Pfizer vaccine 90% effective . . . The drug maker Pfizer announced on Monday that an early analysis of its coronavirus vaccine trial suggested the vaccine was robustly effective in preventing Covid-19, a promising development as the world has waited anxiously for any positive news about a pandemic that has killed more than 1.2 million people. Pfizer, which developed the vaccine with the German drugmaker BioNTech, released only sparse details from its clinical trial, based on the first formal review of the data by an outside panel of experts. The company said that the analysis found that the vaccine was more than 90 percent effective in preventing the disease among trial volunteers who had no evidence of prior coronavirus infection. New York Times

 

Senate control to hinge on Georgia races . . . Republicans and Democrats are racing to Georgia to get in place for a nine-week, high-stakes, year-end sprint that could cost another $100 million and determine the balance of power in Washington. The two runoffs will likely thrust Georgia into the center of the nation’s political fray and test the extent of Democrats’ emerging strength in what was once a Republican stronghold in the South. Georgia, a once-reliable red state with rapidly changing demographics, will be the site of two Jan. 5 runoffs to settle which party will control the U.S. Senate. On Friday evening, Democrat Jon Ossoff and Georgia Sen. David Perdue narrowly advanced to a second round after three days of vote counting. Georgia law requires an outright majority to win a statewide office. Kelly Loeffler as is running for the final two years of the term won by Johnny Isakson in 2016 after Isakson retired due to health reasons. Her opponent is Raphael Warnock, a Democrat and a senior pastor at Martin Luther King Jr.'s church Ebenezer Baptist. As of Friday afternoon in the all-party primary, Warnock received 32.9% of the vote to Loeffler's 26%. Because neither hit 50% of the vote, both will go head-to-head on Jan. 5. Washington Examiner

 

 

Biden campaign manager promises "incredibly progressive" agenda . . . President-elect Joe Biden's deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield said Sunday that the former vice president would follow through on his promises to implement what she characterized as a progressive policy agenda. "I think that Vice President Biden campaigned on an incredibly progressive and aggressive agenda," Bedingfield said on Sunday before pointing to the campaign's plan to tackle climate change developed with advice from supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) presidential bid, including the New York congresswoman. "He's going to make good on those commitments," she continued. The Hill

 

 

Trump to hold rallies to contest election results . . . Those massive Trump campaign rallies will continue even after the election. President Trump plans to hold them as part of his legal strategy to contest the election results, a Trump administration official told The Washington Times on Sunday evening. At the rallies, the official said, the president will, among other things, display obituaries of people recorded as having voted. Washington Times

 

Michelle Obama insults and condescends to Trump Voters . . . You deplorables! We have some work to do to get you woke. She tweeted: "Let’s remember that tens of millions of people voted for the status quo, even when it meant supporting lies, hate, chaos, and division. We’ve got a lot of work to do to reach out to these folks in the years ahead and connect with them on what unites us." White House Dossier

 

 

Republicans expand probe into Dominion Voting Systems . . . Republicans are probing more Michigan counties and suggesting investigations in Nevada and Arizona to determine whether further Dominion Voting Systems technology errors caused votes to be counted incorrectly. Tony Zammit, communications director for the Michigan Republican Party, told the Washington Examiner on Saturday that the GOP is working across the Wolverine State to find out if other counties experienced similar issues to Antrim County. Washington Examiner

 

Trump campaign claims it has statistical evidence of fraud in Wisconsin . . . Some members of his campaign say statistical evidence of fraud in Wisconsin could give Trump a victory. One member of President Trump's reelection team who spoke with the Washington Examiner on the condition of anonymity said ballot data in Milwaukee indicates illegal activity by Democrats in the city. The distribution of those ballots in favor of presumptive President-elect Joe Biden, the individual alleged, violates Benford's Law — an analytical framework used by statisticians when observing a set of randomized data points. Washington Examiner

 

Trump team details shocking Nevada claims . . . President Trump's Nevada legal team beefed up its legal challenge to mail-in ballot signature verification in the state with startling claims of voter and ballot fraud. Among the allegations: dead voters, votes from thousands who no longer live in Nevada, and a van marked "Biden-Harris" full of opened mail-in ballots. Washington Examiner 
 

Film details Bidens' ties to communist China . . . If Joseph R. Biden is headed to the White House, M.A. Taylor thinks it is more important than ever that Americans understand just what kind of financial arrangements his family has with China and its communist government. His film “Riding The Dragon: The Biden Chinese Secrets” has racked up more than 2 million online views, but that’s just the start, he said. “The documentary has a completely new relevance than it had before,” he said. “The film has a new mission going forward.” Washington Times

 

