Total Early Votes: 94,006,161
Last updated: 11/02/2020 01:24 AM Eastern Time
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
Trump attacks and threatens FBI after FBI announces investigation of Trump supporters who tried to run Biden campaign bus off the road (domestic terrorism)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-lashes-out-after-fbi-announces-investigation-biden-bus-incident-n1245728
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-technology-politics-christopher-wray-texas-dde7527f6a513310b09e0093ae24940d
Trump Reveals Plan to Illegally "Fire" Fauci After Election
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-reveals-plan-to-fire-fauci-after-election
Some Christians said Trump has pushed some young people away from their churches — and his impact on Christianity could last well beyond his presidency
https://www.businessinsider.com/christians-trump-pushed-some-young-christians-away-from-churches-2020-11
Trump supporter caravan blocks people from voting in California (domestic terrorism)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-supporters-temecula-block-voting-traffic-b1525301.html
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/caravan-of-trump-supporters-disrupted-some-voters-in-temecula-riverside-county-sheriffs-department/
Georgia Democrats cancel rally amid threats from large armed militia presence
https://www.newsweek.com/georgia-democrats-rally-cancelled-militia-presence-1543948
Police respond to multiple incidents during 'Trump Train' mobile vehicle rally in Richmond
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/02/us/richmond-trump-train/index.html
Viral video altered to make it look like Biden greeted Minnesota while in Florida
https://www.twincities.com/2020/11/01/viral-video-altered-to-make-it-look-like-biden-greeted-minnesota-while-in-florida/
Kansas Republican shot 3 people he thought were stealing campaign signs. He intended to murder three people over a sign.
https://www.wvlt.tv/2020/11/01/kansas-man-shot-3-people-he-thought-were-stealing-campaign-signs/
The Labour left is now highly marginalized in Parliament again. It might not be in a sealed tomb but it has gone from believing it could be on the verge of governing Britain to its present humbled and diminished state in less than a year.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/10/jeremy-corbyn-keir-starmer/616908/
The El Paso County Medical Examiner's Office is now getting a fourth refrigerated mobile morgue as Covid-19 deaths continue to rise, with more expected as the numbers of hospital patients in ICUs and on respirators reaching all-time highs.
https://kvia.com/coronavirus/2020/10/31/el-paso-county-to-bring-in-3rd-mobile-morgue-as-virus-death-toll-grows-cases-surge/
One of the men who plotted to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer because he felt the state's Covid19 policies were too harsh wants out of jail because he fears Covid19
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/10/30/suspect-whitmer-kidnap-plot-jail-kaleb-franks/6085247002/
I don't think any serious person bought the story of where Hunter's emails came from in the first place, but tabloids are running the gotcha that his password was Hunter02. Anybody in infosec would recognize that as an old meme about how easy it is to hack the gullible. Imagine being stupid enough to believe this garbage.
Today on C-SPAN:
11:30am - Pence in Latrobe, PA
2:15pm - Trump in Scranton, PA
4pm - First Lady Melania Trump in Huntersville, NC
6pm - @BarackObama
in Miami, FL
8:10pm - Harris in Philadelphia, PA
8:50pm - Biden in Pittsburgh, PA
10:30pm - Trump & Pence in Grand Rapids, MI
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1323248353963085833
ONLINE:
11:20am - Harris in Luzerne County, PA
11:30am - Trump in Fayetteville, NC
1:05pm - Harris campaigns in Lehigh Valley PA
2pm - Pence in Erie, PA
2:40pm - Biden in Pittsburgh, PA
5pm - Trump in Traverse City, MI
5:45pm - Biden in Pittsburgh, PA
8pm - Trump in Kenosha, WI
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1323248514424573953
Betsy DeVos' ex-chief of staff Josh Venable: "I cannot vote for the Republican nominee for president. For the good of the party I have supported ... but more importantly, for the sake of the country I love, I implore all patriotic Republicans to join me."
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2020/10/30/opinion-republican-im-tired-trumps-division-and-discord/6068898002/
And we do hit and pass 95+ million votes. An average of 5+ million a day for the last few weeks:
Total Early Votes: 96,235,685
Last updated: 11/02/2020 12:23 PM Eastern Time
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
It's still possible to hit 100+ million today if the 5+ million a day continues today
Facebook exempted Trump snd Republicans from its misinformation rules to avoid accusations of anti-conservative bias
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-trump-family-misinformation-rules-exemption-donald-trump-jr-2020-11
I must be the only person in existence to have deleted (deactivated, facebook will not allow you to completely delete your facebook page) my facebook page years ago.
Joe Biden's campaign fundraising efforts have quietly turned toward raising additional money for a possible post-Election Day legal fight with Trump and Republicans that could stretch through November. In recent calls, Biden allies and donors discussed preparations to counter potential lawsuits from Trump and his campaign, and they detailed how close results in key states could set off prolonged, expensive legal fights, according to two people who participated in those calls. If vote totals are close or contested, the funds would support the efforts of dozens of lawyers working for Biden's campaign, including some who have already deployed to key battleground states as part of voter protection programs.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/02/biden-camp-fundraising-post-election-433803
'Jim Crow, Indian style': How Native Americans were denied the right to vote for decades
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/11/01/native-americans-right-to-vote-history/
Say Yes to Progressive Taxation | The people of Illinois, Arizona and California have a chance to make the distribution of state taxation a little more fair.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/opinion/progressive-taxation-california-illinois-arizona.html
Judge rejects Trump campaign effort to slow down, amend Clark County mail ballot counting and processing system
https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/judge-rejects-trump-campaign-effort-to-slow-down-amend-clark-county-mail-ballot-counting-and-processing-system
Federal court calls emergency hearing on illegal and unconstitutional Republican effort to throw out drive-in votes in Texas
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/523959-houston-court-calls-emergency-hearing-on-gop-effort-to-throw-out
Cook Political Report shifts 8 more House races toward Democrats
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/523957-cook-shifts-eight-more-seats-toward-dems
Islamic terrorists (ISIS) storm Kabul University, murdering 19 and wounding 22. Five hour assault.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/kabul-university-attack-hostages-afghan/2020/11/02/ca0f1b6a-1ce7-11eb-ad53-4c1fda49907d_story.html
New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern appoints country's first Indigenous female foreign minister
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/02/asia/new-zealand-foreign-minister-intl-hnk/index.html
Judge rejects Republican efforts to illegally and unconstitutionally halt early vote counting in Las Vegas
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/02/politics/nevada-las-vegas-signature-lawsuit/index.html
Bracing for the possibility of political violence stemming from Tuesday's election, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown is declaring a state of emergency in the Portland area and readying National Guard troops for potential deployment.
https://www.opb.org/article/2020/11/02/oregon-gov-kate-brown-will-declare-emergency-ready-national-guard-ahead-of-election/
235K dead. 100K new cases a day. That is NOW. @realDonaldTrump. Many would laugh at you but because of the virus they can't catch their breath.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1323326204384964608
Hospitalizations are up 13.4% over past week - nearly as much as cases. Test positivity rate is up to 6.6% - from 4.1% in late September. Giroir last week: "It's not just a function of testing. Yes, we're getting more cases identified, but the cases are actually going up." We have more cases because YOU'RE SPREADING THE VIRUS.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1323332899471413248
Hanging out w/ 52,000 absentee ballots & 50 election workers in Grand Rapids, MI. The state can start pre-processing absentee ballots today. No counting YET but it's a head start so they can get results just a little faster... still- don't count on Election Night. More on @MSNBC
https://twitter.com/DashaBurns/status/1323291846257397761
It's very telling that Donald Trump is focused on his lawyers and not his voters.
Defamation suit filed by Gubarev against dossier author Christopher Steele was dismissed on Friday: STATEMENT ON TODAY'S HIGH COURT JUDGEMENT We are grateful to Mr Justice Warby for today's detailed judgement and dismissal of the defamation case brought against Orbis BI and our Director, Christopher Steele by Aleksei Gubarev and Webzilla Ltd. 1/4
https://twitter.com/OrbisBIOfficial/status/1322241845267697666
Mr Justice Warby found that Orbis had not intended or authorised publication of its 2016 Trump-Russia 'Dossier' by Buzzfeed and that Webzilla had failed to establish that publication caused it serious financial loss. 2/4
https://twitter.com/OrbisBIOfficial/status/1322241846534381568
The plaintiffs sought to undermine Mr Steele's good character as a witness. However, Mr Justice Warby found his evidence to be consistent and credible throughout.
https://twitter.com/OrbisBIOfficial/status/1322241848170188801
Orbis BI and Christopher Steele remain proud of the work we did in uncovering Russian interference in the 2016 US election, the key findings of which have been confirmed by subsequent US government and Congressional investigations and inquiries. ENDS 4/4
https://twitter.com/OrbisBIOfficial/status/1322241849541742592
The man who claimed he was so smart for paying so little in taxes now says he paid millions more than he had to.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1323328330821558277
Hello from the Bucks County Courthouse! These PA voters have been in line here on a frigid morning to correct issues w/ their absentee ballots. They had been notified to come in and fix. Voters tell us they're willing to wait as long as it takes to make sure their vote counts.
https://twitter.com/CHueyBurns/status/1323284335798243330
Cowboys have gone back-to-back weeks without an offensive touchdown. Next week: Steelers defense.
https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1323120716431134720
Republicans Illegally And Unconstitutionally Approved Shipping Tar Sands by Rail to Alaska. The Project's Owners Are Banking on a Melting Arctic
https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/10/30/trump-a2a-tar-sands-rail-alaska-melting-arctic
ICE Medical Misconduct Witness Slated for Deportation Is a U.S. Citizen
https://theintercept.com/2020/11/02/ice-medical-misconduct-us-citizen-deportation/
U.S. judge weighs bid to void 127,000 votes cast at drive-through sites in Texas
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-texas/u-s-judge-weighs-bid-to-void-127000-votes-cast-at-drive-through-sites-in-texas-idUSKBN27I158
Harris County lawyers arguing that harm in tossing drive through ballots is REAL. Presenting the story of one voter who left the state and couldn't just show up and re-vote tomorrow. "Profoundly inequitable" to invalidate ballots the day before Election Day.
https://twitter.com/GarrettHaake/status/1323327768147484673
Threatening voters with physical or financial harm to force them to vote for certain candidates is illegal. If someone threatens you or if you suspect a federal election crime, contact your local FBI office, or submit a tip at
http://tips.fbi.gov
http://fbi.gov/elections
Anyone who is surprised that even a very conservative judge like Judge Hanen is balking at disenfranchising 100K+ voters at the last minute should not be surprised. The case is absolute garbage
NYT neglects to mention that farmer complaining about welfare state has received $446,163 in federal farm subsidies in the past 15 years:
https://farm.ewg.org/persondetail.php?custnumber=B07596125
https://farm.ewg.org/persondetail.php?custnumber=A12158824
Attorney David Hobbs, a Harris County resident who voted on the first early voting day, says in the federal drive-thru voting hearing that the plaintiffs' theory of injury is that the ballots cast in this manner will be counted. "That's not an injury. That's an election!"
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1323348462486888454
Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday that if Democrats win narrow Senate control they will use a budget process known as reconciliation next year to bypass potential Republican procedural roadblocks to enact added coronavirus relief, as well as enhancements to the Affordable Care Act. 1/3
https://twitter.com/HouseInSession/status/1323346037357092864
"It is consistent with the rules of the House and Senate," said Pelosi, noting such legislative pursuits would fall under the parameters of a budget bill. 2/3
https://twitter.com/HouseInSession/status/1323346038074298373
"We'll certainly be passing a reconciliation bill, not just on the Affordable Care Act, but also the pandemic," said Pelosi, speaking on a conference call with others, sponsored by the advocacy group, Protect Our Care.
https://twitter.com/HouseInSession/status/1323346038888038404
You can't pass the John Lewis Voting Rights act or reform the courts with reconciliation.
