Politico reports: The California activist movement to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom just got a national shot in the arm from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, two former Republican leaders who still have large conservative followings. The bid remains a long shot in a state where Democratic President-elect Joe Biden won 63.5 percent of the …

The Hill reports: A Fox News poll released Friday found mixed reviews about President Trump’s job performance over the last few years, with a majority ultimately saying they thought the United States was worse off now than it was four years ago. Fifty-five percent of voters in the the poll said they believe the U.S. is worse off now than …

“It’s not over! It’s not over! Yes, there is breaking news, the Supreme Court has turned down — you can put that — yeah, go ahead, leave it up. “It’s not over, the Supreme Court did turn down the Texas case. You know by now the Attorney General of Texas was suing Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin along with about 20 …

“Let me make one thing clear, there are 83 plus percent of Republicans now in the country, almost 30 percent of Democrats that don’t trust the results of the election. “77 percent according to the Quinnipiac poll came out yesterday. After what we have all now watched unfold over the last month, how does anybody trust the election results? “Now, …

From House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “The Court has rightly dismissed out of hand the extreme, unlawful and undemocratic GOP lawsuit to overturn the will of millions of American voters. “The 126 Republican Members that signed onto this lawsuit brought dishonor to the House. “Instead of upholding their oath to support and defend the Constitution, they chose to subvert the Constitution …

“The case wasn’t rejected on the merits, the case was rejected on standing. So the answer to that is to bring the case now to the district court by the president, by some of the electors, alleging some of the same facts where there would be standing. “There’s nothing that prevents us from filing these cases immediately in the district …

Via press release from the Texas Republican Party: Below is Chairman Allen West’s statement regarding the decision by the Supreme Court to dismiss Texas’ constitutionally legitimate and critical lawsuit. “The Supreme Court, in tossing the Texas lawsuit that was joined by seventeen states and 106 US congressman, has decreed that a state can take unconstitutional actions and violate its own …

Business Insider reports: President Donald Trump criticized the US Supreme Court on Friday after it rejected a legal challenge aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election. “The Supreme Court really let us down,” he said in a tweet. “No Wisdom, No Courage!” Trump decried the decision, noting the many “wonderful” states and Republican officials who supported the …

CNBC reports: The Food and Drug Administration has approved Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, a monumental turning point in the once-in-a-century pandemic that has taken nearly 300,000 American lives in less than a year and wreaked havoc on the U.S. economy. FDA Chief Scientist Denise Hinton told Pfizer in a letter Friday that she was authorizing the …

Variety reports: A “True Blood” reboot is in the early development stages at HBO, Variety has confirmed with sources. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Jami O’Brien are attached to write the script with original series creator Alan Ball also attached to executive produce. At this time, none of the show’s original cast is attached to return. The original “True Blood” is based …

Gothamist reports: For the first time since launching the metrics this spring, New York City has surpassed all three infection and hospitalization thresholds meant to monitor the spread of COVID-19. Mayor Bill de Blasio revealed the troubling milestone during a press conference on Friday, while previewing the launch of a new command center that will soon help distribute a COVID …

Salon reports: After decades of calls for the creation of a National Museum of the American Latino and an American Women’s History Museum as part of the Smithsonian Institution and months of bipartisan work, a lone Republican single-handedly torpedoed the measure — at least for now. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, blocked a bipartisan effort to establish national museums for Latino …

Axios reports: The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that sought to invalidate 10 million votes in four battleground states — Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin — that President Trump lost. Why it matters: It’s the latest and most significant legal defeat for Trump and his allies in their floundering attempt to …

Via press release from Moderna: Moderna, Inc., a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients, today announced that the U.S. government has exercised its option to purchase an additional 100 million doses of mRNA-1273, Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, bringing its confirmed order commitment to 200 million doses. Of …

ABC News reports: In a last-minute pitch to save President Donald Trump’s deal with Sudan, the Trump administration offered to pay victims of the Sept. 11 attacks $700 million of U.S. funds to drop their pursuit of claims against the African country, according to two sources familiar with the negotiations. The negotiations, which have not been previously reported and continued …

USA Today reports: Disney World will no longer be digitally adding face masks onto guests’ faces in ride photos, the company said. Florida’s Disney World reopened with new COVID-19 restrictions in July, one of which included wearing a face covering at all times except while eating or swimming. Park visitors who chose to not wear a mask while riding on …

“God is never late. We declared on this program, and you joined with me, that God almighty was gonna do a miracle and stop the theft of our election and the fraud that was being perpetrated on the American people, and that God himself would intervene. “They’re going to the Supreme Court to say ‘this election was rigged and you’ve …

“You know, all these people that impeached Trump, how do you not impeach if it’s Joe Biden one day? How do you not do it? It’s a foreign — it’s a family foreign crime syndicate. “Got an email provided to the FBI pointing out that Hunter hadn’t paid taxes on some of the Burisma payments and that’s just the tip …

Roll Call reports: Georgia Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler joined Hill Republicans in bucking President Donald Trump on Friday, voting to pass a defense policy bill that the president has been working for weeks to scuttle. The 84-13 vote on the annual National Defense Authorization Act forced every Republican in Congress to choose between their loyalty to the president …

Someone must have left a horse’s head in his bed: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Friday joined 125 House Republicans in backing the Texas lawsuit that seeks to invalidate the millions of votes in four battleground states that President-elect Joe Biden won. Why it matters: McCarthy was left off of the original filing on Thursday and would not …