David Rutz is senior writer at the Washington Free Beacon. He was previously a sports reporter for two years in Atlanta and has done freelance sports reporting for the Washington Post. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2010 and lives in Marietta, Ga. His Twitter handle is @DavidRutz. He can be reached at rutz@freebeacon.com.
Pfizer and Moderna have announced the production of vaccines that are more than 90 percent effective in preventing COVID-19, countering media reports and experts who said President Donald Trump would need a "miracle" to keep his promise of the United States having a coronavirus vaccine by the end of 2020.
With their extensive knowledge of history, top politicians like Beto O'Rourke and titans of punditry such as Joe Scarborough, Donny Deutsch, and Christiane Amanpour concluded President Donald Trump was like Nazi leader and Holocaust perpetrator Adolf Hitler.
Georgia's record turnout in 2020 brought a sudden end to Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff's repeated complaints that voter suppression would hurt his chances.
NBC analyst John Heilemann appears quite fond of MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace, bestowing awkward greetings, over-the-top praise, and air kisses to her on live television.
Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff blamed the presence of a third-party candidate who once ran for office as a Republican for why he ran 100,000 votes behind Joe Biden last week.
The media took a celebratory tone for the "nationwide block party" over Joe Biden's election victory, in contrast to its scolding of the coronavirus "super spreader" Donald Trump rallies.
The Lincoln Project received adoring media coverage in 2020 for its fanatical ads targeting Senate Republicans, but it failed in its stated goal of ousting senators Susan Collins (Maine), Thom Tillis (N.C.), Joni Ernst (Iowa), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), and others.
Pundits and prognosticators foresaw a landslide victory for Joe Biden and a blue wave in 2020, but the mixed results so far indicate more of a purple ripple.
Party control of the Senate appears likely to hinge on two Georgia runoff races in January, after all the candidates in both races failed to secure a majority of votes in Tuesday's elections.