For Joe Biden, three straight days in Pennsylvania. He will hit Scranton and Philly on Election Day, his campaign announced.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/politics/trump-biden-campaign.html
A Syrian refugee tortured at the hands of the Assad regime is going viral after sharing a video of his elated reaction to being accepted into a prestigious US university: We deserve a moment of happiness. I’m officially admitted to Georgetown University. https://twitter.com/omarAlshogre/status/1322961968962088960
This story of about anti-maskers in a small town in the Ozarks (where I'm at) is chilling and the best I have seen. One new thing: People said they avoid testing because they don’t want to be quarantined. Devastating.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2020/10/31/rural-america-covid-spike-ozarks-missouri-orig.cnn
Law and Order Republicans vandalize Democratic Party Headquarters.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Harris-County-Democratic-Party-office-vandalized-15694179.php
The Department of Justice has released a reprocessed version of the Mueller Report with new material as part of
@EPICprivacy/@JasonLeopold's FOIA lawsuits. The new material includes an explanation of Special Counsel Mueller's decision not to charge Roger Stone, Julian Assange, or Wikileaks with "computer-intrusion conspiracy" offenses. The new material also includes an explanation of Mueller's decision not to charge Roger Stone or Wikileaks with certain campaign finance offenses.
https://epic.org/foia/doj/mueller-report/Mueller-Report-Reprocessed-110220.pdf
https://epic.org/2020/11/breaking-doj-releases-new-sect.html
Michigan Jewish Dems say several headstones at the Ahavas Israel Jewish cemetery in Grand Rapids were vandalized with pro-Trump messages ahead of the president's rally tonight
https://twitter.com/jacobkornbluh/status/1323390325608620032
Multiple gunmen opened fire in central Vienna on Monday night, killing at least one person and wounding many others, including a police officer. Vienna's Chief Rabbi doesn't think the Great Synagogue was the target. He witnessed the terrorists shooting into restaurants and pubs nearby. Vienna's Chief Rabbi Schlomo Hofmeister has told LBC he saw multiple gunmen firing into bars and restaurants during tonight's attack.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/world/europe/vienna-austria-attack-shooter.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Vienna_attacks
Obama on Trump cheering the Texas caravan incident: "The president can't be responsible for every single person out there, but he didn’t say, 'that’s wrong’... he said, 'yeah, that’s great. Love Texas.’ ... Imagine if I had done that when I was president."
On the first day of absentee ballot processing in TCF Center in Detroit, police removed two Trump supporting poll challengers, including one man wearing a horror-movie mask and shouted that the ballot processing was "crooked."
https://www.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/02/poll-challengers-removed-detroit-ballot-processing-begins/6122976002/
All Jewish community institutions including synagogues and schools will remain closed tomorrow following this evening's terror attack in Vienna. Community members have been advised to stay home for the next 24 hours.
https://twitter.com/lahoare/status/1323395672029220865
Shots were fired in Seitenstettengasse where the synagogue is located, though it was closed at the time, as previously reported. It cannot yet be confirmed if the synagogue was the or a specific target of tonight's terror attack, Oskar Deutsch has told community members.
https://twitter.com/lahoare/status/1323396338537635840
The Democratic National Committee's cybersecurity chief says he's spent the past two years getting ready to meet this precarious moment.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/02/democrats-election-security-threats-433868
I can't even fathom the reaction from the Trump campaign if the Biden campaign dedicated whole segments of rallies to playing montages of Trump's gaffes
Photo of Biden Without Mask, Shared by Trump's Former National Intelligence Director, Was Taken in 2019
https://ktla.com/news/politics/photo-of-biden-without-mask-shared-by-trumps-former-national-intelligence-director-was-taken-in-2019/
Total Early Votes: 100,298,838
Last updated: 11/03/2020 11:18 AM Eastern Time
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
Trump Promised a Vaccine by Election Day—None Have Even Applied for Approval
https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-donald-trump-covid-vaccine-approval-election-day-promise-1544418
Deutsche Bank plans to cut ties with Trump after the election, Reuters reported, and could seize his assets if he can't pay back his debts
https://www.businessinsider.com/deutsche-bank-trump-ties-debts-after-election-reuters-2020-11
2 Right-Wing Militant Republican Poll Challengers in Detroit Escorted Out After Using Racist Language, Refusing to Wear Masks Properly
https://www.theroot.com/2-poll-challengers-in-detroit-escorted-out-after-using-1845554037
Biden takes all 5 votes in Dixville Notch, NH to notch first victory on Election Day
Trump campaign mocks Biden as he visits son’s grave on Election Day
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-biden-election-day-2020-grave-tweet-b1560661.html
Trump tells Michigan supporters that he will 'never come back' if he loses the state to Biden. He claims he's a billionaire which means he has the money to travel anywhere at any time and he's been telling his supporters all over America that he has no interest in visiting their any of their states ever again if he loses.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-michigan-never-come-back-if-state-votes-for-biden-2020-11
Pete Buttigieg in Viral Fox News Interview Lays out 'Trump's Economic Disaster'
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-economy-down-pandemic-pete-buttigieg-interview-fox-news-1544350
Video shows Trump supporters beating up man allegedly said "f*ck Trump"
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/trump-supporters-beat-up-man/
FBI is investigating mysterious robocalls warning voters to 'stay inside' in suspected attempt to scare people away from voting
https://www.ketv.com/article/stay-home-and-stay-safe-nebraskans-receive-anonymous-phone-calls-discouraging-voting/34561590
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-cyber/fbi-is-investigating-mysterious-robocalls-homeland-security-official-idUSKBN27J1R4
U.S. District Judge Gary Feinerman in Chicago, Ill., rejected a rule Monday implemented by the Trump administration that aimed to deny green cards (LEGAL IMMIGRATION) to immigrants utilizing food stamps and other public benefits. The decision applies nationwide, not just in the state of Illinois.
https://www.wbur.org/npr/930641540/federal-judge-blocks-trump-rule-designed-to-impede-immigrants-seeking-green-card
Reminder: 3 Kansas teens were shot after a man thought he'd found the people responsible for stealing his Trump campaign lawn signs. He intentionally wanted to murder 3 people over a sign.
https://www.insider.com/3-teens-shot-during-dispute-over-stolen-trump-lawn-signs-2020-11
Early concern inside Trumpworld about Election Day turnout activities in PA: A person with direct knowledge of the campaign's operations tells me, "The team in Pennsylvania was not as prepared as it should be in a state that could decide the presidency."
https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/1323681953896419328
The antidote to anxiety is action. If you want to help us call Texas voters who need a reminder that today is their last chance to vote, we’ll be starting a phone bank at 1:30pm CST with @jemelehill. You can sign up here:
https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1323692090551926784
WWI Memorial in Kansas City vandalized with anti-voting graffiti
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/524239-wwi-memorial-in-kansas-city-vandalized-with-anti-voting-graffiti
99-year-old Mississippi man born on a plantation votes in election
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/99-year-mississippi-man-born-plantation-votes-election/story?id=73958509
Federal judge orders U.S. Postal Service inspectors or designees to "sweep" postal facilities by 3 p.m. ET in several states "to ensure that no ballots have been held up and that any identified ballots are immediately sent out for delivery."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/live-blog/election-day-2020-live-updates-n1245892/ncrd1246009
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-biden-election-day-2020/card/95HPIX8f4fp02NXQLviB
For the 5th day in a row, the USPS moved fewer ballots on-time in critical battleground states than it did in the previous day. Five of the states — Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, New Hampshire and Maine — do not allow ballots to arrive after Election Day.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1323701478276571137
Surprised and glad that the election has gone relatively smoothly so far. No blackouts, no mass voter registration purges, no armed terrorists harassing voters at polls. While there have been minor glitches at the polls, Election Day relatively smooth so far.
This guy drove 2,000 miles roundtrip from Boston to Georgia to vote after his absentee ballot didn't arrive https://bostonglobe.com/2020/11/03/metro/this-guy-drove-2000-miles-roundtrip-boston-georgia-vote-after-his-absentee-ballot-didnt-arrive
NOT A JOKE: Minnesota has same day voter registration. you lying sack of shit Republican terrorist
https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1323673086076571648
https://www.sos.state.mn.us/elections-voting/register-to-vote/register-on-election-day/
Wisconsin! If you're not registered to vote already, you can register at the polls. Just bring a photo ID & proof of residence. Then vote!
Every component of metro America, from heavily African-American central cities to white-collar suburbs, may turn out & provide margins for Ds that are historic. Trump will be strong again in non-metro, but maybe not quite as strong as 16. And will rural just run out of people: Gwen Moore, congresswoman from Milwaukee, says she projects the city will reach 89 percent turnout. (Was 61 percent in 2016)
https://twitter.com/AsteadWesley/status/1323690337152454662
Tamir Rice would've been able to vote for the first time in 2020. His 18th birthday would have been in June, in the midst of an uprising sparked by the same police brutality that took his life
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/vote-2020-biden-trump-tamir-rice-justice-department-1085424/
Some disturbing developments: In addition to the robocalls, voters in Flint, Michigan are getting threatening live calls telling them to stay home or face arrests at the polls. The calls, which have also been reported in Iowa, are (obviously) not true, says Michigan AG office.
https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/1323712949253369859
Trump's campaign asked at least three counties in Pennsylvania for a rundown of highly specific election security plans — including ballot storage locations and transportation details. The Pennsylvania Secretary of State has reached out to the FBI.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1323712802805067776
Trump all-in on Election Day is a risky strategy. When you bank your entire election on Election Day turnout, you have to ask people if they're going to stand in line for two hours. Republican turnout on election day in PA has flatlined.
Who's hoping Time magazine gives Trump that big red x on their cover like they gave osama bin laden and hitler if he loses
NOTICE: We are receiving reports of robocalls telling voters to stay home. Disregard these calls. If you have not already voted, today is the day! Polls in Kansas close at 7:00 p.m. local time. Find your polling location here: https://myvoteinfo.voteks.org/VoterView #Election2020
#ksleg
https://twitter.com/KansasSOS/status/1323690679378321411
looks like i'm in for another 14 years of watching a giants quarterback and never ever being able to figure out if he's actually good or not
https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/1323479332417867776
John Elway and CEO Joe Ellis have tested positive for COVID-19, source said. They are confident the transmissions originated from outside the building.
https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1323673644250370050
Through 20 games, Daniel Jones has a 4-16 record in the NFL. He is 3-0 vs Washington and 1-16 vs all other NFL teams
The #Cowboys are seriously contemplating turning to QB Cooper Rush as their starter this week… which would require he get activated from the practice squad, source said. With Andy Dalton down with Covid19, it may not be Ben DiNucci again.
https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1323711450985189379
Total Early Votes: 101,167,740
Last updated: 11/03/2020 03:37 PM Eastern Time
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
Kentucky police commissioner resigns after report on training slideshow with Hitler quotes
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kentucky-police-commissioner-rodney-brewer-resigning-training-slideshow-hitler-quotes/
This man voted for himself and nothing else on the ballot. Nothing but a domestic terrorist.
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1323727338387902465
"I can't tell you the number of women I've met, traveling around the state of Georgia for about 3 years now, who maybe didn't see themselves as particularly political ... didn't see themselves as Democrats, who are now straight-ticket Democratic voters."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/opinion/women-voters-georgia.html
In August, Rutilia Ornelas, who was stuck in the citizenship application process, wasn't sure whether she could vote as she'd hoped. She was naturalized yesterday and voted today, for the first time since arriving in America in 1976.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/immigrant-mexico-first-vote-election/2020/11/03/03b4d3e4-1d53-11eb-b532-05c751cd5dc2_story.html
Pelosi: Amy Coney Barrett 'an illegitimate Supreme Court justice'
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/524259-pelosi-amy-coney-barrett-an-illegitimate-supreme-court-justice
Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department said they arrested an armed man Tuesday who returned to a polling place after being banned from the site earlier in the day. The man was wearing a Trump hat, combat boots and a visible sidearm
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/us/politics/north-carolina-voter-intimidation.html
"The Five" on Fox News is showing animal clips while trying to slam dems and CNN anchors in between. Why am I not surprised?
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov John Fetterman on Trump's warnings of violence: "The president is just one more random troll saying crazy stuff on the internet that has no basis in reality."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1323743002347499520
Biden is the first presidential candidate to sweep Dixville Notch since Richard Nixon in 1960.
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1323492549349302272
ARREST DEJOY NOW: Republican-Controlled USPS refuses court order to conduct ballot sweeps in 12 postal districts after more than 300,000 ballots cannot be traced
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/03/election-ballot-delays-usps/
North Carolina sheriff, police chief sued for voter intimidation over pepper spraying incident
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/524293-north-carolina-police-sued-over-alleged-voter-intimidation
Young voters favor Biden, turning out to vote in record numbers
https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/10/26/young-voters-favor-biden-turning-out-to-vote-in-record-numbers-harvard-poll-shows/
If you want to express your thanks, you can donate to this charitable @UF account for election sciences. Your contributions can be used only for student education and research
https://twitter.com/ElectProject/status/1323734058711601152
https://www.uff.ufl.edu/giving-opportunities/023435-uf-election-science-group-fund/
Remember this: Lincoln wasn't assassinated because he freed slaves or fought the civil war. He was assassinated because he express support for Louisiana's decision to allow Black people the right to vote. Louisiana was majority Black at the time.
Mississippi voted to replace their Confederate Flag (only 155 years late!) yet overwhelming voted to re-elect a walking talking KKKer to the Presidency
Feels like 2016 all over again
Biden is more likely to sweep the remaining states than lose the election at this point. But we are still fucked because of Senate not flipping.
