Notepad and pen in my right hand, TV remote control in the other, caffeine doses taken as needed. This will be a news-heavy week.

Trump's Speech on the Eve of the U.S. Senate Runoff Elections in Georgia (Jan. 4, c. 8:50 p.m.)

Neither MSNBC nor CNN are airing the speech. I am curious as to how far (low) President Donald Trump will go. Will he cross the line and openly call his "patriots" to arms? Click, click. Fox News is covering it. Tucker Carlson is on, and the MyPillow guy is selling his wares at 20-minute intervals.

It is Dalton, Whitfield County, one of north Georgia's solidly red counties, where Trump and the two sitting Republican senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loefller, won five weeks earlier by 40-point margins.

Marine One has landed, and Trump emerges from its entrails. "USA! USA! USA!" chants the adoring MAGA-capped, unmasked crowd. Wait a minute; that's him. I spot the MyPillow guy in the crowd. Will he sleep well tonight? Will he get his money back?

"Hello, Georgia," salutes the president. "By the way, there is no way we lost Georgia; there is no way. That was a rigged election."

Tonight's litany of lies is more imaginative than usual. It borders on hallucination. Trump takes credit for the power of his coattails, but on Nov. 3, his coattails were shorter than those of a bullfighter's jacket. "I won by a landslide," he claimed. "Mexico paid for the wall." "Caravans are starting to form." "We are rounding the turn because of the vaccine." But there are no Mexican checks to show, no pictures of caravans. On this day, the U.S. added close to 200,000 new COVID-19 cases and over 2,000 Americans died of it, a turn for the worse.

Deeply concerned about the Jan. 6 congressional certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory, Trump nudges his ever-faithful VP. "I hope Mike Pence comes through for us," he says half-jokingly.

Trump says to Sen. Kelly Loeffler: "Kelly, I'd love you to come up and say a few words."

Crowd: "Kelly! Kelly! Kelly! ..." Loeffler: "I have an announcement, Georgia! On Jan. 6, I will object to the Electoral College vote count!" The MAGA crowd cheers on.

Oh, regarding the anticipated call to arms, Trump did shout out, "We are going to fight like hell!"

Runoff Elections Day (Tuesday, Jan. 5, early afternoon)

Back to MSNBC and — click, click — CNN. There is footage of a couple hundred Trump supporters already gathering at D.C.'s Freedom Plaza in preparation for tomorrow's Stop the Steal rally. There was a violent dress rehearsal for it on Dec. 13, with four stabbings and 30 arrests. Mayor Muriel Bowser has requested National Guard troops be deployed.

The clock strikes 7 p.m., closing time for Georgia's polls. Immediately, the first results of the elections pop up on the screen, 1% in: Raphael Warnock, 52.2%; Sen. David Perdue; 47.7%; Jon Ossoff, 52.3%; Kelly Loeffler, 47.8%. This will be a long night.

Over the next few hours, as results continue to trickle in, it feels like a Duke-UNC basketball game. At 7:41, the blue team is up by 2 points. At 7:48, Perdue up by one. At 7:49, the blues regain the lead.

On MSNBC, Steve Kornacki is back, clad in khaki pants, his sleeves rolled up literally and figuratively. How he manages to make phone calls, read texts, listen to producers through an earpiece, speak with Bryan Williams, read his magic board and look at the camera all at the same time is beyond comprehension.

Click, click. His counterpart at Fox, Bill Hemmer, is no match; Kornacki is winning by a landslide.

You can hear and read it on the faces of Fox pundits and interviewees. They are not happy. Carlson is visibly and audibly becoming unhinged. He calls Ossoff the "greasiest little fraud" and, as if it were true and as if it matters, castigates him for having worked for the "dumbest" member of Congress. The image of Rep. Hank Johnson is up on the screen. But wait a minute, Tucker. Back in March, you said that another congressperson of color, Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, was the dumbest.

Sean Hannity, the King of Fox News, is now on, interviewing the soon-to-be former Dauphin, Donald Trump Jr., who denounces "irregularities" and dead men voting.

Karl Rove tells Hannity that DeKalb County scares him the most, and for good reason, as tens of thousands of early votes are still pending count in one of the state's bluest counties.

11:18 p.m.: A large number of DeKalb votes come in, cutting Perdue's advantage to 20,000 votes. Warnock has now edged his opponent. An overoptimistic Dana Perino claims that the elections can still go either way.

12 a.m., Jan. 6: It's Epiphany Day.

To be continued.

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