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Arizona's Republican attorney general rejects election fraud claims, predicts Biden win in state

Attorney General Mark Brnovich on Wednesday dismissed ongoing claims of election fraud in Arizona, arguing that "if indeed there was some great conspiracy" to steal votes from fellow Republicans, "it apparently didn't work."

 

What happened instead was simple and legitimate, Brnovich said during an appearance on Fox Business: Voters split their tickets, voting for Democrats in the presidential and U.S. Senate races and for Republicans down-ballot.

 

"In Arizona, there was a prediction that the (Republican-controlled) Legislature would flip. It didnā€™t," said Brnovich, the No. 2 Republican in the state behind the governor. "There were some congressional districts that supposedly leaned Democrat. They didnā€™t flip. The county recorder here who oversees elections went from Democrat to Republican. The county attorney remained Republican.

 

"That's the reality," he said. "There is no evidence, there are no facts that would lead anyone to believe that the election results will change."

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/11/arizona-attorney-general-mark-brnovich-dismisses-election-fraud-claims/6258889002/

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Ron Klain named Biden's chief of staff, first White House official picked for administration

WASHINGTON ā€” Ron Klain, a senior campaign advisor for Joe Biden and one-time top aide for the former vice president, is set to become the president-elect's first White House chief of staff, the Biden campaign announced Wednesday night.

 

Klain was Biden's chief of staff when he was vice president and also served as chief of staff to vice president Al Gore. By tapping Klain to lead his White House, Biden has chosen a Washington veteran with experience fighting the Ebola outbreak just as the new president makes ending the COVID-19 pandemic his top priority.

 

The hire, the first made by Biden for his new administration, marks another step toward his White House transition as President Donald Trump contests election results with baseless claims of voter fraud.

 

'It's an embarrassment': Joe Biden responds to Donald Trump's refusal to concede presidential race

 

Klain, 59, a close confidant of Biden, had long been rumored for the post even before the election. He served as a senior White House aide to President Barack Obama and was tapped by Obama in 2014 to serve as a "czar" to combat the Ebola outbreak ā€“ experience that Biden will lean on as he works to slow down the coronavirus pandemic.

 

As Biden's chief of staff, a position he held from 2009 to 2011, Klain had a key role in implementing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 following the Great Recession.

 

ā€œRon has been invaluable to me over the many years that we have worked together, including as we rescued the American economy from one of the worst downturns in our history in 2009 and later overcame a daunting public health emergency in 2014,ā€ Biden said in a statement Wednesday night. ā€œHis deep, varied experience and capacity to work with people all across the political spectrum is precisely what I need in a White House chief of staff as we confront this moment of crisis and bring our country together again.ā€

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ron-klain-named-biden-s-chief-of-staff-first-white-house-official-named-for-administration/ar-BB1aVyLB?fbclid=IwAR34IHAdV8jb0905U7KLLD5wsfKALWpu5IXVT213Sbmci_Fo_qcrVOAni3k

 

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An aide to President Bill Clinton and Gore, Klain later played a high-profile role in Gore's 2000 presidential campaign and was a top attorney for Gore's recount effort in Florida. Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey portrayed him in an HBO movie on the Florida recount fight against George W. Bush. Klain also served as chief of staff for Attorney General Janet Reno.

 

Bidenā€™s first of chief of staff will likely have an easier job than any of the four men who held the title under President Donald Trump. All of them wrestled to varying degrees with internal power struggles within the White House, leaks and an Oval Office occupant who sought out and acted on advice from outside sources, including cable news networks.

 

ā€œWhen we have a more traditional president like a President Biden in the office weā€™ll just have much more traditional chief of staff ā€“ a chief of staff who is actually empowered to do his or her job,ā€ said David B. Cohen, a political scientist at The University of Akron who has studied chiefs of staff.

 

The job is perhaps the most important in the White House. A good chief of staff makes the trains run on time and guards the presidentā€™s political interests ā€“ and that means controlling who has access to him. But itā€™s a job that involves telling a president the ā€œhard truth, not only about whatā€™s happening out there in the political environment but about the presidentā€™s own faulty ideas,ā€ Cohen said.

 

Cohen noted that Obama and Bush both named their chiefs early and said it was no surprise Biden is doing the same.

 

ā€œYou want your chief of staff to be a very big part of the transition,ā€ he said.

 

After leaving the White House for the private sector in 2011, Klain became a partner in the Washington office of the Los Angeles law firm of O'Melveny & Myers. He was also president of Case Holdings, which manages the assets of AOL founder Steve Case, and general counsel of Case's venture capital firm, Revolution.

 

ā€œHe not only has White House experience, he has White House experience at the highest levels,ā€ said Cohen, noting that Klain would be the only White House chief of staff who had served previously as a vice presidentā€™s chief of staff in the modern times. Cohen called Klain's experience as the Ebola czar said that "invaluable at a time when weā€™re facing the most serious public health pandemic that any of us has ever lived through.ā€

 

Klain is a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Law School. He served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Byron White.

 

ā€œIt's the honor of a lifetime to serve President-elect Biden in this role, and I am humbled by his confidence. I look forward to helping him and the Vice President-elect assemble a talented and diverse team to work in the White House, as we tackle their ambitious agenda for change, and seek to heal the divides in our country,ā€ said Klain in a statement.

