With about 95 percent of the total vote in, incumbent David Perdue was ahead of his Democrat challenger Jon Ossoff by mere 0.4 percentage points, while Raphael Warnock led Republican Kelly Loeffler 50.2 percent to 49.8 percent, according to Edison Research. Democrats hope to win both seats in what was …
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US District Judge Jeremy D. Kernodle ruled on Friday that Texas GOP Representative Louie Gohmert and 11 Arizona Republicans can claim “at most an institutional injury to the House of Representatives,” when they argue that some sections of the 1887 Electoral Count Act violate the 12th Amendement, which stipulates the …
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Pelosi accused Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Senate Republicans of blocking the House-approved Caring for Americans with Supplemental Help (CASH) Act on Wednesday. Declaring the Republicans to blame for keeping $2,000 individual aid checks out of Americans’ reach, she lamented the GOP’s “endless tolerance for other people’s sadness.” …
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“Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything,” says the quote, which Stalin may or may not have uttered, that opened a five-tweet thread posted by Rasmussen on Sunday. The thread was about the so-called ‘Pence Card’ notion, that Vice President Mike Pence can …
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President Trump has promised to veto a $2.3 trillion spending package that allocates $900 billion for coronavirus relief, and $1.4 trillion in other government spending. After Trump ordered Congress to increase direct aid to Americans from $600 to $2,000 and cut out a slew of cash bonuses for foreign countries, …
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“The president-elect was able to connect with people over this sense of unity,” campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon said in a Glamour Magazine interview that was published on Tuesday, noting that people had mocked him during the primaries for trying to work with Republicans. She continued: “I’m not saying they’re …
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The Washington Post surveyed the 249 Republicans in the House and Senate and reported on Saturday that only 25 responded saying Biden had won the presidential election; the report was later updated to 26 after Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska) referred to “President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris” in …
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Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) does not believe Republicans could have handled the workload of her extensive history in the service industry. “Republicans like to make fun of the fact that I used to be a waitress, but we all know if they ever had to do a double [shift] they’d be …
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“I think he’s just playing for time in hopes that something will emerge that allows him either to have a good reason why he’s lost or, in his mind, maybe still to win,” Bolton said on Sunday in a CNN interview. “I think that simply emphasizes the need for senior …
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“Time to get creative, folks,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Thursday night after Politico reporter Erin Durkin said the progressive politician will gather with her family members for the holiday on a Zoom call. Ocasio-Cortez’s adoring followers praised her idea and thanked her for “modeling responsible behavior.” Some offered ways to tweak the …
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