Senate is the real disaster, even if Biden scrapes over line, won't be able to do anything positive. just going to be endless blocking by McConnell until he dies. Seems very similar story to 2018 overall, House done well, but coming up short in key Senate races and states like Florida, Texas, Georgia where they keep suggesting they've got a chance but never seem to get anywhere. Again it's mighty suspicious considering how much efforts Republicans make to delay post, prevent people with criminal records voting, etc. and those states have Republican Governors to bias the process. But there's no hope for any real post-mortem analysis of this, if the tactics work.
Florida and Texas are way higher than 2016, record number of newly registered voters who registered as Democrat yet they were almost all Latin American and pro-Trump and voted for Trump. Latin Americans are historically Republican and broke once only (Obama 2008). Democrats spent a trillion dollars over the last 30+ years trying to win the Latin American demographic for nothing. They register as Democrat and vote REPUBLICAN AT ALL TIMES, breaking once only, Obama 2008.
Denmark to murder entire 13 million mink population as new mutation of Covid-19 discovered in mink farms. Mink export is roughly 1% of Denmark's entire GDP. Murdering them equates to "lost crop" equates to bailout. Allowing them to live means no loss of crop means no bailout.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-denmark-mink/denmark-to-cull-entire-herd-of-mink-due-to-risk-of-coronavirus-mutation-tv2-idUSKBN27K1X6
USPS data appears to show a failure to deliver mail ballots from voters across the country on Election Day. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan will hold a noon hearing over USPS' non-compliance with his order yesterday to rush deliver all remaining mail ballots
https://twitter.com/johnkruzel/status/1324004554485211136
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/04/2020-presidential-election-postal-data-shows-ballot-delivery-rate.html
REMINDER—Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin election officials were not allowed to begin processing absentee ballots until on or just before Election Day, after Republican-led state legislatures opposed changing laws to allow earlier preparations like other states.
Biden has now received more votes for president than any other candidate in U.S. history
BLM activist Cori Bush wins in Missouri, becomes state's first black congresswoman, blow-out win
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-missouri-house-district-1.html
However the election ends, white supremacy has already won. America has shown a fidelity to white supremacy we can't dismiss, regardless of the election's final outcome.
https://www.salon.com/2020/11/04/however-the-election-ends-white-supremacy-has-already-won/
Sen.-elect Mark Kelly's transition to the US Senate will happen quickly
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/04/sen-elect-mark-kelly-transition-senate-happen-quickly/6158007002/
US House candidates make history - Six candidates won their races, giving the next House a record number of Native members #NativeVote
https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/us-house-candidates-make-history-nrjfe9eNSk6dY6UQLZgD-g
Republicans illegally and unconstitutionally exit Paris climate change pact
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-formally-exits-paris-climate-change-pact-amid-election-n1246350
Missouri Voters Illegally And Unconstitutionally Approve Repealing Non-Partisan Redistricting Initiative That They Themselves Fought To The Death To Get Passed
https://www.ky3.com/2020/11/04/missourians-approve-amendment-3-repealing-clean-missouri-initiative-from-2018/
Lancaster County illegally and unconstitutionally refuses to count mail-in votes postmarked before the election but received after the election. The Supreme Court has already stated that these votes received from Wednesday to Friday are legitimate.
https://whyy.org/articles/lancaster-county-to-delay-counting-mail-votes-arriving-after-tuesday-awaiting-possible-scotus-ruling/
Regardless of which way the presidency swings today, the real MVP of this election is CNN's John King. Barely slept and has been incredible at informing viewers. This man has been on his feet through and through, and is a non-stop information machine when he's on air. An absolute legend. "The President and the truth have a very casual relationship." — John King
https://www.cnn.com/profiles/john-king-profile
Unsurprisingly, Republicans filed legal request to recount Wisconsin's vote. The margin needs to be less than 1% to allow for a recount in Wisconsin. If the margin is less than one quarter of 1%, the recount is free. If the margin is greater than one quarter of 1%, but less than 1%, Republicans must $3 million for it. Fully expect normal challenges like this, Democrats did the same thing in 2016 and 2004 etc. Also, the Wisconsin legal request cannot legally be filed or considered before the results have been canvassed and certified. That won't be until Dec 1st.
Of the 200,000 uncounted votes in Georgia, most come from left-leaning areas of metropolitan Atlanta, suggesting they're likely to skew Democratic. That means Biden wins Georgia, and Democrats flip both Georgia Senate seats blue.
Trump has not won Florida or Texas, both states have at least 2 million votes left to count. Cornyn has not won his re-election. The NYT is an absolute disgrace, 100% of the results they're displaying is a lie.
These Democratic House incumbents are trailing as of now but the races have not been called: T.J. Cox (CA), Cheri Bustos & Lauren Underwood (IL), Conor Lamb, Susan Wild & Matt Cartwright (PA), Abigail Spanberger (VA), and Anthony Brindisi & Tom Suozzi (NY).
Trump's remarks at the White House: He has no power to stop the counting of the votes, and the Supreme Court is not going to stop the counting of the votes. There is no basis in law for doing this.
The nation's supply of N95 masks and other critical protective gear is again under strain as Covid-19 infections surge and hospitals stockpile supplies
https://wsj.com/articles/face-masks-are-again-in-short-supply-as-covid-19-cases-surge-11604499588
A USPS official told a judge they've ordered personnel in TX to do special sweeps for election mail, with the assumption the judge will sign a proposed order to that effect (attached) — the plaintiffs asked for this because the deadline for TX to accept mail ballots is today
https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1324059604159025155
300 Wisconsin ballots are unaccounted for because the Willow Township municipal clerk is sick and not responding to anybody
https://washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/11/04/trump-biden-election-live-updates/#link-JKME2SVC4VBXJP5Y3MRY2TBUVI
Everybody in Maine is a Republicans, Republicans win almost all elections in Maine at all times. Florida "Democrats" aren't, at least a third are Republicans. Florida's "NPA's" are all libertarians who vote Republican straight down the ballot almost all the time. Latin Americans are historically hardcore extreme right-wing Republicans, they voted for a Democrat once (Obama 2008) and never will again. 99.999999999% of Latin Americans LOVE Trump. Republicans over-preformed and Democrats underperformed.
Trump campaign illegally and unconstitutionally files suit in Michigan to halt vote count. That is a major no-no.
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1324064403071897600
Democratic gains made in 2018 are being erased. Finkenauer in Iowa, Shalala and Mucarsel Powell in South Florida, Joe Cunningham in SC. Seats flipping back to Republican. Not surprising, Florida and Iowa and SC have gone even more redder in 2020 than 2016. Votes for Republicans surged everywhere across the country.
All the fraud claims are from Republicans and they boil down to: I swear I just saw this thing, it's not favourable to me, I don't understand it or know the state rules around it, and I don't want to learn more.
"We are winning Pennsylvania big, but the PA Secretary of State just announced that there are "Millions of ballots left to be counted." which is normal and expected and fine.
I love seeing TRUMP lose, it's now my daily medicine from last night to inauguration day, my new energy/inspiration/motivation. His loss is the only reason I'm still alive.
The LOSING PARTY files all the legal challenges to vote counting and vote totals. Democrats SHOULD file challenges to the results in Texas and Florida but won't because THEY ARE LEADING AND ON TRACK TO WIN AND ARE REMAINING SILENT. REPUBLICANS are screaming hysterically because they lost.
Of the 200,000 uncounted votes in Georgia, most come from left-leaning areas of metropolitan Atlanta, suggesting they're likely to skew Democratic. That means Biden wins Georgia, and Democrats flip both Georgia Senate seats blue.
Trump has not won Florida or Texas, both states have at least 2 million votes left to count. Cornyn has not won his re-election. The NYT is an absolute disgrace, 100% of the results they're displaying is a lie.
These Democratic House incumbents are trailing as of now but the races have not been called: T.J. Cox (CA), Cheri Bustos & Lauren Underwood (IL), Conor Lamb, Susan Wild & Matt Cartwright (PA), Abigail Spanberger (VA), and Anthony Brindisi & Tom Suozzi (NY).
Trump's remarks at the White House: He has no power to stop the counting of the votes, and the Supreme Court is not going to stop the counting of the votes. There is no basis in law for doing this.
The nation's supply of N95 masks and other critical protective gear is again under strain as Covid-19 infections surge and hospitals stockpile supplies
https://wsj.com/articles/face-masks-are-again-in-short-supply-as-covid-19-cases-surge-11604499588
A USPS official told a judge they've ordered personnel in TX to do special sweeps for election mail, with the assumption the judge will sign a proposed order to that effect (attached) — the plaintiffs asked for this because the deadline for TX to accept mail ballots is today
https://twitter.com/ZoeTillman/status/1324059604159025155
300 Wisconsin ballots are unaccounted for because the Willow Township municipal clerk is sick and not responding to anybody
https://washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/11/04/trump-biden-election-live-updates/#link-JKME2SVC4VBXJP5Y3MRY2TBUVI
Everybody in Maine is a Republicans, Republicans win almost all elections in Maine at all times. Florida "Democrats" aren't, at least a third are Republicans. Florida's "NPA's" are all libertarians who vote Republican straight down the ballot almost all the time. Latin Americans are historically hardcore extreme right-wing Republicans, they voted for a Democrat once (Obama 2008) and never will again. 99.999999999% of Latin Americans LOVE Trump. Republicans over-preformed expectations and Democrats underperformed and still won.
Trump campaign illegally and unconstitutionally files suit in Michigan to halt vote count. That is a major no-no.
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1324064403071897600
Democratic gains made in 2018 are being erased. Finkenauer in Iowa, Shalala and Mucarsel Powell in South Florida, Joe Cunningham in SC. Seats flipping back to Republican. Not surprising, Florida and Iowa and SC have gone even more redder in 2020 than 2016. Votes for Republicans surged everywhere across the country.
All the fraud claims are from Republicans and they boil down to: I swear I just saw this thing, it's not favourable to me, I don't understand it or know the state rules around it, and I don't want to learn more.
"We are winning Pennsylvania big, but the PA Secretary of State just announced that there are "Millions of ballots left to be counted." which is normal and expected and fine.
I love seeing TRUMP lose, it's now my daily medicine from last night to inauguration day, my new energy/inspiration/motivation. His loss is the only reason I'm still alive.
U.S. Postal Service officials ordered to appear in court after failing to comply with federal judge's ballot-sweep order
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/u-s-postal-service-officials-ordered-to-court-hearing-after-failure-to-comply-with-federal-judges-ballot-sweep-order-01604510041
Americans are calming their election nerves by watching a fantastically boring livestream of workers counting ballots
https://www.businessinsider.com/philadelphia-pennsylvania-2020-election-vote-counting-livestream-2020-11
Donald Trump Did Well In Counties With High Covid-19 Death Rates
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-2020-election-covid-death-rates_n_5fa2e0fcc5b660630aeda7e0?tqm
20-year-old ADMITTED RAPIST (Republican) EASILY WON ELECTION
https://www.kshb.com/news/election-2020/20-year-old-who-admitted-to-sexual-harassment-elected-to-kansas-house-of-representatives
We have more votes because we have more counting. We have more cases because we have more testing. And so on.
Nearly 7 percent of ballots in U.S. Postal Service sorting facilities on Tuesday were not processed on time for submission to election officials, according to data the agency filed Wednesday in federal court, potentially leaving hundreds of thousands of ballots caught in the mail system during an especially tight presidential race. The Postal Service reported the timely processing — which includes most mail-handling steps outside of pickup and delivery — of 93.3 percent of ballots on Election Day, its best processing score in several days, but still well below the 97-percent target that postal and voting experts say the agency should hit.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/03/election-ballot-delays-usps/
Wisconsin doesn't have more ballots cast than registered voters
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/04/tweets/no-wisconsin-doesnt-have-more-ballots-cast-registe/
Reminder: SCOTUS twice said that what happens in Pennsylvania is Pennsylvania's issue to handle. A fully-Republican court in TX denied a Republican request to toss 127K ballots in Houston. Judges have faith in the democracy of our elections. Trump can't steal the election.
Trump and Republicans suing to stop ballots from being counted in Pennsylvania. They filed similar suit in Michigan a few hours ago. Stop counting because I'm losing LOL LOL LOL LOL.
https://www.wtae.com/article/president-donald-trump-campaign-suing-to-stop-pennsylvania-vote-count/34576960
THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN HAS ACCESS TO TALLY SITES.
Spoiler alert: They didn't actually do the sweeps. They said they couldn't because they didn't have the time or available personnel so the judge ordered them back to court so they said, 'oh it turns out we already did the sweeps and didn't find anything' | USPS lies in court, pretending few ballots discovered in ballot sweeps ordered by judge
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-post-office/judge-wants-u-s-postmaster-to-answer-questions-on-delay-in-ballot-sweep-idUSKBN27K26N
Blows my mind how so many republicans are happy to have their own ballot tossed in the trash just so long as slightly more democrat votes get tossed with it.
