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Think i know. I wasnt coming to erie. I have to be honest. There was no way i was coming. We pay our own visit to see how Party Politics is playing with the folks of historic erie, pennsylvania. Plus after so long, you cant take no, you have to go out and get your yes. From atlanta to detroit, how black women became one of the most powerful voting blocs in american politics. Soledad im Soledad Obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. Theres a political transition underway from a Trump Presidency to a biden administration, though things are not yet final. In fact, well have to wait until december 14 when the Electoral College meets to make it official. As the votes came in, it was pennsylvanias 20 electoral votes that put native son joe biden over the 270vote Electoral College threshold and made him the president elect. Pennsylvania, like most states, awards electoral votes to the winner of the states popular vote. Only two states split their deperkt electoral votes. Nebraska, the red state,
this is the biden american rescue plan. it will be followed by the american recovery plan. this is bipartisan legislation. it may not satisfy the partisans on both sides of the capitol. we could have had a bill that was, you know, a fraction of the cost of this one. it could have gotten bipartisan approval and support. it s not focused on covid relief. it s focus zblienktda. people recognize that speaker pelosi s socialist agenda is bad for america. as a great man once said, and so it goes. the bill headed to final passage, the white house was announcing an increase in the number of vaccines shipped out. 600,000 additional doses from both pfizer and moderna being sent to states this week. the white house also says the seven-day average now for shots administered is over 2 million a day. there was a development on another front as well. the fbi released new video that shows that suspect planting pipe bombs that were found at the republican national committee and the
drive-thru mass vaccination clinic for more than 11,000 people, and they did it at the new hampshire motor speedway, the nascar track, which is a place that my brother-in-law, paul, is intimately familiar with. my brother-in-law loves nascar! loves it. he loves all kinds of car racing, everything from formula 1 to drag racing and morris stuff and yrnsion but mostly, he loves nascar, and i am absolutely convinced that that is why my brother-in-law, paul, is now vaccinated against covid-19. he heard that they were doing this mass vaccination thing at the racetrack and he was like, oh, at the racetrack? and so, yeah! the answer from him was, yes, please, i will get up early and go get my vaccine there. and the big news in our family is because paul decided that he was going drum roll, please susan s mom agreed that she would go, too, she would go with paul. susan s mom is in her 90s. she has a bull s eye on her in terms of vulnerability to this virus, if she ever got it. we