Comment on Biden Defends His Economic Record

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a vote of no confidence Monday, paving the way for early elections in February and ending a turbulent year at the polls for several of Europe’s leaders and governing parties, NBC News reports. Scholz called Monday’s vote with the expectation of losing it, but with the hope that it would boost the fortunes of his center-left Social Democratic Party.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is contemplating resigning due to a public dispute over the economy, exacerbated by President-elect Donald Trump’s threats of tariffs, CTV News reports.

“President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday that the U. S. military should tell the American public about the nature of the drone sightings that have plagued the East Coast over the last several weeks,” Reuters reports. Said Trump: “The government knows what is happening. For some reason, they don’t want to comment.

“Donald Trump announced Monday he would sue political pollster Ann Selzer and The Des Moines Register, who published a shock poll showing Trump losing Iowa by three points,” the Daily Beast reports. Said Trump: “I’m not doing this because I want to, I’m doing this because I feel I have an obligation to.”

President Biden defends his economic legacy in an essay in the American Prospect: “Over the last four years, we’ve faced some of the most challenging economic conditions in our history. Not only have we recovered, we’ve come out stronger, and have laid foundations for a promising new chapter in our American comeback story.” “It will take years to see the full effects in terms of new jobs and new investments all around the country, but we have planted the seeds that are making this happen.

Wall Street Journal: “While viewers are flocking to Fox News in the wake of Donald Trump’s election win last month, ratings for MSNBC and CNN have tumbled. The declines are far worse than what happened the last time Trump won, in 2016.” “MSNBC averaged 603,000 prime-time viewers from the day after the election through Dec.