Senate Candidates Duel in Georgia as G.O.P. Votersâ Anger Persists
As the stateâs Republican senators rallied with Ivanka Trump, and their Democratic challengers welcomed Kamala Harris, conservative voters were focused on the presidentâs election loss.
Ivanka Trump, right, campaigning with Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in Milton, Ga., on Monday. Ms. Trump spoke about her fatherâs record and the pandemic, but one of her biggest applause lines was about counting âevery single legal vote.âCredit.Dustin Chambers for The New York Times
Published Dec. 21, 2020Updated Jan. 1, 2021
MILTON, Ga. â Five Republicans spoke at a rally on Monday in suburban Atlanta, including two state lawmakers, Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, and Ivanka Trump, the presidentâs daughter and senior adviser.
“I promise you my Justice Department will be totally on its own, making its judgments about how they should proceed,” he said.
The president-elect’s transition team disclosed this month that federal prosecutors in Delaware are investigating Hunter Biden’s taxes.
The probe is apparently looking into whether Hunter Biden violated tax and money laundering laws with his high-flying business dealings in Ukraine and China when his father was the vice president.
Attorney General William P. Barr, who is leaving the Justice Department, this week, said Monday that he doesn’t see a need to appoint a special counsel to look into Hunter Biden something congressional Republicans are calling for.
There was no public response from Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, who said on Instagram she wanted to ease concerns about the vaccine and set an example.
“I would would [sic] never, ever ask you to do something I wasn’t willing to do myself,” she said. “Yesterday, in accordance with national security protocols, Congress began to get vaccinated. I documented the entire process.”
It would makes sense if it was age, but unfortunately it’s of importance and its shameful.
We are not more important then frontline workers, teachers etc. who are making sacrifices everyday.
Which is why I won’t take it.
When the moderates introduced their plan, the top Democrats saw their opportunity. They quickly embraced it as the easiest vehicle for jump-starting negotiations.
It was a major shift for the leaders, who had rejected Trump administration proposals twice as large, refusing to budge as the election approached even as they privately conceded that there was little momentum for a deal. During one call in late September, Ms. Pelosi had told Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin that she had spent a sleepless night watching a rerun of “The Princess Bride,” the 1987 cult classic. She compared their negotiations to how Billy Crystal’s character, Miracle Max, describes a patient in the film who has been tortured to the brink of death, pronouncing them “mostly dead.”
Family members gather for a road naming ceremony with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, center, his son Hunter Biden, left, and his sister Valerie Biden Owens, right, joined by other family members during a ceremony to name a national road . more > By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times - Tuesday, December 22, 2020
President-elect Joseph R. Biden said Tuesday that stories during the 2020 campaign about his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings were part of a Russian disinformation and smear campaign.
“Yes, yes, yes,” Mr. Biden said as he left the stage in Wilmington, Delaware.
Fox’s Peter Doocy had asked Mr. Biden if he still thinks the stories from the fall about Hunter were Russian disinformation and a smear campaign.