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Barring a Democratic sweep of Georgia's two runoff elections for the Senate in January, Biden's party will be a minority in the upper chamber, meaning at least some Republican buy-in will be necessary to confirm any of the incoming president's cabinet picks. … [Read more...] about Republican senator Tom Cotton calls Biden’s national security picks ‘partisan hacks’ who are ‘weak on China’ while John Cornyn warns the Senate is ‘not obligated’ to confirm his cabinet

Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield, Van Langevelde's boss, flew to Washington, D.C. Friday with six other GOP lawmakers to meet with Trump and members of his team Friday. He was also spotted enjoying drinks at Trump hotel just a few blocks from the White House over the weekend. … [Read more...] about Michigan elections board could deadlock when it meets today as Republicans come under intense pressure to back Donald Trump’s floundering claim of massive fraud and refuse to certify Joe Biden’s victory

President Trump's attorney has suggested to voters in Georgia, where two Senate runoff elections are due to take place in January, they should hold off voting for two Republican Senators until they are seen to be doing more to help the president fight to overturn the 2020 election result. … [Read more...] about Trump attorney Lin Wood tells Republican supporters NOT to back GOP candidates in the Georgia runoff election because they’ve ‘failed’ to help the President’s fight to overturn the election

He added: 'Only the coldest of hearts of stone would not be affected reading them and anyone of normal sensitivity could not but readily perceive how each of the authors of these statements and those referred to therein have been utterly devastated by this matter and their lives altered irretrievably. … [Read more...] about Dissident republican is jailed for minimum of 22 years for killing off-duty prison officer, 52, who died 11 days after bomb exploded under his van in Belfast

'The Governor of Georgia, and Secretary of State, refuse to let us look at signatures which would expose hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots, and give the Republican Party and me, David Perdue, and perhaps Kelly Loeffler, a BIG VICTORY,' he tweeted on Friday, adding 'Why won’t they do it, and why are they so fast to certify a meaningless tally?'   … [Read more...] about ‘The numbers reflect the will of the people’: Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State weighs in on the election recount