Trail Mix

Already today…

Disband Congress

CNN: Trump has made clear as he’s mulled potential high-level positions that he will be fine with sidestepping the typical Cabinet confirmation process…asking candidates if they’re willing to serve as acting secretaries.

Politicize Justice

NBC News: DoJ officials are evaluating how to wind down the two federal criminal cases against Donald Trump before he takes office. Jack Smith to leave special counsel post.

— Mary Trump

How did this con artist do it again? Is half the country as crazy as he is, or just so desperate they believe he can “fix it”?

Nothing to do but move on and hope for the best. Soon enough they’ll remember why they fired him. Because the only problems he’s going to fix are his own.

Harris campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon sends email to all staff:

“While we continue to see data trickle in from the Sun Belt states, we have known all along that our clearest path to 270 electoral votes lies through the Blue Wall states. And we feel good about what we’re seeing.”

Attribution: Voting while I still can by John Darkow, Columbia Missourian