White House Weekly: December 15

Published December 15, 2020 11:30am ET



We begin on Friday, December 4th, Vice President Pence appears at a rally in Savannah, GA in support of Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler ahead of the January 5th Senate runoff. The vice president didn’t strike the same tone as President Trump in claiming that the presidential election was rigged. However, he did give a specific timetable on when the coronavirus vaccine will be ready.

Meanwhile, President Trump orders that all American troops are to leave Somalia by January 15th, five days before Joe Biden is scheduled to be inaugurated. Approximately 700 Special Operations forces have been stationed in the Eastern African country with the goal of holding off advances from Islamist insurgents.

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