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Playbook: “After Trump was elected in 2016, the Washington establishment was caught flat-footed and had no idea how the first president with zero record of government service would actually govern.” “Now, for the first time since Grover Cleveland returned in 1893, the folks who staff the agencies and handle everything from tax receipts to meat inspections to air traffic control have actually seen how the president-elect behaves.

Donald Trump has won Nevada’s six electoral votes, the first time in 20 years that the state has elected a Republican in a presidential election, the AP reports. The electoral map is updated.

A reader who canvassed in Pennsylvania for Kamala Harris sent this photo. Which signs were better?

Time: “Two years ago, the FBI raided Donald Trump’s home to retrieve government records he had refused to return, including hundreds containing classified information. The indictment that followed alleged the former President had left classified information laying around next to a toilet and stacked on a ballroom stage.” “Now Trump is poised to be briefed once again on the country’s secrets to prepare him to take the reins of government on Jan.

Greg Sargent: “There are 1,000 convoluted theories floating around on social media that purport to explain why Donald Trump won the presidential race. But some Democrats and people on Kamala Harris’s campaign have concluded that one very significant reason is a straightforward one: It proved disturbingly difficult to persuade undecided voters that Trump had been a bad president.” “Internal testing in all the battleground states over the course of many months yielded a result that unnerved the campaign, according to a senior Harris campaign operative who has seen the data.

“The Justice Department plans to focus on arresting the “most egregious” Jan. 6 rioters — particularly those who committed felony assaults on law enforcement officers but have not yet been arrested — in the remaining 72 days before President-elect Donald Trump is back in the White House,” NBC News reports.