Governor ducey and Lieutenant Governor bernadette. Historic election for several reasons. , thering for an election events undertaking even in normal circumstances, the complexity this year has been compounded by the pandemic. In spite of this, we had an extremely wellrun election and saw historically high voter participation. There were more than 3. 4 2 million ballots cast in this election and turn was nearly 80 . Increase from the, 2018 midterm elections and 8 increase from the 2016 president ial election. Of those 3. 4 2 million ballots cast, over 88 of them were cast early, which provides more proof arizonas solid by mail system works. Thetionally, despite ,nprecedented challenges arizonans showed up for our democracy. Every arizona voter has my thanks and should know that they can stand proud that this election was conducted with transparency, accuracy, and fairness in accordance with arizonas laws and elections procedures, despite numerous unfounded claims to the country. As a r
95 points higher. You know liz mentioned this down the stretch of her show, russell 2000, the small cap stocks, dow transports they both closed at records today as well. That is kind of day. A lot of green and really big day for stocks. Im Connell Mcshane. We welcome you to after the bell. Those are the numbers at the close. Time now for the news thats happening at this hour. We have fox Business Team coverage with Jackie Deangelis in the new york newsroom, blake burman reporting from washington, also get to Hillary Vaughn in wilmington, delaware, president elect biden just wrapped up there remarks on the economy but blake, lets start with you. That is the big news today. That Moderna Vaccine. Tell us about it. Reporter they expect, connell, moderna does to apply for the eua, emergency use authorization in the next couple weeks. Maybe distribute the covid19 vaccine by the end of the year. When you look at numbers on the Clinical Trials it is about as good as they hoped for. Here they a
Week of starting specifically about the Electoral College, what it is, how it works, why why mostrtant, political scholars hate the Electoral College. Hopefully you have read most of the book so far, if not, all of it. You get an argument against the Electoral College, but its a useful book because he lays out all of the common arguments for think isl, which i helpful for allowing each person to make up their own mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. I do a whole week on this one elect thes how we president , but very few americans understand the process. Theou take a course in american presidency, you should probably walk away understanding how this process works. But also because its really important in how it structures how elections turnout. We started our discussions of president ial nominations by talking about the history of nominations and taking a relatively deep diving to the process rules of nominations today. We start out president ial nomina
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InterNational Space station. Humans a new era of spaceflight and i could not be more pleased with what the nasa and spacex team has accomplished. Its truly an exciting time. Its great we are flying cruise on a regular cadence crews on a regular cadence from here to Kennedy Space center on u. S. Rockets and great we are doing it with our International Partners. Weve got one from japan on board. I could not be more pleased with what the team has accomplished. Im proud and humbled to be a part of it. Introduceleasure to our nasa administrator, jim bridenstine. Through his outstanding leadership and advocacy for the commercialization of lower lowearth orbit, the commercial route program, and transformation of the Kennedy Space center, to a multiuser spaceport that becomes a reality, please welcome a Great American to the stand, our administrator, jim bridenstine. [applause] jim thank you. And q, bob, for that introduction and thank you for your amazing leadership here at the entities base