Power Up: Republicans are embracing Trump-enabled conspiracy theories more vigorously than ever Jacqueline Alemany have a wonderful weekend.
Global record : “India’s deadly struggle continues unabated, with the country on Friday reporting another record rise in coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours. To date, the country has recorded more than 21.4 million confirmed infections and at least 234,083 deaths,” our Jennifer Hassan reports. “The escalating figures come as nations send emergency aid to India, whose health-care system is struggling to cope. Some officials have expressed concern that the shipments of crucial supplies are being held up at airports and delayed in reaching hospitals that are in desperate need of oxygen equipment, medicines and vaccines.”
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THE DUMP CHENEY MOVEMENT GAINS STEAM: Another day, another news cycle on the GOP civil war that s now threatening to oust Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) from leadership and is raising even bigger questions about the post-Trump future of the Republican Party.
At least in the short term which Cheney explicitly acknowledged on Wednesday in an op-ed she
laying out why she s decided to “choose truth and fidelity to the Constitution” over former president Trump: “The question before us now is whether we will join Trump’s crusade to delegitimize and undo the legal outcome of the 2020 election, with all the consequences that might have,” she argued.