Top of the Fold

• Biden defeats Trump for White House, rhetorically says it’s “time to heal” (AP) | Exhibit A: Michelle Obama demonizes 70 million Americans who support “hate, chaos, division” (Daily Wire) | Exhibit B: Biden backers move to blacklist Trump loyalists (Washington Times) | Exhibit C: Keith Olbermann calls for Tucker Carlson to be arrested (Disrn)

Opening Salvos for No. 46

• Biden’s first move as president-elect? Mask mandate for all. Here’s how he plans on doing it. (Fox News)

Snippet: “I think masks are quite useful, but they have a place and they’re not the be all and end all,” [Dr. Marc] Siegel said. “I’m worried that mandating this with fines and such may actually lead to more of a rebellion against it.”

• Biden vows to rejoin the wasteful Paris Climate Accord on first day of office (CBS News)

• Biden to increase H-1B visa limit, remove country quota for green cards (Economic Times)

• Campaign manager says the Left’s puppet is “going to make good” on “incredibly progressive” agenda (The Hill)

• Seven big items on the White House agenda (Daily Signal)

Elsewhere in Politics

• Trump plans to revive campaign-style rallies as he pursues legal challenges to election results (Fox News) | Rundown of Trump campaign legal battles per state (Reuters) | Michigan GOP chairwoman says software glitch tallied thousands of Republican votes as Democrat (Fox News)

• Schumer declares Democrats will “change America” if they “take Georgia” (Daily Wire) | Don’t believe the hype: GOP favored in Georgia runoffs (National Review)

• Pelosi announces speakership run amidst Democrat caucus turmoil (Daily Wire)

• “Extremely hostile to anything that even smells progressive”: AOC lashes out at Democrat Party (The Blaze)

• Fox News wrongly called five Democrat pickups in House in addition to early Arizona call (Power Line)

• Dr. Fauci said Trump “asking for trouble” with “super spreader” rallies — but silent on Biden celebrations (Fox News)

The Latest on COVID-19

• U.S. records over 121,000 cases, setting new single-day record (CBS News)

• Country nears 10 million total cases amid surge in infections (Fox News)

• Pfizer’s early data shows vaccine is more than 90% effective (NY Times)

“Since this was developed under Trump & because of his leadership, will Kamala Harris & the other Dems who said they wouldn’t take a ‘Trump vaccine’ still refuse, or are we just going to pretend none that happened?” —Allie Beth Stuckey

“You are about as smart as a clump of sand if you think the timing of this announcement is a coincidence. They waited until the media declared Biden the winner. Then we hear about the vaccine.” —Matt Walsh

Around the Nation

• Tropical Storm Eta makes landfall in south Florida (Fox News)

• Legendary “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek dies of pancreatic cancer (ABC News)

Closing Arguments

• Policy: America can’t let this lesson from the 2020 Election go to waste (Daily Signal)

Snippet: The reason our democratic republic has functioned as well as it has for the past 231 years is because of our trust in the electoral process. When confidence in the election process disappears, confidence in the legitimacy of government disappears with it. It is a very potent way to destabilize a democracy.

• Policy: The constitutional way to defeat Cancel Culture (Heritage Foundation)

• Satire: Dems say we can’t investigate election fraud because “we’ve run out of investigations” (Genesius Times)

• Not satire: Seventy million Trump supporters take to streets to drive to work and go about their lives as normal (Babylon Bee)

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