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family:Georgia,serif;font-size:16px;color:#000000;">Big vaccine news overnight â ¦ CNN:
<a
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effective against symptomatic Covid-19, company saysâ</a>Just weeks after blasting
DONALD
TRUMP for trying to overturn the Electoral College, House Democrats are
about to try to reverse the outcome of a House election in Iowa to pad their slim
majority by an extra seat.Democrats say their candidate RITA HART, who lost to GOP
Rep. MARIANNETTE
MILLER-MEEKS
by six votes, has every right to ask the House to resolve one of the
closest House races in American history. Congress, they point out, has dealt with
110 such contested election cases over the past 90 years. Only three, however,
resulted in the declared winner being ousted and replaced, according to the
House Administration Committee. The Iowa case could become the fourth. Rep.
ZOE LOFGREN
(D-Calif.), who chairs the Administration panel that will adjudicate the
first part of this case â and is a longtime ally of Speaker NANCY PELOSI â has said
her panel members are keeping an open mind, that nothing is predetermined and that
Hart has the burden of proof. But a source close to the process confirmed to Playbook
 that the effort to oust Miller in favor of Hart has been blessed by the
top echelons of House Democratic leadership. And the DCCC has brought in â and is
paying the legal fees for â top Democratic election lawyer MARC ELIAS, this person
said. Elias, who helped fight
dozens of Trumpâs frivolous election law claims in court this
winter,
doesnât wade into any old House race. His presence alone signals that
Democratic leaders want to take this all the way and flip the seat into
Democratsâ control.âFederal law provides that this contest is the proper
avenue to ensure that all legal ballots are counted and we have presented
credible evidence to support their inclusion in the final tally,â Elias said in a
statement provided by the DCCC.
Democrats
maintain that the House Adminâs rulings and the motivations of the DCCC
are two different things â but it would be politically naive to believe that. The
judge in this case is essentially the prosecutor â and yes, this is totally
allowed under the Constitution. Still, the flip of the script here is really something to behold.
Republicans who followed Trumpâs demand that they object to the
Electoral College votes, without any proof of fraud, are suddenly calling foul on
Hartâs use of Congress to challenge her own election results. But Democrats were just as adamant
about the need to respect state-certified elections. If they side with
Hart, the party will be effectively throwing out the decision of local election
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serif;font-weight:bold;">Hereâs what you need to know about this
dispute:1)
22 ballots. Hartâs argument centers on 22 ballots her campaign says were
not counted but should have been â and which would have led to her victory had
they been included in the final vote tally. WSJâs Kristina Peterson has an
<a href="https://go.politicoemail.com/?
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cast through curbside voting but not accepted by the voting machine; absentee
ballots that werenât counted because they were in a box that was marked with a
lower number of ballots than it actually contained, leading to confusion; and one
absentee ballot that wasnât counted because the signature was in the wrong
location on the envelope.â In another situation, the voter taped her ballot shut
so it was discarded. GOP defense attorney ALAN OSTERGREN
 says that each of those was discarded by bipartisan panels of election
officials based on rules about how ballots are counted in the state. The House
Admin Committee will dig into this in the coming days.2) Why not the courts?
Republicans keep asking why Hart didnât just appeal to the courts, which
would have been much cleaner â and less fraught politically â than coming to
Congress to get fellow Democrats to flip the election. Hart allies say there
wasnât enough time to prepare a lawsuit before the state-certification deadline
in mid-December. The last time Democrats did something like this, in the 1980s, the
blowback was intense. Expect the same again. Only this time, Republicans might not
have much credibility on this issue â especially those who objected to the
Electoral College results, at Trumpâs request.But there are plenty of Republicans who didnât
do that, like Senate Minority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL,
 who are also infuriated by this move. Last week the Kentucky Republican
accused Pelosi on the Senate floor of trying to âstealâ a House seat. (It will
be a while if and when it reaches that point: The investigation is moving into what
could be a lengthy discovery period, during which both candidates submit evidence
and filings.) Thereâs still a question of whether Democratic leaders can pull this
off â in part because of their own skittish members. The House would have to vote
on this, and in recent days, multiple Democrats have gone on record to express
their reservations with overturning a state-certified election after blasting Trump
for his shenanigans. On Fox News, Rep. DAVID PRICE (D-N.C.) <a
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thereâs the slightest chance that that would happen.â
Weâve also spoken to
Democrats in some of the most competitive House districts who do not
want to vote on this. With a 219-211 majority, Pelosi couldnât afford to lose
more than a couple of votes if it reaches a floor vote.5) Dangerous precedent?
