Posts on Thursday, November 5, 2020
The New York Times tried to hurry the vote-counting process along and declare Joe Biden the winner on Thursday’s front page in a story by White House reporters Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman, “Win or Lose, Trump’s Clout Will Not Fade.” The lead: “If President Trump loses his bid for re-election, as looked increasingly likely on Wednesday, it would be the first defeat of an incumbent president in 28 years. But one thing seemed certain: Win or lose, he will not go quietly away.”
Annie Karni teamed with Haberman on Trump’s reaction to Fox News perhaps prematurely calling Arizona for Biden: “Vision of Victory Started to Slip When Fox
In a press conference on Thursday, President Trump covered a vast range of topics dealing with the 2020 election, including the “great achievement” in the House of Representatives were Republican women won the day in large numbers. Of course, those victories had been largely ignored but Trump’s mention of them forced CBS Evening News to finally acknowledge those victories. But instead of just reporting on who those women were, anchor Norah O’Donnell wanted to fact-check the President.
After blasting the incompetent pollsters whose predictions were grossly inaccurate and accusing them of voter suppression
Four years ago, liberal heads exploded when Donald Trump was elected president. At colleges across America, students needed counseling and teddy bears to cope with their grief. Trump’s inauguration sparked protests, some of them violent.
If the election of a nasty, dishonest conservative outsider by slim margins in key states caused grief and rage in 2016, why shouldn’t the election of a nasty, dishonest liberal establishment hack by slim margins in key states , and in a race fraught with the possibility of fraud, cause rage among those who voted for President Trump this year?
Vox: The Left Should
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When he’s not being a troll on Twitter, Vox’s Matt Yglesias occasionally writes something sensible. Today he published a piece pointing out that election results show Democrats have a problem with minority voters, particularly with Hispanic voters. While Cuba-specific issues are tactically central to electoral battles in Florida, the fact is that even before all the results are in, it’s clear Biden’s weakness with Latino voters was broader than that. In South Florida, Biden lost ground with a diverse Hispanic population that includes many families from Puerto Rico, Venezuela, or Colombia, as well as Cuba broadly.
More to the point, Democrats turned in extremely
If President Trump loses the election, he will also have to say goodbye to a Twitter privilege that lets world leaders keep up tweets with certain offensive or misleading content, according to a report.
Trump, as president, has benefited from the Twitter policy that flags content that violates the platform’s rules — but does not outright force their deletion, as is the case with ordinary users, Bloomberg reported.
But if Biden wins the election, come January, Trump will fall into the former world leader category, losing the special treatment, the report said.
Since election night, eight of Trump’s tweets have been flagged by the social media giant.
ESPN’s chief said the Disney sports-media division would eliminate 500 positions – 300 employees and 200 posts that are currently unfilled – in a bid to free up resources for streaming, digital and other kinds of video experiences designed for the new ways fans are engaging with sports.
ESPN has already made cuts in recent years as traditional ratings and subscriber numbers have fallen, noted ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro in a memo to employees issued Thursday. “We have, however, reached an inflection point,” he said. “The speed at which change is occurring requires great urgency, and we must now deliver on serving sports fans in a myriad of new ways
If President Trump loses the election, he will also have to say goodbye to a Twitter privilege that lets world leaders keep up tweets with certain offensive or misleading content, according to a report.Trump, as president, has benefited from the Twitter policy that flags content that violates the platform’s rules — but does not outright force their deletion, as is the case with ordinary users, Bloomberg reported. But if Biden wins the election, come January, Trump will fall into the former world leader category, losing the special treatment, the report said. Since election night, eight of Trump’s tweets have been flagged by the social media giant.
Maryland's Republican Gov. Larry Hogan and GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger were among the first batch of Republicans to call out President Donald Trump for his rambling appearance at the White House Thursday where he claimed a massive vote fraud conspiracy while offering no evidence. 'There is no defense for the President's comments tonight undermining our Democratic process,' Hogan tweeted. 'America is counting the votes, and we must respect the results as we always have before. No election or person is more important than our Democracy.' Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican,
CNN’s Cooper: Trump’s Presser Was Like
Watching an ‘Obese Turtle on His Back
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Watching an ‘Obese Turtle on His Back
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CNN anchor Anderson Cooper on Thursday described President Donald Trump’s press conference as watching “an obese turtle on his back flailing in the hot sun, realizing his time is over.”Anchor Jake Tapper said, “It’s time for some Republican lawmakers to find their spine and talk to the president about what he needs to do for the good of the country. Anderson.” Cooper said, “Jake, thanks very much. We have never seen really other than —I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything like this from a president of the United States, and I think as Jake said, it’s sad and it is truly pathetic, and of course, it is dangerous and
Dems Disagree in Leaked Caucus
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A leaked caucus call between congressional Democrats on Thursday has revealed growing tension between the more progressive wing of the party and moderate lawmakers. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a strong message to her colleagues that swinging too left will cost the party their chances should the Georgia Senate races advance to runoffs, an opportunity that could give Democrats a tie with Republicans in the Senate if both Democratic candidates won seats in the state. To obtain a Senate majority, Democrats would need to pick up a seat in either Alaska or North Carolina, though should the election result in
President Donald Trump promised Thursday to level significant legal action to challenge elections in important swing states after watching his margin of victory whittled away by late-counted ballots for Vice President Joe Biden.“We think there’s going to be a lot of litigation because we have so much evidence, so much proof, it’s going to end up perhaps at the highest court in the land, you’ll see,” he said. “We think there’ll be a lot of litigation, because we cannot have an election stolen like this.”The president spoke to reporters at the White House press briefing, demanded transparency in the process, and casting doubt on the Democrat-run voting systems.
