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Trump remains out of public sight, refusing to concede; Biden talks COVID stimulus with Pelosi, Schumer in first post-election call with Dem leaders; Dr. Gupta: COVID surge “humanitarian disaster”; 14-day quarantine before Thanksgiving should start today; Nov 12, 2020

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Some Republicans begin to recognize Biden as President-elect; Record 144,000 new cases in one day in U.S.; Sources: Trump children split on post-election approach; Biden moves forward with transition without help from Trump admin; President-elect Biden names Ron Klain as his WH Chief of Staff; Pope Francis congratulates Biden in phone call; President-elect Biden blocked from getting intel briefings; Bernie Sanders says he would accept Labor Secretary if Biden asks; Biden transition aide clarifies: 4-6 week lockdowns is “not in line” with Biden’s view; McCarthy: Biden doesn’t need access to intel right now; Dr Fauci doubts COVID will ever be eradicated even with vaccine; Record 65K Americans hospitalized with COVID; Karl Rove: Trump lawsuits won’t change election outcome; Some Trump advisers say no chance legal challenges will succeed; Airlines adding more flights ahead of holiday rush; NJ Health Dept: At least five COVID-19 outbreaks linked to Halloween parties;

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Source: Trump showed no signs of conceding in meeting with advisers; More foreign leaders have congratulated Biden than GOP Senators; CDC issues robust Thanksgiving guidance as cases surge in U.S.; Two Georgia runoff elections may determine control of Senate Nov 11, 2020

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Source: Trump wants to continue legal challenges; WH political director latest in Trump orbit to get coronavirus; Source: Biden team projecting sense of inevitability, concerned any aggressive actions could backfire; Biden lays wreath at ceremony marking Veterans Day; Biden’s message to world leaders: “America is back”; President-elect Biden meeting with transition advisers today; Only four GOP senators publicly congratulate Biden on win; 61,000+ Americans currently hospitalized with Covid-19; Four states pushing stay-at-home efforts this week; New CDC guidance: masks protest both wearers & those around them; CDC suggests limiting Thanksgiving to your household or wear masks, social distance and eat outdoors; Votes still being counted in key battlegrounds: GA, PA, NC & AZ; NYT: election officials in 45+ states say they found no evidence of major voter fraud; Trump continues to allege massive voter fraud with no proof; Two Georgia runoff elections may determine control of Senate; Could GOP infighting in Georgia help Dems control Senate?; Pentagon’s new senior advisor has history of making xenophobic and racist comments

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Biden on Trump’s refusal to concede: “It’s an embarrassment”; Jake one-on-one with Dr. Fauci; 17 states seeing record high number of hospitalizations; Could Arizona and Georgia turn blue?; Supreme Court signals ACA will survive latest challenge; Attorney General Barr tells DOJ to look into voting irregularities without offering any evidence; Top election crimes prosecutor quits in protest; Nov 10, 2020

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Pompeo denies election results: “There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump Administration”; Biden: I haven’t talked to Mitch McConnell yet; Biden: GOP is “mildly intimidated” by Trump; Source: WH Budget Office tells agencies to continue preparing Trump budget for February; Fauci: Vaccine doses may be available by end of Nov.; U.S. has added 100,000+ new cases every day for the last week; El Paso requests four more temporary morgue trucks as cases surge; Dr. Fauci: News about vaccine is “extraordinary”; Dr. Fauci: Vaccine & public health measures could be “a game changer”; Pfizer expects “logistical challenge” in distributing vaccine; A presidential tradition: Accepting and acknowledging defeat; Biden team won’t rule out legal battle over transition; Trump appointee still refuses to recognize Biden win, denying his team funds & national security tools; Without evidence, GOP leaders back Trump’s claims of voter fraud; New totals: Biden lead in Arizona shrinks, widens in Georgia; GA GOP Sens call for GOP Secy of State to resign despite no evidence of wrongdoing; Georgia’s Secy of State refuses to step down as Biden lead grows; New Justice Amy Coney Barrett in spotlight as Supreme Court decides Obamacare’s future;

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Trump fires defense secretary Esper after election defeat; McConnell: Trump “within his rights” to wage legal fight; Pfizer CEO: vaccine more than 90% effective; U.S. surpasses 10 million coronavirus cases; Nov 09, 2020

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Source: Trump personnel chief threatens to fire anyone looking for another job; Trump refuses to concede or accept results of election; Sen Graham: Trump could run in 2024 if court challenges fail; HUD secy Ben Carson & Trump legal adviser David Bossie test positive for coronavirus; DOW closes up 800+ points on vaccine news, Biden win;

