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10:50 AM ET, November 12, 2020

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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
This Election Result Won't Be Overturned  —  Recounts occasionally change margins in the hundreds, never in the tens of thousands.  —  It has been an eventful, unsettling year: A deadly virus struck without warning and claimed almost a quarter-million American lives; a lockdown demolished personal routines …
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CNN:
Why Trump is filing so many flimsy lawsuits in battleground states  —  Analyst says Trump cases are getting dismissed at ‘record speed’  —  (CNN)The Trump campaign is moving from state to state to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's win, in a series of increasingly wild legal maneuvers …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Maggie's Trump book, and some Biden world moves  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  NEW ... NYT'S MAGGIE HABERMAN is writing a book about President DONALD TRUMP.  —  WHAT ELSE do we need to say about this?  You know this is going to be awesome.  MAGGIE has been a singular force …
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New York Times:
Biden Names Ron Klain as White House Chief of Staff  —  Mr. Klain, who first worked for President-elect Joe Biden in 1989, has been a sharp critic of President Trump's handling of the coronavirus.  —  Biden's Policy Agenda Rests Heavily on Senate Outcome  —  Which party controls the Senate …
Associated Press:   NYT's Maggie Haberman has deal for Trump book
Barack Obama / The Atlantic:
I'm Not Yet Ready to Abandon the Possibility of America  —  The Atlantic is pleased to offer, below, an adapted and updated excerpt from former President Barack Obama's new memoir, A Promised Land, which will be published on Tuesday by Crown.  Yesterday, The Atlantic's editor in chief …
Discussion: CBS News and Althouse
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / New York Times:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama's ‘A Promised Land’  —  A PROMISED LAND  —  Barack Obama is as fine a writer as they come.  It is not merely that this book avoids being ponderous, as might be expected, even forgiven, of a hefty memoir, but that it is nearly always pleasurable to read …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump eyes digital media empire to take on Fox News  —  President Trump has told friends he wants to start a digital media company to clobber Fox News and undermine the conservative-friendly network, sources tell Axios.  —  The state of play: Some Trump advisers think Fox News …
Kylie Atwood / CNN:
State Department is preventing Biden from accessing messages from foreign leaders  —  Washington (CNN)A stack of messages from foreign leaders to President-elect Joe Biden are sitting at the State Department but the Trump administration is preventing him from accessing them …
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Jessie Balmert / Cincinnati.com:
Ohio's GOP Gov. Mike DeWine: ‘Joe Biden is the president-elect’
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Paul Seamus Ryan / USA Today:
Trump wants to make money off the fake ‘stolen election’ crisis he created.  Don't let him.  —  Republican donors beware!  Trump says he needs your money for legal challenges to the election, but the fine print says it won't be used that way.  —  For days, President Donald Trump has been blasting …
Discussion: The Intellectualist
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Glenna Milberg / WPLG-TV:
Evidence suggests several state Senate candidates were plants funded by dark money  —  MIAMI - Why would candidates for Florida Senate seats do no campaigning, no fundraising, have no issue platforms, nor make any effort to get votes?  —  Local 10 News has found evidence to suggest three …
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
Trump aides privately plot a flurry of moves in their final 10 weeks  —  On Monday, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows gathered senior aides on a call.  —  One of his goals: to plot the conservative policy moves they could push through in their final 10 weeks on immigration, trade, health care, China and school choice.
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Natasha Turak / CNBC:
What if Trump never concedes?  The Constitution will end his term, conservative lawyer John Yoo says  — Trump “has the right to mount legal challenges, but we should be clear that these are ‘Hail Mary’ passes,” said John Yoo, a former legal advisor to the George W. Bush administration.
