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President Donald Trump speaks during a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe Biden in Washington. (Evan Vucci, File/AP Photo)
The Senate voted to acquit former President Donald Trump. We discuss what it means for the Republican Party and the nation.
Guests
Michael Whatley, chair of the North Carolina Republican Party. (@WhatleyNCGOP)
Norman Ornstein, emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Contributing editor for The Atlantic. Contributing editor and columnist for the National Journal. (@NormOrnstein)
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Interview Highlights
On Trump’s acquittal, and ‘fear’ in the Republican party
Norman Ornstein: “While a majority of Americans were very unhappy with his conduct leading up to the insurgency and the insurrection on January 6th, a majority of Republicans felt differently. And the most active activist Republicans in particular. And I m not just talking about the rank and file.
Bird Song of the Day
Another city bird only in New York?
#COVID19
At reader request, I’ve added these daily charts from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching…. (A reader asked the source of the data: Johns Hopkins CSSE. DIVOC-91 does allow other data sets to be used, like Our World in Data and The Atlantic, and where they provide visualizations similar to those below, a cursory comparison shows that the shape of the curves is the same.)
Northeast up, others flattening or down. I’d hate to think that was a zero sum game of short supply. More on vaccination:
Voting registration data indicates a stronger-than-usual flight from the G.O.P. since the Capitol riot, with an intensely fluid period in American politics now underway.