The Latest: Mike Pence heading to Florida vacation island

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):

11:20 a.m.

One week after Election Day, Vice President Mike Pence appears ready to take some time off.

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, Pence is scheduled to travel to Sanibel, Florida, Tuesday through Saturday. Pence has vacationed on the island along Florida’s Gulf Coast several times previously. Pence’s office didn’t immediately comment on the trip on Monday.

The trip comes as President Donald Trump has pledged to continue trying to contest the outcome of the election and as President-elect Joe Biden is ramping up his transition efforts.

Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are being briefed virtually on the coronavirus pandemic by a task force of experts their transition team announced Monday.

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-politics-pandemics-virus-outbreak-919e0eefa95adcf714e8b030bef7810d

[lapfog_1]

1. The flies in the area are already massing to greet him

[Blue Owl]

2. Workin' hard or hardly workin'?

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Who's filling in on the coronavirus task force?

I'm guessing nobody - nobody to take the place of do-nothing Dense.

[exboyfil]

4. Nice when you should be in Washington, DC knowing

you are the key person to check Trump in case things really go off the rails.

[tarheelsunc]

5. This isn't news. He's taken the entire last four years off.

Pence is the most LOW ENERGY vice president we've ever had.

[Sneederbunk]

6. Tattoo awaits.

[RockCreek]

7. May a hurricane greet him! N/t

[LuvNewcastle]

9. That's a good possibility.

There's one down around Florida now. I guess he's only planning to be there a short time, or maybe he's one of those people who thinks it'll be fun to get out in a hurricane. May he go windsurfing and disappear forever!

[lagomorph777]

8. Island-hopping tour. Next stop: Rikers Island.

[gratuitous]

10. The Colts are playing at Tennessee on Thursday

So he doesn't need to go see a game and then flounce out because of some ersatz rage about players taking a knee.