Russell Mills / 102.3 KRMG:
Lankford guarantees “peaceful transition,” talks about COVID vaccine prospects  —  The Oklahoma Senator says Friday becomes the next important date, as the GSA can then start certifying the states' results  —  TULSA — Twin crises continue to create confusion for people across the country …
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CNN:
Republican senator says he will step in if Biden doesn't have access to intelligence briefings by Friday
Andrew Higgins / New York Times:
Trump's Post-Election Tactics Put Him in Unsavory Company  —  Denying defeat, claiming fraud and using government machinery to reverse election results are the time-honored tools of dictators.  —  MOSCOW — When the strongman ruler of Belarus declared an implausible landslide victory …
Discussion: Alternet.org
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New York Times:
For Pence, the Future Is Tied to Trump as Much as the Present Is
Discussion: Alternet.org
David Thomas / Reuters:
Snell & Wilmer withdraws from election lawsuit as Trump contests Arizona results  —  The largest law firm representing the Trump campaign or its allies in post-election litigation challenging votes in key states has withdrawn from an election lawsuit in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Andrew Wolfson / Courier-Journal:
Louisville police, county attorney's office hide 738,000 records in Explorer sex abuse case  —  Louisville Metro Police concealed at least 738,000 records documenting the sexual abuse of Explorer Scouts by two officers — then lied to keep the files from the public, records show.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Stop wasting time on Trump's lawsuits.  More nefarious behavior is afoot.  —  The post-election news environment — like all political horse-race coverage — prioritizes tension and conflict over boring reality.  This is normally a ratings gambit, but in the present election environment …
Discussion: Mother Jones, The Guardian and Vox
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
A Careful Voter-Fraud Review  —  On the menu today: a careful review of recent voter-fraud cases, and how this dispels the trite, inaccurate claims that “voter fraud doesn't exist”; perspective on what recent voter-fraud cases have proven and the scale of the problem; and something …
Wall Street Journal:
What Is Trump's Legal Strategy?  Try to Block Certification of Biden Victory in States.  —  Effort to get state Republicans to appoint pro-Trump Electoral College votes is a long shot, president's advisers and election-law experts say  —  President Trump's campaign is pursuing a patchwork …
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Trump endorses McDaniel to remain RNC chair, ponders 2024 run  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday endorsed Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel to stay on in her position, in what one source said could be a prelude to Trump's announcing plans to run for president in 2024.
Lee Brown / New York Post:
Trump among long-shots to replace Alex Trebek as ‘Jeopardy!’ host … Let's meet today's contestants ...  Bookmakers are offering bets on who will be Alex Trebek's replacement as the host of “Jeopardy!”  — including longshot candidates such as President Trump.
People.com:
Passenger Aboard First Cruise Ship to Return to Sailing in Caribbean Tests Positive for COVID-19  —  Passengers and non-essential crew are now isolating in their cabins as the ship heads back toward its departure point in Barbados  —  The first cruise ship to set sail in the Caribbean since …
Politico:
'We're not going to stop': Lawmakers press ahead with Trump-era investigations  —  Donald Trump will be a private citizen in January.  But Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are poised to carry on the investigations and legal battles that helped define his presidency.
Elizabeth Warren / Washington Post:
What a Biden-Harris administration should prioritize on its first day  —  Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, represents Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate.  —  As Democrats celebrate the election of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris, we need to have an important conversation …
Discussion: ABC News, TheBlaze, Fox News and NBC News
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Biden Can Pass His Agenda If He Gives Republicans What They Want Most  —  The Democrats won the presidency, but they don't have what a parliamentary system would call a “government.”  Even if they win both Georgia Senate seats in the runoffs, they'll have just 50 Senate seats and will need …
Ben Jordan / TMJ4:
51 of 72 Wisconsin counties complete canvasses resulting in minor vote shift  —  More than two thirds of the counties in Wisconsin have submitted official election results after completing their canvasses.  —  The largest counties in the state including Milwaukee, Dane and Waukesha are still …
Washington Post:
Barr isn't just humoring Trump.  He's weaponizing law enforcement.  —  A new Justice Department memo could lead to bogus investigations  —  Attorney General William P. Barr issued a new policy Monday addressing opening investigations of the election.  Despite its conspicuous timing …
Discussion: New York Times and The Daily Beast
Washington Post:
In poll watcher affidavits, Trump campaign offers no evidence of fraud in Detroit ballot-counting  —  Inside Detroit's absentee-ballot-counting center, one Republican poll watcher complained that workers were wearing Black Lives Matter gear.  She thought one of them — a “man of intimidating size” — had followed her too closely.