Rush Urges Trump Supporters to 'Keep the
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Conservative talk radio king Rush Limbaugh took to the airwaves Thursday to reassure President Donald Trump’s supporters that the man they voted for isn’t about to lie down and just let Democrat Joe Biden and his surrogates steal the election from them.As he spoke, Biden’s lead in Arizona was shrinking, and election officials in Clark County, Nevada – perhaps certain of a Trump victory – announced they were postponing announcing results until Nov. 12. Also, the Trump campaign was busy winning a major legal decision to have GOP poll monitors ‘allowed’ back into a Philadelphia ballot center after they were barred from entering Wednesday
On Thursday, CNN anchor Jake Tapper called President Donald Trump’s press conference “pathetic” and said he told “lie after lie, after lie about the election being stolen.” Tapper said, “What a sad night for the United States of America to hear their president say that, to falsely accuse people of trying to steal the election, to try to attack democracy that way with his feast of falsehoods. Lie after lie, after lie about the election being stolen. No evidence for what he says just smears about the integrity of vote counting in state after state. When he wins the state, it’s legitimate. When he loses, it’s because the vote
Nevada Democrats have been accused of preventing Republican observers from watching signature checks on massive numbers of mail-in ballots, and Nevada GOP officials are going to federal court for a restraining order to try to temporarily stop the count of alleged illegal votes in Clark County. At a press conference announcing the litigation, former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt and Trump campaign co-chair in that state made reference to the mail-in ballot law that Nevada Democrats jammed through in August which has prompted all sorts of chain-of-custody (or lack thereof) discrepancies.
Johnny Carson kept his personal politics close to the vest. For the most part, so did Jay Leno and David Letterman. That’s not the case with the current roster of late-night comics. During Election Week, they might as well have slapped “Vote for Biden” stickers on their foreheads. Their behavior may have helped liberal viewers get a sounder sleep, but it didn’t result in a lot of laughs. “Looks like we’re finally sending the monster back to Mar-a-Lago,” ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel said Wednesday, before scolding those who voted for Donald Trump.(Snip) On the same evening, Seth Meyers allowed his regular commentary,
The three major news networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC — all cut away from President Donald Trump during a press briefing on Thursday evening in which he was discussing his view of the 2020 election results, including the presidential race. Trump said: “If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us.” The Biden campaign likewise claimed Wednesday that it “won,” though Joe Biden himself has put that in future tense. The president detailed Republican successes in the election
Law enforcement arrested more than 600 people for blocking Interstate 94 while participating in a protest in Minneapolis late Wednesday and early Thursday. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS) said that the arrests by State Patrol troopers and city police were necessary to clear the interstate of marchers.(Snip) Marchers gathered early Wednesday evening for a protest by led by multiple local organizations dubbed the “Don’t Let Trump Steal the Election.” The march went from downtown streets to I-94, where they closed the freeway from Interstate 35W east to Hwy. 280. The interstate was cleared and reopened at 1:23 a.m. Thursday, the DPS said.
Twitter has confirmed that President Donald Trump will no longer receive “special protections” beginning on January 20th at 12:01 p.m. if he does not win the election. The platform has already been censoring the president and his supporters for years, but is now promising even more censorship if he does not fall in line. Twitter claims to have a policy in which they allow tweets from world leaders that would otherwise be censored from normal civilians. On Thursday, they confirmed to Bloomberg News that former leaders do not have the same protections.
On the evening of Thursday November 5th, an entire 48 hours after polls closed in some states, we still do not know whether Republican incumbent Donald Trump or his Democratic challenger Joe Biden have emerged victorious. Multiple states are still in the process of counting ballots, and potential or real challenges from the Trump campaign mean that an official result seems unlikely in the immediate future.Here is an overview of when we can expect results from each of the states, which have either yet to declare a winner, or will possibly experience a recount or challenge of some sort.
