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Congressional Democrats have a 100% vaccination rate “No,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said when asked if the rule mandating masks unless a member is speaking on the House floor would be modified. She then asked, “Are they all vaccinated?” The answer, among Democrats across both chambers, is a 100% vaccination rate. For Republicans, it’s a different story — with at least 44.8% of House members vaccinated and at least 92% of senators. In a follow-up to a March House-wide survey and interviews with members, CNN has confirmed that 312 of the 431 members of the House — just over 72% of the 431-member body — have now received a Covid-19 vaccination. Of that, all 219 House Democrats have reported being vaccinated. Among the Republican conference, 95 of the 212 members — 44.8% — have said they are vaccinated. One hundred and twelve Republican offices did not respond to multiple CNN inquires. One House Republican, Rep. Tom Massie of Kentucky, said he is not vaccinated. “The Pfizer and Moderna trials showed no benefit from the vaccine for those previously infected, so I will not be taking the vaccine,” Massie said in a statement to CNN. Both clinical trial and real-life data finds the mRNA vaccines are more than 95% effective at preventing severe Covid-19 illness, hospitalizations and death. Three other Republicans — Reps. Greg Steube and Kat Cammack of Florida and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia — said they did not want to share the information. “I’m not going to talk about it. I don’t think anybody should have to share their personal, private medical information with anybody,” Steube told CNN. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler of Pennsylvania told CNN, “I have the antibodies” when asked if he had been vaccinated. But experts don’t know how long antibodies last in a person who has recovered from Covid-19, and research suggests that coronavirus vaccines will provide better protection, especially when it comes to some of the worrying variants. One study found that people in South Africa who received the Pfizer vaccine after B.1.351 became the dominant circulating virus were still very strongly protected from infection, and that protection lasted for at least six months. All 50 members of the Senate Democratic caucus are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to interviews with those senators and a CNN review of their public statements. On the Republican side, 46 of 50 senators report being vaccinated, while two won’t publicly announce their vaccine status and two others — Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rand Paul of Kentucky — are refusing to get vaccinated, arguing they already got the disease and therefore don’t need it. Paul, who is an ophthalmologist, and Johnson argue that the antibodies they have are protective against serious reinfection despite the fact the CDC has been advising people that they do not know how long immunity lasts and to get the vaccine even if they have had prior infections. “I thought I was doing everyone a favor,” Johnson told CNN in a phone call in March. “I don’t think any of this is settled science, but the reason I am not vaccinated yet is I have had Covid and even when I had it, I had a mild case. … Now I am being attacked as being anti-science. It boggles my mind.” Vaccine hesitancy among Republicans remains a concern as the country races to end the pandemic, several polls have shown. Kentucky’s other senator, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is a polio survivor and vaccine supporter, has repeatedly addressed the issue, urging all Republicans to get the shot. GOP Sens. Kevin Cramer and Mike Braun told CNN several months ago that they likely would get the coronavirus vaccine. But they say they will not publicly disclose their vaccination status, arguing it’s a private medical decision. Cramer, who represents the red state of North Dakota, said he decided not to share whether he got or will receive the shot “out of respect” for a lot of his constituents who value their privacy. “What’s really been emphasized back home is that for many, many North Dakotans … the privacy is more important than the issue,” Cramer said. “And really out of respect for them, I just feel like, you know, we don’t divulge medical information.” He added of the coronavirus vaccine that “You should feel free to do it if you want to do it. You should not feel ashamed to not do it if you don’t want to do it. This is a free country.” Similarly, Braun said he thinks personal choice is more important. The Indiana Republican cited many reasons Americans may choose not to get the shot, such as “allergies, personal or religious objections, or concerns over underlying health conditions” and argued “it isn’t proper to intrude on any American’s personal health decisions” in a statement that his office provided to CNN. Braun also told CNN this week that his decision not to divulge his vaccination status was not related to how his constituents feel about privacy, but that it is his personal view. He contended, though, that the personal choice mindset is a “philosophy that we might have in a place like Indiana.” Asked if he thinks it’s important to help promote getting a Covid vaccine by having the shot and publicly announcing it, as many Republicans remain hesitant, Braun said, “No, I think that’s something that is a step too far.” At the same time, both Cramer and Braun recommend Americans get a vaccine to help end the pandemic if they want to. 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Congressional Democrats have a 100% vaccination rate

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Congressional Democrats have a 100% vaccination rate

“No,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said when asked if the rule mandating masks unless a member is speaking on the House floor would be modified. She then asked, “Are they all vaccinated?”

The answer, among Democrats across both chambers, is a 100% vaccination rate. For Republicans, it’s a different story — with at least 44.8% of House members vaccinated and at least 92% of senators.