Governor Murphy Signs Legislation Banning Single-Use Paper and Plastic Bags in New Jersey
https://nj.gov/governor/news/news/562020/approved/20201104a.shtml
Jay Inslee defeats Loren Culp, wins third term as Washington's governor
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/jay-inslee-loren-culp-washington-state-governor-election-results/
House Democrats fall way short in disappointing night
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/524439-house-democrats-fall-way-short-in-disappointing-night
Colorado Prop 114 results: Wolf reintroduction narrowly ahead with urban votes still to be counted
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/11/03/colorado-prop-114-results-wolves-reintroduction/
Democrats' 'Blue Wave' Crashed in Statehouses Across the Country
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/us/election-state-house-legislature-governors.html
In Missouri, voters approved a plan that would effectively restore control over redistricting to the Republican-controlled legislature, from a process that involved a more neutral state demographer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/us/election-state-house-legislature-governors.html
Progressive, pro-BLM, anti-mass-incarceration George Gascon has won the District Attorney seat in Los Angeles. That's pretty huge. The wave of progressive district attorneys being elected is maybe a bigger deal than any presidential election. Plus all the massive drug decriminalization all over the country.
Biden did not magically 'find' votes in Michigan
https://eu.freep.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/04/michigan-election-ballots-mail-absentee-hour-count-update/6161367002/
If Trump was granted his wish and votes weren't counted, he would lose the election
Democrat Warnock Leads Loeffler as Georgia Senate Race Heads to Runoff. Senator Kelly Loeffler, a Republican who was appointed to her seat last year, is running in a special election with 20 candidates on the ballot, including Representative Doug Collins, a Republican, and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat. If no candidate wins a majority of votes, a runoff between the top two finishers will be held in January.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/us/politics/georgia-warnock-loeffler.html
'Stop the count': Terrorist Republicans try to storm Detroit convention centre to stop election workers from counting the votes
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/crowd-storm-detroit-vote-count-election-2020-b1598248.html
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/524532-stop-the-count-protesters-push-toward-door-of-detroit-ballot-counting
Windows in counting room at Detroit TCF Center being covered
https://www.wlns.com/news/michigan/windows-in-counting-room-at-detroit-tcf-center-being-covered/
Trump Asks Supreme Court To Illegally And Unconstitionally Invalidate Late-Arriving Pennsylvania Ballots
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-04/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-block-late-pennsylvania-ballots
Santorum shut down on CNN. He is absolute scum, like his surname's other definition.
A really hot take but: the Democratic internal House polls were half right. Their downballot lag from Biden hit probably where they were expecting, the toplines were just insanely good (and not real) for Biden so a fundamental model never picked that up, like in IN-5 or MO-2
https://twitter.com/rudnicknoah/status/1324114273505812482
Democrats really bombed in the Georgia House. As of now, they only have a net gain of 1 seat. On top of that, Minority Leader Bob Trammell appears to be on his way to losing
https://twitter.com/NilesGApol/status/1324114343382974464
Does CNN book Rick Santorum so that they can tank in the ratings?
America, 2020. A heckler briefly interrupted Clark County Registrar Joe Gloria during his press conference on the election count.
https://twitter.com/News3LV/status/1324098903227027456
What's difficult to remember -- but critically important to remember -- amid this ongoing uncertainty is that this is all a) totally expected and b) totally normal. There is absolutely nothing in the Constitution or any federal law that mandates a winner of the election be declared on Election Day. In fact, for much of the 19th century, it took days -- if not weeks -- for the winner to be declared. (The internet moved more slowly in the 19th century, after all!) And even in more recent elections, declaring a winner usually extends beyond election night -- as the state-by-state counting of votes can often drag for hours or days. (In 2000, we didn't know who the president would be until December 12 -- more than a month after Election Day.) That's the "normal" piece. The "expected" piece is that everyone knew going into Tuesday that the coronavirus19 had fundamentally altered the math on how people cast votes. Whereas roughly 46 million people had voted earlier in 2016, more than 100 million did so in 2020 -- a stunning increase driven by concerns about Covid-19 and a series of state law changes designed to make it easier to vote early, whether in person or by mail. Particularly in our urban cores where millions upon millions of votes were cast and need to be counted, the sea change in how America votes ensured that the tabulation process was going to be both slower than in recent elections and slower than any of us would like. When you double the number of early votes and keep the same rules in place about when and how they will be counted (and the same or fewer number of election officials to count them), what we are seeing this Wednesday morning is to be expected. The slowness of the process, then, is a sign that the system is working, not the opposite. The votes currently being counted were cast in a legal manner under their particular state laws. It would be an absolute perversion of our Democratic process if those votes were somehow ignored or blocked because they weren't counted on the actual Election Day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Giraud
How is Anderson Cooper still going? He was on for a long time last night and started early this morning. Dude must be gallons deep in Coffee by this point.
Trump just tweeted again about claims of "secretly dumped ballots" for Biden in Michigan. This is false. These claims are based on screenshots of a mistaken unofficial tally on one site's election map that was caused by a typo that was corrected in about 30 minutes.
https://twitter.com/jacknicas/status/1324109747906371585
I am confident we will emerge victorious, but this will not be my victory or our victory alone. It will be a victory for the American people, for our democracy, for America.
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1324115456190459911
WH calls "lid" for the day, the word Trump frequently needled Biden about when he had no press appearances on any given day. The WH "lid" means Trump won't have any appearances today, though technically he had one at 2:21AM when he made his East Room statement. Trump has spent months mocking Biden for calling lids. Today, at one of the most crucial moments in his presidency, he called a lid of his own without facing the press.
Fascinating to me that Fox News has been even more aggressive about calling states for Biden than other networks and news sites.
Ritchie Torres wins his House race for New York's 15th Congressional District, NBC News projects, making him the first gay Afro Latino person elected to Congress.
https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1324116787215126530
A state court in Pennsylvania has rejected a legal complaint brought by Republicans in the state who objected that they were not given a good enough chance to observe the opening and sorting of ballots.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1324116733272104962
LGBTQ candidates achieved milestone victories in Tuesday's election - in red as well as blue states. In Tennessee, for example, a Republican gay man and a Democratic bisexual man will become the first openly LGBTQ members of the state House.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1324116600904179712
Shitstain criminal who attacked a reporter, and whose campaign manager attacked a woman and damaged her, car won the Montana governership.
Really feels like Trump's whole approach here, beginning with the outlandish 3 am rant from the WH, has backfired with elected Republicans. Basically all of them are saying versions of this: "We count the votes. We believe in the rule of law. I am for Trump, but if it ends up being Biden, all of us will accept that... Every vote has to be counted. We as a country accept election results. We believe in counting all the votes."
https://twitter.com/IanSams/status/1324109632760123395
The fact this needs to be said is unbelievable! Trump brought nothing but shame on this country! The world is laughing at us. Once a beacon of democracy, US is nothing but a wannabe dictatorship under Trump!
When the losers in the 2016 presidential race in Wisconsin requested a recount...it was a scam.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/808456602076545025
Things money can't buy...
-Happiness
-Senate seats
— Jaime Harrison: raised $108M, losing by 14%
— Amy McGrath: raised $88M, losing by 21%
— Sara Gideon: raised $69M, losing by 6%
— Steve Bullock: raised $43M, losing by 7.2%
— MJ Hegar: raised $24M, losing by 10%
"The President Tweeted he hereby claims the state of Michigan, he can't hereby claim anything. I can't hereby claim a ham sandwich if I want to.
https://twitter.com/glamelegance/status/1324120611141128195
This was me all last night to now
https://twitter.com/i/status/1324085768055304196
United States tops 100,000 new coronavirus19 cases in a day for first time
https://washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/03/covid-coronavirus-updates-2
Anyone in Georgia? Team Joe needs people to go door to door helping voters fix their mail in ballots so they count. Sign up!
https://www.mobilize.us/georgiademocrats/event/361822/
The much-discussed Democratic majority that's been emerging since the turn of the millennium is still in a state of emergence and probably will keep on emerging for years to come... It's a bare majority without enough numbers to govern.
Last night was an utter catastrophe for stopping GOP gerrymandering next year. GOP is poised to draw 4-5 times as many congressional districts as Dems, likely closer to the latter number. That's similar to the GOP's 5:1 advantage after 2010. AZ, MI, PA legislatures still uncalled
https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/1324044289660215297
With GOP's radical 6-3 Supreme Court majority, the court could strike down ballot initiatives, state supreme court rulings, & possibly even governor vetoes that block GOP gerrymanders at its most extreme. This would cement GOP minority rule across the country. 2022 may be awful
https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/1324045231340179456
GOP in lawsuits ongoing in many states over voting rules argue that only the literal state legislature may set federal election laws, blocking ballot initiatives & state supreme courts. Independent commissions in AZ, CA, & MI may be struck down & worse https://dailykos.com/story/2020/10/23/1989088/-Voting-Rights-Roundup-Supreme-Court-poised-to-upend-federalism-itself-to-gut-voting-protections
https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/1324046015884795904
If by some miracle Dems eke out a U.S. Senate majority (& Biden wins), the fate of democracy depends on Congress banning congressional gerrymandering. If the GOP holds onto the Senate (despite representing fewer people than Dems), GOP may entrench minority rule after 2022
https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/1324046702211330048
I've worked on coming up with nonpartisan maps to estimate congressional gerrymandering's impact, & this research is sadly very relevant today. While Dems held the House, they'd have likely won many more seats without GOP gerrymandering. Looking forward to updating this for 2020
https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/1324050429106245633
THIS. What little remains of American democracy is hanging on by a thread. If Dems don't win the Senate by flipping both GA seats, Biden will likely be a failed president who can't appoint any judges, leading to GOP 2022 midterm backlash that entrenches GOP minority rule: "Democrats win the presidency, lose democracy," strikes me as the likely outcome of 2020. Biden probably wins the White House. Republicans probably keep the Senate. Republicans definitely keep the Supreme Court and most state legislatures, giving them power over redistricting. twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/s…
https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/1324052975556292609
The Senate is U.S. democracy's ticking time bomb, & it's poised to go off once GA is called. GOP hasn't won more votes or represented more people than Dems for all 100 seats since 1998! GOP minority rule has supplanted democracy https://dailykos.com/story/2020/10/26/1989794/-A-majority-of-Supreme-Court-now-confirmed-by-senates-where-GOP-represented-fewer-Americans-than-Dems
Republicans in Ohio actually picked up seats, which is pretty surprising considering most of the Republicans in the state legislature are either serving time or under indictment. But I guess the state motto is now, "Better a felon than a Democrat"
Via @NCSLorg, the only legislative chambers to flip so far: Republicans gained NH Senate/House & AK House. Dems may yet make gains in AZ (both) & possibly MI / PA Houses. Republicans held supermajorities in KS & majorities in FL both, IA House, MN Senate, NC both, TX House. Dems hold CO, ME, NV
https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/1324043212839768064
I hate to be dismal, but we must realize that democracy just suffered a catastrophe. GOP minority rule legislatures are further entrenching minority rule with the support of SCOTUS. We may eventually have no option left but Chile-style mass protests. I hope it won't come to that
https://twitter.com/PoliticsWolf/status/1324055158796382208
Colorado voters approve compact seeking to neutralize the Electoral College
https://www.vox.com/2020/11/4/21530891/colorado-proposition-113-national-popular-vote-compact-results
This shouldn't get lost: organizers in Arizona delivered 75% of the Latino vote to Biden (74% Yuma, 78% Maricopa, 81% Pima). Florida is not the whole narrative here.
https://twitter.com/SawyerHackett/status/1324111331843317760
So, to recap: First the Secretary of State's office said no new results today. Then Washoe County said new results at 10 a.m. (which didn't happen.) Then Secretary of State said YES new results today. Then Clark said NO new results today. Now Washoe says NO new results today.
Marilyn Strickland has been elected to Washington's 10th congressional district. She's the first Black person to represent Washington at the federal level — and the first Korean American woman ever elected to Congress.
https://www.latimes.com/projects/2020-election-women-of-color-congress-diversity/
Trump campaign files lawsuit in Georgia, seeking to pause the vote count in key battleground state, AP reports.
https://twitter.com/CourtneyDBryant/status/1324139665285328899
Biden's victories in the Great Lakes states left him at 264, meaning he was one state away — any state — from crossing the threshold and becoming president-elect. Biden has received more than 71 million votes, the most in history
Despite the blustery statements about recounts and lawsuits, and Trump's "claim" on MI, Trump campaign folks know, in the words of one official, "we can't get WI or MI back."
After suggesting that they may release additional results on Wednesday, state officials in Nevada reverted to their original plan of updating results Thursday at noon Eastern.
That viral video Eric Trump tweeted of someone supposedly "Burning 80 Trump Ballots" is fake, as you might have guessed: the person was actually burning *sample* ballots.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/04/business/ballot-burning-fake-video/index.html
Turnout was massive, but the US is divided as ever. No party has emerged the dominant force in American politics.