Police are investigating vandalism of Upper East Side Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright’s district office. A constituent walking her dog Thursday morning saw black paint splattered on the storefront window of the legislative office on York Avenue between 78th and 79th streets and called police, a source said. The NYPD has cordoned off the office as it hunts for the perpetrator. It’s the fourth incident targeting Seawright, which include bigots defacing her office and posters with misogynistic and anti-Semitic slurs. “This is our constituent services district office which serves our community all year round. It is a despicable act of cowardice.
Trump ally Stephen K. Bannon called for arresting Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey over his social media company stepping up to stop the spread of some of the president’s posts on its platform Wednesday. Mr. Bannon, President Trump’s former adviser, said he should direct Attorney General William P. Barr to have Mr. Dorsey taken into custody over Twitter restricting the election-related tweets. Several of Mr. Trump’s posts on Twitter about Tuesday’s presidential election were flagged by the company, hidden behind warning labels or blocked from being shared, or retweeted, by other users.(Snip) “I knew this moment was going to come. When some punk
President Trump declared victory in the presidential election on Thursday despite unfinished vote counting in various crucial states, and claimed that the Republican Party was now demonstrably the “party of the American worker.”
“If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us,” Trump said at a White House press conference, predicting “a lot of litigation.”
The president alleged that pre-election polls were designed to favor Democrats in order to “suppress” the vote from Republicans. The Trump campaign has attempted to sue
As President Trump and his team go to the mattresses to stave off the most blatant attempt to steal a presidential election since Joe Kennedy purchased the one in 1960, SurrenderCons have been lining up to do what they do best: surrender and kowtow before any available Democrat. Make no mistake about it. These folks writing at National Review (they actually had writers endorse Biden) and at other stump-broken and nominally conservative outlets are ecstatic to see the last of Donald Trump. But they’ve also seen the intensity of the 60+ million people who turned out to vote for President Trump
WASHINGTON – House Democratic leadership tried to tamp down fuming lawmakers on a private call Thursday that included finger-pointing, befuddlement and a few tears as Democrats acknowledged being blindsided after losing a number of key races in an election some were projecting as another blue wave. (Snip) House Democrats talked through the aftermath on a private caucus call Thursday afternoon, where lawmakers blamed the media, polling and one another for the losses, according to a source on the at-times heated call. Leadership attempted to paint a rosy picture with former Vice President Joe Biden on track to win the White House
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) visited Lou Dobbs Fox Business show on Wednesday, praising the gains that have been made by Republicans in the House and the Senate. “We have expanded this party, and it’s a credit to President Trump,” McCarthy said:
“We have more women in Congress as Republicans than in the history of any time. We’re going to double the number coming up next time. More minorities. And that’s what this president’s been able to do, expand this Republican Party to reach everyone.”
The left has thrown the word “racist” at President Donald Trump and his supporters for so long that the word has lost all meaning, but for being a racist and having racist supporters, perhaps the left can explain why Trump attracted a huge amount of the minority vote. According to the New York Post, Trump attracted 26 percent of the minority vote this election, driving a stake into the heart of the narrative that Trump is the most Hitlerian political figure since Hitler himself:
Team Trump and Republicans nationwide made unprecedented inroads with black and Hispanic voters. Nationally, preliminary numbers indicated that 26 percent
A registered Democrat and poll watcher at the Philadelphia Convention Center overseeing ballot counters detailed corruption at the highest levels in the city of Philadelphia.“They will not allow us within 30 to 100 feet to supervise the ballots being counted,” poll watcher Brian Mchafferty said. “This is a coup against the President of the United States of America and I want to call out the Mayor of Philadelphia, James Kenny…the Attorney General Josh Shapiro who tweeted that there was no way that Donald Trump would win president of the United States of America….”
Remember “faithless electors” — those almost mythical rogues who Hillary Clinton fans once desperately hoped could save them from a victorious Donald Trump four years ago? Well, there is still such a thing as faithless electors, they are still an incredible longshot, and Trump fans too can now place the very slimmest of hopes in them.So what are faithless electors again? As a refresher, when we fill in those ballot ovals to select a president, we are actually selecting a slate of “electors,” human beings who are bound to vote for a particular party’s candidate when they meet next month in their respective state capitals.
A House Divided Along New Lines
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America’s election reflects perfectly her psychological state. Divided and frustrated, citizens are realigning not along race or gender lines, but along philosophical ones. What does it mean to be an American? Who gets to define it? On one side: citizens of a Republic — Republicans. On the other side, the Oligarchy and the mob — Democrats. The two sides are fighting for control of America.
Americans used to agree on certain things. They believed in God. They believed that America was a force for good in the world. They believed in the individual. They believed in protecting the innocent.
This morning at my site I had a post explaining the misery, at least from my perspective, of watching the American political system devolve into failure this week:
My mood isn’t the result of despondency that the election is lost. I don’t think it’s lost. At least, I’m not sure it’s lost.
What I’ve recognized, what that late night on Tuesday taught me, is that the election is just a symptom of something a whole lot worse.
At the end of the day, it’s this: the game will continue until the Left says it’s over.
