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"Given the uncertainty, St. Louis Blues President and CEO Chris Zimmerman said the local NHL club is developing plans under the possibility that multiple scenarios could lie ahead. 

'I tell people that how we are going to come back, as an industry, certainly at the start will largely be dependent where we are in the cycle of the health challenge,' said Zimmerman.

For now, it appears the Blues and St. Louis Cardinals will initially return to play without fans in attendance. The NHL and MLB are both exploring plans to stage games without fans, according to reports. Even so, the industry is already mulling over what new safety measures need to be in place when arenas and stadiums reopen to fans. "

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A Letter from the Nye County Chairman

Date Published on Facebook on Jan. 8, 2021

As I write to you today, I have no doubt that this letter will find many of you crushed under the weight of despair or perhaps lost in a maze of confusion. It is my hope that by the time you finish reading this letter you will be able to confidently join millions of others who support the president and another four years.
 
Let me be clear: Trump will be president for another four years. Biden will not be president. Yes, I know those are shocking words in these crazy days.
 
I have been approached by many saying, “It’s over…”      continue to read

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A letter was posted to the Nye County GOP's website on Jan. 8 that appears to double down on the claim that President Trump won the 2020 election over former Vice President Joe Biden.
Nye County GOP letter claiming 'It's 1776 all over again!' causes stir online

Jan. 10, NYE COUNTY (KTNV) — A letter was posted to the Nye County GOP's website on Jan. 8 that appears to double down on the claim that President Trump won the 2020 election over former Vice President Joe Biden.

The letter was attributed to the Nye County GOP Chairman Chris Zimmerman and says "Trump will be president for another four years. Biden will not be president."

The letter goes on to state that Trump never actually conceded the election but said only that there will be a peaceful transition to a new administration.

The author seems to take this to mean President Trump will remain in office while bringing on a new Vice President and cabinet, calling those people traitors.

The letter ends quote "The next 12 days will be something to tell the grandchildren! It's 1776 all over again!"     continue to read

【新聞龍捲風】20210108 美國民主史最黑暗一天 這就是「蔡政府最愛的川普」! 完整版
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In the aftermath of the deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol and following the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College win, the Nye County Republican Party chairman released a letter on Friday filled with wild conspiracy theories, gloom and doom predictions, and the pronouncement that President “Trump will be president for another four years. Biden will not be president.”

Local GOP chair in Nevada says Trump will get second term
'Trump will be president for another four years,' read a letter on the Nye County Republican Party website

Jan. 10 - Although the letter is not signed, the website identified Chris Zimmerman as its chair, 8NewsNow reported. An updated message stated that it’s not signed because: “The intended audience was our rural membership and they all know me.” The outlet could not confirm Zimmerman was the writer.     continue to read

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On this edition for Sunday, January 10, lawmakers weigh impeachment in the aftermath of the Capitol riot, Americans continue to get vaccinated as the virus rages across the nation, and author and former CBS news anchor Dan Rather shares his perspective on this inflection point in American politics. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York.

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Benjamin Eric Sasse ( /ˈsæs/ SASS;[1] born February 22, 1972) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator for Nebraska since 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Born in Plainview, Nebraska, Sasse holds a bachelor's degree in government from Harvard University, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from St. John's College and master's and doctorate degrees in American history from Yale University. He taught at the University of Texas and served as an assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.[2] In 2010, he was named the 15th president of Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska. In 2014, he successfully ran for a vacant seat in the U.S. Senate, defeating Democratic nominee David Domina by 65% to 31%.[3] In 2020, Sasse was re-elected for a second term.     from Wikipedia

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Sen. Ben Sasse became the first Republican senator to say that he would “consider” voting to remove President Trump from office.
Republican senator: White House aides say Trump was “delighted” as Capitol was stormed

Sen. Ben Sasse said that, according to senior White House officials, Trump was “confused” why others weren’t as excited.

Jan. 8 - ow did President Donald Trump react to the chaotic scene in which his supporters stormed the Capitol as Congress was preparing to formally approve President-elect Joe Biden’s win — a scene that eventually left five people dead?

One Republican senator who says he’s been in touch with senior White House aides about the matter claims the president was “delighted.”

“I don’t have any idea what was in his heart about what he wanted to happen once they were in the Capitol, but he wanted there to be chaos,” Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) said, during an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt Friday morning.