Trump camp hasn't filed lawsuits to stop vote counting in Nevada and Arizona, where they're trailing
Some suburban strongholds have swung back to the Republicans in New York and across the country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/nyregion/ny-house-election-gop.html
Robocalls Told at Least 800,000 Swing State Residents to 'Stay Home' on Election Day. The FBI Is Investigating
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/11/robocalls-told-least-800000-swing-state-residents-stay-home-election-day-fbi-investigating/169779/
A Record Number of Native American Candidates Head to the U.S. House of Representatives | The first two Native American women elected to Congress will be returning in the 117th Congress. Democratic Representative Sharice Davids, who is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin, and Democratic Representative Deb Haaland, who is a member of the Laguna Pueblo people, both won—in Kansas' 3rd congressional district and New Mexico's 1st congressional district, respectively. In Oklahoma, Representative Tom Cole and Representative Markwayne Mullin, both Republicans, also won re-election in their districts on Tuesday night. Cole is a member of the Chickasaw Nation and Mullin is a member of the Cherokee Nation. Joining the four incumbents are Republican Representative-elect Yvette Herrell of New Mexico and Democratic Representative-elect Kai Kahele of Hawaii.Herrell's election makes her the third Native American woman elected to Congress. She is a member of the Cherokee Nation. Her victory, as well as Haaland's, means both Native candidates in New Mexico won their races.
https://www.newsweek.com/record-number-native-american-candidates-head-us-house-representatives-1544839
Appropriate for serial vexatious litigant and bogus-legal-threatener Trump to try to go out in a blaze of legal bullshit from mediocre lawyers.
The fact that the main movement here was a new GOP trifecta in NH(!!) might be the most stunning bit if trivia in a generally confounding night.
https://twitter.com/LPDonovan/status/1324153027226423296
Suing to stop counting ballots, declaring premature victory, suggesting legally cast ballots are appearing by "magic" to shrink the president's margins... these are not marks of a campaign that believes it's going to win, folks.
Let me just once again emphasize that reporters should 100 percent absolutely Google the sad sack lawyers willing to associate themselves with these cases!
Trump campaign and Georgia GOP sue Chatham County to get names of every voter whose ballot arrived after the 7 p.m. Election Day deadline.
https://twitter.com/AmyEGardner/status/1324151287630434309
Election reveals deeper divides between red and blue America
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/america-divided-rural-urban/2020/11/04/8ddac854-1ebf-11eb-b532-05c751cd5dc2_story.html
Biden is winning the popular vote by 3.5M with another 4-5M votes still to count in extremely blue California alone. No matter what happens in the electoral college, this is going to be a popular wipeout of Donald Trump.
Aaron Coleman Admits to Revenge Porn, Still Wins Kansas Race
https://www.thecut.com/2020/11/aaron-coleman-admits-to-revenge-porn-still-wins-kansas-race.html
This is correct, if you believe Cobb, Chatham, Richmond, Rockdale, DeKalb, Douglas and Clayton Counties seceded a few hours ago to form the new blue nation of Kamalastan.
https://twitter.com/SunshineSt8Sam/status/1324155631159386112
If Georgia goes for Vice President Joe Biden, that result might be in small part due to those thousands of CDC employees in the Atlanta area, who have not been happy that Trump and Trump appointees have sidelined and frequently politicized the agency during Covid19.
"Donald Trump loves this country." - Rick Santorum
"Donald Trump will do what's right for this country" -Rick Santorum
"Latinos" are not a single electorate; their political attitudes diverge based on where they live, ancestry, edu, income, gender, faith, etc. As it happen, the Trump campaign has been very effective at reaching out to evangelical Latino churches. https://washingtonpost.com/politics/in-central-florida-latino-evangelicals-could-give-trump-an-edge/2020/10/06/39c1d824-fd19-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html
Historic turnout. Historic share of the vote against an incumbent president (likely the highest since 1932). The U.S. just surpassed 142 million votes counted and Biden's popular vote lead is up to 3.5 million (2.5%). https://cookpolitical.com/2020-national-popular-vote-tracker
At the hand of Democrats like these, unions just suffered one of the biggest defeats in my time in California: Anthony Foxx, Obama transpo. secretary who now works for Lyft, tells me they're thinking of how Prop 22 model "can be replicated and scaled" in states across U.S. But Foxx also says they'd like to work w/ labor "lock arms ... and figure this out" https://washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/03/uber-prop22-results-california/
You blocked voting earlier. This is on you. Why are you trying to cheat?
https://twitter.com/RepBenninghoff/status/1323956615247286272
Just to help manage everyone's expectations/emotions: some of Georgia's outstanding votes won't be counted tonight. Gwinnett County is done for the day, leaving 4,400 mail ballots for tomorrow AM. Chatham (Savannah) also not planning to have final results ready tonight Peach
Incredible. Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal has floated an elaborate conspiracy theory about Wisconsin vote fraud because she doesn't understand that in the US, "voter turnout" means what percentage of eligible - not registered - voters voted.
https://twitter.com/KimStrassel/status/1324093624611532800
With 84% reporting in AZ, Biden is up by nearly three points - or 79,000 votes. Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs says at 1230a, Maricopa County will release another batch of ballots. She says by tomorrow or Friday, Arizona will be at 99 percent reporting
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1324172810005192705
Gabe Sherman: "Trump phoned Fox owner Rupert Murdoch to scream about the call and demand a retraction. Murdoch refused, and the call stood. Trump and Murdoch have been at odds for months over election coverage."
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1324174595780325376
Pro-Trump demonstrators chanted to "Stop The Count" in Michigan, while in Arizona, armed supporters of the president yelled "Count the Votes."
https://buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/election-protests-arizona-michigan-portland
Reminder: Biden vows to rejoin Paris climate accord on 'day one' if he wins
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/biden-vows-to-rejoin-paris-climate-accord-on-day-one-if-he-wins-11604549000
Colorado passes resolution to award electoral votes to whoever wins the popular vote
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/524576-colorado-passes-resolution-to-award-electoral-votes-to-whoever-wins-the
Democratic Michigan Supreme Court nominees take over 4-3 majority
https://www.mlive.com/politics/2020/11/democratic-michigan-supreme-court-nominees-take-over-4-3-majority.html
Biden did not mysteriously gain 130,000 Michigan votes all at once
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/11/4/21549710/biden-michigan-votes-trump-retweet-election-map
Trump has lost. Don't forget the 34+ of his associates convicted and/or charged. He may join them soon if Biden does not pardon him. Trump will fight tooth and nail not to leave the White House because he knows prison may be in store for him as a "private citizen." And he has debts in the $billions.
https://www.axios.com/trump-associates-convicted-mueller-investigations-206295a1-5abc-4573-be25-4da19d9adcc9.html
Nothing about the results so far suggests the election will break the country's long-term political stalemate, the election did not deliver the unequivocal repudiation of Trump that "everybody" wanted because most of the country supports Trump and Republicans more than Biden and Democrats
As of late Wed, 763,000 mail ballots left to count in PA. The mail votes counted so far have been 77% for Biden. The blue shift is underway.
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/live/elections-2020-results-candidates-updates-news-pennsylvania-20201105.html
In 28 counties in South Texas or near the border, Biden won by a combined 17 percentage points, about half of Hillary Clinton's 33-point margin over Trump across those counties four years ago.
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/11/04/joe-biden-texas-border-democrats/
The theory that certain policies would drive disaffected voters to the polls ignores the fact that those policies are likely to drive disaffected voters to the polls to vote against those policies.
Brian Kilmeade complains that pre-election polls showing large Biden leads may have convinced Trump supporters to stay home -- a strange conclusion when Trump 2020 currently has the third-most votes of any presidential campaign in US history, behind Obama 2008 and Biden 2020
https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1324339821737840641
LOL: Kellyanne Conway on Fox: They spent 3 years investigating the president, impeaching the president. We can't wait 3 hours, 3 days, 3 weeks to get a result ... as to whom the next president will be? I mean, what is the rush?
https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1324338681738645504
Two decades of almost non-stop, total political war up and down the ballot – Senate, state Supreme Court, gubernatorial and state legislative recounts: This still stuns me. Four of the last six Wisconsin Presidential elections have been decided by less than 1 percentage point, and by less than 23,000 votes each.
https://twitter.com/PollsAndVotes/status/1324177941740298240
Not getting the attention but still big: An abysmal showing by Democrats in state legislative races put the party at a disadvantage ahead of the redistricting that will determine the balance of power for the next decade. A decade of power: Minority Republicans to dominate redistricting. Democrats spent big to take control of state legislatures but lost their key targets. Now they'll be on the sidelines as new maps are drawn.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/04/statehouse-elections-2020-434108
Georgia: Check the status of your absentee ballot to make sure it has been counted. It's possible that Georgia comes down to several hundred ballots. Complete this online form by Friday, November 6 at 5pm to make sure your vote counts.
https://democrats.org/ga-ballot/
The PA Supreme Court has overruled the Commonwealth Court ruling favoring the Trump campaign on watching the mail in ballot count in Philadelphia. The mail in counting is resuming.
https://twitter.com/MauraBarrettNBC/status/1324393923922579457
Is it really possible that the president of the United States is the only person who doesn't understand that stopping the count at this point would mean Biden wins?
David Perdue has fallen under the 50 percent threshold to avoid a runoff in Georgia's Senate race. He's at 49.9997 percent — 141 votes short of winning outright with more votes still to be counted from Democratic areas.
Democrats will win both Georgia Senate seats and will also win the NC Senate seat
Election observer says no evidence for Trump's fraud claims
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-elections-voting-2020-voting-b30f3424736014a6b7405df71e32e36f
USPS finds 815 remaining ballots in court-mandated sweeps in Texas
https://www.axios.com/usps-fails-judge-sweep-deadline-battleground-states-f8c0dc13-54b7-40a6-a725-fbf1d06900c9.html
Georgia Judge Throws Out Trump Campaign Lawsuit That Produced Exactly Zero Evidence of Fraud
https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/georgia-judge-throws-out-trump-campaign-lawsuit-that-produced-exactly-zero-evidence-of-fraud/
ICE Attempts to Deport Multiple Witnesses in Gynecologic Surgery Scandal
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqq7p/ice-attempts-to-deport-multiple-witnesses-in-gynecologic-surgery-scandal
Trump campaign suing in Nevada, claiming voter fraud
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-nevada-election-results-fraud-b1617806.html
Members of the far-right, including a Proud Boys leader, were reportedly stabbed during an altercation in Washington, DC
https://www.insider.com/proud-boys-members-stabbed-in-dc-2020-11
Postal carrier arrested at Peace Bridge with mail in his trunk, including absentees
https://buffalonews.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/postal-carrier-arrested-at-peace-bridge-with-mail-in-his-trunk-including-absentees/article_3834d150-1f6f-11eb-94be-97bbd829af9d.html
Senate Race Runoff in Georgia Kicks Off With Democrat's First Ad
https://about.bgov.com/news/senate-race-runoff-in-georgia-kicks-off-with-democrats-first-ad/
U.S. will order twice daily sweeps for states still receiving ballots
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-post-office/u-s-will-order-twice-daily-sweeps-for-states-still-receiving-ballots-idUSKBN27L28B
Facebook group pushing false claim of stolen U.S. election rapidly gains 325,000 members
https://reuters.com/article/idCAKBN27L2DA-OCATC
68 million Americans voted for a racist, misogynistic, alleged rapist, welfare queen, draft dodging, corrupt, treasonous, lying, whining, litigious, lazy, excessive golfing, immature, Covid19 spreading, child stealing, vindictive, autocratic, narcissistic psychopath and it's the Democrats that need to some rethinking? WTF?
Wisconsin voter turnout did not jump from 67% in 2016 to 89% in 2020
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/05/donald-trump-jr/no-wisconsin-voter-turnout-did-not-jump-67-2016-89/
Arizona secretary of state says alleged voter Sharpie problems a 'nonissue'
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/524629-arizona-secretary-of-state-says-alleged-voter-sharpie-problems-a
LGBT Support for Trump Doubled Since 2016. They're racist pieces of shit who are anti-government and hate Democrats for closing down their gay bars and gay porn shops and gay gyms and gay grindr hookups
https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/11/04/lgbt-support-trump-doubled-2016-early-exit-polls-show
The Futility of the Democrats' Record-Breaking War Chest: Lefists lined the campaigns of Senate hopefuls with mountainous piles of campaign loot, only to watch it all burn up on election night.
https://newrepublic.com/article/160089/2020-fundraising-mcgrath-harrison-mcconnell
Alright, PA Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar says it's likely we could know by TODAY the winner in the state of PA. The outstanding 550K +/- votes are being counted today.
