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Capitol Hill has a fox problem.

President Joe Biden is hoping to use his upcoming State of the Union address as a chance to nudge the pandemic into the nation’s rear-view mirror.

The party's House majority will be as meager as 222-213 next year, the tightest partisan gap in two decades. Maloney worked on Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign and joined the White House after Clinton's 1996 reelection. “Those of us in the LGBT community have seen the system work, and it has worked because we worked,” Maloney said. In 2018 he sought the House campaign committee chairmanship but withdrew when he was hospitalized for an infection. Farrell runs a consulting firm that he says was blacklisted by the campaign committee under Bustos after it helped candidates challenging Democratic incumbents.

WASHINGTON – Their majority shrunk, House Democrats cast blame Thursday on their election message, ground game and leadership under Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s team after expectations for big wins came crashing down by a stark reversal in Trump country. Other Democrats argued it was always going to be difficult to defend the House majority. “With President Trump on the ballot, it just drove enormous turnout that was almost impossible to surmount” in some areas, she said. But they also need to learn how to win back the Trump voters they have lost. “Because we certainly saw a lot of Trump voters show up.”__Associated Press writers Alan Fram, Andrew Taylor and Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report.

WASHINGTON – Their majority shrunk, House Democrats cast blame Thursday on their election message, ground game and leadership under Speaker Nancy Pelosi's team after expectations for big wins came crashing down by a stark reversal in Trump country. Other Democrats argued it was always going to be difficult to defend the House majority. “With President Trump on the ballot, it just drove enormous turnout that was almost impossible to surmount” in some areas, she said. But they also need to learn how to win back the Trump voters they have lost. “Because we certainly saw a lot of Trump voters show up.”__Associated Press writers Alan Fram, Andrew Taylor and Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report.

NEW YORK – President Donald Trump is escalating his promise for a coronavirus vaccine before Election Day. But across America, Democrats, independents and even some Republicans do not trust his administration to produce a safe and effective vaccine on such an aggressive timeline. Such hesitancy threatens to exacerbate the public health risk for millions of Americans whenever a vaccine is released. Jay Inslee demonstrated the Democrats' balancing act on Friday when asked whether he would be willing to take a vaccine released by the administration before the election. Don’t trust the politicians."

But some challengers lost, and their overall wins were a modest number compared with the 535 House and Senate members. Kessler wasn't impressed with the three progressive challengers who defeated Democratic incumbents, either. Other high-profile progressive hopefuls lost Senate Democratic primaries in Colorado, Maine and Texas, and House contests in states including Georgia, New York and Ohio. Jamaal Bowman, a Black educator raised by a single mom, defeated House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel of the Bronx and Westchester, New York. They're an effective and well-funded operation now," said Sean McElwee, who does polling and research for progressive Democrats.

WASHINGTON The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will not work with an international cooperative effort to develop and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine because it does not want to be constrained by multilateral groups like the World Health Organization. More than 150 countries are setting up the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility, or COVAX. "Not only does this move put the lives of millions around the world at risk, it could completely isolate Americans from an effective vaccine against COVID-19, Hart said. A handful of the dozens of experimental COVID-19 vaccines in human testing have reached the last and biggest hurdle looking for the needed proof that they really work. AstraZeneca announced Monday its vaccine candidate has entered the final testing stage in the U.S.

Throughout January, the World Health Organization publicly praised China for what it called a speedy response to the new coronavirus. Politicians said the report raised key questions, and public health experts said it shed light on a story that has become highly politicized. I think there are many questions that need to be asked about the World Health Organization, about China and other countries behaviors through this, Trudeau said. In one internal meeting, the WHO's top China representative acknowledged the country was only providing outbreak information with the U.N. health agency about 15 minutes before it appeared on state-owned China Central Television. Several British Conservative politicians known for their hawkish views on China also cited the AP story.