A New Correlation of Forces
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The long-awaited 2020 presidential election went into overtime with no called winner. If one is declared he will have less than an overwhelming mandate. With such ambiguity, it is difficult to read conventional meaning into the contest. Yet if elections were a war it would be easy: the progressive counteroffensive aimed at sweeping the House, Senate, and White House free of the rebel coalition has already failed. Despite enormous expense, the correlation of forces has essentially remained unchanged.
The 2016 loss might have been accounted as a lucky punch, but 2020 was a set-piece maximum
In most elections, the majority of votes are cast "down the ticket" - meaning, a voter supports both party's presidential nominee and state Congressional candidates. In fact, according to Pew Research, "overwhelming shares of voters who are supporting Trump and Biden say they are also supporting the same-party candidate for Senate."
(skip)Twitter user "US Rebel" (@USRebellion1776), however, found that the number of votes cast for Joe Biden far exceeds those cast for that state's Senate candidates in swing states, while those cast for Trump and GOP Senators remains far closer.
When a British police commissioner publicly threatens to invade people’s homes at Christmas to break up “illegal” family gatherings, you know that you have entered a new political landscape. At least, new for modern liberal democracies. That sort of edict would scarcely have been noticed in the totalitarian states of the old Soviet bloc, or in the distant darker periods of Western history. How in the name of God, have we got here?
Washington—Judges in Georgia and Michigan quickly dismissed Trump campaign lawsuits Thursday, undercutting a campaign legal strategy to attack the integrity of the voting process in states where the result could mean President Donald Trump's defeat. The rulings came as Democrat Joe Biden inched closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. In Pennsylvania, meanwhile, the Trump campaign won an appellate ruling to get party and campaign observers closer to election workers who are processing mail-in ballots in Philadelphia.(Snip) Biden campaign attorney Bob Bauer called the Republican legal challenges meritless.
The Other Winners and Losers
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At this writing, and probably at many writings to come, the final decision about who won the election itself remains to be seen. But it’s not only the politicians who won or lost – there are plenty of other winners and losers to go around. Let’s praise and mock them respectively.
LOSER: The Pollsters
You know, in the world we normal people dwell in, when you consistently fail, you get fired. But, as in so many of our garbage establishment institutions, when you’re a pollster there is no accountability.
New Jersey's comprehensive ban on single-use plastic and paper bags was signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy on Wednesday, marking what some claim is the "strongest" measure against single-use plastics in the nation.
The new law prohibits all stores and food-service businesses statewide from using such items, as well as disposable food containers and cups made out of polystyrene foam, starting in May 2022. (Snip) New Jersey lawmakers say the state would be the first to ban paper bags. "Paper bags require resources and energy to produce, contributing to pollution," Murphy said in a statement, adding that moving forward, the state will focus on switching to reusable bags.
An appellate judge has handed President Trump’s re-election campaign a minor victory, allowing it to observe the counting of ballots in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, his campaign announced.
With the 2020 race tightening and Joe Biden leading in the Electoral College, Trump’s campaign filed a lawsuit in the Keystone State on Wednesday demanding vote counts be stopped until the campaign was given better access at polling sites.
In a call with reporters Thursday morning, campaign manager Bill Stepien said the ruling by a Pennsylvania judge would also allow the campaign to review counting that has already occurred.
Election staff in Pittsburgh’s Allegheny County, one of Pennsylvania’s most populous areas, reportedly are taking the day off Thursday, despite the fate of the presidential election hanging in the balance with more than 35,000 ballots left to tabulate. “They aren’t counting any ballots today! They stopped last night and are taking the day off,” Bethany Hallam, an Allegheny County councilperson, wrote on Twitter. Hallam told New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel, “I can’t get an answer as to why.” Pennsylvania’s slow counting of absentee ballots has kept the presidential race in limbo. President Trump leads by more than 135,000 votes in the state,
In early October, a nine-year-old Christian Mississippi girl who wore a “Jesus Loves Me” mask to school was forced to remove it and replace it with one the school approved.
On Monday, her parents, Matthew and Jennifer Booth, filed a federal lawsuit alleging religious discrimination.The lawsuit notes that the school’s “Religious Speech Policy prohibits messages on masks that are ‘political, religious, sexual or inappropriate symbols, gestures or statements that may be offensive, disruptive or deemed distractive to the school environment.”
For four years, Democrats branded Donald Trump an illegitimate president and treated him as such. Even though election night ended with Trump easily surpassing the 270 Electoral College votes needed to unquestionably secure him the victory, the left refused to accept the political outsider’s victory. (Snip)The left’s attacks on Trump were not limited to labeling the duly elected president illegitimate. No, Democrats, the media, Never Trump Republicans, the outgoing Obama administration, holdover political appointees, and a swamp of career bureaucrats attempted to first undermine, and then undo, Americans’ choice for the 45th president. (Snip)So if there is anyone who has a right to call an election leaning towards Biden illegitimate,
As we reported yesterday and overnight, despite early calls of Arizona going to Joe Biden, the state may in fact ultimately go to President Donald Trump.While Fox is still insistent on holding onto that early call, other media like the New York Times have pulled back on that or have refused to make a final call yet. (Tweet) As we reported the President’s team says they expect to win Arizona based on how the votes have been breaking, with over 57% of the ballots breaking toward Trump and that they expect it to be clear that Trump has won the presidency by Friday.