The election is (rightfully) overshadowing this but the NFL is in its worst week with COVID. Teams that have put players on the COVID-19 list this week:
—Green Bay
—San Francisco
—Detroit
—Dallas
—Baltimore
—Indianapolis
—Denver
—Houston
—Arizona
—Chicago
A third of NFL teams
https://twitter.com/Danny_Heifetz/status/1324389668528525314
Worth noting after all the IDW-fueled talk of a backlash to Pacific Northwest radicals that Biden ran ~7 points ahead of Clinton in both Washington and Oregon.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1324419999923015681
Clark County just addressed this on-record, said they investigated, spoke to the voter, found the signature to be valid, gave her an opportunity to sign a statement challenging the ballot and signature, and she declined. So she attempted to vote twice. Prosecute her.
https://ktnv.com/news/political/elections-local/trump-campaign-to-make-major-announcement-in-las-vegas-thursday-morning
https://twitter.com/JoshNBCNews/status/1324419281577271300
Don Jr. has moved on to calling for Republican legislators to explicitly overturn the will of the people.
https://twitter.com/JesseLehrich/status/1324420403528433671
Michigan judge dismisses Trump lawsuit over whether enough Republican challengers had access to handling of absentee ballots.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1324421289075826688
Senate Control To Be Decided By Two Georgia Runoff Elections in January
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/11/georgia-runoff-elections-will-determine-senate-control.html
Red And Blue Shifts Happen. That's Not Evidence Of Fraud.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/vote-counts-swing-from-one-party-to-another-thats-not-evidence-of-fraud/
Mississippi governor illegally and unconstitutionally vows to end as much of early voting as he possibly can. Mississippi, on its own, would be a 3rd world nation. It is a national leader in poverty, unemployment, drug usage, lack of education, obesity, teenage pregnancies, maternal mortality during childbirth, and a myriad of other things. Ditto for Missouri, Florida, Alabama, Kentucky, West Virginia, Louisiana
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/524638-mississippi-governor-vows-to-do-everything-in-my-power-to-prevent
Pennsylvania's Allegheny County pauses ballot counting until Friday. Vote counting has been paused until Friday in a blue district of Pennsylvania that encompasses Pittsburgh after a federal court ordered about 29,000 ballots be set aside until after the state's deadline to receive mail ballots for the 2020 election. | The ballots in question stem from an incident in which a vendor sent ballots with wrong information to thousands of people. The ballots had to be reissued and the court has ordered the returned ballots to be set aside until after the deadline to give them closer scrutiny and to ensure that there are no duplicates. The county also has an additional 6,800 ballots that were damaged, missing a secrecy envelope, or had other technical issues that will be examined by adjudicators on Friday. The county cannot legally adjudicate the ballots on Thursday because it is swearing in dozens of election board members on Friday morning, the earliest day they can be sworn in under the law. In addition, the county is expecting between 10,000 and 15,000 provisional ballots, although these boxes have not been opened, tallied or counted yet.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/524641-pennsylvanias-allegheny-county-pauses-ballot-counting-until-friday
Pro-Trump terrorists are still yelling and suing to stop the vote in Michigan when they finished counting since last night...
Biden actually has more votes in TX than Trump got in 2016, the turnout was that insane.
An election judge worked at a polling place despite a Covid-19 diagnosis and then died
https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2020/11/05/an-election-judge-worked-at-a-polling-place-despite-a-covid-19-diagnosis-and-then-died
YouTube says it will allow videos with false or misleading election results
https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-videos-with-fake-election-results-misinformation-2020-11
All clear for the #49ers and #Packers heading into tonight's game, source said, not counting those COVID-19 positives already accounted for. The game slated to be on.
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1324344113802678273
A judge in Michigan denied the Trump campaign's request to order officials to stop counting votes. The judge criticized evidence provided by the campaign, including an affidavit detailing a potential issue at a counting facility.
https://twitter.com/CBSEveningNews/status/1324428352732712961
Shout out to all the Trump supporters who are storming places where ballots are being counted to get a better view of their candidate losing.
Trump is in the Oval Office this afternoon, a WH official confirms.
Get ready Georgia. The negative ads against us are coming. But that won't stop us from fighting for a better future for Georgians and focusing on the issues that matter.
https://twitter.com/ReverendWarnock/status/1324321816102506497
A moment to thank those bleary-eyed, mask-wearing, patriotic volunteers from both parties and no party at all counting ballots to make sure the bedrock of our democracy functions properly.
There are suspicious partisans across the spectrum who believe widespread election fraud is possible, But stealing hundreds of thousands of votes would require a conspiracy on the scale of a James Bond movie. That isn't going to happen. Think about the logistics of filling out hundreds of thousands of paper ballots, scanning them through machines & evading detection of bipartisan election observers. And no one being able to detect it by comparing vote totals to voter rolls. I did voting counting in Los Angeles and Philadelphia and IT IS NOT POSSIBLE. AND CAMERAS FILM EVERYTHING YOU DO.
If you ever described Trump's 2016 win as dominant, if you ever said he changed the map, if you ever said he's a political force, Biden is on track to win by the same EV margin and 4-5% popular vote. Biden should get those same quotes.
How Pelosi framed the losses of many more of her incumbents than expected in a call with the House Democrats: ""This has been a life or death fight for their very fate of our democracy. We did not win every battle, but we did win the war."
https://twitter.com/DanaBashCNN/status/1324432384088023040
https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1324432812901093377
1. There's no problem. They're counting.
2. To the extent the wait is annoying, etc, we can thank REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED legislatures in Upper Midwest for not allowing earlier counting.
3. There's a massive pandemic. It's actually amazing how smooth this has been .
Since there's not a lot of interest or drama surrounding the presidential vote right now, @CookPolitical created a National House Vote Tracker to keep you occupied. Check it out: https://cookpolitical.com/2020-house-vote-tracker?
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1324427854621351938
One thing this map drives home: House Dems are about to take a huge hit to their share of the nation's land area after losing #MN07, #NM02 and #TX23.
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1324432079245946882
It's going to be litigation trolling all the way.
PA Republicans who sued to challenge Montgomery Co. allowing absentee voters to "cure" deficient ballots before Nov. 3 are withdrawing their TRO motion, citing hearing tomorrow in another case dealing with ballot curing brought by other PA Republicans https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7325187/11-5-20-Barnette-Motion-to-Withdraw.pdf
Current #MISen margin: 87,584 votes, or nearly 9x the Trump-Clinton margin four years ago.....: John James refuses to concede. 'I have deep concerns that millions of Michiganders may have been disenfranchised by a dishonest few who cheat. When this process is complete, I will of course accept the results & the will of the people' - he claims 'credible evidence' warrants probe
https://twitter.com/DavidEggert00/status/1324436139713986563
Biden lawyer Bob Bauer in briefing: "The lawsuits are meritless. They're intended to give the Trump campaign the opportunity to argue that the vote count should stop. It's not going to stop."
How recounts work in Wisconsin, Georgia and other key states. The rules for ballot recounts differ across the contested states.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/11/05/wisconsin-georgia-election-recount-rules/
No, really???? DCCC Chairwoman Cheri Bustos on private call to House Dems: "I also want to say the thing we're all feeling: I'm furious. Something went wrong here across the entire political world"
Interesting map. Seems to show that in city of Milwaukee, Biden's winning vote margins were smaller than Clinton's in African-American neighborhoods, Latino neighborhoods and larger in whiter neighborhoods. Overall, Biden won the city by about 3,000 votes more than Clinton did
https://county.milwaukee.gov/EN/County-Clerk/Off-Nav/Election-Results/Election-Results-Fall-2020
Let me get this straight, lying liar who consistently has said bigoted things and has a long history of racism (hello birtherism and antisemitism!) lies about doing a thing for Black people that he'll never do because he's a chronic liar and people think he's lying?
https://twitter.com/icecube/status/1324338726806286338
Spanberger on the Dem caucus call: We lost races we shouldn't have lost.
Defund police almost cost me my race bc of an attack ad.
Don't say socialism ever again.
Need to get back to basics.
(Is yelling.)
https://twitter.com/ericawerner/status/1324439295847968768
The Trump campaign said yesterday they'd filed for a recount in Wisconsin. The state's Chief Election Official says no recount has been requested at this point. She tells @CBSNews's @adam_brew she's not aware of any official contact from the Trump campaign about a recount.
https://twitter.com/saraecook/status/1324439917833891840
I've been screaming for YEARS, since the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case, that Democrats are done (and they still are, they won the Presidency but lost the government, the people, the nation, democracy) because of Black Lives Matters, pro-drug shit, pro-illegal-immigration shit, pro-Islam shit, antisemitism (WHICH IS ANTI-ISRAELISM AND ANTI-ZIONISM), anti-corporation shit, relentless attacks on wealthy people, pro-prostitution and pro-pedophilia shit, etc. So here were are, in the aftermath of a destroyed America.
If House Republicans just do a little better in 2022, which is not a stretch particularly when their party controls redistricting in most places, all of the Democratic agenda is over and the Republicans are set up nicely to return to power in 2024, especially if Trump runs for re-election thanks to COWARD DEMOCRATS REFUSING TO PROSECUTE HIM
The NBA aims to have arena suites open to fans at 25-to-50 percent capacity for 2020-21 season tipoff, based on local regulations. An amount of fans — under protocols such as masks, social distancing and coronavirus testing — is a goal to start season.
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1324424754611236870
The @ATLHawks told me 40,000 people voted at State Farm Arena. When you look at the slim margins in Georgia & other battleground states, easy to see how much voting at NBA arenas, spurred by LeBron's @morethanavote mattered
https://twitter.com/ramonashelburne/status/1324440414636580864
Voters in multiple states can check their absentee ballot status & fix it if it was rejected. Here are some important links & deadlines:
GA (11/6)- https://georgia.ballottrax.net/voter/
NV (11/12)- https://nevada.ballottrax.net/voter/
AZ (11/10)- https://my.arizona.vote/AbsenteeTracker.aspx
Stacey Abrams should run the DNC
How do we win over people who's disagreement with us isn't policy but ideology? YOU DON'T BECAUSE YOU CAN'T.
Trump should have lost in a landslide. The fact that he didn't speaks volumes
Apartment company co-owned by Jared Kushner illegally files hundreds of eviction notices (there's a federal moratorium on evictions)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/524627-apartment-company-co-owned-by-jared-kushner-files-hundreds-of
Defense Secretary Esper has prepared a resignation letter, and also plans to help Congress strip bases of Confederate names
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1324451633300951042
A poll worker penned a Wednesday op-ed in the South Florida Sun Sentinel detailing how volunteers were "threatened, harassed, taunted, harangued and even physically assaulted" by supporters of Trump during early voting and on Election Day, describing the environment as a "war zone." Jeffrey Kasky, a lawyer who says he is not a member of any political party, wrote that he registered to be a poll worker because he was looking for "an active, nonpartisan way to contribute to our democracy." "But I didn't sign up for this," Kasky wrote in the Sun Sentinel, saying that Trump supporters treated the outside of his polling location in West Boca Raton "like a college football tailgate party." "There were overflowing coolers; cardboard cutouts of Trump and his wife for the time being; gigantic pick-up trucks over-adorned with Trump, MAGA, KAG and QAnon flags; and a palpable combination of anger, stupidity and revelry," he wrote. According to Kasky, the people used their cars fo block access in and out of the polling place, interfered with traffic by waving flags in the streets and "directly interfered with voters in the precinct by blasting the train horns from their jacked-up trucks directly into the polling place where voters were voting." The poll worker wrote that his fellow volunteers were verbally harassed and the group of Trump supporters "even chanted the 'n-word' at our precinct supervisor, a Black woman." | There have been more than 54,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Palm Beach County but Kasky says that the group of "Trump cultists" coughed at and spit on poll workers while refusing to wear masks. He says that the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office was called "at least a dozen times" over the early voting days and Tuesday's Election Day. "Based on my observation, however, their interest in keeping the poll workers and voters safe was de minimis. When deputies made efforts to control the group, those efforts were cursory at best," Kasky wrote. He said that one sergeant told him: "If you call again, we're not coming back here anymore." Kasky also called out Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Wendy Sartory Link, saying she was "fully aware of our precinct's plight." He accused her of not doing enough to keep the volunteers safe.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/commentary/fl-op-com-polling-sites-campaign-intimidation-20201104-rfr6d6npune7daoihytqsogbhq-story.html
Alabama police captain on social media about Biden voters: 'put a bullet in their skull'
https://abc3340.com/amp/news/local/alabama-police-chief-on-social-media-about-biden-voters-put-a-bullet-in-their-skull
Nevada has about 190,000 ballots still to be counted, the secretary of state said. Ninety percent of them are from Clark County, where Biden currently leads by 8 percentage points
If the rest of the country counted votes at Nevada's rate now, the race between trump and Hillary will remain uncalled
More than 35,000 mail-in ballots in Allegheny County, Pa. (Pittsburgh) will not be reported today, because of state rules and court orders.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/05/us/election-results/in-much-watched-pennsylvania-one-county-will-not-report-outstanding-votes-on-thursday
The Trump campaign filed a new suit in federal court seeking to stop the counting in Philadelphia because he's losing
Hearing Biden address the nation and talk about Covid in a human, real way made me cry. We are in desperate need of real leadership. I just want this nightmare to end.
