Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Friday that President Donald Trump should resign, making her the first Republican senator to say he should leave office as backlash grows against his goading of violen…
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WASHINGTON The Rev. and Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock shares more than a party with President-elect Joe Biden: Both Democrats made faith a central part of their political identity on the campaign trail and their victories are emboldening religious liberals.
Warnock, who leads the Atlanta church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, will become Georgia’s first African American senator after a hard-fought runoff that saw GOP opponent Kelly Loeffler cite his sermons in attack ads that portrayed him as radical.
His self-identification as a ” pro-choice pastor “ angered conservatives, but Warnock’s win in a state that Biden turned blue for the first time since 1992 has religious progressives hopeful that Democrats will keep broadening their outreach to voters of faith.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will impeach President Trump as she and other Democratic congressional leaders continued leaning on Cabinet members to invoke their Constitutional authority to oust him. Trump’s incitement of the mob that took over the Capitol building has made him a threat to democracy, Pelosi said. The House planned a Wednesday vote on impeaching Trump for “incitement of insurrection.” Latest updates: 2:39 p.m. D.C..
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