Fox News is currently engaged in full damage control after they exposed themselves with manipulative election coverage and destroyed their credibility in the most brutal fashion imaginable. That said, CTH has written about the Fox Agenda for years, but even we didn’t know the details of the scheme construct until this tweet from Guy Benson: (Tweet) Setting aside that Benson spelled Daron Shaw’s name wrong; and reminding yourself that Guy Benson is a paid Fox News contributor; what he has outlined in that tweet is actually quite remarkable. The pollster paid by Fox News to predict election outcomes,
The media once again failed in their election coverage by intentionally amplifying corrupt polls and preconceived narratives, while ignoring the few pollsters who did accurately predict the electorate’s support for President Donald Trump, noted Federalist Senior Editor Mollie Hemingway on Wednesday.
“These polls were off by such a great amount, but not all polls. There were a few pollsters who actually got things right, which shows that it was possible to look at this race accurately,” (Snip Tom Bevan joined Hemingway in noting that some polling groups like Trafalgar and Susquehanna did accurately predict a close race for President Trump, but said corporate media only amplified their preferred polls predicting a
Michigan USPS Whistleblower: Late
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A mail carrier who works for a post office in Traverse City, Michigan blew the whistle Wednesday on what he called a “sketchy” directive from his supervisor.
“We were issued a directive this morning to collect any ballots we find in mail boxes, collection boxes—just outgoing mail in general—separate them at the end of the day so they could hand stamp them with the previous day’s date,” the whistleblower told Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe.
“Today is November 4th, for clarification,” he added.
All states require mail-in ballots to be postmarked on or before Nov. 3 to be accepted.
As I write this, election of our president remains undecided, but the decision is creeping closer by the hour. And it’s not a pretty sight. The reaction among us patriotic, conservative, God-fearing Trump supporters is pretty much a mirror reflection of what we mocked four years ago. Remember when the left was reduced to screaming and crying because such a person could defeat their precious Hillary? “Snowflakes,” we called them.Well, it seems snowflakes are falling on our side of the mirror today. People say they are angry and surprised at the brazen cheating by the left.
Elections officials in Michigan and Wisconsin refused to explain Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s sudden and dramatic vote tally increase that occurred in both states Wednesday morning.Michigan and Wisconsin state officials warned against misinformation being shared online, but wouldn’t comment on specific vote tranches that appeared to show former Vice President Joe Biden suddenly receiving more votes than President Donald Trump. The two battleground states remained tightly contested as of Wednesday afternoon, according to The New York Times.(Video) Voter tallies from both states spiked at around 6 a.m. in favor of Biden, according to graphs of live tallies posted by FiveThirtyEight.
It’s the Thursday after the 2020 election and we continue to wait for election results from states with Democrat strongholds. Does that sound fishy to you? It should. Remember: this crowd executed a coup against a sitting president and spied on him, his campaign, his family and associates. (Snip). Do you think the institutional state wouldn’t be willing to cheat to win this election?
We are told there was record high turnout and that Biden got more votes than Obama in 2008! That sounds absurd. Wisconsin, we learned had a ridiculous 90 percent voter turn out. Geographic bundles of ballots were processed with 100% Biden votes. (Snip)
The purpose of all this
90% voter turnout in Wisconsin explained as seven Milwaukee districts report higher than 100%
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Like we’ve said for a while, the fix is in. We turn out attention to Wisconsin which is reporting 90% voter turnout. Considering dead people are still on the voter rolls and likely 20% or more of the residents simply didn’t vote, we can officially call an unambiguous Pinocchio on this one. According to the Milwaukee City Wire: Seven City of Milwaukee voting wards reported more 2020 U.S. Presidential election votes than they had registered voters, according to an analysis of results and Secretary of State files. Five of them are in the city’s eleventh aldermanic ward, on the city’s far Southwest Side. Correction:
U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, who switched parties and pledged “undying support” to President Trump, was a prime target for local Democrats in South Jersey, who even found themselves a Kennedy to run as their candidate. But the storied Kennedy political dynasty, which had taken root in Brigantine after former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy married a school teacher from Absecon, appears to have run into a thicket of Atlantic City politics on the way to exacting revenge on Van Drew. Tuesday night, it was Van Drew who was claimed to be victorious, and Wednesday, he was still maintaining vote lead
Several counties in Illinois on Tuesday passed nonbinding resolutions by wide margins to create a new state, separate from Chicago and Cook County.
