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5:30 PM ET, January 3, 2021

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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
‘I just want to find 11,780 votes’: In extraordinary hour-long call, Trump pressures Georgia secretary of state to recalculate the vote in his favor  —  President Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat …
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Washington Post:
Audio: Trump's full Jan. 2 call with Ga. secretary of state  —  As Georgia runoff looms, Republicans stick to election fraud claims  —  Audio: Trump berates Ga. secretary of state, urges him to ‘find’ votes  —  Republicans previously promised Trump would accept the election results
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Trump demands Georgia elections official overturn his defeat in hourlong call  —  ‘The data you have is wrong,’ Raffensperger replies  —  President Donald Trump badgered and berated Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in a call Saturday, repeating falsehoods about his election defeat in Georgia …
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
It's Time to Speak for America  —  The Republican party and the conservative movement must now choose: Trump or America.  —  “I was surprised to hear nothing from Mr. Chamberlain during the whole of September 2, which was a day of intense crisis . . . . However, when Parliament met in the afternoon …
Politico:
Congressional leaders unveil rules governing Electoral College count  —  The rules of Congress' Jan. 6 session governing the counting of Electoral College votes will remain identical to those used for decades, under a proposal set to be introduced Sunday by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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Melanie Zanona / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: As Pelosi scrambles for her job, McConnell loses control  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  WELCOME to the 117th Congress!  —  The new session starts at noon — yes, on a Sunday — and it promises to be a fascinating opening day.  —  THE MAIN EVENT is the speaker's vote …
American Greatness:
Who Will Be Inaugurated?  —  What is unlikely is not impossible—an admonitory caution, not an appeal to false hope.  —  Just because the theaters are closed doesn't mean that we lack for drama.  Our quivering reaction to the latest Chinese import may have shuttered Broadway …
Washington Post:
All 10 living former defense secretaries: Involving the military in election disputes would cross into dangerous territory  —  Ashton Carter, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Panetta, William Perry and Donald Rumsfeld are the 10 living former U.S. secretaries of defense.
Ben Smith / New York Times:
Punchbowl Arrives From Reporters Who Left Politico's Playbook  —  A Beltway school of journalism wants to get back to just-the-facts-ma'am reporting.  But how do you cover this Republican Party?  —  The big debates over political journalism in the Trump years were about morality …
Harry Enten / CNN:
Democrats may make history in Georgia's Senate runoffs  —  (CNN)Poll of the week: My average of Georgia polls shows the two Senate runoffs on Tuesday are within the margin of error and way too close to call.  —  In the race for the full six-year term, Democrat Jon Ossoff is at 49% to Republican Sen. David Perdue's 48%.
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Mica Soellner / Washington Examiner:
Jake Tapper corrects Ossoff over repeated claims that Loeffler campaigned with KKK member  —  With just two days left until the Georgia runoff elections, Democrat Jon Ossoff is reiterating claims that Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler campaigned with a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
James Arkin / Politico:
Democrats go back where they started to expunge Trump era: Jon Ossoff
Discussion: National Review and NBC News
Politico:
Congress opens amid fears of Covid spread  —  The ongoing coronavirus pandemic loomed large over every aspect of Sunday's opening day of the 117th Congress, with fears of spreading the virus front and center and lawmakers fighting over masks on the floor of the House.
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Juliegrace Brufke / The Hill:
Moore to appear in House for Speaker's vote after testing positive for COVID-19
Discussion: Fox News
Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Ted Cruz will object when Congress certifies Joe Biden's election, as 11 GOP senators demand ‘audit’ and 10-day delay  —  The ‘Trump Eleven’ say the president's loss in a handful of battlegrounds deserves an emergency inquiry before the Electoral College tally is ratified.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Two Republican lawyer-senators look for loopholes in democracy
Discussion: CNN, Vox and The Week
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Biden's Strategy for a Predecessor Who Won't Go Away: Ignore Him
Devan Cole / CNN:
US surgeon general contradicts Trump on Covid-19 death toll  —  Washington (CNN)US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams on Sunday said he has “no reason to doubt” the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Covid-19 death toll, contradicting President Donald Trump's claim that the agency has “exaggerated” its numbers.
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Adam Kelsey / ABC News:
'There's no running away from the numbers:' Fauci laments surging COVID deaths as Trump claims ‘fake news’
Oliver Holmes / The Guardian:
Palestinians excluded from Israeli Covid vaccine rollout as jabs go to settlers  —  Human rights groups accuse Israel of dodging obligations to millions in occupied territories who may wait months for vaccination  —  Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem and Hazem Balousha in Gaza
 
 
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