Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Friday, November 20th. In today's news, the CDC recommends against traveling or gathering for Thanksgiving.

The Federal Reserve and Treasury Department go to war with each other,

and Utah hospital workers rushed to New York in the spring to help.

Now New Yorkers return the favor.

But first, the big idea.

President Trump is using the power of his office to try to

reverse the results of the election. He is orchestrating a far-reaching pressure

campaign to persuade Republican officials in Michigan, Georgia, and elsewhere,

to overturn the will of the voters and what critics like Mitt Romney call an unprecedented

subversion of democracy.

After courts rejected Trump's baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud,

the president is now trying to remain in power with a wholesale assault on the integrity of the vote by spreading

misinformation and trying to persuade loyal Republicans to manipulate the

electoral system on his behalf.

Trump's focus for the moment is centered on Michigan. He has invited the leaders of

Michigan's Republican-controlled State Senate and House to meet with him later

today at the White House ahead of next Monday's state canvassing board meeting to certify results.

The President's team says that if they can get the board to deadlock, the legislature could

then choose to ignore Joe Biden's popular vote win and seat Trump electors.

This is not just legally dubious, it is downright autocratic.

Trump is putting a Republican system through a stress test.

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