It isn't an accident that Georgia might flip. And it's not just demographic change. It's also Georgia's most prominent Democrat being absolutely committed to democracy itself as her political project, and spending years organizing there.
https://vox.com/ezra-klein-show-podcast/21540804/stacey-abrams-2020-biden-trump-election-voter-suppression-laws-republicans
Republicans expected defeat but kept statehouses, won House seats & minimized Senate losses. In many respects, it was seen as the best outcome for a movement that was significantly outspent. Leaders credit the outcome to their economic message.
https://twitter.com/fran_chambers/status/1324479583685611520
Would be the 1st openly gay Republican member of Congress since the retirement of former Rep. Jim Kolbe in 2007: With 100% of precincts reporting, an openly gay son of Brazilian immigrants — Republican George Santos — leads a Democratic House incumbent in #NY03, 50.5% to 49%. Would be a Republicans pickup.
https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1324476421687967751
They're just... saying it out loud now: "Trump campaign legal adviser: "We're waiting for the United States Supreme Court - of which the President has nominated three justices - to step in and do something. And hopefully Amy Coney Barrett will come through""
https://twitter.com/i/status/1324481509554901003
Paying Democrats to move to sparsely populated states in order to flip the Senate is (a) legal, (b) arguably the Democratic Party's only hope for survival, and (c) likely the best possible use of left-leaning billionaires' money.
Also fairly reflects to outsized influence of these smaller states. If you took the CA refugees moving to Austin and Dallas and sent them to Cheyenne and Bozeman, that flips a lot.
I've had the idea that a progressive or Democratic organization should host a startup operation in a swing district, build a campus not unlike a tech-giant/college mashup, pay the team who lives and works there creating housing and employment opportunities, and flip the district.
Never forget John King has been putting up this performance with his ex-wife right there on the commentators table. What a professional.
Not sharing the video of Bannon (literally) calling for Dr. Fauci and the head of the FBI to be beheaded because he's clearly trying to incite violence, but reminder to the press that he's not some genius strategist. He is nothing without your attention & his billionaire funder.
https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/1324482889765986305
As of 5:30pmET still no filing from the Trump Campaign, the RNC, or any other plaintiff alleging voting issues in federal court in Nevada after a suit was promised by Trump campaign officials in a press conference earlier today.
https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/1324481978670829569
A "disputed" tag from Twitter doesn't really do justice to Trump Jr. calling for "total war" over this election. If there isn't a renewed national reckoning about these platforms after this is all over, I will be stunned.
The Pennsylvania Secretary of State says that she and her team have security to make sure they are safe.
After all of Dems' fretting in the final week, there is still a possibility Biden could win Pennsylvania by a larger margin than Michigan or Wisconsin.
Trump plans to speak at 6:30PM, the White House announces. We haven't seen the president since 2:30AM on Wednesday, when he prematurely claimed victory and made unsubstantiated allegations of "fraud"
Trump prepares to launch a second term early, even without winning. He may fire department heads like the FBI's Chris Wray and Pentagon chief Mark Esper. He could sign base-pleasing executive orders. He might resume travel. Trump and his aides want to move ahead with firing top officials like Esper and Wray and signing a slew of executive orders to make Trump look as presidential as possible, as his campaign disputes ballots and Biden kicks up his transition team.
More Mail-in Ballots Were Not Counted in a Pennsylvania County Than Were Cast
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/05/viral-image/no-more-mail-ballots-werent-counted-pennsylvania-c/
Sheriff Who Defended Domestic Terrorist Handily Wins Re-election
https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/sheriff-who-defended-alleged-would-be-whitmer-kidnappers-handily-wins-re-election/
Pennsylvania's top election official says it may take longer than expected to complete the count there. Her office says about 326,000 mail ballots still need to be counted
An Associated Press analysis reveals that in 376 counties with the highest number of new covid19 cases per capita, the overwhelming majority — 93% of those counties — went for Trump, a rate above other less severely hit areas. https://apnews.com/article/d671a483534024b5486715da6edb6ebf
A video claiming to show voter fraud and a wagon being loaded outside of the TCF Center in Detroit is actually video of a WXYZ photographer loading his camera and other gear into a wagon for work.
https://twitter.com/wxyzdetroit/status/1324331937385848835
New: Cumberland Co. (outside Harrisburg) reports another massive suburban surge for Biden. Biden is trailing there by 10.7 points w/ 139k ballots counted. In 2016, Clinton lost it by 17.8 points w/ 124k ballots cast.
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1324486637053747201
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It's seriously time for Biden's Democrats to get out of their tiny ideologically rigid bubble of 80 million people
Fox news has been playing clips of an interview with a Trump election observer in Philly throughout the day: Diamond: "I'm asking you as a member of the bar of this court: are people representing the Donald J Trump for president, representing the plaintiffs, in that room?"
Trump campaign lawyer: "Yes."
Diamond: "I'm sorry, then what's your problem?"
https://twitter.com/kadhim/status/1324485343274557443
If Trump loses, @realDonaldTrump could soon disappear
https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-05/trump-s-special-treatment-on-twitter-would-end-with-biden-win
Ric Grenell Runs Away From MSNBC Reporter Demanding Proof for Voter Fraud Claims
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ric-grenell-runs-away-as-msnbc-reporter-jacob-soboroff-demands-proof-of-voter-fraud-claims
At least Claire McCaskill ACTUALLY has won a STATEWIDE race in deep red Missouri. Have you won outside your deep blue bubble?
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1324404161660751873
The team that Ignored Black Voters in the Primary is Here to Lecture the Democratic Party
https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1324226064093270018
Ilhan Omar underperformed Biden by almost 16 points in her own district
I am concerned that this election kerfluffle will delay the imminent release of the Trump healthcare plan. Not to mention delaying Infrastructure Week...
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Whatever happens, the data is showing one thing clearly. It may be time to break up with the Nates.
https://washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/nate-silver-538-nate-cohn-nyt-and-election-forecasting/2020/11/05/af6ff24e-1eee-11eb-ba21-f2f001f0554b_story.html
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel has opened an investigation into allegations that the Trump campaign's use of the White House as an Election Day command center violated federal law, Democratic Representative Bill Pascrell said Thursday
https://twitter.com/robcrilly/status/1324493207565197315
Pennsylvania Sec. of State Boockvar tells reporters during a press conference that counties are working diligently to count votes in the crucial battleground state and expects the overwhelming majority to be processed by Friday.
"All votes that comply with PA law must be counted, regardless of how long the process takes. ... Once a final count is reached and certified, all parties involved must accept the outcome of the election regardless of whether they won or lost."
https://twitter.com/JonathanTamari/status/1324495037682647040
Jim Acosta ran out of fucks about two years ago.
Waiting for Trump's press conference, Acosta says that his remarks should come with a surgeon general's warning that his comments "could be hazardous to your democracy."
"The President is watching the lights go out on his presidency" - Jim Acosta
nO onE CovERZ lAtinOs
https://nytimes.com/es/2020/11/05/espanol/noticias-falsas-elecciones.html
Update on Illinois14: JimOberweis ahead of LaurenUnderwood by (this is fresh number) 628 ballots. About 20,000 votes not counted in this 7-county district. Underwood has wider path for gains than Oberweis. That he declared victory is irrelevant.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2020/11/4/21550393/jim-oberweis-lauren-underwood-outcome-illinois-congress-seat-in-limbo-oberweis-considers-recount
ESTIMATED TURNOUT:
1. 144.6M votes so far
2. At a bare minimum, we have 4.5M more to come from the following states where turnout hasn't yet attained 2016 levels:
AK 147M more
CA 2.1M
DC 32K
IL 278K
MD 613K
MS 173K
NJ 660K
NY 457K
UT 50K
Think turnout will be 165+
Trump starts by reading essentially the same false all caps tweet/statement from this morning. Blatant lie: "If you count the legal votes, I easily win."
Trump is boasting about having "kept the Senate," which is not clear now that we are headed to two Georgia runoffs.
The "massive voter fraud" in Pennsylvania resulted in Democrats losing House seats. The current accusations say Democrats orchestrated a multi-state voter fraud operation that resulted in them:
• Flipping zero House seats
• Flipping zero state legislatures
• Remaining in the Senate minority
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/04/election-results-misinformation/?outputType=amp
Video of 'ballot stuffing' is not from a Flint, Mich., polling place. It's from Russia
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/05/facebook-posts/video-ballot-stuffing-filmed-russia-not-flint-mich/
Anything presented without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence
I don't think we fully appreciate how the US media would describe a foreign leader baselessly accusing his opponents of stealing an election and ranting about the vote-counting process as he spreads disinfo about it and questions the electoral system's integrity.
Trump has a message of hope. He hopes your vote won't be counted.
Trump admitting that he will likely be down in GA at the end of the day is quite the concession. Remember the campaigns have direct access to each and every state's election data. They know the numbers.
Trump lies that there are no verification measures with "unsolicited" ballots sent out in states that sent one to all eligible voters without verification. There are various security measures; Utah is one of the states.
Trump's speech is both corrosive and full of lies and also totally discursive and delivered in sad monotone
There are literally dozens of Republican observers in Philly where the absentee ballots are being counted. And it's being live streamed. Philly election officials are welcoming all qualified observers, as are all PA counties and everywhere in the US.
"I was winning until they counted the votes"
Erie County, Pa., a bellwether county that voted for Trump in 2016, just flipped to Biden. Trump's lead in Pennsylvania is now less than 74,000.
Here is a picture of Donald Trump casting a ballot by mail, from the White House:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmGVUQPXIAASK84?format=jpg&name=small
As quickly as Trump can purposely undermine Democratic systems - the vote counting continues and his leads are shrinking. While Donald Trump uses the White House to attack the bedrock of American democracy - voting, his leads in Pennsylvania and Georgia are dwindling. His lead in Georgia is now roughly 3,000 votes. His lead in Pennsylvania is now roughly 74,000 votes.
KenPaxtonTX had an extramarital affair with a woman whom he later recommended for a job with the wealthy donor now at the center of criminal allegations against him
https://apnews.com/article/ken-paxton-austin-archive-texas-extramarital-affairs-dc0c309fc829e62e5132aab56bcc686f
Pence expressing complete and total support for something very different from what Trump actually said
https://twitter.com/Mike_Pence/status/1324503069447593988
Philadelphia's ballot counters are overseen by a bipartisan election commission, oftentimes ballot counters are registered third party
Former Tampa Bay Rays 1st-round pick Brandon Martin convicted of 2015 triple murder and faces death penalty
https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-11-05/brandon-martin-triple-murder
https://twitter.com/KyleAGlaser/status/1324477732344852480?s=19
GHWB conceding to Clinton in 1992: "We respect the majesty of the democratic system - and America must always come first. And we will get behind this new president and wish him well."
RickSantorum on CNN suddenly grew a spine: "How can you say we have to wait and count the votes in Arizona and I can win, but if you count the votes in Philadelphia (where Trump has lost) you're stealing them? ... Democrats voted by mail and Republicans voted in person, and it's because you asked them to do so."
The three major networks — ABC, CBS and NBC — cut away after Trump made false claims in an appearance at the White House.
Iowa counties that swung from Obama to Trump in 2016 became Trumpier in 2020. https://desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/05/election-2020-iowas-obama-trump-pivot-counties-stayed-trump/6176228002/
"Detroit and Philadelphia, known as two of the most corrupt political places anywhere in our country—easily—cannot be responsible for the outcome of a presidential race." Just an amazingly racist, un-American statement from the president.
Sen. Chris Murphy is not optimistic. "Mitch McConnell will force Joe Biden to negotiate every single cabinet secretary, every single district court judge, every single U.S. attorney....My guess is we'll have a constitutional crisis pretty immediately"
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/transition-playbook/2020/11/05/biden-confronts-a-potential-cabinet-obstacle-senate-majority-leader-mitch-mcconnell-791428
With counting continuing in numerous counties throughout Georgia, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said that as of 7:15 p.m. today there are approximately 18,936 ballots still outstanding."Officials in numerous counties are continuing to count ballots, with strong security protocols in place to protect the integrity of our election," said Raffensperger. ... [Read More]
https://sos.ga.gov/index.php/elections
A federal judge denied the Trump campaign's request to stop vote counting in Philadelphia, but ordered officials to expand the number of people each side could have in the room
Biden should give James Comey his FBI Director job back for the ultimate karma
Biden's FL focus in last 2 months came too late because Trump's team has been there since 2015. "Democrats in Florida have allowed the cardinal sin to happen with the Hispanic electorate. They've allowed the Democratic party brand to be defined by socialism."
https://newsweek.com/florida-democrats-assess-what-went-wrong-biden-latinos-state-1544904
Sekulow filed a motion to intervene on the Trump campaign's behalf yesterday. The PA consented to that intervention this evening.
