Mayor Buttigieg Is Eyeing a New Title: ‘Ambassador Pete’

By Scott Bixby

“Biden has committed to building out the Democratic bench and making his Cabinet as diverse as possible,” an aide said. “Pete helps achieve both of those goals.”

By Sam Stein, Scott Bixby

Biden events in the COVID era have been sparse and distant by design. But if his supporters do not to come to the inauguration, planners worry Trump fans will fill the void.

By Hanna Trudo

“100 percent of it’s planned and strategic,” said a source with insight into Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s messaging style.

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By Sam Brodey, Hunter Woodall

Some Georgia Republicans are nervous about how all the family infighting will affect the two Senate runoffs that are less than two months away.

By Sam Brodey, Hunter Woodall

Democrats bet on strengthening their numbers in 2020—that didn’t happen. Now, struggling states and cities around the country won’t get the help they need as budgets run out.

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Whites voted for Trump in about the same numbers as 2016. The real difference this time: a jacked-up Black vote in Detroit, Milwaukee, and elsewhere.

These pleas for kindness toward members of a vicious American political movement are par for the course for people who genuinely believe that their humanity trumps everyone else’s.

The president-elect is being denied resources from the Trump administration. But we don’t know who’s filling the void. And we won’t for months.

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 DON’T TELL HIM

Even the president’s most bombastic advisers have reportedly come to accept that his legal action has little chance of succeeding.

 ENOUGH’S ENOUGH

Nineteen opposition lawmakers have resigned from their posts in a dramatic show of resistance.

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