Questions posed to voters in various counties asked if they should join with others outside of Cook County to create a new state. (Snip) Among the steps needed to create a new state from within an existing state is the approval of the state legislature and then approval from the U.S. Congress.
It's not enough that riots, chaos and economic mismanagement plague America's one-party blue cities.
In cities such as Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Minneapolis, the usual machine-politics deliveries for Democrats appear to be on overdrive. In this election, stealing elections is an act they've taken national, with President Trump the target.(Snip)
North Carolina faced this situation, in 2018, where a campaign operative working for a Republican congressional candidate, engaged in illegal ballot harvesting, primarily of black votes presumed to be votes for Democrats and instead of turn them in to the registrar of voters, threw them in the trash.
When it was brought before a judge, the judge declared it so
Nate Silver, the founder and editor-in-chief of the data journalism site FiveThirtyEight, has said that the Associated Press and Fox News should retract their call of Arizona for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
"I don't know, I guess I'd say that Biden will win Arizona if you forced me to pick, but I sure as heck don't think the state should have been called by anyone, and I think the calls that were previously made should be retracted now," Silver wrote in his website's blog.
His reasoning involves the existence of an estimated 450,000 mail-in ballots that, according to party registration, are 23 percent
Meet the Jewish Democrat at Fox News’
‘decision desk,’ the man who called Arizona
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‘decision desk,’ the man who called Arizona
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Fox News’ “decision desk” team, which makes the network’s election night calls, was the first to call Arizona for Joe Biden Tuesday night.
Fox’s call came so early, in fact, that the network’s anchors seemed surprised. President Trump was reportedly furious with his favorite network, and he criticized the decision in an early morning White House appearance, specifically dismissing “the gentleman who called it.”
That gentleman was Arnon Mishkin — a Jewish registered Democrat from New York who is the leader and face of the Fox numbers team .Mishkin called that Arizona would go blue at around 11:30 p.m. Eastern time. At around 12:30 a.m., he appeared on air, and Fox host
With a governor like corrupt Democrat Gretchen Whitmer it comes as no surprise that Democrats would turn in ballots with no names on them. This is exactly why Americans voted for President Trump in overwhelming numbers. Americans are tired of Democrat corruption. We want the swamp drained.This morning its reported that in Michigan votes were ‘turned in’ with no name on them:(Tweet/Video) Was this what was in the boxes carried into the Detroit poll counting area on Monday night?
Melissa Mackenzie is the publisher of The American Spectator. Her daily email this morning is titled “Be of good cheer!” The exclamation point is Melissa’s. I would insert a question mark there. Commenting on the election, Melissa’s message doesn’t gibe exactly with my feelings, but I found it helpful. With Melissa’s kind permission, I am posting it here in the hope that readers might also find it of use:
Dear Friend,
Take joy in the day!
It is gorgeous here in Texas. After a sleepless night and a solid mid-day nap, I feel refreshed and encouraged. Does that sound insane?
When I sent you my election forecast
No matter how the election ultimately shakes out, Democrats have reason to be worried about the dramatic erosion of support among minority voters. Defying most expectations, early data shows that President Trump not only suffered no great backlash from non-whites, but actually earned more of their votes this time around. Indeed, it seems he won more minority votes than any Republican in 60 years.According to exit polls, while Trump’s white male support dipped by five percent, it rose among women and minorities of both sexes. 17% of black men broke for Trump, as opposed to 13% in 2016.
ESPN informed employees early Thursday morning that it would lay off 300 people across its business, while also not filling 200 currently open positions as the pandemic continues to harshly impact it and its parent company, Disney.The message was sent from ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro in a company-wide memo that was obtained by The Post.The layoffs will not be concentrated in any one department and, according to a source, will be spread across the network. On-air personnel will mostly be spared at the moment, according to sources, however, ESPN has been scrutinizing contracts more fastidiously in recent months, letting some expire.
Vote counting continues in four critical states as of early Thursday morning — Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada. Pennsylvania and Georgia are stories unto themselves. There are reports that both have evaded any efforts at transparency in what they are doing behind closed doors, and little or no reporting about why it is they have not been able to accomplish completing their vote counting nearly in one or two urban cities when the vote-counting in nearly the entirety of the remainder of the stated has been finished for some time. (snip) For now, I want to focus on the status of counting in Arizona and Nevada.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her invigorated caucus charged into Tuesday with an energized base, a sharp fundraising advantage and hopes to flip anywhere from five to 15 Republican seats on election night. Instead, it was the Republicans who scored big — at least in the early counting — knocking out at least a half dozen vulnerable Democrats with several more clinging to the ropes.
It was a reversal of fortunes for the Democrats, who had led big in the polls and the money race and were betting that President Trump at the top of the ticket would be a drag on GOP lawmakers all the way down the ballot.