In a follow-up to a March House-wide survey and interviews with members, Appradab has confirmed that 312 of the 431 members of the House — just over 72% of the 431-member body — have now received a Covid-19 vaccination. Of that, all 219 House Democrats have reported being vaccinated. Among the Republican conference, 95 of the 212 members — 44.8% — have said they are vaccinated.

One hundred and twelve Republican offices did not respond to multiple Appradab inquires.

One House Republican, Rep. Tom Massie of Kentucky, said he is not vaccinated.

“The Pfizer and Moderna trials showed no benefit from the vaccine for those previously infected, so I will not be taking the vaccine,” Massie said in a statement to Appradab.

Both clinical trial and real-life data finds the mRNA vaccines are more than 95% effective at preventing severe Covid-19 illness, hospitalizations and death.

Three other Republicans — Reps. Greg Steube and Kat Cammack of Florida and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia — said they did not want to share the information.

“I’m not going to talk about it. I don’t think anybody should have to share their personal, private medical information with anybody,” Steube told Appradab.

Rep. Guy Reschenthaler of Pennsylvania told Appradab, “I have the antibodies” when asked if he had been vaccinated. But experts don’t know how long antibodies last in a person who has recovered from Covid-19, and research suggests that coronavirus vaccines will provide better protection, especially when it comes to some of the worrying variants. One study found that people in South Africa who received the Pfizer vaccine after B.1.351 became the dominant circulating virus were still very strongly protected from infection, and that protection lasted for at least six months.

All 50 members of the Senate Democratic caucus are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to interviews with those senators and a Appradab review of their public statements.

On the Republican side, 46 of 50 senators report being vaccinated, while two won’t publicly announce their vaccine status and two others — Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rand Paul of Kentucky — are refusing to get vaccinated, arguing they already got the disease and therefore don’t need it.

Paul, who is an ophthalmologist, and Johnson argue that the antibodies they have are protective against serious reinfection despite the fact the CDC has been advising people that they do not know how long immunity lasts and to get the vaccine even if they have had prior infections.

“I thought I was doing everyone a favor,” Johnson told Appradab in a phone call in March. “I don’t think any of this is settled science, but the reason I am not vaccinated yet is I have had Covid and even when I had it, I had a mild case. … Now I am being attacked as being anti-science. It boggles my mind.”

Vaccine hesitancy among Republicans remains a concern as the country races to end the pandemic, several polls have shown. Kentucky’s other senator, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is a polio survivor and vaccine supporter, has repeatedly addressed the issue, urging all Republicans to get the shot.

GOP Sens. Kevin Cramer and Mike Braun told Appradab several months ago that they likely would get the coronavirus vaccine. But they say they will not publicly disclose their vaccination status, arguing it’s a private medical decision.

Cramer, who represents the red state of North Dakota, said he decided not to share whether he got or will receive the shot “out of respect” for a lot of his constituents who value their privacy.

“What’s really been emphasized back home is that for many, many North Dakotans … the privacy is more important than the issue,” Cramer said. “And really out of respect for them, I just feel like, you know, we don’t divulge medical information.”

He added of the coronavirus vaccine that “You should feel free to do it if you want to do it. You should not feel ashamed to not do it if you don’t want to do it. This is a free country.”

Similarly, Braun said he thinks personal choice is more important.

The Indiana Republican cited many reasons Americans may choose not to get the shot, such as “allergies, personal or religious objections, or concerns over underlying health conditions” and argued “it isn’t proper to intrude on any American’s personal health decisions” in a statement that his office provided to Appradab.

Braun also told Appradab this week that his decision not to divulge his vaccination status was not related to how his constituents feel about privacy, but that it is his personal view. He contended, though, that the personal choice mindset is a “philosophy that we might have in a place like Indiana.”

Asked if he thinks it’s important to help promote getting a Covid vaccine by having the shot and publicly announcing it, as many Republicans remain hesitant, Braun said, “No, I think that’s something that is a step too far.”

At the same time, both Cramer and Braun recommend Americans get a vaccine to help end the pandemic if they want to.

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Midterm elections 2018: Trump calls Pelosi to concede the House

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Midterm elections 2018: Trump calls Pelosi to concede the House

President Donald Trump called Nancy Pelosi to concede the House on Tuesday evening after she denounced ‘division’ and promised to put ‘checks and balances’ on the White House – and looked to be on course for a majority as high as 32.

It was a more graceful end to the evening for Trump than his White House had claimed; White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders had refused to acknowledge that Pelosi would be the next House speaker two hours prior as she brushed off Democratic gains in the lower chamber.

