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Next week s vote by the incoming Congress on the Electoral College roll-up of November election results will be anything but routine.
But, as has become the usual way, too much attention is focused on the personalities involved and not enough on the effects on the country.
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Indeed, it feels much more depressingly usual that we could have more debate to resolve a fantasy election challenge than we can have to settle the recent impasse over a presidential hissy-fit over signing an overdue coronavirus aid bill a signing that came without explanation last week.
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President-elect Joe Biden speaks after the Electoral College formally elected him as president Dec. 14, 2020, at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del.
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WASHINGTON President Donald Trump’s extraordinary challenge of his election defeat by President-elect Joe Biden is becoming a defining moment for the Republican Party before next week’s joint session of Congress to confirm the Electoral College results.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is urging Republicans not to try to overturn the election, but not everyone is heeding him. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri vows to join House Republicans in objecting to the state tallies. On the other side of the party’s split, GOP Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska warns such challenges are a “dangerous ploy” threatening the nation’s civic norms.
2020’s Big Winners: Billionaires, Silicon Valley Tech Lords, and Communist China
31 Dec 2020
The coronavirus pandemic took nearly two million lives worldwide and caused unprecedented economic devastation this year, but 2020 had at least three big winners who came out stronger in spite of – or perhaps because of – the pandemic: the world’s billionaires, Silicon Valley’s tech lords, and communist China, where the virus originated.
COMMUNIST CHINA
China’s communist regime is sounding increasingly triumphalist in the wake of the economic destruction wreaked by the pandemic that originated in Wuhan and could have been prevented by Beijing. China’s communist dictator Xi Jinping boasted in his New Year’s Eve address that China is “the first major economy worldwide to achieve positive growth” in 2020, while the rest of the world’s economy shrank.
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It comes a day after Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley he will raise objections next week when Congress meets to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the election.