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First trips: to states with Senate races Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff took their first official trips this week, and they did so as part of the administration’s “Help is Here” campaign, a victory lap for the $1.9-trillion COVID-19 relief package that Biden signed into law last week. (Harris and Emhoff spent a few personal days in Brentwood last month but did not hold public events. I wrote about Emhoff’s precedent-setting role in a story this week.) Their destinations were telling: Las Vegas on Monday, the Denver area on Tuesday and Atlanta, where Harris plans to join Bi...

POLITICO Get the California Playbook Newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. 01/13/2021 09:13 AM EST THE BUZZ — DEMOCRATIC OVERREACH? California Democrats went out on a limb — a shaky one — Tuesday when they claimed the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom is tantamount to a “coup” attempt, one directly li...

President Trump and his supporters are still circulating baseless conspiracy theories about President-elect Joe Biden’s win. A group of Republican officials is still trying to intervene as the results are recorded. And we’re still waiting for results in a key race with dozens of absentee ballots ahead, this time in Georgia. The sense of déjà vu has been even stronger in that state, where voters relived the runup to the 2020 election, in which neither of the state’s Republican senators managed to clear the 50% threshold needed to win. For weeks since, Republican Sens. David Perdue an...