Even if Democrats do take the House, she had said, Trump won’t be calling their party leader.

‘I’m not sure why he would call Nancy Pelosi considering a lot of members of her own party said they wouldn’t support her,’ Sanders asserted. ‘If Democrats win tonight, I think you need to wait and see who their speaker is.’

At 11:45 pm, the president did call to congratulate Pelosi, however, the Democratic leader’s spokesman Drew Hammill said in a tweet.

‘He acknowledged the Leader’s call for bipartisanship in her victory remarks,’ Hammill said.

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Sanders confirmed that he called every current leader, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan, less than an hour after.

Her statement merely said that Trump ‘spoke’ with Pelosi and did not disclose the content of the call.

Trump did not make an on-camera appearance on Tuesday night as he watched the returns in the White House residence with friends and family and called winning candidates.

His only public statement was a short tweet that said: ‘Tremendous success tonight. Thank you to all!’

Sanders came before the cameras twice to say that he was upbeat about the results.

‘So far we feel good about where we are,’ she told Fox News as bad news about the House started rolling in but Republicans kept their edge in the Senate.

Speaking to reporters piled one on top of another to get the president’s first reaction to his party being pushed from power, Sanders said that candidates that Trump campaigned alongside were doing well in the mid-terms and he deserves credit for their successes.

‘I think James Carville said it best when he said anybody that was anticipating a blue wave tonight is not going to get it. Maybe you get a ripple, but I certainly don’t think you get a blue wave,’ she said of the beating House Republicans were taking.

NEXT SPEAKER? The president refused to call Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday to congratulate Democrats on their successes in the House. White House said she might not be speaker, so he doesn’t see the point

The president’s spokeswoman, Sarah Sanders, said that Donald Trump, who was said to be watching the returns in the residence with friends and family, was upbeat about the GOP’s prospects

Democrats are expected to control the House of Representatives after Tuesday’s election for the first time in eight years, giving them the ability to deeply complicate the next two years of Trump’s presidency with investigations, subpoenas and even an impeachment proceeding.

A former House speaker, Pelosi could return to that role in January, although dozens of Democratic incumbents have said they want a fresh face and younger blood to lead them. The 78-year-old congresswoman from California has lead the Democratic Party for more than a decade and has already been speaker once.

Control of the chamber is likely to switch hands for the third time in 12 years when the new legislative session begins. America had not seen that level of fluctuation in Congress since World War II.

Democrats needed a shift of just 23 House seats to claim the gavel. Most forecasters considered that outcome likely but not guaranteed. At midnight, they had flipped 20 seats and were on their way to at least seven more.

With Trump as president, the nation’s off-year political contest took on the character of the World Series instead of the sleepy minor-league affairs they usually are.

At stake was the future of the populist political movement that sent him to Washington. He hoped a win for Republicans would quiet his critics inside the GOP and embolden him for at least two more years of pro-business, ‘America First’ governing that’s hawkish on trade and uncompromising toward illegal immigration.

But a Democrat-led House is likely to cripple his legislative agenda and bring the wheels of government to a halt as his political enemies launch investigations into allegations of election-year collusion with Russia and a growing list of other scandal-ready material.

It could also prompt him to veto legislation that emerges from a split Congress, something he hasn’t had to do so far.

Republicans’ majority in the Senate appeared safe on Tuesday night, however, as Indiana and North Dakota Democrats were bounced from the upper chamber of Congress and a liberal former governor endorsed by pop star Taylor Swift failed to capture a seat vacated by a retiring Republican.

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FIRST BLOOD: Republican Rep. Barbara comstock (right) was bounced from her job by upstart Democrat Jennifer Wexton (left) in Tuesday’s midterm congressional election, the first of what liberals hope is a night full of flips and reversals

Back to Washington: Donna Shalala was the Health and Human Services secretary during the Bill Clinton presidency, and she won a House seat Tuesday as part of a strong night for Democrats

ALL THE FLIPPED HOUSE SEATS

DEMOCRATIC PICK-UPS

Virginia 2nd: Democrat Elaine Luria beat incumbent Republican Scott Taylor

Virginia 7th: Democrat Abigail Spanberger beat incumbent Republican Dave Brat

Virginia 10th: Democrat Jennifer Wexton beat incumbent Republican Barbara Comstock