Eliza Shapiro / New York Times:
N.Y.C. Schools May Close Again, a Grim Sign of a Global Dilemma  —  The school system, the nation's largest, has had strikingly few virus cases.  Even so, the mayor may end in-person classes because the city's overall rate is surging.  —  New York City has more students in classrooms …
Discussion: Twitchy
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Completely Insane Electoral College Strategy  —  Why limit yourself to the far-fetched when the utterly fantastical is an option?  —  President Donald Trump is challenging the outcome of the Nov. 3 presidential election in several razor-thin battleground states, pushing for recounts …
The Daily Beast:
The New Yorker to Jeffrey Toobin: Beat It!  —  The top writer had been suspended last month after exposing himself during a video call with colleagues.  —  The New Yorker has fired staff writer Jeffrey Toobin after a weeks-long investigation into an incident in which he exposed himself during a video call with colleagues last month.
James Poniewozik / New York Times:
President Trump's Show Has Been Canceled  —  For years, we've been living inside a story defined by Donald Trump's reality-TV worldview.  America finally changed the channel.  —  Many incumbent presidents have gone on the campaign trail to make their cases for a second term.
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Weekly jobless claims fall again in another sign of labor market improvement  — Jobless claims totaled 709,000 last week, the Labor Department reported, below the 740,000 Wall Street forecast.  — That represented a decline from the 757,000 total a week ago.
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall:
Go On the Offensive In Georgia  —  The battle over this bullSchiff presidential election has had the fringe benefit of exposing exactly what the scams, grifts, and cons the Dems will use to try to steal the January 5, 2021 Georgia Senate run-off elections.  What the GOP needs to do is to keep …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
 
 
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Tucker Carlson / Fox News:
Yes, dead people voted in this election and Democrats helped make it happen
Discussion: The Federalist
Tori B. Powell / The Daily Beast:
Utah Man Driving 115 MPH Said He Was on His Way to Kill Former Missouri Senator: Police
Jonah Meadows / Lake Forest-Lake Bluff, IL Patch:
Trump Megadonors Contract Coronavirus, Joining Fellow Billionaire
Discussion: Balloon Juice
The Daily Beast:
CNN, MSNBC Insiders Shudder at Idea of Hiring MAGA Mouthpieces
Discussion: Raw Story
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
It's on: 2024 run is Trump's back up plan
Discussion: HotAir
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
GOP leaders' embrace of Trump's refusal to concede fits pattern of rising authoritarianism, data shows
Dave Brooks / Billboard:
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 Earlier Items: 
Washington Examiner:
Democratic blacklists and other odious hypocrisies
Discussion: The Federalist
Greg B. Smith / THE CITY:
Wrong Masks and ‘Missing’ Ventilators: NYC's Billion-Dollar COVID Gear Bungle
David Lynch / Washington Post:
Mounting commercial real estate losses threaten banks, recovery
Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Will we ever see a Freedom Caucus of the left?
Washington Post:
As coronavirus soars, hospitals hope to avoid an agonizing choice: Who gets care and who goes home
Discussion: Bark Bark Woof Woof
The Daily Beast:
Trump's National Security Adviser Tells Staff: Don't Even Mention Biden's Name
Discussion: Raw Story
Ron Kampeas / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Amid White House COVID-19 outbreak, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner pulled their 3 kids from a DC Jewish school
Discussion: Business Insider