Article snippet: The battle for the seat being vacated by Senator Jeff Flake, the Republican ridiculed time and again by President Trump, is just getting started. The Florida secretary of state ordered an unprecedented review of two major races in the state that took five weeks to decide the 2000 presidential election. Ahead by more than 60,000 votes days after Georgia’s gubernatorial election, the Republican pushed for the Democrat to concede Saturday as civil rights groups urged her to stay in the fight. Gun control activists and politicians in the state are already weighing what more can be done, and whether existing measures could have prevented the killing. The revelations come ahead of her memoir ‘‘Becoming,’’ where she writes openly about growing up in Chicago, confronting racism in public life, and becoming the country’s first black first lady. President Donald Trump distanced himself Friday from his new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, whose comments on the Russia investigation have drawn scrutiny. No other state in the country saw such a dramatic shift in power in its capital as Maine. The incoming chairman of a House panel vowed to make Matthew Whitaker its first witness when the new Congress convenes in January — and subpoena him if necessary. Arizona Republicans and Democrats agreed Friday to give rural voters an extra chance to fix problems with their ballots in the count of the state’s tight Senate race, resolving a GOP lawsuit. M... Link to the full article to read more