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Four Seasons Total Landscaping Was No Mistake: Sources
Four Seasons Total
Landscaping Was
No Mistake: Sources
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Nov 14, 2020 1:30 PM CST

Four Seasons Total Landscaping Was No Mistake: Sources

Trump campaign meant to schedule presser there, sources say, but Trump misunderstood

(Newser) - The internet cannot get enough of the Trump team press conference held last Saturday in Philadelphia, at which Rudy Giuliani declared, just as the media was calling the presidential election for Joe Biden, that Trump had no plans to concede and would be challenging the results in court. The president...

Biden Advisors Debate Nationwide Lockdown

But they're nearly impossible for a president to enact alone

(Newser) - Joe Biden faces a decision unlike any other incoming president: whether to back a short-term national lockdown to finally arrest a raging pandemic, the AP reports. For now, it's a question the president-elect would prefer to avoid. In the week since he defeated President Trump, Biden has devoted most...

As Trump Supporters Converge on DC, Airbnb Takes a Stand

Rental service pulls alleged Proud Boys member's reservation in advance of planned protests Saturday

(Newser) - Last Saturday, the streets of DC filled with people celebrating that the presidential race had been called for Joe Biden. This Saturday, crowds will once more gather, but this time they'll be made up of supporters of President Trump, who still hasn't conceded to President-elect Biden. The Washington ...

Trump: When Vaccine Is Ready for US, NY Won't Get It at First

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, NY AG Letitia James push back on president's inflammatory remarks

(Newser) - On Friday, President Trump gave his first public remarks since losing the election to Joe Biden, speaking at the White House about the need for Americans to remain "vigilant" against COVID-19, and how a vaccine would soon be on its way. One statement about the vaccine, however, raised eyebrows,...

Trump Resurfaces to Tout Vaccine
Trump
Emerges
to Tout
Vaccine
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Nov 13, 2020 5:19 PM CST

Trump Emerges to Tout Vaccine

Rose Garden comments don't include a concession to Biden

(Newser) - Gliding over significant challenges still to come, President Trump on Friday offered a rosy update on the race for a vaccine for the resurgent coronavirus as he delivered his first public remarks since his defeat by President-elect Joe Biden. Trump still did not concede the election, and he did not...

Trump Scores One More State Victory
Trump Scores One More
State Victory
Nov 13, 2020 3:07 PM CST

Trump Scores One More State Victory

AP calls North Carolina for him, with only Georgia still outstanding

(Newser) - Only one more state to go. The AP on Friday called the state of North Carolina for Trump, leaving Georgia as the only state yet to be uncalled. (Other outlets, including the Washington Post , have called Georgia for Biden, but Newser is going by AP.) Trump’s victory in...

Late-Night Hosts Mock Trump's Refusal to Concede

'Welcome to Day 9 of Squattergate,' Kimmel says

(Newser) - President Trump's refusal to concede the election may be bad news for American democracy, but it's providing plenty of material for late-night hosts including Jimmy Kimmel, who has labeled it "Squattergate." Kimmel joked Thursday night that one solution could be to make Trump the president of...

Paper That Endorsed Trump Slams His Voter Fraud Claims

Las Vegas Review-Journal says he is 'delaying the inevitable'

(Newser) - The Las Vegas Review-Journal was one of the few newspapers to endorse President Trump in both 2016 and 2020—but it's not endorsing his attempt to have last week's election results overturned. "The president does a disservice to his more rabid supporters by insisting that he would...

Haberman Has Deal for a Book on Trump

White House reporter began covering future president for the New York Post

(Newser) - One of the top chroniclers of the Trump administration, New York Times White House reporter Maggie Haberman, has a book deal. Penguin Press announced Thursday that the Pulitzer Prize winner's book, currently untitled, would come out in 2022, the AP reports. "Maggie has had a front row seat...

Critics Fault Fine Print in Trump Donation Pitch
Fine Print Reveals Where
Recount Donations Go
the rundown
Nov 12, 2020 1:35 PM CST

Fine Print Reveals Where Recount Donations Go

Small donors' money likely won't go toward election challenges

(Newser) - President Trump's team is urging supporters to donate money to the "Official Election Defense Fund." Otherwise, "the Left will try to STEAL this election!” reads one typical text that has gone out to potential donors, reports Reuters . However, a look at the fine print might...