 

He later tweeted he was "honored by the President-electā€™s confidence and will give my all to lead a talented and diverse team in a Biden-Harris WH."

 

He is married to Monica Medina, an environmental lawyer at the National Geographic Society who previously headed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the Obama Administration. They have three children.

 

He is married to Monica Medina, an environmental lawyer at the National Geographic Society who previously headed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the Obama Administration. They have three children.

 

Reach Joey Garrison on Twitter @joeygarrison.

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Trump may accept results but never concede he lost, aides say

 

There is a growing expectation among President Donald Trumpā€™s advisers that he will never concede that he lost re-election, even after votes are certified in battleground states over the coming weeks, according to multiple people familiar with the presidentā€™s thinking.

 

ā€œDo not expect him to concede,ā€ one top aide said. More likely, the aide said, ā€œheā€™ll say something like, ā€˜We canā€™t trust the results, but Iā€™m not contesting them.ā€™ā€

 

Another adviser said that after the legal battles and recounts, the closest the president is likely to get to a concession is, ā€œheā€™ll acknowledge the results and that weā€™ll never know how accurate they are.ā€

 

ā€œBut weā€™re not there yet,ā€ the adviser said.

 

In the meantime there is also growing frustration inside the White House ā€” what allies described as ā€œembarrassmentā€ as well as ā€œuncertainty and doubt and confusionā€ ā€” over the presidentā€™s refusal to acknowledge the election result and chart a path forward.

 

ā€œThis is unsustainable,ā€ another aide said.

 

Allies caution that no final decision has been made on where Trump intends to take this fight or when it might end. And a small group of senior advisers ā€” most of them in the Trump campaign ā€” still believe there is a path to victory for the president.

 

But those allies are a shrinking minority, and some advisers say the president is coming around to the fact that the election result wonā€™t be reversed. ā€œEven Trump realizes that the likelihood of the result changing is almost zero,ā€ one of them said.

 

Thereā€™s an effort among those allies who know that Trump has lost to get the president to focus on next steps. ā€œOverwhelmingly, the understanding is getting into the presidentā€™s ear that he needs to have a strategy to move on,ā€ one aide said.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/11/trump-may-accept-results-but-never-concede-he-lost-aides-say.html

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Your Evening Briefing: Covidā€™s Uncontrolled Spread Across AmericaHere are todayā€™s top stories

 

Americaā€™s most sustained increase in Covid-19 infections is poised to get even longer.The nationwide rise in cases that began in September is now in its ninth week. Thatā€™s a longer run than the March-April wave that unfolded largely in the Northeast, and the June-July upswing that hit the Sun Belt. More than 240,000 are dead, and the increase in hospitalizations that is following the uncontrolled surge is adding up to 1,300 to that total every day. Europe is also suffering a deadly onslaught that shows no signs of abating.

 

New York City,at one time the global epicenter of the pandemic, with tractor-trailer trucks filled with the dead spread across the city, is facing a new nightmare. With its infection rate spiking, curfews are being imposed on gyms and restaurants and limits placed on gatherings, a grim echo of the Big Appleā€™s cataclysmic spring. Financially, the city could also be in for another gut-punch if its richest 1% flee for good.

 

The potential coronavirus vaccine by Pfizer and BioNTechthat caused markets to jump this week faces one very serious problem if it ever makes it to widespread distribution. And Bloomberg Businessweek reports that itā€™s possible a vaccine will actually worsen the spread of the pathogen at first.

 

Airline passengers will need to keep taking Covid-19 tests long after a vaccine arrives, says the chief of one of the worldā€™s biggest airports.

 

Stocks climbedWednesday as giant tech companies rallied. Investors were shifting back to the safety of Silicon Valley as the pandemicā€™s resurgence portends an even slower economic recovery.

 

President Donald Trump continues to fight the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.One reason for that may be the daunting financial and legal threats he faces when forced to leave the White House, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Timothy Oā€™Brien explains on Bloomberg Quicktake. President-elect Joe Biden brushed off Trumpā€™s unsubstantiated claims of voting fraud and, despite obstruction by the Republican Party and the administration, broadened his transition effort. Still, when it comes to going all the way, there is a scenario by which Trump and the Republicans could seek to cancel Bidenā€™s victory and the votes of 77 million Americans who chose him. This is how that might work.

 

After Minneapolis police killed GeorgeFloyd, an unarmed man asphyxiated by police employee Derek Chauvin, outrage turned to looting and destruction that claimed, among other things, a Target store. That store in South Minneapolis is now reopening, in an overhaul described as an effort for the suburban retailer to improve its image with Black customers.

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2020-11-11/your-evening-briefing-covid-s-uncontrolled-spread-across-america

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What youā€™ll need to know tomorrow

 

Beijing moves to tighten its grip on Hong Kong.

Big oil companies really arenā€™t doing much about climate change.

Georgia orders a hand recount of votes with Biden in the lead.

How a lame duck Trump can upend financial markets before leaving.

Record hurricane season has demolished the offshore oil industry.

What you need to know about how small businesses are surviving.

Here is the ultimate 2020 guide to filing for personal bankruptcy.

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2020-11-11/your-evening-briefing-covid-s-uncontrolled-spread-across-america