Trump says 'we're doing incredibly' as Biden faces reality | First Thing

Joe Biden laid out his plan for tackling the pandemic, while Donald Trump hosted a vaccine summit which boasted about doing incredibly'. Plus, the supreme court rejected a Republican bid to overturn the election

Good morning. Joe Biden has pledged to ensure that 100m coronavirus vaccine shots will be administered during his first 100 days in the White House. Speaking in his home town of Wilmington, Delaware, yesterday, Biden unveiled his new health team of scientists and doctors and a comprehensive plan to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. As the US passed 15m recorded cases of coronavirus, Biden told Americans that out of our collective pain we are going to find a collective purpose".

In a parallel universe, Trump hosted a vaccine summit yesterday in which he made no mention of the 286,011 Americans who have lost their lives and boasted that in many respects we're still doing incredibly". When asked why Biden's transition team hadn't been included in the summit, Trump said he hoped the next administration will be the Trump administration because you can't steal hundreds of thousands of votes".