“And I’m sure you’ve also had conversations with other senior White House officials, as I have,” Sasse continued. “As this was unfolding on television, Donald Trump was walking around the White House confused about why other people on his team weren’t as excited as he was as you had rioters pushing against Capitol Police trying to get into the building.”
Sasse added: “He was delighted.”     continue to read

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JANUARY 8, 2021
President-elect Biden Announces Economic Team
During remarks in Wilmington, Delaware, President-elect Joe Biden announced his top economic officials for his administration, finalizing his nominees for cabinet positions. He announced Governor Gina Raimondo (D-RI) for commerce secretary, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh (D) for labor secretary, Isabel Guzman for small business administrator, and Don Graves for deputy commerce secretary. Regarding the nomination for labor secretary, the president-elect said that he had considered Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), but they both agreed that after the Georgia Senate elections, they “cannot put control of the Senate at risk.” While taking questions from reporters, President-elect Biden said he was glad President Trump would not be at the Inauguration, but that Vice President Pence was welcomed to attend.

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JANUARY 7, 2021
President-elect Biden Announces Justice Department Nominees
President-elect Joe Biden announced his nominees for top posts at the Justice Department, including Judge Merrick Garland to serve as attorney general. Other nominess included Lisa Monaco to be deputy attorney general, Vanita Gupta to be associate attorney general, and Kristen Clarke to be assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division. The president-elect and vice president-elect also spoke out against the differences in law enforcement treatment of Capitol rioters and BLM protesters.

Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland speaks during an event with President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021.

Biden introduces Merrick Garland as attorney general pick

Jan. 8, WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden introduced his pick for the nation’s top law enforcement official on Thursday, turning to experienced judge Merrick Garland to help de-politicize the Justice Department and restore the rule of law after what the incoming president described as four years of lawlessness under President Donald Trump.
Biden also described the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol on Wednesday as “domestic terrorists” and assailed the Republican president for inciting the siege.
“The past four years we’ve had a president who’s made his contempt for our democracy, our Constitution, the rule of law, clear in everything he has done,” Biden said, vowing a dramatic shift in his administration. “More than anything, we need to restore the honor, the integrity, the independence of the Department of Justice that’s been so badly damaged.”     continue to read

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Merrick Brian Garland (born November 13, 1952) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He has served on that court since 1997. President-elect Joe Biden has selected Garland to be nominated as the United States Attorney General in the upcoming Biden administration.[1]
A native of the Chicago area, Garland attended Harvard University for his undergraduate and legal education. After serving as a law clerk to Judge Henry J. Friendly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice William J. Brennan Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States, he practiced corporate litigation at Arnold & Porter and worked as a federal prosecutor in the United States Department of Justice, where he played a leading role in the investigation and prosecution of the Oklahoma City bombers.

President Barack Obama, a Democrat, nominated Garland to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in March 2016 to fill the vacancy created by the death of Antonin Scalia. Despite Republicans themselves having spent years suggesting Garland as an acceptable Democratic choice,[2] the Senate Republican majority refused to hold a hearing or vote on this nomination made during the last year of Obama's presidency, with the Republican majority insisting that the next elected president should fill the vacancy. The unprecedented refusal of a Senate majority to consider the nomination was highly controversial. Some Republican lawmakers suggested leaving the court with just eight seats if Hillary Clinton were to be elected, saying they would block Garland or any other nominee and keep the seat vacant for at least another presidential term.[2] Garland's nomination lasted 293 days and expired on January 3, 2017, at the end of the 114th Congress. The seat for which Garland was nominated was eventually filled by Neil Gorsuch, appointed by President Donald Trump.     from Wikipedia

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Joshua David Hawley (born December 31, 1979) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior U.S. Senator from Missouri. A member of the Republican Party, Hawley served as the 42nd Missouri Attorney General from 2017 to 2019, before defeating two-term Democratic incumbent Senator Claire McCaskill in the 2018 election. At age 41, he is the youngest current U.S. senator, but will become the second youngest once Jon Ossoff is sworn in.[1][2]

Hawley graduated from Stanford University and Yale Law School. Before becoming Attorney General of Missouri, he was an associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Law and worked as an appellate litigator.

A Trump loyalist in the Senate, Hawley became the first senator to announce that he would object to the certification of Joe Biden's Electoral College victory in the 2020 presidential election.     from Wikipedia

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U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) sits in the House Chamber before a joint session of congress on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC.
Here’s What The Republicans Who Pledged To Challenge Biden’s Win Are Saying Now

Jan. 6 - Lawmakers who supported President Donald Trump’s desperate crusade to overturn the election are condemning pro-Trump riots—and while some have reversed their position on objecting to Joe Biden’s win, Sen. Josh Hawley continued question the election results.

Hawley, who spearheaded plans for GOP members to formally object to the Electoral College results, called on the Capitol rioters to be prosecuted—but continued to say that Congress is the appropriate place to raise concerns about fraud, and insisted that there were irregularities in the election without providing any evidence.

Sen. Ted Cruz called on rioters to leave the Capitol building and condemned violence—but Cruz, who was also a prominent voice against certifying Biden’s win, said that referring the pro-Trump riots “sedition” was “false” and “reckless.”

