Rudy Giuliani is out of the hospital, four days after being admitted for COVID-19.
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Report: Trump Warned Georgia Attorney General Not To Challenge Texas Lawsuit
President Donald Trump is said to have warned Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr (R) not to rally other Republican officials against a Texas lawsuit seeking to challenge the state’s election results, according to a report from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution late Wednesday.
Trump’s plea to the attorney general on Tuesday, came after Carr’s office had called a the lawsuit which ultimately aims to block the use of election results favoring President-elect Joe Biden in four battleground states “constitutionally, legally and factually wrong.”
According to the Journal-Constitution, Trump had also called Georgia Sens. David Perdue (R) and Kelly Loeffler (R) and complained about Carr’s opposition to the lawsuit. Two Republican officials told the Journal-Constitution that the President had been “furious” in his call with Loeffler over the attorney general’s defiance.
The senators issued a joint statement later on Tuesday saying they “fully support” the Texas lawsuit to reject election results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin which Trump lost in last month’s election.
The desperate and absurd effort comes as all 50 states and the District of Columbia have now certified election results. The lawsuit, now backed by the Trump campaign, has also garnered the support of 17 other Republican state attorneys general.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) — once an ally who Trump has now said he is “ashamed” to have endorsed — and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) re-certified election results in their state on Monday after a third tally that showed Biden won the state by roughly 12,000 votes.
Some Democrats have suggested the recent request filed for the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Texas lawsuit is part of a broader effort by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) to curry favor for a pardon from Trump before he leaves office as Paxton faces FBI scrutiny for allegations that he abused his office to benefit a wealthy donor.
Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs issued a statement Tuesday calling the election fraud claims in the Texas lawsuit “false and irresponsible.”
“Texas alleges that there are 80,000 forged signatures on absentee ballots in Georgia, but they don’t bring forward a single person who this happened to. That’s because it didn’t happen,” she said.
Biden To Stump For GA Senate Dem Candidates In Atlanta Next Week
President-elect Joe Biden is stepping in the high-stakes Georgia Senate runoffs to boost Democratic candidates Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff in their bids to unseat incumbent Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and David Perdue (R-GA), respectively.
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U.S. Will Delay Shipping Half Of Initial COVID Vaccine Supply
Only half of the initial shipment of doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine will make their way across the country the first week after the vaccine is approved by the Food and Drug Administration, The New York Times reported late Wednesday.
Gen. Gustave Perna, the chief operating officer for Operation Warp Speed, told reporters Wednesday that once approved a half batch of the doses — roughly 2.9 million — will be shipped around the country in the first week. Another 2.9 million doses will be saved for booster shots to be administered three weeks later. The remaining 500,000 of the anticipated 6.4 million total doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine will be held in reserve in case they are unexpectedly needed, the Times said.
Perna told reporters that he had decided to set aside the doses intended for the second shot out of caution.
“Eventually, we will become much more confident in our manufacturing, our distribution process, state handling, et cetera,” he said, according to the Times. “And then the requirement for reserve won’t be necessary.”
An outside panel of experts is set to meet on Thursday to consider whether the Pfizer vaccine, which has already been approved for use in the United Kingdom and Canada, should be authorized for limited use. The United Kingdom approved the vaccine last week. The FDA is expected to arrive at a decision within days about the vaccine which was developed with a German company, BioNTech and found to be 95 percent effective in a clinical trial.
Another vaccine developed by Moderna, could also be authorized within weeks, potentially increasing the number of doses available as vaccination gets underway.
The news comes after earlier reports about supply constraints after Pfizer was forced to scale back more ambitious estimates due to manufacturing issues. The pharmaceutical giant has now said it can provide about 25 million doses to the United States before the end of the year, and has a contract to provide 100 million doses in total by March. The company is in negotiations with the federal government over supplying additional doses next year, although those doss could be delayed until June.
Government officials have said they hope a first dose of the vaccine will have been given to 20 million people before the end of the year.
Biden To Have Entire WH East And West Wings Showered With Disinfectant Right After Trump Leaves
President-elect Joe Biden and his transition team are reportedly already making plans to ensure that the White House, which has been plagued with a series of COVID-19 infections thanks to President Donald Trump’s disregard for protective measures against the virus, is safe enough for the 78-year-old Biden to move in come January 20.
CNN’s Tapper Blasts Trump’s ‘Clownish Coup Attempt’ At Overturning Election Results
CNN anchor Jake Tapper excoriated President Trump and some Republicans for their “clownish coup attempt” at delegitimizing the election process as the sitting president’s flailing legal battles contesting the legitimacy of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory have proven fruitless. Continue reading “CNN’s Tapper Blasts Trump’s ‘Clownish Coup Attempt’ At Overturning Election Results”
AZ GOP Chair Says Trump Called Her Up After Court Smacked Down Election Challenge
Arizona Republican Party chair Kelli Ward on Wednesday gleefully touted that President Trump called her up that morning asking her for an “update” on her party’s efforts to challenge the state’s election results. The presidential call came a day after the state’s Supreme Court swatted down her challenge to void President-elect Joe Biden’s win. Continue reading “AZ GOP Chair Says Trump Called Her Up After Court Smacked Down Election Challenge”
Trump Camp, 17 Red State AGs Formally Get Behind Texas’ SCOTUS #Overturn Lawsuit
The absolutely absurd nature of Texas’ request that the Supreme Court reverse the election results in four battleground states has not stopped the Trump campaign or more than a dozen other Republican state attorneys general from supporting the gambit.
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Unbelievable
So the Trump DOJ had an active criminal investigation going against Hunter Biden while Trump was being impeached for extorting Ukraine for dirt on … Hunter Biden?
Pentagon Nom Respects Civil-Military Divide! Biden Says, Arguing For Civil-Military Waiver
President-elect Joe Biden argued Wednesday that his pick for secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, deserves a waiver to serve in that role despite recently leaving the military.