Daily News Article - December 9, 2020
1. What is the House Freedom Caucus?
2. What are some members of the Freedom Caucus calling on the Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney General William Barr to do?
3. a) Contrast the stand the Freedom Caucus members are taking compared to the rest of the Republican members of Congress.
b) Why do you think this is so?
4. What type of tweets are missing from most Congressional Republicans pages?
5. a) What did a Politico poll (and a Vox poll noted under “Background”) highlight about the more than 74 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump?
b) How should this information affect elected representatives (and senators) reaction/response to charges of election fraud from the Trump campaign following witness statements from poll workers, poll observers and others in the battleground states?
c) Do you think Democrats in Congress would have reacted with similar silence had Joe Biden (or Barack Obama in 2012) been in the place of Donald Trump? Explain your answer.
CHALLENGE: Scroll through the social media pages for the past month for the Republican congress members from your state. What do you think?