Stephen Prothero / USA Today:
Christianity is on the ballot in the Georgia Senate runoff between Warnock and Loeffler
Are Americans open enough to recognize the Reverend King and the Reverend Warnock as Christians? I hope Georgia voters say, “Amen.”
Was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. a Christian? It sounds like a trick question in the sense of “Is the Pope Catholic?” But it’s on the ballot in Georgia’s two Senate runoff elections on Jan. 5, particularly in the competition between Senator Kelly Loeffler, a white Conservative businesswoman, and her Democratic challenger, Black Church pastor Raphael Warnock.
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Did the election result change #CovidVaccine’s intentions? We asked Americans how they would react to the vaccine before and after the elections. During this time, the percentage of GOPs who said they were vaccinated as soon as possible rose by only 3.7%. Dems rose 17.5%. Was it trust in science? New Prez? Both? pic.twitter.com/5E2ecqeQ2a
– Samuel Perry (@socofthesacred) December 27, 2020
Tammy Joyner / WaPo:
I’ve never been courted like I am now. I am a Georgia voter.
It is exhausting – especially for the fact-checker – but also exhilarating to be part of one of the most momentous elections of modern times. The Senate runoff is really a choice between a new Georgia or old Georgia.
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At that point, a new Congress would have to pass the bill – or a similar one – through both chambers.
Trump would then have 10 days to veto. If he did that, Congress could override. If he did nothing, it became law.
But Trump may not even be in office by then …
– Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) December 27, 2020
New York Times:
Trump’s fraud claims died in court, but the myth of the stolen elections lives on
For years, Republicans have used the specter of fraud as a reason to block access to ballot papers. A final debunking allegations of wrongdoing in 2020 did not change that message.
But the effort has produced at least one unexpected and entirely different result: a thorough exposure of the kind of electoral fraud alleged Republicans used to roll back voting for most of the young century.
New York Times:
Trump signs bill on pandemic relief after unemployment benefits expire
After calling the measure a “disgrace”, President Trump unexpectedly signed the law, extended the extended unemployment benefits and an eviction moratorium, and kept the government open.
President Trump abruptly signed a measure on Sunday to provide $ 900 billion in pandemic aid and fund the government through September. That ended the last-minute turmoil he had caused over laws designed to provide economic lifeline for millions of Americans and prevent government shutdowns.
The legislative package will allocate billions of dollars in vaccine distribution, funding for schools, small businesses, hospitals and American families, and money needed to keep the government open for the remainder of the fiscal year. The decree came less than 48 hours before the government shut down and just days before an eviction moratorium and other critical pandemic aid provisions expired.
But it also came after two critical unemployment programs that guaranteed a delay in benefits for millions of unemployed Americans expired.
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Toomey is an authority on “erratic behavior” after refusing to say who he voted until 7.45pm in 2016, then promising to “check out” Trump and spend 4 years not doing anything like that https : // t.co/3i0rj8lkXf
– Will Bunch sign up for my newsletter (@Will_Bunch) on December 27, 2020?
WaPo:
Mass confusion over Trump’s final as Washington heads for a shutdown and economic crisis
White House officials were mother of Trump’s demands, leaving Democrats and Republicans to try and analyze his tweets when the Monday deadline expires
“I understand he wants to be remembered for campaigning for big checks, but the risk is that if he allows this to expire, he will be remembered for chaos, misery and erratic behavior,” said Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) Continued Fox News on Sunday. “So I think the best I can do [said], sign this, then advocate for future laws. “
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Millions of Americans have now lost their unemployment benefits. Benefits ended at midnight after Trump refused to sign the COVID relief bill. Meanwhile, according to the pool report, Trump has just arrived at his Florida golf club.
– Kyle Griffin (@ kylegriffin1) December 27, 2020
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NY Post to Trump: “If you insist on spending your last few days in the office threatening to burn everything down, that’s how you will be remembered. Not as a revolutionary, but as an anarchist who holds the match. “Https://t.co/0QDB3cSFw2
– Jim Acosta (@Acosta) December 28, 2020
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