The final re-countdown: The Tipline for 12 November 2020

We’re back after our middle-of-the-week public holiday. Who likely didn’t get a break? Vote counters in Georgia, who are now expected to recount the state’s five million votes for president by hand. At the start of a speech on Tuesday, Federal Trade Commission member Noah Phillips gave his standard caveat that the views he expressed were his own and did not necessarily reflect the views of his fellow commissioners. He said this disclaimer was “particularly apt right now, given the possibility of a really dramatic change in focus and even change in law” relating to competition policy.