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Kamala Harris will visit Georgia, Joe Biden’s Monday transition team just confirmed.

The vice president-elect will travel to Suwanee and Columbus to campaign for Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.

Kamala Harris
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Georgia, can’t wait to be back next Monday to rally voters ahead of the Senate elections! Let’s flip the Senate.


December 18, 2020

Ossoff and Warnock take on Republican senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in the Jan. 5 runoff races in Georgia, which will determine control of the Senate.

Biden traveled to Georgia earlier this week to campaign for Ossoff and Warnock, and the president-elect urged Georgians to vote by stressing the need for a democratically controlled senate.

“Tell your friends, your family, just like in November,” Biden said in Atlanta. “Leave the vote so it doesn’t even come close.”

Biden won Georgia by just 13,000 votes last month, making him the first Democrat since 1992 to carry the state, and that victory has given Democrats hope that they can turn both Senate seats in next month’s run-off races.











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Luke Harding

It’s Joe Biden’s biggest foreign policy headache. In addition to confronting the Covid pandemic, the President-elect faces a more familiar problem: Russia. Moscow’s interference in the 2016 US presidential election cast a shadow over US politics for four years.

And now the Kremlin seems to have struck again. This week, details emerged of an unprecedented cyber attack on US government services. In early March, suspected Russian hackers entered Washington’s signature institutions.

They include the trade and treasury departments, homeland security, nuclear labs and the Pentagon, as well as leading Fortune companies. For months the Russian spies roamed at will, seemingly unnoticed. Only now are officials investigating the damage.

The hacking is a relentless reminder of how Vladimir Putin and the KGB agents around him view the world. They consider the US to be the main opponent or main enemy. This hostile Cold War mindset persists regardless of whether a Trump or a Biden is in the White House.











14:37

An early Christmas present for Rudy Giuliani? Donald Trump is expected to grant a wave of pardon today, according to a new report.

Axios reports:


Trump is considering pardoning friends and allies, as Axios reported, and interrupted talks with associates to spontaneously suggest he add them to his pardon list. He had already pardoned his former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

It was unclear who will be included in this batch.

Her. Rand Paul Trump cried for a pardon Edward Snowden in an article for The Federalist on Thursday. A source with direct knowledge of the schedule said they did not expect Trump to go ahead with a Snowden pardon.

The New York Times reported earlier this month that Trump was considering preemptive pardons for Giuliani, who has served as his personal attorney, and members of his own family.

Preemptive pardon has been granted before, as in the case of Richard Nixon after resigning over the Watergate scandal, but legal experts say Trump will likely have to specify which crimes he pardoned.











14:17

Vice President Mike Pence got the coronavirus vaccine next to his wife Karen Pence, and surgeon general Jerome Adams.

Adams shared a video of his vaccination on Twitter, along with the message, “I’ve never been more excited or proud #SleeveUp. “


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I’ve never been more excited or proud #SleeveUp💪🏾 #COVID-19 pic.twitter.com/dpaET8dSNK


December 18, 2020

Adams is one of many high profile black health officials to have received the vaccine in recent days, as polls show confidence in the vaccine is lower among African Americans.

One of the first to receive the Pfizer vaccine in the US was Sandra Lindsay, the director of intensive care nursing at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York, and her vaccine was administered by Dr. Michelle Chester, Director of Human Resources for Northwell Health. Both women are black.

Speaking last week about the need to recognize the history of racism in medicine, Dr. Anthony Fauci, The government’s top infectious disease expert noted that a black woman was one of the leading scientists to develop the Moderna vaccine.

“So the first thing you might want to say to my African American siblings is that the vaccine you are going to take was developed by an African American woman,” Fauci said. “And that’s just a fact.”

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13:58

Pence receives the Pfizer vaccine because the FDA panel recommends the Moderna vaccine

Greetings from Washington, Live Blog Readers.

Mike Pence received the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine live on camera this morning and became the most senior US official to receive the treatment to date.

“Confidence in the vaccine is what brings us here this morning,” the vice president said after his vaccination. ‘I didn’t feel anything. Well done.”


 ‘Important and symbolic’: US Vice President Mike Pence has been vaccinated against Covid – video

The landmark televised event came a day after the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory panel recommended the Moderna vaccine for emergency use.

The recommendation paves the way for the FDA to issue an emergency permit for the Moderna vaccine, a decision that could come as soon as possible.

If the Moderna treatment is approved, the US will have two coronavirus vaccines in circulation, allowing even more Americans to get vaccinated in the coming weeks and months.

The two news events underscore what public health experts have been saying about the pandemic for months: The end is in sight, which is why vigilance about social distance and mask wearing is so necessary until the vaccine is widely available.

There are more to come on the blog, so stay tuned.

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