Sen. Tommy Tuberville has not released a statement about the situation so far.

A number of congressional Republicans—including Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Sens. Kelly Loeffler and Steve Daines--reversed course and said they would certify the results.

Sens. Roger Marshall, Mike Braun, John Kennedy, Marsha Blackburn, Steve Daines, Bill Hagerty, Ron Johnson, James Lankford, Cynthia Lummis as well as Reps. Mo Brooks and Matt Gaetz all condemned violence and said they supported the efforts of law enforcement to protect the Capitol.

Rep. Paul Gosar said he doesn’t want anyone to “get hurt,” but continued to call for an audit of the presidential election results and implied Antifa was behind the riot, while noted QAnon believer Marjorie Taylor Greene called for the violence to end and continued support for “election integrity.”

CHIEF CRITICSDemocratic Rep. Joaquin Castro called on Cruz and Hawley to immediately resign, while Steve Schmidt, a former GOP strategist turned Democrat, said the senators should be censured.     continue to read

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A Trump supporter takes a photo of himself with police officers in riot gear on Wednesday. 

The Cops Opened the Gates for Trump Supporters at the Capitol
As right-wing mobs stormed the U.S. Capitol this evening, Capitol Hill police stood idly by, moving barricades to let them in and taking selfies with members of the mob.

Jan. 7 - Six months ago, armed police in riot gear closed the streets around Capitol Hill and stood on the steps of the Capitol building, waiting for peaceful protesters who were gathering to demand justice for Black lives and protesting against violent and racist terror. Today, the same forces stood almost idly by as a far-right mob swarmed Capitol Hill, protesting the results of an election they’ve been whipped up by Donald Trump to believe was stolen.

The evidence is clear: videos all over social media show Capitol police opening the gates and removing the barricades that stood between the throngs of protesters and the Capitol building. Within the building too, cops are shown offering no resistance --  actually retreating — as the rioters move further and further into the building.      continue to read

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Democrat Jon Ossoff challenges Republican David Perdue for one U.S. Senate seat; Democrat Raphael Warnock is challenging Republican Kelly Loeffler for Georgia's other seat.
Georgia Senate runoff election results: Kelly Loeffler vs. Raphael Warnock; David Perdue vs. Jon Ossoff
Election to determine US Senate majority, President-elect Biden’s chances of enacting his agenda

Jan. 6 - ATLANTA – Georgia voters on Tuesday are deciding the balance of power in Congress in a pair of high-stakes Senate runoff elections that will help determine President-elect Joe Biden’s ability to enact what could be the most progressive governing agenda in generations.

Democrats must win both of the state’s Senate elections to gain the Senate majority. In that scenario, the Senate would be equally divided 50-50 with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris serving as the tie-breaker for Democrats.
Polls close at 7 p.m. EST, 6 p.m. CST Tuesday, but the final results may not be known for a day or two because of the expected close race and a state law that prevents Georgia election officials from tallying mail-in votes before polls close. See the up-to-the-minute election results  followed by details on the candidates.     continue to read

Perdue, Loeffler take leads over Ossoff, Warnock in tight Georgia Senate races

Jan. 6 - Polls in the fiercely-contested Georgia Senate runoff races closed Tuesday night, with early vote counts giving the Democratic challengers an initial lead that has since disappeared.

With 80 percent of the vote counted at 10 p.m., GOP Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) pulled ahead of Democratic opponent Jon Ossoff by more than 68,000 votes at 51 percent to 49 percent.

Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) also pulled ahead of Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock by almost 53,000 votes, or 50.6- percent-49.4 percent.

The eyes of the nation are trained on the Peach State for the two races that will determine which party controls the Senate and whether incoming President-elect Joe Biden will have any congressional check against his left-leaning agenda.     continue to read

JANUARY 5, 2021
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WSB-TV (Atlanta) Georgia Senate Election Night Coverage
WSB-TV (Atlanta) will have LIVE election coverage and results for Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats. The results will determine the majority in the U.S. Senate.

Why these elections matter

In the November general election the Democrats maintained their hold on the House of Representatives, but fell short of the 51 seats needed to retake the Senate, where the Republicans have had a majority for the past six years.

Tom McCarthy said: “Control of the US Senate is on the line. If the Democrats win both races, the president-elect will gain a big opportunity to build a progressive legacy. If Democrats lose one or both races, the country will enter at least a two-year period of divided government, with the Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, retaining power and likely frustrating Biden’s agenda.

“If Democrats win both races, the Senate would be split 50/50, but Democrats would effectively control the body with Kamala Harris, the vice-president-elect, in her role as president of the Senate, breaking any ties in a strict party-line vote.
“The runoff races are being held in accordance with state election laws because no candidate in either race won 50% of the vote in the November elections.”     source