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CNN reports that Pete Buttigieg is in the running to become President-elect Joe Biden's Secretary of Transportation. Buttigieg ran for President in 2020. Business Insider reports that he is widely expected to run for president again in the future. If nominated, Buttigieg would be the first openly gay Cabinet secretary to be approved by the US Senate. Several other candidates have been considered for the role, including Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Lara Trump is President Donald Trump's daughter-in-law. The New York Times reports that she is considering a Senate run in 2022. The Times claims that Lara, who is married to Trump's second eldest child Eric, has told associates that she is mulling for the Senate in North Carolina in 2022. Lara Trump grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina. The state's Senate seat will be available when Republican Sen. Richard Burr retires at the end of his term.
Business Insider reports that South Carolina Senator Linsdey Graham wants to "do something" about mail-in voting. Graham says the US will never again elect a Republican president unless lawmakers "do something" about mail-in voting. Graham is a close ally of Trump. He said that "we are going to lose the ability to elect a Republican in this country."
Former 2020 Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale made a $200m miscalculation that left the campaign nearly flat broke, a month before election day. According to Business Insider, Parscale had counted on boatloads of last-minute cash donations to nearly double the dollar amount of previous monthly hauls. Republicans close to the campaign said staffers have had to scramble to cancel the spending approved by Parscale to salvage the president's run for a second term. But money has been tight since then, and Trump himself has been trying to quash stories that his campaign is on the rocks Trump has also had to float the idea, again, that he would open up his own checkbook to keep it running.
Ecuadorians begin voting in the second round of the presidential runoff between socialist Luisa Gonzalez, 45, and liberal candidate Daniel Noboa, 35, in the midst of a drug war and a series of political assassinations that cut short the bid of a popular candidate. IMAGES