A day that settled an election and brought hope for beating a pandemic
For Donald Trump, the dean of denial who has refused to accept either the election results or the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, the clarity of December 14 was not entirely welcome.
Washington | When future historians close the books on the misery of 2020, a gruelling year of disease, death, racial strife, street violence, economic collapse and political discord the likes of which have not been seen in the United States in generations, they may look back on Monday, December 14, as a pivotal juncture.
It was on that day that Americans began rolling up their sleeves for a vaccine produced in record time to defeat a virus even as the death toll crossed 300,000. And it was on that day that members of the electoral college gathered in each of the 50 states to ratify the end of the most polarised election in more than a century.