Trump refuses to concede, peddles false fraud claims; GOP allies urge Trump not to concede election; Senate balance of power depends on two runoffs in Georgia; Will a republican-controlled senate block Biden’s agenda;

President elect Biden assembles team, plan to battle COVID; Biden: election is over, time to set aside partisanship; Biden: wear masks, it will lead to “normal life”; Biden makes appeal to Americans: it’s time to end politization of basic public health steps;

De Blasio says NYC is “dangerously close” to a second wave; US tops 100,000+ cases a day for 5 straight days; New COVID cases up 34% from last week, 43 states showing upward trends; New COVID deaths steadily rising, averaging 939 per day;

Ballots still being counted in Arizona, Georgia; Georgia secretary of state refuses to step down, says Trump “unlikely” to win GA electoral votes; Senate majority likely to be decided by two runoffs in Georgia;

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Biden urges patience, as Trump threatens lawsuits; Biden speaks as vote count continues in seven states; CNN projects Joe Biden wins Michigan, nearing 270 electoral votes Nov 04, 2020

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Only AK, AZ, GA NC, NV and PA to be called

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Biden campaign blitzes Pennsylvania on last day of campaign; The potential paths to victory for Trump & Biden; PA gov asks residents to be patient with election results; Judge reject GOP claims on ballots in two states; Virus surges as Trump suggests he may fire Fauci post-election; Nov 02, 2020

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Biden team eyes Pennsylvania on quest to rebuild “blue wall”; Biden campaign manager: “under no scenario will Donald Trump be declared a victor on election night”; Tomorrow: Biden to visit Scranton & Philadelphia; Trump on final blitz, holding five rallies today; Trump floats firing Fauci, but lacks direct power to do so; 96 million+ have already voted, 70% of all 2016 ballots; Federal judge rules 127,000 ballots cast via drive-thru in Texas can be counted;

The fight for 270: Joe Biden’s possible paths to the White House; Which states are crucial for a Trump victory?; Control of the senate up for grabs tomorrow;

PA officials urge counties to begin counting mail in ballots early Tuesday morning; Trump: we’ll send in lawyers if PA election is unfair; Trump threatens legal action to stop counting of some ballots; Source: Trump likely to declare premature victory;

Federal judge rejects republican bid to toss 127,000 ballots cast via drive-thru in Texas; Judge rejects GOP efforts to stop early vote counting in Las Vegas; Trump hopes for victory in NC; Key swing state Trump won narrowly in 2016, Obama won in 2008; One person dead, several injured in Vienna “terror attack”;

U.S. averages more than 81,000 new cases in the last week; U.S. reports nearly 100k new cases in one day, sets global record; 16 states report record high hospitalizations in past 2 days; Fauci warns U.S. is “in for a whole lot of hurt” as cases surge; Sources: WH to host as many as 400 people for election night party;

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Trump, Biden crisscross critical Midwest battleground states; U.S. coronavirus cases surpass 9 million; Biden blitzes upper Midwest in quest to rebuild “blue wall”; 85 million ballots already cast nationwide; Oct 30, 2020

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Multiple states report record high daily COVID-19 cases; Donald Trump Jr. claims COVID death numbers are “almost nothing” on day U.S. reports nearly 1K deaths; Trump holding 17 rallies in final four days of race; Biden: “We cannot afford four more years of Donald Trump”; Influential model predicts 2,250 Americans will die daily by mid-January; Person in California tests positive for COVID-19 and the flu; Current GOP Rep asks: What happened to his party?; Biden, Harris to barnstorm Pennsylvania on Sunday & Monday; Biden campaigning in Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin today; Biden makes pitch to undecided Iowa voters: We welcome “Democrats, Republicans & independents”; Trump, Biden lay out drastically different plans on immigration, border wall, citizenship; Trump vows to cap refugees admitted at record low of 15,000; Biden sets target at 125,000; Biden pledges to expand Dreamers program, Supreme Court stopped Trump from ending it; Trump promises to build 400+ miles of border wall, Biden says wall construction will stop; CDC Director: Flu transmission “extremely low” due to COVID-19 prevention measures; Early voting in Texas surpasses total turnout in 2016; Minnesota Gov urges voters to drop ballots off in person after court moves up deadline to election day; Thousands of Pennsylvania voters complain of absentee ballots missing, not delivered yet by mail; Philadelphia DA: “I’ve got a jail cell” for those who intimidate voters; Mail-in voting may delay results well after election night; Voters in crucial battlegrounds say virus is top election issue; SC woman dies from COVID-19, weeks after virus killed daughter;