It is a very fair question: What kind of sore-losing idiot would suspect the Democrats of voter fraud? The answer: A remarkably sensible, adequately intelligent, reasonably skeptical idiot — with a graduate degree in American history, who knows what Democrats in this country have done in previous elections. (Yes, besides my rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University and my Juris Doctor degree from UCLA Law School, I also have a graduate degree in American history. Moreover, I voluntarily live in the People’s Republic of California, so I qualify as an idiot.
Republican John James' Michigan Senate campaign on Wednesday accused local officials of impropriety, voter suppression, and election interference, as the state continues its counting process to determine which candidate won.
The allegations came as chaos unfolded outside a vote tally room at the TCF Center in downtown Detroit where all mail-in absentee ballots are collected. By Wednesday, officials barred people from coming into the room and had placed cardboard over the windows to obstruct the public's view.
Heading into Election Day, Democrats had hoped to pick up a half-dozen or more state legislative chambers to get a foot in the door when many state politicians get to redraw congressional maps next year, lines that will last for the next decade and help determine which party controls Congress. Instead, it’s possible Democrats end up with no new chambers, and it will be Republicans who leave 2020 with wins. Republicans picked up the New Hampshire House and Senate, giving them total control over governing in that state because they also kept the governor’s mansion. Republicans won another trifecta, as
Democrats are turning on the
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NeverTrump Lincoln Project
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A reckoning is coming for the turncoat former Republicans that founded The Lincoln Project and raised just under $100 million as of 3 weeks ago. Instead of diminishing the share of Republicans voting for Trump his share actually increased. Despite their showy outreach efforts, increased Hispanic support for Trump was a disaster for Biden in Florida and Texas, among many other states. (snip) The Lincoln Project’s belly flop on luring Republicans away was spectacular. Trump actually garnered even more support from GOP voters than in 2016. (snip) Some of the less charitably inclined ae noticing how much money some of the principals at the Lincoln Project made for themselves
Pollster Rasmussen: If Biden wins,
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A longtime pollster is arguing that Joe Biden's potential victory in the 2020 election could be significantly hampered by the "horrible position" in which the Democratic politician will find himself come Inauguration Day in January.
Scott Rasmussen made the prediction on Wednesday while talking to Just the News Editor-in-Chief John Solomon on the podcast John Solomon Reports.
"If Joe Biden hangs on and wins a narrow Electoral College victory, he's going to go into the White House with half the country thinking that he doesn't belong there legitimately," Rasmussen said.
Roundup: Texas Elections 2020
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Thanks for staying with us as we live-blogged tonight. We’ll post full thoughts on our website in the days ahead, but for now we’re going to pack it in. Here’s where things stand: as of 2:09 a.m. it’s safe to add 2020 to the growing list of years when the question “Is Texas going to turn blue?” was answered with a resounding “no.”
Donald Trump has won Texas. There are still votes to be counted in blue counties, but the president’s six-point lead is safe. That’s not as good as his nine-point lead in 2016, but he significantly outperformed the polls and most expectations.
House Democrats went into Election Day supremely confident that they were going to put another nail in the Republicans’ coffin. They had outraised and outspent Republican candidates across the board. They felt the issues of the pandemic response and Obamacare favored them.
Democrats spoke confidently of picking up 10 to 15 seats — perhaps more. Of course, this would be after Joe Biden cruised to an easy victory over Donald Trump, with Democratic majorities in the House and Senate riding on his coattails.
But the polls were wrong. They were very wrong. So when reality hit Nancy Pelosi and her caucus this morning, they realized they hadn’t gained a single seat
As many feared, the election has ended, but it isn’t over. Ballots are still being tallied, and races in Nevada and Pennsylvania remain up in the air. Even when finished, there will be angry disputes. The counts will go on, but even when done they’ll be litigated for months. Blame the Democrats’ vote-by-mail scheme for the election chaos.
Fed up with riots, demonstrations, nonstop name-calling and demonization of political opponents, Americans speak longingly of a clear result to our elections that would let us all get on with our lives.
It wasn’t to be in 2020. Costly, and no doubt
The American left never for one moment accepted their loss in 2016. (snip) So, when on Tuesday night it was clear that all the battleground states were going Trump’s way, they acted. The network shut down the state victory calls for Trump the moment all the betting odds were favoring a Trump win.
The Chinese yuan began to tank. Fox fatuously called Arizona for Biden long before they should have and refused to call for Trump the states that he had clearly won: North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. All those states were won by Trump on election night.
