Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy joins Special Report with the latest from the Peach State.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock appear to have an excellent chance of being elected from once-reliably Republican Georgia on Tuesday, following President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the state in November.
Georgia is now on the mind of every American concerned about the fate of American government and politics because Tuesday’s election result will determine which political party will control the U.S. Senate for at least the next two years.
If Ossoff defeats Republican Sen. David Perdue and Warnock defeats GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler, there will be 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans in the Senate. Once Sen. Kamala Harris is inaugurated as vice president Jan. 20, she will be able to cast the tie-breaking vote to give Democrats a razor-thin majority in the chamber.
Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report and Errin Haines of the 19th join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including President Trump’s unpredictable approach to passing the coronavirus relief bill, his continued refusal to accept the results of the presidential election and how his behavior could influence the Georgia runoffs.
Journalists still wrongly think the U.S. is different
“Political journalism needs to wean itself from right-wing agitators and call this period what it is: an erosion of democracy and attempts to radicalize large chunks of the electorate.”
While I think the last couple of months have added a few more twists and turns as we hurtle to the bottom of the roller coaster I spoke about in 2018, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t foresee how this ride would unfold.
For example, take the extent to which the media has seemed to silently accept the harassment by the current regime over the last seven months. Political journalists seemed flummoxed and unprepared for what is unfolding in this interregnum period, despite my urging last year that American media to learn from their African colleagues. My friend Joe Penney and I tried to warn of this eventuality.
Let’s normalize women’s leadership
“If representation matters, so do narratives. Political journalism can shape those narratives and, in turn, voters’ imaginations about who is electable and who should govern by reporting on women as politicians.”
In her speech after being declared vice president-elect, Kamala Harris repeated something her mother Shyamala said: “You may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last.”
When she’s inaugurated on January 20, 2021, Harris who already made history this year as the first woman of color nominated for vice president by a major U.S. party will be the first Black American, the first Indian American, and the first woman to serve as the second-most-powerful person in the country. It’s a remarkable and significant milestone in our politics, but being The First should be neither a defining nor potentially damning characteristic of her tenure.
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Morning Joe, MSNBC again demonstrated that it s the place that welcomes left-wing guests who have a history of using incendiary race rhetoric as anti-racism scholar Ibram X. Kendi appeared as a guest to discuss his recent column hitting the Democratic party from the far left.
Just a few months ago, the allegedly anti-racist Kendi voiced opposition to interracial adoption as he derided then-Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett as a white colonizer via Twitter for daring to adopt and care for children who are black.
At 8:37 a.m. Eastern, MSNBC showed viewers clips of Democrats Joe Biden and Barack Obama complaining that the far left s defund the police slogan had hurt Democrats in competitive districts, and then co-host Mika Brzezinski referred to a recent article by Kendi that appeared in