The Morning Dispatch: Biden Calls for Unity

Plus: Trump refuses to concede while world leaders offer Biden congratulations.

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Happy Monday! With Joe Biden’s victory finally coming into focus after a long and chaotic week, you might be beginning to wonder … What’s Next. If so, do we have the two-day virtual event for you! Scroll down to read the full schedule, and we hope to see you in just a few hours!

Quick Hits: Today’s Top Stories

  • Network decision desks—from the Associated Press, to Fox News, to CNN, to NBC News—called the presidential race for Joe Biden on Saturday as the former vice president’s lead over Donald Trump in Pennsylvania continued to grow. Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina remain too close to call, but Biden’s projected victories in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania put him above the 270-electoral vote threshold. The president-elect declared victory in a speech in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday night. President Trump has not conceded the race.

  • Joe Biden’s transition team launched a website with details on his priorities, which it divides into four buckets: COVID-19, economic recovery, racial equity, and climate change. The Biden administration plans to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement and World Health Organization, and work with governors and mayors to implement mask mandates nationwide.

  • The October unemployment rate decreased by a full point from that of September—from 7.9 percent to 6.9 percent—after employers added 638,000 jobs last month, according to estimates by the U.S. Department of Labor.

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  1. Gene


    Yes, a plausible outcome. But probable in light of so many fervent cancel culture voters?
    Even a small a minority of citizens who are dedicated and disciplined fanatics can produce chaos and get much of what they demand, apparently a lesson of history, even in this country.

    “There’s obviously no large progressive mandate at this point”.
    Let’s hope so, or we shall reap the whirlwind.

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    I Was a Crooked Lawyer

    One of the things Trump should get credit for is Operation Warp Speed. A vaccine in early 2021 would be rapid indeed by historical standards and the machinery is in place for rapid distribution. Polling indicates much of the populace is reluctant to be vaccinated. Hope that reluctance dissipates as election fades in the rear view mirror. Pfizer is tooting its own horn today but Moderna is also a front runner. I am a volunteer in Moderna vaccine trials. Unlike Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and others, Moderna has not thus far had to suspend its trials at any point and make adjustments.

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    Murrayprof

    "Make American Rake Again!" Four Seasons Landscaping

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      SusanC

      It keeps getting better: "The first person Rudy Giuliani, the attorney for President Donald Trump, called up as a witness to baseless allegations of vote counting shenanigans in Philadelphia during a press conference last week is a sex offender who for years has been a perennial candidate in New Jersey."

      https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2020/11/09/man-featured-at-giuliani-press-conference-is-a-sex-offender-1335241

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        cheerio

        Really anything presented by Giuliani now is suspect. The man has really debased himself and has lost integrity.

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        JohnF

        https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/11/interview-fantasy-island-sex-shop-four-seasons-landscaping-philadelphia.html
        Great quote from the owner of the Porn shop:
        Q. You said that you were thinking about making T-shirts?
        A. Trump starts out playing around with Stormy Daniels, and one of his final hurrahs was right by an adult bookstore. You can’t write this stuff. Yeah. You know, capitalism is what capitalism is. It’s about making a buck. And I know the landscaping company, I think they made a shirt. If I knew this was coming, like I said, I would have invested in making shirts. We weren’t sure if we wanted to just put our name and our logo on it, or just put a couple pictures of some stuff and add little things to just make people get a laugh out of it, that 2020 has been so insane that Rudy Giuliani is in the parking lot of a landscaping company when he should be at a five-star hotel. If that’s how they’re running the country, and that’s how he runs his things, it’s kind of embarrassing.

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        JohnF

        It appears he is an advocate for transparency and full exposure.

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        1. deathtomcmansions

          blechhhh. there's already been a shortage of eye and brain bleach, don't make it worse...

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      4. deathtomcmansions

        That's not the half of it. Dude was claiming that he observed fraud in PA but according to the mayor of Trenton NJ, dude is a NJ resident, and one must be a resident of the PA county in which one is observing. So he may be in legal trouble again if he was actually in an observer role (dollars to donuts he wasn't.)

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          SusanC

          “Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).”

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      scott

      It has always been at the same place in mine, I think. Last bullet before they started the "meat" of the newsletter.

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    Paul Britton

    The panelists today were talking about the possibility that Trump would stay active with endorsing Trumpist primary candidates and doing rallies for them. I have doubts about that. Trump only boosts Trump. He doesn't boost other people. He won't see anything it it for him.

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    Bel

    I’m interested in hearing what Russell Moore has to say. He is always interesting. But have a kid to pick up at that time so I will have wait for the recording. I love Dave Chapelle, he’s like the Kevin Williams of comedy; here to make the points no one wants to hear :-)

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  7. Joe1776

    I’m willing to wait and see what Biden does but in the meantime my views are pretty much the same as Walsh’s.

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-now-that-biden-thinks-hes-won-he-wants-us-to-unite-sorry-ill-pass

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      Jess

      Ugh. What a depressing, sarcastic, hyperbolic, cynical column. I think Max Walsh is most likely putting on this persona to make a living though outrage media, but if he really does feel this way then it must be awful to be him.

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      1. Joe1776

        I feel the same as him and it is not so bad. The white knighting of joe Biden who ran such a divisive race including politicizing corona is sickening and deserving of sarcasm. If you have any specific points I’ll listen but just name calling isn’t productive.

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          Jess

          I don’t think I was name calling—it’s actually really important to me not to stoop to name calling. I found the world view expressed in Max Walsh’s column bleak and disturbing. I don't recognize my beloved family, good friends and hundreds more Democrats I know, in Walsh's extremely negative description. I know he's exaggerating for effect, but he accuses Democrats of wanting to burn 70 million Trump voters at the stake.

          He describes Democrats as monsters, not the millions of ordinary Americans who voted for Biden and love their country. He should come to my house and meet my four teenagers, one of whom voted for the first time in this election. Or my 80 year old father, a conservative who wanted Trump defeated. Except I guess he wouldn't want to meet us, because he writes:

          "Unite around what, though? And for what? What commonality, what shared sense of purpose, what universal goal or value, is supposed to bind us together? I wouldn’t know how to unite with Joe Biden and his ilk even if I wanted to — which, frankly, I don’t."

          I'm sorry if that is how you feel, Joe. I don't mean it in a patronizing way. I just think it would be really disheartening to believe that I had no common ground with half of my fellow citizens.

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    MrJoMo

    I will listen to Karl Rove and Joe Trippi as soon as I have time and I also want to hear from Liz Cheney and Ben Sasse. I am particularly interested in the response of these latter two if asked if they have higher political aspirations. And of course, I enjoy the insights of The Dispatch staff over the course of these conversations.

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    Pat Riot

    Occam's razor: Trump is refusing to concede because if he did the campaign contributions would stop.

    If you want to complicate it a little, keep asking yourself, for everything Trump does, "what's in it for him?".

    Trump will no doubt realize, if he hasn't already, that the Georgia Senate elections allow him to take the Republican party hostage: with just one tweet he could annihilate turnout in that election and throw the Senate to the Democrats--and he knows that Republicans know that he doesn't care one whit about the party if he's out of office.

    It's going to be an interesting couple of weeks...

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    1. Shaybult

      Yup. I was fascinated by the fact that the site to donate to his election legal fight has a caveat that 60% of funds raised are actually going toward paying down his campaign debt. He's just gonna keep fleecing his fans as long as they allow him to.

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  10. Jennifer Stanowski

    So far so happy with Biden. It's going to be wild 4 years though. Good Luck and God Bless America!!

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