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Trump, Biden hold dueling rallies in crucial state of Florida; U.S. reports third highest number of new daily COVID cases ever; CNN investigates COVID spread linked to Trump rallies; A look at Trump’s & Biden’s plans to create jobs; Oct 29, 2020

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Trump, Biden in Florida as state sees coronavirus surge; Biden tells rally crowd “if Florida goes blue, it’s over”; Biden Campaign says it’s “aggressively” courting Latino voters; Biden vows exec order to help reunite separated immigrant kids; Dem group spending $10 million in Ohio & Texas; Fauci warns of “whole lot of pain” as U.S. COVID cases surge; 41 states report increases in COVID-19 cases; Fmr. FDA Chief: Now is the “hardest point” in pandemic; WH task force warns of “unrelenting” spread in Midwest, West; Study: Immunity lasts at least five months, probably longer; Trump again jokes about wearing masks as COVID cases surge; NFL considering 20% capacity, mandatory masks at Super Bowl; Utah hospitals may have to start rationing care due to COVID surge; U.S. averaging record-setting 74,000+ COVID cases per day; CNN investigation: New cases rise in many counties that have held Trump rallies; Documents: Trump Admin wanted $250 Mil COVID ad campaign to help Trump’s re-election; U.S. economy shows record growth after previous record drop; Jobless claims fall to 751,000 in last report before election; Trump: 2021 economy will be “fantastic”; Biden: U.S. headed for worst economic downturn in 70 years; Trump vows more tax cuts and to roll back more regulations;

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New CNN poll: Biden leads among early voters while Trump leads among those who will vote on Election Day; Kushner in April: Trump taking U.S. “back from the doctors”; Trump vs. Biden on pandemic policy: where do they stand?; 74 million+ ballots cast so far, over half of all 2016 votes Oct 28, 2020

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Trump’s approval rating sits at 42% in new CNN poll; Trump makes last-minute cross-country push for votes; WH touts “ending” pandemic as cases, hospitalizations soar; WH calls Miles Taylor, “Anonymous” author, a “low-level disgruntled former staffer”; Biden: Trump’s handling of pandemic “an insult” to those suffering; Trump, Biden campaigns target key states in final days; Giroir: “cases are going up. It’s not just a function of testing”; South Dakota gov: my people are “happy”, “free” without a mandate on masks; Ex-Homeland Security official Miles Taylor was anonymous author of 2018 NYT op-ed warning of Trump presidency; Voters met with hours-long lines at polling sites across the U.S.; Some Pennsylvania counties will count mail-in ballots last; Michigan AG, Secy. of State file emergency appeal on court decision preventing a ban on firearms at polls; Fmr Trump campaign official speaks out in support of Biden; ; Fmr Trump campaign official speaks out in support of Biden

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Trump on defense, holding rallies in 3 states he won in 2016; Biden’s closing argument: I will “unite this nation”; Obama: Trump is “jealous of COVID’s media coverage”; U.S. averaging nearly 70,000 cases per day, highest level of pandemic; One-on-one with Mary Trump; Oct 27, 2020

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Biden campaigning in Georgia, Trump carried GA in 2016; Trump holding reckless rallies, downplaying worsening pandemic; What final campaign events reveal about Trump, Biden strategies; Biden: U.S. needs “a president who cares less about his TV ratings and more about the American people”; Dr. Birx criticizes North Dakota over lack of mask usage; Positivity rates climb dramatically in states such as South Dakota; Former FDA Chief: U.S. on the cusp of “exponential spread” in cases; 11 states reporting record number of COVID hospitalizations; British study shows antibody immunity waning over time; COVID-19 cases in children increased 14% over the past two weeks; More than half of all states report record cases this month; Poll: More than 60% of Americans think government is making COVID recovery worse; Supreme Court won’t extend Wisconsin’s ballot deadline; Mary Trump: “Psychiatrists know what’s wrong with my uncle”; Justice Kavanaugh foreshadows how Supreme Court may disrupt vote counting; Philly District Attorney to speak about investigation into police shooting death of Walter Wallace; Biden’s closing: We can unite and heal the country; Trump rallies in three states, tweets false claims about election system and pandemic; Beloved family man dies after battling COVID-19;

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