’ GOP leader says  —  LANSING — Democrat Joe Biden is the president-elect, and while Michigan's Republican-led Legislature is investigating the election, it will not award the state's 16 electors to GOP President Donald Trump …
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Immunity to the Coronavirus May Last Years, New Data Hint  —  Blood samples from recovered patients suggest a powerful, long-lasting immune response, researchers reported.  —  How long might immunity to the coronavirus last?  Years, maybe even decades, according to a new study …
Wall Street Journal:
Biden Names Senior White House Staff as Transition Standoff Continues  —  Some Pentagon officials said they would be willing to meet off site with members of Biden team should standoff extend into December  —  WASHINGTON—President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday named several White House staff members amid …
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Anita Kumar / Politico:
Trump blocks Biden's incoming staff in unprecedented ways
Discussion: Foreign Policy
National Review:
No to Shelton  —  There are two reasons senators should vote down Judy Shelton's nomination to the Federal Reserve.  The first is her long record, and the second is her recent sprint away from it.  —  For many years, Shelton advocated tirelessly for a gold-backed dollar, zero percent inflation, and higher interest rates.
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Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Judy Shelton's Fed Candidacy Goes Down to Wire With Close Vote Expected
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
A Popular Political Site Made a Sharp Right Turn.  What Steered It?  —  Real Clear Politics has been catering to campaign obsessives since 2000.  It pitches itself as a “trusted, go-to source” for unbiased polling.  The Trump era changed its tone, and funding sources.
Laura Snapes / The Guardian:
Dolly Parton partly funded Moderna Covid vaccine research  —  The country music icon's $1m donation supported the latest breakthrough by Moderna and several research papers  —  It's truly the greatest gift of all: a $1m donation by Dolly Parton to coronavirus vaccine research supported …
Discussion: Vulture, The Week, Stereogum, Vanity Fair and UPI
Lysandra Ohrstrom / Vanity Fair:
Ivanka Trump Was My Best Friend.  Now She's MAGA Royalty  —  We met at an all-girls' school on the Upper East Side and were inseparable for more than a decade.  Gradually, though, our differences divided us—"Why would you tell me to read a book about fucking poor people?" she once asked …
Reuters:
Fact check: The U.S. military has not seized election servers in Germany  —  Social media users have been sharing posts which allege that the U.S. military raided the offices of electronic voting company Scytl in Germany to seize their servers for evidence of manipulation in the 2020 U.S. elections.
Discussion: Check Your Fact
Garance Burke / Associated Press:
Financially troubled startup helped power Trump campaign  —  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign was powered by a cellphone app that allowed staff to monitor the movements of his millions of supporters, and offered intimate access to their social networks.
Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
Why ‘Socialism’ Killed Democrats in Florida  —  “It was a McCarthyism type of pounding,” said Congresswoman Donna Shalala, looking back on the election she narrowly lost this month.  Shalala had spent eight years serving in the Cabinet of Bill Clinton, the paragon of Democratic moderates …
George Packer / The Atlantic:
Obama's Memoir Is an Exercise in Ironic Realism  —  Autobiographies of famous people are almost always disappointing.  The demands of public life degrade literary prose: the euphemisms, evasions, forced optimism, and name-checking; the pressure to please different constituencies …
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Facebook, Twitter take heat over Hunter Biden story during hearing; Dorsey admits ‘this action was wrong’  —  CEO said Twitter ‘corrected’ censorship of an article about Hunter Biden  —  Dorsey: It was ‘wrong’ to censor NY Post Hunter Biden article  —  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey …
Kristin Tate / The Hill:
Why Trumpism is here to stay  —  Ask a female suburban Joe Biden voter why she didn't pull the lever for Donald Trump, and you'll likely get an answer about how the president isn't a good role model for her children or about how “words matter” and our leadership's rhetoric is detrimental to our national discourse.
Discussion: CNN, IJR and Raw Story
Olivia Messer / The Daily Beast:
Alabama Sorority Gets Official Blessing for 600-Person Farm Party Just in Time for Holidays  —  “Alcohol will be served, but we're expecting them to wear their masks.  Are you serious?  Do you know college students?  Do you see how they behave at football games?”
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
At least four New York sheriffs say they won't enforce Cuomo's limits on Thanksgiving gatherings  —  Four New York sheriffs say they will not enforce Gov. Andrew Cuomo's (D) restrictions on Thanksgiving gatherings, with one saying he “couldn't in good faith attempt to defend it.”
Robin Bravender / Business Insider:
‘Uncharted territory’: 5 Secret Service experts say there's no playbook for dragging a defiant president from the White House if he doesn't concede by Inauguration Day … - The US Secret Service has never had to drag a president out of the White House.  — But President Donald Trump's refusal …
Discussion: New York Times, Raw Story and IJR
Helen Branswell / STAT:
Pfizer may be within days of filing emergency authorization request for Covid-19 vaccine  —  Pfizer may be within days of filing for an emergency use authorization for its Covid-19 vaccine, having collected the safety data necessary to submit an application to the Food and Drug Administration, CEO Albert Bourla said Tuesday.
Discussion: Issues & Insights
 
 
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Natalie Jackson, Ph.D. / PRRI:
Religion Divides Hispanic Opinion in the U.S.
Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
Federal prison left inmates with virus in housing for a week
Discussion: USA Today and Forbes
Washington Post:
Vegas may be betting on a post-presidential divorce, but Melania Trump seems all in for her husband.
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Corporations and Foreign Nations Pivot to Lobby Biden
Discussion: Washington Times, NPR and Al Jazeera
Brad Polumbo / Foundation for Economic Education:
Nancy Pelosi Snuck $350M for 50 Richest Zip Codes into COVID Relief Bill, Analysis Reveals
Shane Shifflett / Wall Street Journal:
Hundreds of Companies That Got Stimulus Aid Have Failed
Discussion: New York Post and Deseret News
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Pence faces a new test after 4 years of fealty to Trump