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Fox News gets ready to dump Trump

November 6, 2020 From elsewhere

The Daily Beast reports: For Fox News, breaking up with Donald Trump will be hard to do. Their sometimes stormy (not Daniels) marriage began nine years ago, when the right-leaning cable channel’s founding chairman, the late Roger Ailes, gave Trump a weekly segment on the popular morning show Fox & Friends, thus launching the reality television star’s improbable trip to the White House. However, since Tuesday night—when the top-rated outlet’s Decision Desk, all alone among the nation’s major cable and…

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Trump may lose but Trumpism will endure

November 5, 2020 From elsewhere

Jamelle Bouie writes: The liberal hope for the 2020 presidential election was a decisive repudiation of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. This is no longer on the table. A Joe Biden win, if it happens, will be as narrow an Electoral College win as Trump’s was in 2016. Biden won the national popular vote — which matters for popular legitimacy, even if it doesn’t weigh on the outcome — but Trump outperformed his job approval, winning more total votes…

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Even if Biden wins, he will govern in Trump’s America

November 5, 2020 By Paul Woodward

Time reports: The car horns blared as Joe Biden took the stage just before 1 a.m.—not to proclaim victory, but to urge his supporters not to lose hope, no matter what President Donald Trump might say. “We believe we are on track to win this election,” the former Vice President told the crowd in Wilmington, Del., on Nov. 4. “It ain’t over until every vote is counted. Keep the faith, guys.” As the new day dawned and dragged on, it…

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Trump prepares to launch a second term early, even without winning

November 5, 2020 From elsewhere

Politico reports: President Donald Trump has struggled to convince the country he already won the election. So he’s just going to do the next best thing: Act like he’s starting his second term early. Trump and his aides have settled on a plan for him to take full advantage of his existing perch at the White House to look as presidential as possible, according to three people briefed on the strategy. He may fire a few Cabinet members and top…

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Australia has almost eliminated the coronavirus — by putting faith in science

November 5, 2020 From elsewhere

The Washington Post reports: The Sydney Opera House has reopened. Almost 40,000 spectators attended the city’s rugby league grand final. Workers are being urged to return to their offices. Australia has become a pandemic success story. The nation of 26 million is close to eliminating community transmission of the coronavirus, having defeated a second wave just as infections surge again in Europe and the United States. No new cases were reported on the island continent Thursday, and only seven since…

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If Trump tries to sue his way to election victory, here’s what happens

November 4, 2020 From elsewhere

ProPublica reports: A hearing on Wednesday in an election case captured in miniature the challenge for the Trump campaign as it gears up for what could become an all-out legal assault on presidential election results in key swing states: It’s easy enough to file a lawsuit claiming improprieties — in this case, that Pennsylvania had violated the law by allowing voters whose mail-in ballots were defective to correct them — but a lot harder to provide evidence of wrongdoing or…

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Trump says he’s going to court, but he has absolutely no basis to sue

November 4, 2020 From elsewhere

Joshua A. Geltzer writes: Even as President Trump falsely claimed electoral victory early Wednesday morning, he implicitly acknowledged that the election results are not, in fact, decided yet by pledging to go to court to obtain the result he wants — reelection. But going to court requires making actual legal arguments. And, for all of the complex election-related legal questions that might still arise as the votes are counted, none of the claims Trump made on Wednesday morning qualifies as…

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Trump orders advisers to ‘go down fighting’

November 4, 2020 From elsewhere

The Daily Beast reports: As Election Day turned into election week early Wednesday morning, Donald Trump had a simple message for his closest political and legal advisers as they began charting a plan to challenge and temporarily halt ballot counts in several key states: give them a court fight that “they’ll never forget.” The president’s remarks, relayed by two people familiar with them, came on the morning after an inconclusive election night, but one that seemed trending Joe Biden’s way….

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U.S. heads toward its highest voter turnout in over a century

November 4, 2020 From elsewhere

The New York Times reports: With more than 101.1 million early votes cast in person and by mail before the polls even opened on Election Day, the 2020 presidential campaign was shaping up to be one for the record books, on pace to attract the highest turnout in more than a century. The huge turnout appeared to be spurred by the momentous issues that have upended the lives of nearly every American, including the surging coronavirus outbreak and the struggling…

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Fox News made a big call in Arizona, buoying Biden and angering Trump

November 4, 2020 From elsewhere

The New York Times reports: It was just after 12:30 a.m. on election night, and Fox News was under fire. “Arnon, we’re getting a lot of incoming here, and we need you to answer some questions,” the network’s chief political anchor, Bret Baier, said pointedly. “Shoot!” Arnon Mishkin replied, his face breaking into a smile. Roughly an hour earlier, Mr. Mishkin’s decision desk team at Fox News had made a bold call that instantly changed the tenor of the night:…

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We are two countries, and neither of them is going to be conquered or disappear anytime soon

November 4, 2020 From elsewhere

George Packer writes: We don’t yet know the outcome of the election, but its meaning is already clear. We are two countries, and neither of them is going to be conquered or disappear anytime soon. The outcome of the 2016 election was not a historical fluke or result of foreign subversion, but a pretty accurate reflection of the American electorate. The much-discussed Democratic majority that’s been emerging since the turn of the millennium is still in a state of emergence…

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After dire warnings, Election Day voting issues are ‘isolated and sporadic’

November 3, 2020 From elsewhere

Politico reports: Election administrators and regular Americans were bracing for Election Day chaos — warned to expect violence, malfunctions, long lines and disinformation. Instead, they got something else entirely: a fairly smooth election process across the country. Though some problems have emerged — even serious ones like election equipment failures — there were not, by early Tuesday evening as a first round of states was set to close their polls, any major disruptions to the democratic process, election observers said,…

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U.S. Postal Service blows deadline to check for missing ballots. About 300,000 can’t be traced

November 3, 2020 From elsewhere

USA Today reports: The U.S. Postal Service blew a court-ordered deadline Tuesday to sweep mail-processing facilities in more than a dozen states for missing election ballots that could number in the hundreds of thousands. U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington ordered the sweep Tuesday morning after the Postal Service said its delivery performance had dropped over the past five days and could not say whether more than 300,000 ballots received in its facilities had been delivered. The sweep…

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The ‘Trump train’ drivers had reason to expect impunity

November 3, 2020 From elsewhere

Gregory H. Shill writes: In Texas on Friday, dozens of vehicles driven by supporters of President Donald Trump formed a “Trump Train” on Interstate 35, and several of them surrounded a Joe Biden campaign bus, slowing it and attempting to force it off the road. One viral video shows a truck with pro-Trump and Blue Lives Matter banners striking a Biden staffer’s vehicle. After the FBI announced an investigation of the coordinated operation, Trump thanked the perpetrators, declaring, “In my…

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