Republicans are already threatening that if Democrats do this, theyâll
be blazing a path for future majorities to overrule state election results. What
happens to election integrity if this becomes a regular thing?</td>
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BIDENâS MONDAY â
President JOE BIDEN and VP KAMALA HARRIS will receive the Presidentâs
Daily Brief at 9:50 a.m. Biden will meet virtually with Senate Democrats at 7 p.m.
during the caucusâ annual retreat.â Harris will swear in
ISABELLA
CASILLAS GUZMAN as SBA administrator at 9:30 a.m. Sheâll leave D.C. at
11:50 a.m. for Jacksonville, Fla., where sheâll visit a vaccination center at
2:25 p.m. Sheâll take part in a listening session with Florida leaders at Feeding
Northeast Florida, Food Pantry, Distribution & Food at 3:20 p.m. Sheâll leave
Jacksonville at 6:05 p.m. to head back to D.C.â The White House Covid-19 response team and
public health officials will brief at 11 a.m. Press secretary
JEN PSAKI
will brief at 12:30 p.m.THE HOUSE is not in session. The Oversight
Committee will hold a hearing on D.C. statehood at 11 a.m.THE SENATE will meet at 3
p.m. to swear in KAREN GIBSON as the new sergeant-at-arms. It will vote on
MARTY WALSHâS
nomination to be Labor secretary at 5:30 p.m.THE WEEK AHEAD: Biden will
head to Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday to promote the Covid relief law and celebrate
the anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. Heâll host an Equal Pay Day event
Wednesday. And heâll hold the first big press conference of his presidency
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serif;font-weight:bold;">POLITICS ROUNDUPSWEET REVENGE â <a
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Raffensberger in Georgia,â</a>
 by Alex Isenstadt and Zach Montellaro: âFormer President Donald Trump
is expected to endorse Rep. Jody Hice in a campaign to unseat Georgia Secretary of
State Brad Raffensberger in next yearâs Republican primary, according to three
people familiar with Trumpâs decision. Trump publicly seethed about Raffensperger
after the November election, when the secretary of state refused to support
Trumpâs false claims that Georgiaâs 16 electoral votes were stolen from him.
Top Raffensberger aides had publicly rebuked the president's conspiracy theories,
warning in early December that it would lead to potential violence. â ¦
âHice, who
first won election to his east-central Georgia seat in 2014, is a staunch
Trump ally who supported Trumpâs efforts to overturn the election. He derided the
Democratic-led push to impeach Trump over his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot
as âbogus.âââ Also from Isenstadt: <a
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Club for Growth
takes aim at impeachment backers Cheney, Anthony Gonzalezâ</a>THAT WAS QUICK â <a
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01d3ac79c0cfb61183d98e5352561b05" target="_blank">ââSorryâ: GOP U.S. Rep. Tom
Reed retiring amid misconduct claim,â</a>
 AP: âU.S. Rep. Tom Reed, a Republican from western New York who was
accused last week of rubbing a female lobbyistâs back and unhooking her bra
without her consent in 2017, apologized to the woman on Sunday and announced that
he will not run for reelection next year.âReed, 49, said in a statement that the incident
 involving then-lobbyist Nicolette Davis occurred âat a time in my life
in which I was struggling.â He said he entered treatment that year and realized
he was âpowerless over alcohol.â â ¦ In late February, Reed said he was
seriously considering running for governor against Cuomo should the Democrat seek a
fourth term next year. Reed said in his statement Sunday that he would not seek any
elective office in 2022.âHELP FROM FRIENDS â
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fd9922f50f954b4477d37eb5ce67237a" target="_blank">âScoop: McCarthy hires top
Trump official to run political operation,â</a> Axios: âHouse Minority
Leader Kevin McCarthy has hired former President Trumpâs White House political
director, Brian Jack, to lead his own political operation. â ¦ The move to bring on
Jack underscores McCarthyâs strategy of keeping Trump and his orbit close as
Republicans seek to retake the House majority in 2022 â and McCarthy achieves his
personal goal of becoming speaker.ââ
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takes shape under Trumpâs watchful eye,â</a>
by David Siders: âIn Iowa this week, Pompeo will speak at a breakfast
meeting of the Westside Conservative Club ... He and Terry Branstad, the former
