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Today is the day the 2020 presidential election is expected to be officially certified, making former vice president Joe Biden the next President of the United States.

Veteran Republican political consultant and one of President Donald Trump’s most trusted friends and confidantes, Roger Stone, lead the “Stop the Steal” rally

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the state of Texas’s lawsuit to overturn the 2020 presidential race between President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has sided with the minority of Republican voters and has dismissed his legal challenges.

Hours after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the Texas lawsuit to overturn the 2020 presidential election, President Trump's legal time filed "emergency filings" with the Supreme Court late Friday night for Georgia and Michigan. About an hour later, a similar motion was filed for Arizona.

With the U.S. Supreme Court having ruled against hearing the state of Texas’s voter fraud lawsuit, a new Fox News poll shows that the majority of Republicans believe the 2020 election was stolen from President Trump and would vote for him in 2024 if he ran a second term.

After the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) was forced to release the footage on two body cameras worn by state law enforcement officers that executed the search warrant of fired state worker Rebekah Jones’ home earlier this week, it was clear that police acted professionally and that Jones lied.

This week, the fight to contest the 2020 election results created even more tension between Republicans and Democrats after Texas announced a lawsuit against four battleground states in the hopes of blocking their certification of election day results. To add fuel to the fire, Florida’s Attorney General Ashley Moody also announced that the sunshine state was joining the lawsuit in...

Yeah, you all remember that catchy and popular 1980’s David Bowie song about his Chinese love interest. 

In response to the news, Florida Democrats welcomed the news, and one Florida lawmaker that shared his excitement of what is to come is Florida Rep. Darren Soto (D). “We applaud Morocco for becoming the 4th Arab-majority country to recognize Israel in recent months,” Soto said, adding that “this is another major milestone on the road to piece.”

With Republicans and Democrats deadlocked on how to proceed with another much-needed COVID stimulus, one COVID-related initiative that has proved successful and that both sides support is the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) that was offered to small business to help them make payroll.

After news broke that  Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell got caught up in a Chinese spy operation, where one of his trusted fundraisers was found out to be a foreign agent, who along with several other elected officials, may have slept with the congressman, the jokes started pouring in from all corners of the political world.

With the announcement that Florida’s Attorney General Ashley Moody had informed that Florida had joined the amicus brief that presses/urges the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the Texas lawsuit against four battleground states that would block their certification of election day results, Florida Democrats voiced their disapproval and frustration.

Florida Senator Rick Scott (R) took to the Senate floor this week to share his thoughts as to why he believes that lawmakers should reject any proposal “to bail out wasteful states, like New York and California, that want to use taxpayer money intended for coronavirus response to backfill their poorly-managed budgets and pension plans.”

It appears that running for reelection for her Agriculture Commissioner job isn’t politically viable anymore for Nikki Fried considering how she has decided to go all out with her attacks against Gov. Ron DeSantis.

With legal challenges continuing to loom over the 2020 presidential election and his newly-minted administration, President-elect Joe Biden is facing harsh scrutiny over some of the picks he is making to fill top administration positions, including some that may be out of their "depth."

Florida's Attorney General Ashley Moody has released a statement announcing that Florida has joined the amicus brief that presses or urges the U.S. Supreme Court to consider Texas' lawsuit against four battleground states in an effort to block their certification of the Election Day results.

President-elect Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden is under investigation by the U.S. Attorney in Delaware over tax issues. 

The expected 2022 mano-a-mano cage gubernatorial brawl (race) between Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried (D) continues to unfold as Florida’s top Democrat launches another barb at the first term president using more Progressive Democratic talking points.