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Regardless of the outcome, Pennsylvania Democrat Governor Tom Wolf, the Pennsylvania state courts and the Democrat State Party have pulled every dirty trick in the books. (snip) During the day in Montgomery County, Republican poll workers, and committee people received an alert. The Democrats had sent an army of spies into Montgomery County, wearing badges reading iterations of ‘Voter Protection.’ They were posing as poll watchers. (snip) My poll was visited by one such spy. He sat outside the poll all day long with a laptop. It was obvious what he was doing
A poll watcher filmed highly suspicious activity at a vote-counting center in Detroit at 4 a.m., the morning after election day.In the footage, taken by Kellye SoRelle, a Texas lawyer and member of Lawyers for Trump, a person in a white van was filmed loading up a red wagon outside the ballot counting location and bringing it instead. SoRelle released the video to Texas Scorecard, because she wanted to raise “alarms that the box may have been a ballot box that arrived long after all ballots were expected to have been received at the counting facility.”
News outlets tell us that President Trump underperformed in key midwestern states, compared with 2016. But that isn’t exactly true. Take Wisconsin: four years ago, Trump carried the state with 1,405,284 votes. This year, with 99% of the vote tabulated, Trump had 1,610,007 votes, more than 200,000 more votes than he received four years ago. Yet, we are told, he lost the state to the inept Joe Biden.
That seems unlikely. There were 3,684,726 registered voters in Wisconsin going into Election day. The total votes recorded in Wisconsin were 3,240,549.
Let’s be real. Goliath was never going to let David breeze through the rematch.
The provinces, for whom President Trump is an instrument, not an end in himself, were never going to have an easy time winning the 2020 election against the amassed might of the Democratic Party, the “Fake News” media and allied pollsters, Big Tech, woke billionaires and the celebrity class, who united to stamp out the barbarian orange emperor.
The “chumps” and “ugly folk,” as Joe Biden calls them, came out in their glorious millions from the American heartland on Election Day and now we will see if people power prevails,
In a lot of ways, what happened Tuesday night could not have been worse for this country or its future. The outcome of our presidential election was seized from the hands of voters, where it rightly belongs, and now resides in the control of lawyers and courts -- and highly partisan, clearly corrupt big city bureaucrats.
No matter what happens next, that is a tragedy. Many Americans will never again accept the results of a presidential election. That story is still unfolding and we will follow it as honestly as we can wherever it leads.
But believe it or not, there is some good news
Democratic incumbent Gary Peters, of Michigan, won re-election to the US Senate on Tuesday, a report said. Peters, a first-term incumbent, prevailed over Republican challenger John James in the most expensive Senate race in Michigan’s history, NBC News reported. The tight race was called by the network hours after former Vice President Joe Biden was announced as the winner of the so-called “blue wall” state in the presidential contest. In a statement Wednesday evening, Peters thanked his supporters and said it was an honor to serve the state in the chamber.
The Arizona Republican Party is demanding Fox News retract the “rash call” that Joe Biden (D) has won the state. The demand coincides with Trump senior campaign adviser Jason Miller reiterating his belief that President Trump will win the Grand Canyon State. “We’re calling on @FoxNews to retract its early and rash call that Biden has won AZ,” the Arizona GOP said Wednesday evening. The AZ GOP based its call the GOP’s purported edge in the hundreds of thousands of outstanding uncounted ballots. “Other outlets haven’t made a call,” the AZ GOP added: (Tweet)
Absentee ballot counting in Detroit descended into chaos on Wednesday when hundreds of unofficial Republican observers concerned about fraud converged on the counting location.
The city of Detroit is using the TCF Center — formerly Cobo Hall — to count all of the absentee ballots in the city.
Republicans and Trump supporters grew alarmed as Trump was holding a strong lead in the state during early counting Tuesday evening, only for it to evaporate as mailed-in ballots were counted in historically Democrat areas.
Several videos posted on social media show workers attempting to restrict transparency and not allow people outside to observe what was going on inside the counting area:
The thing America needs to take away from the 2020 election, once and for all, is that a new system of counting votes is absolutely necessary. Anybody have any ideas? As far as North Carolina goes, a state expected to go for President Trump, we won’t know the results for some time. Here’s the scoop, via NBC News: The final count is delayed because the vast majority of county boards of elections won’t start counting the absentee and provisional ballots until Nov. 12 — so totals won’t be updated for more than one week.
The Trump campaign has declared victory in Pennsylvania.Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien said that the president is declaring victory in Pennsylvania, though no major media outlets or election watchers have called the race for President Trump.“We are declaring a victory in Pennsylvania. This is not based on gut or feel. This is based on math,” Stepien told reporters on a press call on Wednesday afternoon. (Tweet)Trump is currently up in the state over Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden by nearly 400,000 votes, or by about 8 points, with 82% of the vote in, according to The New York Times
As the Trump campaign expands its lawsuits--including new filings Wednesday in Georgia and Pennsylvania--legal scholars say they are likely rooted in the Constitution's voting law authority, which limits the power of non-legislative actors trying to assert their power over balloting.(Snip)The Elections Clause of the Constitution (Article I, Section 4) gives state legislatures the authority to set the time, place and manner of federal elections, i.e., the rules governing the election process, including absentee ballots. Republicans say this legislative power has been eroded by both executive and judicial mission creep.