Democrats missed Trump appeal to Latinos . . . The Biden campaign courted Latino voters primarily by reminding them that Joseph R. Biden Jr. was not Donald Trump, that if they felt targeted in President Trump’s America, a vote for Mr. Biden would change that. That argument resonated for many Latinos, who became the second-largest voting group for the first time this year. But for others, it was Mr. Trump who made them feel a part of America, not targeted by it.“I have been in this country since I was 9, I have been through a lot, and I am American,” said Teresita Miglio, an accountant in her 60s who immigrated from Cuba and attends an evangelical church in Miami where Mr. Trump spoke in January. “Abortion is the litmus test, Jesus is my savior and Trump is my president.” New York Times

 

Biden visits Beau's grave . . . President-elect Joe Biden on Sunday visited the cemetery where several family members, including his late son Beau, are buried at the Catholic church near his home in Delaware. He paid his respects the day after most major news outlets, including the Fox News Decision Desk, projected him the winner of the 2020 presidential election. The second Catholic to be elected president, Biden attended church at St. Joseph on the Brandywine near his home in Wilmington, Delaware, as he does nearly every week. After the service, he visited the church cemetery where his son Beau, his wife Neilia, and daughter Naomi have been laid to rest. Fox News

 

AOC wants to cancel those who worked for Trrump . . . Over the weekend, people started making lists. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez kicked things off on Friday with a tweet that terrified Trumpworld. “Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future?” she wrote. “I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future.” A group calling itself the Trump Accountability Project sprung up to heed AOC’s call. “Remember what they did,” the group’s sparse website declares. “We should not allow the following groups of people to profit from their experience: Those who elected him. Those who staffed his government. Those who funded him.” Politico

 

 

Twitter red flags tweets by Graham, Cruz . . . President Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted interviews from South Carolina Sen Lindsey Graham and Texas Sen Ted Cruz who both made claims of election fraud during the presidential election. Trump's first tweet was of a segment featuring Cruz that aired on Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures. In the clip, Cruz claimed that the Republican Party is 'hearing lots of allegations of a dead person voted'. Twitter flagged both videos, noting at the bottom that their claims about election fraud 'is disputed'. Daily Mail

 

 

Woke agenda lost on November 3 . . . In a week of surprises, California’s rejection of a ballot measure that would have allowed the state to resume its affirmative action program was among the most significant. The measure, known as Proposition 16, wasn't defeated by shy Trump voters. Polling showed Hispanic and other minority voters evenly split on the measure, and on Tuesday it was defeated in California's most Latino counties. California's result is just one piece of the mounting evidence that voters on Tuesday threw a wrench in the progressive plan to leverage a "coalition of the ascendant" and an "emerging Democratic majority" to turn the country into a woke utopia. Washington Free Beacon

 

George W Bush congratulate Biden and Harris . . . Former President George W. Bush on Sunday congratulated President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their election. “I extended my warm congratulations and thanked him for the patriotic message he delivered last night,” Bush said in a statement, referring to his conversation with Biden. “I also called Kamala Harris to congratulate her on her historic election to the vice presidency.” Politico

 

 

US enemies revel in election chaos . . . Rivals and enemies of the US have come together to revel in the messiest US election in a generation, mocking the delay in vote processing and Donald Trump’s claims of electoral fraud in barely veiled criticisms of Washington’s political activism abroad. “What a spectacle!” crowed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “One says this is the most fraudulent election in US history. Who says that? The president who is currently in office.”

With a large dose of schadenfreude, Washington’s fiercest critics declared deep concern about the US elections and the state of the country’s democracy. Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman on Thursday panned the “obvious shortcomings of the American electoral system”, calling the framework “archaic”. The Guardian

 

Putin, Xi refuse to congratulate Biden . . . Most world leaders rushed to congratulate Joe Biden on his election, but Russia and China, two likely losers from the defeat of Donald Trump, remained silent, perhaps waiting for the outgoing president to concede defeat. Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping kept their counsel. Iran, suffering from Trump-inspired sanctions and now recording nearly 500 Covid-related deaths daily, celebrated Trump’s demise and said the US should now compensate Iran for its mistakes. The Guardian

 

Biden win lifts world stocks to record peak . . . World stocks hit a record high on Monday and the dollar stayed weak as expectations of better global trade ties and more monetary stimulus under U.S. President-elect Joe Biden supported risk appetite.

Markets started to trade on the prospect of a Biden presidency and a Republican-controlled U.S. Senate last week, but the Democratic candidate’s projected victory on Saturday gave more fuel to the move. Reuters

 

Jeopardy host Alex Trebek dies of pancreatic cancer at age 80 . . . The quick-witted Mr. Trebek, who died on Sunday at age 80 after a battle with cancer that drew legions of fans to rally around him, hosted “Jeopardy!” for a record-setting 37 years. He was an authoritative and unflappable fixture for millions of Americans who organized their weeknights around the program, shouting out the questions as Mr. Trebek read the answers with his impeccable diction. New York Times