Liz Cheney sent a memo to GOP Reps. this morning addressing the GOP challenges to biden’s victory.

“This is directly at odds with the Constitution’s clear text and our core beliefs as Republicans.”

“The recent proposal for a new “Commission” is even more problematic”
More: “Such objections set an exceptionally dangerous precedent, threatening to steal states’ explicit constitutional responsibility for choosing the President and bestowing it instead on Congress.”
The memo is 21 pages long and goes through each challenge in AZ, GA, MI, NV, PA, WI.
Re: “the commission”
“It is not reasonable to anticipate that any commission so formed could wrap up its work in 10 days; indeed, the subsequent debate...would likely require months”
And now Dick Cheney (and Rumsfeld) signs onto a letter w/ all 10 living former DoD secretaries: “Appropriate challenges have been addressed by the courts. And the electoral college has voted. The time for questioning the results has passed”

washingtonpost.com/opinions/10-fo…
Also icymi, here’s a deep dive on Liz Cheney from a few months ago.

politico.com/news/magazine/…

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On New Years Eve, Biden team dumps a bunch of financial disclosures for nominees including SoS Tony Blinken and DNI Avril Haines
Haines lists Peter Thiel's Palantir.
She was a consultant there from July 2017 to June 2020 and lists 180k in income from the company
SoS nominee Tony Blinken's financial disclosure includes at least 5k income from:
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the Biden team tells me on the timing that the finalized documents went over mid week (today is Thursday) and just posted.
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Our look at the secret Biden power broker who's been quietly shaping the transition from the beginning: Mark Gitenstein.

he's been especially involved in DoJ and been pushing for Jones, an official tells @tylerpager

politico.com/newsletters/tr…
Gitenstein is also an ex-lobbyist for some of the left's biggest targets: Chamber of Commerce, Merrill Lynch, and Arthur Andersen.

His relationship w/ Biden goes back over 40 years as chief counsel on the Senate Judiciary committee (he was an architect of derailing Bork)
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23 Dec 20
Biden going old-school and meeting with newspaper columnists including @GeraldFSeib
Biden tells them why he's optimistic on bipartisanship: "Republicans are beginning to realize that there is a center that has to be responded to"
wsj.com/articles/biden…
To the doubters, he says: "I’m going to be able to get stuff done in the environment none of you are going to believe,” he said, citing in particular changing views within the business community. “I could not have gotten it done six years ago.”
.@ktumulty was also part of the group.
She reports that Biden noted that he has taken some criticism for stocking his administration with many familiar figures
“One reason you need old hands is the old hands know where the old bodies might be buried.”

washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump…
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NEWS in tn's TP

Forget the last relief package, the early battle lines are being drawn for the Biden stimulus

Trump-Hill sniping delays "The Plum Book." It still hasn't published.

The Biden team's reading list (which includes Michael Lewis' 5th Risk)

politico.com/newsletters/tr…
our "the oppo book" item is about Jake Sullivan playing "the senator game" w/ friends on the SCOTUS steps that @NatashaBertrand reported
.@zcolman @eleanor_mueller @RebeccaARainey report on Rep. Andy Levin getting some support from environmental groups for Labor Secretary, the latest jockeying for the post which includes CAPAC pushing for Julie Su and CBCPAC pushing for Patrick Gaspard.
politico.com/news/2020/12/2…
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11 Nov 20
NEW in tonight's TrAnSiTION playBOOK:
In 2016, Ron Klain chose Hillary over Joe and admitted: “I am definitely dead to them—but I’m glad to be on Team HRC.”
Now, he's been resurrected and the frontrunner to be Biden's Chief of Staff.
PLUS... (thread)
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NSA: If it's Tony Blinken, Dems expect Coons or Rice to be the frontrunner for state. But the there's no clear spot for Jake Sullivan. If it's Jake for NSA, the Dems think Blinken is a shoo-in at State.
on the econ team, Jason Furman tells us that he is NOT joining the admin: "I’m very happy with my job, my family would never let me go back to DC at this stage of our lives.”

for National Econ Council, the contenders include Jeff Zients & Ben Harris
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10 Nov 20
NEWS in tn's Transition Playbook
WH officials + Meadows telling people GSA won't certify Biden victory until Friday or later

Awenate Cobbina has joined the transition

Linda Darling-Hammond leading is heading up education for the transition

& more

politico.com/newsletters/tr…
Other bits:
The GSA stand-off continues w/ a spokesperson telling us: "There are no updates at this time and GSA’s position remains the same. An ascertainment has not yet been made."

Many congressional Dems are furious. Here's one letter today.

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