Karl Rove: Trump Has No Chance
A Top GOP Voice Says
Trump Has No Chance
OPINION
Nov 12, 2020 11:55 AM CST

A Top GOP Voice Says Trump Has No Chance

Karl Rove says recounts, challenges cannot possibly change the outcome of election

(Newser) - President Trump's legal attempts to overturn Joe Biden's election victory are all for naught, according to the man who helped usher in the previous Republican president. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Karl Rove writes that the president's legal challenges in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada...

Trump May Be Gunning to Cripple Fox News
Trump May Be Gunning
to Cripple Fox News
the rundown
Nov 12, 2020 10:45 AM CST

Trump May Be Gunning to Cripple Fox News

Axios says he plans a digital rival, while CNN's Brian Stelter sees a 'robust' challenge to Fox elsewhere

(Newser) - It's no secret that relations between President Trump and Fox News have soured of late— especially after the network called Arizona for Joe Biden ahead of everyone else. Now, a report at Axios suggests things are going to get worse. The outlet says Trump plans to create a digital...

GOP Senator Says He'll Go to Bat for Biden on Intel Briefs

James Lankford of Okla.: I'll 'step in' if president-elect isn't given access by Friday

(Newser) - President Trump still hasn't conceded to Joe Biden, and the president-elect still hasn't been given access to transition funding and intelligence briefings. In pushing to get those resources, it looks like Biden will have a new ally come Friday: GOP Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma says he'll...

Cohen: Trump Will Just Stay in Mar-a-Lago After Christmas

He says there's no way president could bring himself to attend Biden inauguration

(Newser) - President Trump's Christmas vacation could be a long one, according to his former lawyer. Michael Cohen predicts that the president will go to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida for the holidays and not return to the White House afterward, the Hill reports. "After Christmas, he usually comes back...

As Trump Digs In on Concession, a &#39;Forceful Rebuke&#39;
As Trump Digs
In on Concession,
a 'Forceful Rebuke'
THE RUNDOWN
Nov 11, 2020 7:00 AM CST

As Trump Digs In on Concession, a 'Forceful Rebuke'

'New York Times' called election officials in all 50 states and found 'no evidence of voter fraud'

(Newser) - While President Trump continues to refuse to concede the election, Joe Biden is forging ahead as the president-elect. "It’s an embarrassment, quite frankly," Biden told reporters Tuesday of Trump's refusal to concede. "How can I say this tactfully? I think it will not help the...

Cuomo on Trump: 'I Would Have Decked Him'

Says if he wasn't governor, he would have hit Trump over insults to his family

(Newser) - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said this week that scientists were "unmuzzled" with President Trump's election loss, per Business Insider . Apparently so, too, was the governor himself. Appearing on the Howard Stern Show Monday, Cuomo opened up about an anti-Italian insult Trump directed at his brother, CNN anchor...

Trump Has a Strategy to Keep Influence on GOP

Save America PAC would give him money to back candidates whenever he leaves office

(Newser) - President Trump has settled on one way he'll try to keep a grip on Republican Party politics whenever he's out of office: He'll form a leadership political action committee. Controlling a PAC will provide money for Trump to use to influence candidates and issues, the Hill reports....

McConnell Breaks Silence, Backs Trump

Though he won't say whether he sees evidence of election fraud

(Newser) - The Trump sons have been complaining about lack of GOP support for their father's election fraud claims, and their lament seems to have been heard. After what the AP calls "a period of post-election silence," Mitch McConnell on Monday made his stance clear. Politico reports the Senate...

Report: Trump Is Weighing 2024 Run
Report: Trump Is
Weighing 2024 Run
Nov 9, 2020 2:53 PM CST

Report: Trump Is Weighing 2024 Run

Lindsey Graham says he would encourage it

(Newser) - Donald Trump: the next Grover Cleveland? Sources tell Axios that in "the clearest indication yet that Trump understands he has lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden," the president has started talking about a 2024 run for president. The sources say Trump, who has publicly refused to concede...

Trump: Defense Chief &#39;Has Been Terminated&#39;
Trump Fires Defense Secretary
Nov 9, 2020 1:05 PM CST

Trump Fires Defense Secretary

Mark Esper 'has been terminated'

(Newser) - In what could be the start of a wave of post-election firings, President Trump announced in a tweet Monday that Defense Secretary Mark Esper "has been terminated." The president said National Counterterrorism Director Christopher Miller will become acting defense secretary effective immediately. The Hill notes that Trump and...

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