President Donald Trump’s legal team dedicated to overturning the election results jettisoned attorney Sidney Powell, who’s been continually pushing flatly bizarre conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, on Sunday.
Biden To Tap His Former National Security Adviser As Secretary Of State
President-elect Joe Biden’s team announced that the former vice president will nominate Tony Blinken, who served as Deputy Secretary of State and as Biden’s ex-national security adviser during the Obama years, to be his secretary of state.
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A Few More Hill GOPers Push Trump To Accept Reality As More Legal Battles Fall Flat
A handful of Republicans have joined a small contingent of conservative lawmakers over the weekend in accepting the reality that President Trump’s presidency is ending in January. The sitting president still refuses to concede to President-elect Joe Biden and his flailing attempts to legally challenge the election results have not picked up steam. Continue reading “A Few More Hill GOPers Push Trump To Accept Reality As More Legal Battles Fall Flat”
WH Vaccine Czar Predicts Herd Immunity From COVID Vaccine By May. Fauci Thinks Not.
White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Moncef Slaoui, chief adviser of Operation Warp Speed, offered conflicting takes on Sunday regarding herd immunity as a result of COVID-19 vaccines. Continue reading “WH Vaccine Czar Predicts Herd Immunity From COVID Vaccine By May. Fauci Thinks Not.”
‘National Embarrassment’: Christie Blasts Trump’s Legal Team As Election Challenges Fizzle
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) blasted President Trump’s legal team on Sunday for being “a national embarrassment” as it boosts the sitting president’s refusal to concede by waging bogus claims of widespread election fraud. Trump’s legal battles in his efforts to delegitimize the election process have continued falling flat. Continue reading “‘National Embarrassment’: Christie Blasts Trump’s Legal Team As Election Challenges Fizzle”
Biden’s Team Signals POTUS-Elect Will Push Forward With Cabinet Picks This Week
President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming White House chief of staff Ron Klain and transition team senior adviser Jen Psaki on Sunday alerted the public to keep its eyes peeled for an announcement this week from Biden on his cabinet picks amid President Trump’s refusal to concede, which has held up the President-elect’s formal transition process. Continue reading “Biden’s Team Signals POTUS-Elect Will Push Forward With Cabinet Picks This Week”
Loeffler Quarantines After Inconclusive COVID-19 Tests And Indoor Campaign Events
Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) is quarantining following inconclusive COVID-19 test results on Saturday evening, a day after she campaigned with Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) ahead of the battleground state’s Senate runoff elections in January. Continue reading “Loeffler Quarantines After Inconclusive COVID-19 Tests And Indoor Campaign Events”
Trump Losses Keep Piling Up As Judge Smacks Down Campaign Lawsuit In PA
Pennsylvania officials can certify election results that currently show Democrat Joe Biden winning the state by more than 80,000 votes, a federal judge ruled Saturday, dealing President Donald Trump’s campaign another blow in its effort to invalidate the election.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, turned down the request for an injunction by President Donald Trump’s campaign, spoiling the incumbent’s hopes of somehow overturning the results of the presidential contest.
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Wisconsin Election Officials Accuse Trump Observers Of Jamming Up Recount
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Election officials in Wisconsin’s largest county accused observers for President Donald Trump on Saturday of seeking to obstruct a recount of the presidential results, in some instances by objecting to every ballot tabulators pulled to count.
Trump requested the recount in Milwaukee and Dane counties, both heavily liberal, in hopes of undoing Democrat Joe Biden’s victory by about 20,600 votes. With no precedent for a recount reversing such a large margin, Trump’s strategy is widely seen as aimed at an eventual court challenge, part of a push in key states to undo his election loss.
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No Take Backs! Blackburn Spox Says GOPer Didn’t Mean To Call Biden President-Elect
The list is so short that these days it counts as news when a Republican lawmaker calls Joe Biden, the decisive winner of the 2020 election, President-elect.
So it was Friday night when Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) referred to President-elect Biden in an interview with ABC News.
But Blackburn campaign spokesperson, Abigail Sigler, told the Tennessean that the senator didn’t mean it.
“She simply misspoke — it’s nothing more,” Sigler told the paper.
A Republican senator walking back a statement of simple fact shows President Trump’s enduring dominance over the party as he wages an ineffectual but damaging effort to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.
In an interview with ABC News Friday, Blackburn said she hadn’t spoken with Biden since his victory, referring to him as the President-elect.
“We did have the vice president come to the floor, the vice president-elect, come to the floor this week to cast a vote. I was presiding at the time. Didn’t get to speak with her,” Blackburn added, referring to Kamala Harris.
"I have not spoken with the president-elect. We did have… the vice president-elect come to the floor this week to cast a vote."
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Even as she acknowledged Biden and Harris as the rightful winners, Blackburn repeatedly suggested the results weren’t conclusive.
“We will work through this process. Now is the time for the Trump campaign, if they have their information that they need to present in court, now is the time they need to be taking that evidence to court.”
“Right now it is important that we settle this. I think if every legal vote is counted Donald Trump would get four more years,” Blackburn added, using a loaded term Republicans have latched onto in an attempt to delegitimize votes from predominantly minority communities.
Among Blackburn’s Republican colleagues, only Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT), Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Ben Sasse (R-NE) have explicitly called Biden president-elect.