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Morning Announcements

Wednesday, January 6th, 2021

Morning Announcements

Betches

Daily News, News, News Commentary, Politics

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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This Wednesday’s stories include: updates on the Georgia runoff elections, the Jacob Blake shooting, the Kyle Rittenhouse’s case, the recent cyberattack, Mar-a-Lago’s repeated mask violations, and the Grammys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today is Wednesday, January 6th, and you're listening to the morning announcements.

0:07.0

I'm Sammy Sage.

0:09.0

As of this recording at 11 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday night, sorry we had to go to sleep and we needed

0:15.8

some editing time.

0:17.3

Both Republicans Leffler and Purdue maintain slim leads but with Warnock and Osoff as the likely

0:22.2

winners according to the New York Times needle.

0:25.0

This is because despite the Republican leads, most of the uncounted votes are in heavily Democratic

0:29.4

leading areas like Atlanta with enough outstanding vote to overcome those leads.

0:34.0

You'll definitely hear more from me on these races tomorrow and hopefully we'll have the final results.

0:39.0

Today is also a huge day because Congress is set to finally certify the electoral results.

0:46.2

This is the final coup you've all been waiting for.

0:50.5

As you know, there will be challenges from nearly 150 House Republicans and now 13 Republican senators.

0:57.0

Just to set expectations, it's possible that Republicans could Seriously hope not because the result is not changing.

1:13.0

According to New York Times reporting, Pence plans to let the Senator's objections move

1:17.7

forward, but he's supposedly going to uphold his constitutional role of opening the

1:22.0

envelopes with the results in them and doing nothing else.

1:24.8

No surprise he wants to keep our Constitution just safe enough so that he can run for president in

1:29.4

2024.

1:30.4

For our next story we have an update in the Jacob Blake police shooting.

1:34.4

Yesterday the district attorney in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Michael Gravely,

1:38.3

announced that there would be no charges brought against police officer

1:41.7

Rustin Chesky.

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