governor and U.S. ambassador to China, will appear at a lunch that afternoon hosted
by the Bull Moose Club of Des Moines, a group of conservatives under 40. Next week,
Pompeo will appear by video conference in New Hampshire â ¦ On April 1, Rick Scott,
the senator from Florida, will be in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for an event hosted by the
state Republican Party. South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott will be in Davenport on April
15. Later that month, Pence, the former vice president, will travel to South
Carolina to give his first speech since
leaving office. Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who has already visited New Hampshire
multiple times, told Republican activists there in January to expect to see him
back in the state soon. âOne Republican strategist in South Carolina said advisers
to and associates of Pompeo, DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida have all
placed calls into the state recently to discuss the landscape there.â
THE WHITE
HOUSEâI DONâT LIKE PEOPLE TELLING ME HOW IMPORTANT I AMâ â <a
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some in the White House. Heâs perfectly fine with that,â</a>
 by Natasha Korecki: âNow that Biden is president though, Clyburnâs
bold, in-your-face style, isnât playing the same. While the president himself
holds his longtime friend and confidant in the same regard, the congressman has
privately drawn the ire of some White House officials, several sources tell
POLITICO. But if Clyburnâs style is irking officials in the West Wing, he has no
qualms about it. âI donât like people telling me how important I am,â the 80-
year-old congressman said in a sit-down interview with POLITICO. âYou gotta show
me.â
âClyburn is
trying to put his stamp on the course of the Biden presidency and isnât
shy about it. He complained about a lack of diversity in Bidenâs initial Cabinet
rollout and pushed specifically for ally Marcia Fudge to get a position in the
administration. Heâs made his pick for Supreme Court Justice known even before
thereâs a vacancy. He joined other House Democrats in urging the administration
to elevate Shalanda Young to the Office of Management and Budget to become the
first Black woman to head the department.â
CRUZ TO TROLL
W.H. ON MEDIA ACCESS AT THE BORDER â Since when is Sen. TED CRUZ (R-
Texas) on the side of the media in any major dispute? Well, since today â when
itâs politically advantageous. Cruz, who is leading a group of senators to the
Rio Grande Valley on Friday to witness the situation at the border, is going to
send the White House a letter asking for press access to detention facilities. The
move comes after ABCâs 
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a3eb3080ebbe2f975bb867f59b244e3a" target="_blank"> grilled DHS Secretary ALEJANDRO
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Johnson Helps Erode Confidence in Government,â</a> NYT: âMr. Johnson
is an all-access purveyor of misinformation on serious issues such as the pandemic
and the legitimacy of American democracy, as well as invoking the etymology of
Greenland as a way to downplay the effects of climate change. â ¦ âHis continuing assault on the
truth,
 often under the guise of simply âasking questionsâ about established
facts, is helping to diminish confidence in American institutions at a perilous
moment, when the health and economic well-being of the nation relies heavily on
mass vaccinations, and when faith in democracy is shaken by right-wing falsehoods
about voting.âGOING FOR BROKE â <a href="https://go.politicoemail.com/?
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immigration: House Dems eye âkitchen sinkâ for next big bill,â</a>
by Sarah Ferris: âWith most items on their agenda hobbled by the Senate
filibuster, top House Democrats are eyeing ways to muscle through drug pricing and
climate policy goals using the same arcane budget process that let the party bypass
GOP votes for its pandemic aid bill. Sweeping immigration bills are also on the
wishlist for many members, with Democrats eager to fit what they can in Bidenâs
next high-profile package â which could be the partyâs last shot at using the
budget tool before the midterm elections.
âHouse Speaker
Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Chuck Schumer havenât formally decided
to use the budgetary tool known as reconciliation for Bidenâs next major
priority, an infrastructure and jobs plan. Biden and top Democrats are still
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