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🗓️ 6 January 2021
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0:00.0 | Stay tuned for a message from Facebook after the show. |
0:04.8 | Good Wednesday morning from Washington, where if you're feeling a bit of ice strain, maybe some carpal tunnel from refreshing the needle all night, I am right there with you. |
0:14.5 | Unlike November's election week, we actually woke up this morning with a pretty good idea of how those two critical Senate runoff races in Georgia |
0:21.8 | played out last night and talk about every vote counting. Bringing Democrats within arm's reach of |
0:28.0 | the Senate majority, Raphael Warnock was declared the winner of his race over Republican Senator Kelly |
0:33.3 | Leffler in the wee hours of the morning around 2 a.m. Warnock is about to make history as the first |
0:39.4 | elected black Democratic senator from the South and the seventh elected black senator ever. |
0:45.2 | If you include appointed senators, he'd be the 11th. Meanwhile, Democrat John Ossoff started overtaking |
0:51.3 | Republican incumbent David Perdue in the vote count. And while that race is still |
0:55.9 | uncalled, both Democrats' leads are expected to grow today. That's because there are about 100,000 |
1:02.0 | votes still left to count, and many of them are from Georgia's Democratic strongholds. All that is to say, |
1:08.3 | unless we see a big shift in those uncounted votes, get ready for full |
1:12.2 | democratic control of both houses of Congress and the presidency. Two Democratic Georgia wins |
1:17.8 | would jolt some serious life into Joe Biden's agenda. There are already rallying cries from |
1:22.9 | progressives to go big and bold. Welcome to life in the majority, Chuck Schumer, who, by the way, is poised to |
1:29.0 | become the first Jewish Senate Majority Leader if Assov, who's also Jewish, wins his race. |
1:34.5 | The GOP implosion in Georgia has already prompted a blame game within the party, and it casts |
1:39.8 | a new light on President Donald Trump. He's just fuming about fresh, unfounded election conspiracy theories, |
1:46.3 | and listen to this. In four years, Trump has lost his presidency, the House, and now potentially the |
1:52.6 | Senate for the GOP. And he's pressuring Republicans in Congress to fight back today by refusing to certify |
1:59.4 | the electoral college votes that will cement Biden's win. |
2:03.1 | Trump's even pressuring Mike Pence to block that certification when Pence presides over today's |
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