Former Second Lady @DrBiden tells the story of meeting her husband, @JoeBiden. "Mom, I finally met a gentleman," she recounts telling her mother that night. (They would later marry after he proposed five times, she said.)
Jill Biden: "I want you to picture that it's 2021... You pick up your paper and the headline isn't about some late-night tweetstorm... Then you turn on the TV... and when they cut to the president of the United States, you don't turn the channel."
.@DrBiden takes some implicit shots at Sanders in STL: "We need a Democrat who can lead our party up and down the ticket... Democrats in the most liberal cities and the most conservative ones will be able to run with [my husband], not away from him."
“Don’t Stop Believing” plays @DrBiden as she departs St. Louis after a four-city tour of Missouri. She spoke for about 15 minutes — longer than her husband did in his St. Louis rally on Saturday.
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Unclear why @POTUS is visiting Georgetown. He is at Wolfington Jesuit Residence Hall, where he visited about two weeks into his presidency to receive his ashes for Ash Wednesday.
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Welcome to DC: It turns out Kamala Harris’ condo is not too far from my new apartment for the semester. The street is blocked off and there’s a small security presence (note the “VPPD” plates), although she will now reside at the Naval Observatory like past VPs.
UPDATE: Apparently the Vice President will be actively living down the street from me? If anyone’s looking for me, I might just be staking it out at all times trying to confirm.
Some news from the home front: The colorful St. Louis attorney Albert Watkins — last seen representing the McCloskeys — has now taken on the “QAnon Shaman” as a client
Watkins’s defense of Chansley is that he only “accepted President Trump’s invitation to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.”
“The words and invitation of a president are supposed to mean something,” Watkins says. He’s asking Trump to give Chansley a pardon.
I guess this is answers the question @RepBrianMast dramatically asked on the House floor yesterday, about whether any of the rioters had said they came to the Capitol because of Trump. (Chansley’s defense is that Trump “invited” him there.)
THE LATEST: Rep. Jody Hice attempts to object to the Georgia results, but says the senators who were planning to join him withdrew "following the events of today."
Some members in the chamber applaud. Pence nods and moves on to the next state.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene attempted to object to Michigan's electoral votes just now, but no senators joined for that either. Some members applauded once again.
Rep. Mo Brooks just rose to object to Nevada. "Unfortunately no United States senator has joined in this effort," he says.