With so many crazy things happening, sometimes things fall through the cracks. Here are some headlines that you may find interesting and worth discussing.
- The Electoral College voted and Spoiler Alert: Trump lost the 2020 election. Joe Biden will become our next president.
- Many of the congressional Republicans who for weeks have resisted referring to Joe Biden as president-elect are now acknowledging the contest for the White House is over.
- “It’s time for everybody to move on,” said John Thune of South Dakota, the No. 2 Senate Republican. While there is an opportunity for lawmakers to contest the electors’ votes, that effort is “not going anywhere.”
- Others include: John Cornyn, Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst of Iowa; and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia.
- Lindsey Graham said Trump has run out of options but did not explicitly state Biden won the election but claims he spoke to President elect Biden and the two discussed issues they could work on together.
- Moscow Mitch has yet to say Biden won the election.
- U.S. surpasses 300,000 deaths as first vaccine shots are given.
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture National Veterinary Services Laboratories confirmed the first known case of coronavirus in a wild animal in a Utah mink.
- Top Republicans are warning against President-elect Joe Biden picking former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to helm the Justice Department.
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