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Rep. Matt Gaetz. Getty Officials from New Jersey and New York slammed Rep. Matt Gaetz for attending a mask-less gala on Thursday with 150 people convening in close proximity in a restaurant. New Jersey Mayor Steven Fulop shut down the Maritime Parc, the restaurant that hosted the event, on Friday. The event was an annual gala for the New York Young Republicans Club that was originally supposed to be held in a Manhattan venue, which declined to host the event. The governors of both New Jersey and… Source link

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Election officials in Wisconsin’s largest county accused observers for President Donald Trump on Saturday of seeking to obstruct a recount of the presidential results, in some instances by objecting to every ballot tabulators pulled to count. Trump requested the recount in Milwaukee and Dane counties, both heavily liberal, in hopes of undoing Democrat Joe Biden’s victory by about 20,600 votes. With no precedent for a recount reversing such a large margin, Trump’s strategy… Source link

In the face of opposition from the mayor, the governor and the city’s leading newspaper, the Trump administration on Monday said it would keep using unidentified federal law enforcement officers to round up “anarchists” in Portland, Ore., and suggested it would expand the practice to other U.S. cities — ones with Democratic mayors.  “We’re going to have more federal law enforcement, that I can tell you,” President Trump said in the White House. “In Portland they’ve done a… Source link