The Trump administration has bought an additional 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from Moderna, officials announced on Friday, after reports emerged that it missed an opportunity to buy tens of millions of doses from Pfizer.
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The latest litmus test for any Trump-loving Republican is whether you back an outrageous lawsuit Texas has sought to file in the U.S. Supreme Court arguing that Joe Biden’s wins in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan should be tossed out.
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Over a month since Joe Biden was declared President-Elect — since it became clear beyond even a sliver of a doubt that President Donald Trump had fallen many states short of being reelected — a hefty chunk of Americans have simply rejected that reality.
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All 50 states and D.C. have now certified their 2020 election results:
Biden 81,282,376 (51.3%)
Trump 74,222,576 (46.9%)That's a 2.4 point margin swing against Trump vs. 2016 and a 15.9% increase in votes cast.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) December 11, 2020
A margin of more than 7 million votes, 4.4%. A 74 vote margin in the electoral college.
It is over and it was not close.
TPM Reader JG thinks we need at least some partial reappraisal of Bill Barr’s tenure running the DOJ …
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All aboard the corruption train!
The Orlando Sentinel editorial board on Friday apologized for endorsing Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL), who won reelection last month and has since supported a legal effort out of Texas that seeks to challenge the results of the presidential race won by Joe Biden.
“We had no idea, had no way of knowing at the time, that Waltz was not committed to democracy,” the editorial board wrote in an op-ed published on Friday apologizing for its endorsement of Republican lawmaker.
A substantial number of states and roughly half the Republicans in the House have now signed on to the Texas lawsuit again against Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. On its face Texas asserts the right to review the voting laws of states Joe Biden won, finds them lacking and asks the Supreme Court to throw out the results in those states.
The GOP’s desperate attempt to have the Supreme Court overturn the results of the presidential election has attracted powerful support from … states that have yet to come into being, according to a Thursday court filing.
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With the election of Joe Biden to the U.S. presidency, forgiveness of federal student loan debt is suddenly on the table as a very real possibility. Millions of Americans could find the crushing financial burden of a college education lightened overnight. Biden can eliminate federal student debt with the stroke of a pen using an executive order, and progressives and prominent Democratic senators are calling for him to write-off at least $50,000 per borrower.
