Dramatic scenes in Washington as Trump supporters try to stop Congress approving Biden’s victory
This amount to a coup attempt
And while we wait for Congress to formalise Biden’s victory….
With 98% of the votes counted the Dems looks set to gain both Georgia US Senate seats
The above from the New York Times shows the big American news overnight that the Democrats look all set to take the two Georgia runoffs seats. This is hugely significant as it means that in the new Senate the split will be 50/50 between the Democrats and the Republicans. Because the casting vote goes to to the Vice President, Kamala Harris from January 20th, Biden will become a President in 2 weeks time with his party controlling both parts of…
Six hours to go before Georgia voting closes and the pressure builds on Pence who oversees tomorrow’s vital Congress session
The Dems now odds-on favourites to win both Runoff races Today must be the most critical non presidential election in modern American history for if the Democrats can take both the Georgia senate seats then the Biden will start his presidency with his party holding the House, the Senate, and of course the White House. As expected Trump is doing his best to put pressure on all parties in order to avoid him being booted out on January 20th as…
Both Trump and Biden stage Georgia rallies on the eve of today’s Georgia runoffs
Trump’s was all about him and appeared like a series of whines particularly against the Republican governor of the state and, of course, the Secretary of State who stood up for democracy in face of huge pressure as we saw in the recording of a phone call he got from the outgoing president. This contrasted with the President-elect who emphasised consistently the importance of the outcome for the future of the US. There was a good analysis of both parties…
Trump’s desperate attempt to bully the Georgia Secretary of State shows the lengths he’ll go to hang on
Make America Great Again – say goodbye to Trump The big Trump news overnight has been the above attempt by the President to find a way of hanging on in there. Just listening to it he sounds desperate and there are on 16 days left till Biden’s inauguration. Tonight Trump will now doubt bleat on again with his big electoral fraud lie at a rally in Georgia ahead of tomorrow’s runoff Senate election. The day after there is what is…
After a quick & successful vaccine rollout, this is the second most thing I want to see in 2021
On New Year’s Eve The Spectator dropped a very interesting story. As many hospitals struggle to cope with a surge of Covid-19 patients, the most important judgement yet to be made about 2020 is how much difference it would have made had England been pre-emptively locked down in September. This is not an academic question. Because there were two separate occasions in September when the prime minister’s political and scientific advisers urged him to impose tough national restrictions and suppress…
Trump preparing for GOP losses in the Georgia runoffs? He Tweets that the races are “illegal and invalid”
CBS – YouTube Could this depress the Republican vote? This is from the New York Times: Mr. Trump has continued to make the false claim that Georgia’s election system was rigged against him in the Nov. 3 general election. Some Republican leaders are afraid that his supporters will take the president’s argument seriously, and decide that voting in a “corrupt” system is not worth their time, a development that could hand the election to the Democrats. Some strategists and political…