| "The Results Remain Unchanged" Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, announced the state had completed its review of the 2020 election, and that it reaffirmed President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory.
In a Monday press conference, Raffensperger said the state will re-certify the results after three counts of the ballots.
"This Isn’t a Third World Country"
Georgia Lieutenant Governor Geoff Duncan defended the integrity of his state’s election on CNN this morning by saying “it wasn’t hard” to determine that it was a “fair and legal” contest.
"Scared." MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle admitted Monday that she and her family had contracted Covid-19. “After testing positive for Covid-19, I have spent the better part of the last two weeks in bed isolating and taking all the precautions needed to protect myself, my family, and my community,” Ruhle told viewers of her Monday program. "As a person who is sick and scared, I am begging you, please take this seriously. It is not over," she said in her plea for good judgment and caution.
A Recipe For Seduction
Okay, look. 2020 has been very strange for…a lot of reasons. But even as the year is weeks away from ending, Lifetime and KFC decided to seriously up the weirdness ante and give the world something that’s making the Twitterverse do a collective spit-take.
Barr Done
United States Attorney General William Barr, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, is weighing the decision of stepping down ahead of the end of Trump’s term.
"Poisonous."
Pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood floated a deranged conspiracy on Monday, suggesting that the death of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s daughter’s boyfriend was “planned” — and daring his followers to “search for the truth.”
The condemnation was nearly universal.
The End of the 'Swedish Model' of Pandemic Response The controversial Swedish model for dealing with Covid-19, which relied on voluntary measures instead of mandatory restrictions to fight the pandemic, has been abandoned, it seems.
The change in strategy comes as Sweden’s death toll surpassed 7,000 last week, a steep number compared to its Nordic neighbors (Denmark, Finland and Norway have recorded 878, 415 and 354 deaths respectively). The current infection rate in Sweden (346 per 100,000) is more than double that of Germany, Britain and Spain.
“Authorities chose a strategy totally different to the rest of Europe, and because of it the country has suffered a lot in the first wave,” Stockholm physician Piotr Nowak told the Wall Street Journal. “We have no idea how they failed to predict the second wave.”
Read more on this major change here. 6.5.0 | 