Buzz: Lott sees GOP keeping Senate, Election Day lunches galore, fifth Trump Nobel nomination

There are few Washington big shots who know as much about this town as former Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott.

So when we had him on the phone this week, it was only natural to ask about the election.

• President Trump has been nominated a fifth time for the Nobel Peace Prize, this time by the leaders of the effort to protect the nation’s electric grid from a nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack. In a letter to the Nobel committee, they cited his executive order on EMP and said that it “pioneers protecting electronic civilization from the existential threat posed by solar superstorms, nuclear and non-nuclear EMP weapons.” …

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• The coronavirus and election have turned Washington, D.C., into a ghost town. And in advance of Election Day, the glass fronts of many buildings were boarded up, especially those close to the White House. But for expense account restaurants, Election Day is slated to be a big one. That’s because many of the city’s corps of lobbyists, publicists, and fundraisers, all done for the election, finally exhale and take a long, three-martini lunch. “It’s tradition,” said one K Streeter. …