Florida 26th: Democrat Debbie Mucarsel-Powell beat Republican Carlos Curbelo

Florida 27th: Democrat Donna Shalala, beat Republican Maria Elvira Salazar

New Jersey 11th: Democrat Mikie Sherrill beat Republican Jay Webber

New Jersey 7th: Democrat Tom Malinowski beat incumbent Republican Leonard Lance

New Jersey 2nd: Democrat Jeff Van Drew beat Republican Seth Grossman

New York 11th: Democrat Max Rose defeated Republican Dan Donovan

New York 19th: Democrat Antonio Delgado beat incumbent Republican John Faso

Pennsylvania 5th: Democrat Mary Gay Scanlon beat Republican Pearl Kim

Pennsylvania 6th: Democrat Chrissy Houlahan beat Republican Greg McCauley

Pennsylvania 7th: Democrat Susan Wild defeated Republican Marty Nothstein

Minnesota 2nd: Democrat Angie Craig beat incumbent Republican Jason Lewis

Minnesota 3rd: Democrat Dean Phillips beat incumbent Republican Erik Paulsen

Kansas 3rd: Democrat Sharice Davids beat incumbent Republican Kevin Yoder

Colorado 6th: Democrat Jason Crow beat incumbent Republican Mike Coffman.

Texas 32nd: Democrat Colin Allred beat incumbent Republican Pete Sessions.

Oklahoma 5th: Democrat Kendra Horn beat Republican Steve Russell

Arizona 2nd: Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick beat Republican Lea Marquez Peterson

Iowa 1st: Democrat Abby Finkenauer beat incumbent Republican Rod Blum.

Iowa 3rd: Democrat Cindy Axne beat Republican incumbent David Young

Illinois 14th: Democrat Lauren Underwood beat Republican incumbent Randy Hultgren

Illinois’ 6: Democrat Sean Casten beat Republican incumbent Peter Roskam

REPUBLICAN PICK-UP

Pennsylvania 14: Republican Guy Reschenthaler beat Democrat Bibiana Boerio

Senate results came fast and furious, dashing Democrats’ hopes of assembling a majority that could block Trump’s future judicial and Cabinet nominees and make impeachment a real possibility.

As polls closed one time zone at a time in what politicians on the left and right have called ‘the most important election’ in most Americans’ lives, they drew first blood by knocking off a Republican congresswoman in a suburban Virginia district just outside of Washington. They elected a Bill Clinton-era Cabinet member.

GOP Rep. Barbara Comstock failed to fendoff political newcomer Jennifer Wexton, losing the seat in Congress she has held for just two terms.

Wexton and other Democrats managed to brand Comstock ‘Trumpstock,’ linking her with parts of the president’s agenda that have grown unpopular in the left-trending suburbs of Washington, D.C.

A Republican has represented voters in Virginia’s affluent 10th Congressional District for 60 of the last 66 years. But the Democrat-heavy base in the suburbs surrounding the ultimate government-run ‘company town’ – Washington, D.C. – has expanded in recent election cycles, devouring previously safe GOP territory year after year.

Democrats got their second win of the night in Florida, where former President Bill Clinton’s Health and Human Services secretary, Donna Shalala, won a House race that was considered a coin flip on Tuesday morning.

New Yorkers sent 29-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a democratic socialist, to the House of Representatives in a deep blue district.

Tuesday’s crucial contests were a referendum on the first two years of Trump’s presidency and will determine how much – or how little – help he will have in Congress during the rest of his first term.

At the White House, his press secretary insisted that his legislative priorities wouldn’t shift, regardless of whether his party controls a majority of offices.

‘The President’s agenda isn’t going to change regardless of whose party is there. We are still going to be an administration that is focused on lowering the taxes, growing our economy, creating jobs, defeating ISIS, remaking the judiciary, fixing the tremendous opioid crisis that we have, I think we can work with Democrats on that,’ she said.

She said that Trump still wants to pass an infrastructure package and claimed that immigration ‘is a place where we have to spend some time.’

‘Hopefully Democrats will do what they have been unwilling to do in the past and that’s come to the table and actually do the job they were elected to do and work with the President to solve some problems.’

In exit polling published by ABC News and other outlets, Trump received 44 per cent approval for his job performance as president. Fifty-five per cent disapproved. That’s actually higher than the marks Trump had received in many national polls during the past six weeks.

A 53-43 majority of voters told pollsters after casting their ballots that they would prefer to see Democrats control the House when the next Congress is seated in January.

Twenty-nine-year-old Democratic nominee for New York’s 14th congressional district Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won a House seat in a stunning turnaround after unseating a long-term incumbent with an unapologetic message of democratic socialism

Every seat in the House of Representatives was up for grabs on Tuesday, along with 35 of the 100 Senate seats. Voters also decided on 36 races for state governors.

Republicans were aiming to hold their majorities in both chambers of Congress. Democrats were trying to take over in what pundits called ‘blue wave’ that the Trump administration said it would block with a ‘red wall.’

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