• Fight brewing over oversight: President Donald Trump said Democrats are “illegally threatening Republicans,” as his administration escalates its warnings against Democrats who have vowed to investigate the president and his administration when they take over Congress. Rep. Robert Garcia, who will chair the House Oversight Committee, told CNN the White House is trying to intimidate Democrats, but it’s “not going to work.”
• Change in Mississippi: Scott Colom is projected to win a Senate seat, becoming the first Democrat that voters in deep-red Mississippi have elected to the chamber in more than four decades. He is the first Black person elected to statewide office since the Reconstruction era. “I kept the faith,” Colom said of his win.
