The Hill reports: Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney on Thursday guaranteed that President Trump would facilitate a peaceful transition of power if Democratic nominee Joe Biden wins the election. “If the process runs, and I expect it to run, and at the end of that process Joe Biden’s the president, you can absolutely guarantee a peaceful transition …

We now take a break from the election crazy and brace for the annual Christian meltdown about Starbucks cups: ‘Tis the season at Starbucks. The coffee chain introduced four fresh cup designs on Thursday ahead of the holiday season. Each of the new cups are predominantly green and red, and two of them feature this season’s slogan, “Carry the Merry.” …

The Associated Press reports: President Trump has taken to Twitter again Thursday morning, commenting on the recent states Joe Biden has won. Elections are run by individual state, county and local governments. Trump’s public comments have no impact on the tallying of votes across the country. So far, the vote count across the country has been conducted efficiently and without …

Reuters reports: President Donald Trump’s campaign prepared to ramp up legal efforts to challenge vote counts in closely-contested states in the U.S. election on Thursday, announcing a lawsuit alleging voter fraud in Nevada as the state continued counting ballots. The Nevada news conference featured former intelligence official Richard Grenell, former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, Chairman of the American Conservative …

Detroit’s ABC News affiliate reports: A video making the rounds on social media and other platforms that claims to show voter fraud and a wagon being loaded outside of the TCF Center in Detroit is actually video of a WXYZ photographer loading his camera and other gear into a wagon for work. The video appeared on the website Texas Scorecard, …

Mother Jones reports: A rapidly growing Facebook group falsely accusing Democrats of “scheming” to steal the election with a plot to “nullify Republican votes” appears to be a part of a coordinated campaign by Republican operatives, and has ties to the Tea Party. The “Stop the Steal” group on Facebook, which was only created on Wednesday but already has almost …

The Independent reports: Perhaps the most extraordinary effort to turn the tide back in Mr Trump’s favour has come in Orlando, Florida, where the president’s spiritual adviser, Paula White, led a marathon prayer service at the New Christian Destiny Centre, calling on the almighty for divine intervention in the presidential race. In a video widely circulated on social media by …

“What’s happening is an absolute disgrace that’s unfolding right before our eyes. Well, what’s happening in Pennsylvania, we heard from poll watchers today. Yeah, they were watching from 100 feet away? Denied the opportunity to do their job to keep an election honest free and fair, and watch the polls? “Well, of course, that’s the same state where — found …

The Washington Post reports: As officials in key battleground states continued to tally legally cast ballots, Trump on Thursday tweeted “STOP THE COUNT!” Several states also showed movement in vote totals in Biden’s direction during tabulation of more mail-in ballots. Trump’s message seemed to be at odds with that of his senior campaign officials, who told reporters in a phone …

Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who infamously took a $25,000 campaign donation/bribe from Trump shortly before deciding to drop a Trump University investigation, appeared on Fox & Friends this morning to spread voter fraud claims. “For every vote that came in late, that was postmarked late…that discounts every legal vote that come in,” Bondi said. “That means all the …

The Associated Press reports: CLAIM: Votes were eliminated in Arizona because people were made to use Sharpie pens to mark their ballots. This caused the tabulation machine to cancel the vote. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Sharpies were allowed in Arizona but they do not affect the vote. And even if a ballot could not be read by a tabulation machine, it …

Vanity Fair reports: A civil war is raging between Fox News and Donald Trump over Fox’s controversial decision to be the first media outlet to call Arizona for Joe Biden just before 11:30 p.m. last night. According to a source, Trump phoned Fox owner Rupert Murdoch to scream about the call and demand a retraction. Murdoch refused, and the call …

Media Matters has the transcript: CHRISTINA BOBB (HOST): President Trump won four more years in office last night. North Carolina, Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin are all Trump’s. Even Arizona, which somehow has Biden winning, is rampant with voter fraud. Nevada, same thing. This is a decisive victory for Trump. Yet, in the wee hours of the morning, when Trump had …

The Washington Post reports: Westminster Management, an apartment company owned in part by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, has submitted hundreds of eviction filings in court against tenants with past due rent during the pandemic, according to interviews with more than a dozen tenants and a review of hundreds of the company’s filings. A state eviction moratorium currently bars …

Mediaite reports: Trump campaign legal adviser Jenna Ellis appeared on the Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show Wednesday night. In the segment, she pushed a false story that went viral early Tuesday and ended up on President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed before it was eventually debunked. The false story gained traction, in large part, thanks to a tweet by conservative commentator …

Axios reports: A source close to McConnell tells Axios a Republican Senate would work with Biden on centrist nominees but no “radical progressives” or ones who are controversial with conservatives. The Biden agenda would be severely restricted by GOP control, the source added: “It’s going to be armed camps.” The state of play: The process is in its early stages …

The New York Times reports: The Justice Department told federal prosecutors in an email early on Wednesday that the law allowed them to send armed federal officers to ballot-counting locations around the country to investigate potential voter fraud, according to three people who described the message. The email created the specter of the federal government intimidating local election officials or …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: The Georgia Republican Party and President Donald Trump’s campaign filed a lawsuit late Wednesday alleging that Chatham County is improperly counting absentee ballots received after the state’s deadline. The petition, filed in Chatham County Superior Court, was the third filed by the Trump campaign, all in states with close races where ballots were still being counted …

NBC News reports: A viral video claiming to show ballots for President Trump being burned is fake, Virginia Beach officials said on Tuesday. The video shows an unidentified person putting what appear to be paper ballots in a plastic bag before dousing them with a flammable liquid and setting them on fire. While that person does not specify the location, …

Phoenix’s ABC News affiliate reports: Several hundred protesters gathered outside of the Maricopa County Elections Office on Wednesday night as the votes from the 2020 elections continued to be counted. The group had gathered around 7:30 p.m. and attempted to get inside the office, according to ABC15. Protesters could be heard chanting “count those votes” and chastising Fox News Channel …