The scattershot nature of the Trump team's comments and legal challenges to the election have caused speculation about what litigation he hopes to pursue and what allies are behind him. I have a couple answers to that though this is all fast moving and it's hard to be definitive.
https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1324512338226143234
A source familiar with the Trump team's legal strategy tells me there main Supreme Court litigation is the case about the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that granted a three day extension letting officials there count some mailed ballots received up to tomorrow
https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1324513820728020992
Jay Sekulow, who has a winning Supreme Court record and helped lead the successful impeachment defense is the attorney of record for the Trump campaign in that case.
https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1324514012625850369
Along with his work on the Supreme Court case about the Pennsylvania count, Sekulow tells me he is "involved with overall strategy" for the campaign's legal challenges.
https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1324514238308769793
The PA case includes the states Republican Party, which is being repped by Jones Day, and a conservative group, the Honest Elections Project, repped by David Rivkin of Baker Hostetler.
https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1324514612092522496
Sekulow filed a motion to intervene on the Trump campaign's behalf yesterday. The PA consented to that intervention this evening.
https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1324514943539027969
This case began in late September. The Supreme Court deadlocked on it the following month. The Republicans are hoping they will hear it now with Amy Coney Barrett as a potentially deciding vote.
https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1324515231796789251
My understanding is that there are only about 100,000 PA votes at stake in this case. It won't matter if PA is not decisive or if the margin there exceeds that total.
https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1324515537884504064
It is not clear that the Trump camp will have another Supreme Court challenge if Biden wins enough electoral votes to render PA irrelevant and there are still multiple ways that could happen.
https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1324515911722627078
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/550046337547665409
Arizona is dropping tiny batches of votes every few minutes now after doing almost nothing for so long. Each one the Biden lead goes down
Jim Clyburn warns leftist rhetoric could blow Georgia senate races
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/05/house-democrats-warn-caucus-left-434428
This. I was there too. A Michigan GOP volunteer attorney told me both parties had more than 200 people each in the room, exceeding COVID limits, which was why they were not letting more people in.
https://twitter.com/LATSeema/status/1324516106086875138
If California was a swing state...we'd be waiting a while...ballots left to count in California: 4,523,196
Apache county just posted 2,223 ballots. Breakdown:
Biden: 1,805(81.2%)
Trump: 396 (17.8%)
This county encompasses the Navajo Nation. Trump now trails Biden 57,844
https://twitter.com/Garrett_Archer/status/1324521104539439105
One claim Trump's team is making in the MI case is that poll challengers weren't given access to observe/challenge the process. This is a photo I took on 11/2 at the Detroit absentee counting board of poll challengers entering the facility. Many were wearing MI GOP identification
https://twitter.com/AnnieGrayerCNN/status/1324407998211567618
The Impact of SARs Disclosures on Financial Institutions | The surprising releases of information from Suspicious Activity Reports that were filed w/the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network have sent shockwaves through the financial industry #FinCenFiles
https://twitter.com/JasonLeopold/status/1324520900100726784
A federal judge denied a request by Trump's campaign to stop the vote count in Philadelphia on Thursday evening.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1324530734955077633
A little more movement in Pennsylvania. Trump now leads by just under 64,000 votes, with 250,000 yet to be counted. Biden has been winning the mail-in by 76%.
There you go again... Where is your data regarding long haulers? What about coronary, respiratory, clotting, neurological and other negative consequences? The health issues related to Covid are not binary and you know it, but still try to mislead. So much for First Do No Harm
https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/1324322807283634176
Twitter bans Steve Bannon after call for beheadings; YouTube removes video
https://nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/live-blog/2020-11-05-trump-biden-election-results-n1246510/ncrd1246699
In Georgia, where Trump's lead over Biden has shrunk to 3,486, only 18,936 ballots remain uncounted, according to Jordan Fuchs, the deputy secretary of state.
This is the Republican state attorney general of Arizona. If you see someone claiming that Sharpies or felt markers invalidated ballots in AZ, inform them this has been investigated and resolved: Based on correspondence and conversations with Maricopa County officials, we are now confident that the use of Sharpie markers did not result in disenfranchisement for Arizona voters. We appreciate the county's prompt insight and assurances to address public concerns.
https://twitter.com/GeneralBrnovich/status/1324526305677750272
US daily Covid-19 cases hit record two days running, topping 120,000: Johns Hopkins
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1324526128074088448
Always remember who aided and abetted this abuse of Presidential power — and those who tried to stop it.
I'm told that on the phone call this morning, Trump said he assumed people knew that by "stop the count" he didn't mean he wanted to stop the count. The adviser had to explain to him that actually people figured he meant he wanted to stop the count when he said "stop the count."
https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1324519655114002433
Julián Castro warned months ago of a 'potential slide of Latino support for Democrats'
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/politics/article/Juli-n-Castro-warned-months-ago-of-a-potential-15704490.php
Keep in mind Trump is reading his speech from a prepared text, which presumably means that a number of aides helped him compose this litany of lies and attacks on the integrity of America's democracy.
John King, CNN's master of election maps, has slept just 6.5 hours since Tuesday
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-11-05/election-2020-cnn-john-king-map-tweets
So are the votes for Trump in AZ fraudulent as well? They keep finding random votes for Trump in AZ.
Why do we listen to people who have never won an election in an ideologically diverse place? Or have never experienced an electoral loss and learned from it? Claire McCaskill has been on the ballot in MO 13 times and won 11 times. She might have picked up some wisdom along the way.
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1324404161660751873
Biden maintains his lead in Arizona with new numbers in Maricopa, but Trump picked up 42,276 to Biden's 31,700. Biden's lead in Arizona is now roughly 46,000. Trump won that batch of votes by 56%-42% and netted 10,576 votes
https://recorder.maricopa.gov/electionresults/general2020.aspx
I've been screaming this since the Obama Years: Conor Lamb: Spanberger was talking about something many of us are feeling today: We pay the price for these unprofessional and unrealistic comments about a number of issues, whether it is about the police or shale gas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-democrats-pelosi-election/2020/11/05/1ddae5ca-1f6e-11eb-90dd-abd0f7086a91_story.html
Conor Lamb is on track to win re-election
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-pennsylvania-house-district-17.html
As we wait on Pennsylvania, one interesting development to take a look at in the returns: Trump didn't get the share of vote he needed in a lot of the so-called "T," the conservative middle of the state where his campaign has long since planned to run up the score. Take Northumberland County, just north of Dauphin. Trump received ~70% of the vote there in '16, w/Clinton at ~26%. In '20, per returns, Trump now 68.4%, with Biden at 29.9 (totals not necessarily final). That's a bigger than ~5-point shift. TBC, Trump has already received more than 4,000 votes over his '16 total. His raw vote margin over Biden expanded by more than a thousand votes. But the plan was for Trump to increase both his share and his total vote out or exurbs/rural areas. Instead vote surged everywhere. So any gains for Trump in a place like Northumberland were negated in the suburbs or cities. Wasn't just Northumberland, either. Most counties in the area showed at least a small decline in Trump's share of the vote, or at least the margins were even over '16. In many ways the margins were saw in the 'T' were exactly what Dems had dreamed of when the race started, that they could make real cuts into Trump's margins there. In a lot of areas, it didn't seem to work out. I mean, go look at Ohio. Look at how Trump not only avoided losses to his margins but *grew them.* I was on the phone w/a Democrat Tuesday night looking at those returns, and they were despondent about Biden's chances in Pennsylvania because of them. But ... a very different story played out in Northumberland, Lycoming, Schuylkill and Montour County (~7-point swing in Biden's favor since '16!!). Why did this happen? I have no idea! But it does seem like one very early takeaway from this election is ...... treating voter blocs as monolith can lead to a lot of faulty assumptions. Was a particular problem with voters of colour, especially Latinos but also African-Americans. Seems as if it's a problem with mostly white rural voters this year, too
Lindsey Graham goes on Hannity to say he's donating $500k to the Trump legal defense fund. Also says there's "earth-shattering" evidence to support Trump's claims of a rigged election. I guess he saw Don Jr's tweet. Who is plotting to steal the election here? Sean Hannity is asking Lindsey Graham whether the state legislature in PA should directly pick the electors. Graham simply says "everything should be on the table."
Soon:
https://alex.github.io/nyt-2020-election-scraper/battleground-state-changes.html
Asking people to return ballots that they've filled out after the election is voter fraud. Reminder- the few incidents of intentional voter fraud we have seen over the last few years has been by Trump supporters. An email obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel sent at 5:19 p.m. Thursday by Kenosha for Trump reads: "Trump Victory urgently needs volunteers to make phone calls to Pennsylvania Trump supporters to return their absentee ballots." Trump's Wisconsin campaign asked Pennsylvania to illegally and unconstitutionally cast late ballots, which is election fraud and voter fraud.
https://jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/06/trumps-wisconsin-campaign-asks-pennsylvania-cast-late-ballots/6182506002/
Democrats fail to make gains in state legislative races in advance of 2021 redistricting
https://www.vox.com/2020/11/5/21551388/democrats-republicans-state-legislative-races-election-results-redistricting-gerrymandering-census
Amid Tears and Anger, House Democrats Promise 'Deep Dive' on Election Losses
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/us/house-democrats-election-losses.html
The Republican Party's Call To Force Electors To Elect Trump Is Illegal And Unconstitutionl And Ignores Recent SCOTUS Precedent On Faithless Electors.
https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/republican-calls-to-defy-the-will-of-the-voters-completely-ignores-recent-scotus-precedent-on-faithless-electors/
The National Basketball Players Association has voted to tentatively approve NBA's proposal for the 2020-21 campaign starting on Dec. 22 and playing 72-game season, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. NBA set to tip off Christmas week.
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1324561399331364867
If Biden's lead holds in Georgia, he will be the first Democrat the state has backed in a presidential race since Bill Clinton in 1992. Georgia would be a landmark political and moral victory for Biden. But its short-term importance is purely mathematical: if it holds, it would block Trump from reaching 270 electoral votes. In Georgia, Biden increased his lead to 1,096 over Trump after another batch of ballots came in from Clayton County, a deep blue county just south of Atlanta. Note that Biden won Georgia because of ALL the Georgia voters who voted for Biden, not because of one single county, not because of blue stronghold counties, but because of ALL the people in that state who voted Biden.
More ballots arriving in Georgia from overseas and provisional voters
https://www.ajc.com/politics/more-ballots-arriving-in-georgia-from-overseas-and-provisional-voters/2IKU3WM5XZD7FDQE5DAOKYXTMY/
Too little far too late, and they waited nearly an entire day before taking action on this tweet alone: Twitter permanently suspends Steve Bannon account after talk of beheading
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/05/tech/steve-bannon-twitter-permanent-suspension/index.html
As Trump claims election is being stolen, John McCain's concession speech from 2008 goes viral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvgqRKYapU8
Philadelphia police discover plot to attack centre where votes are being counted, arrest armed republican militant
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-pennsylvania-philadelphi/philadelphia-police-probe-alleged-plot-to-attack-vote-counting-venue-idUSKBN27M0MQ
U.S. Postal Service says 1,700 ballots found in Pennsylvania facilities | In a court filing early Friday, USPS said 1,076 ballots, had been found at the USPS Philadelphia Processing and Distribution Center. About 300 were found at the Pittsburgh processing center, 266 at a Lehigh Valley facility and others found at other Pennsylvania processing centers. Ballots must be received by Friday evening in Pennsylvania in order to be counted. The vote for the U.S. president remains extremely close and Pennsylvania is one of the states that remains undecided. About 500 ballots were also discovered in North Carolina during sweeps, USPS said on Friday. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan on Thursday had ordered twice daily sweeps at USPS facilities serving states with extended ballot receipt deadlines as votes were still being counted in U.S. election battleground states.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-post-office-ballots/u-s-postal-service-says-1700-ballots-found-in-pennsylvania-facilities-idUSKBN27M0LC
We left it all on the field, again. 7 months, 70+ million contacts. Thanks to everyone who was part of the effort!
https://i.redd.it/5voxhnb7u4x51.png
There was a good Niskanen report about this last year calling on moderates to play the factional institution-building and organizing game and not just whine and dream of anti-party politics. People should listen.
https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-future-is-faction/
A National Fight Over Who Is Counted In Voting Districts May Arise From Missouri | Opponents of Missouri's Amendment 3 say the new criteria opens the door to redistricting that does not take into account the political representation of children, noncitizens and other residents who are not eligible to vote. According to an analysis by the Brennan Center for Justice, redistricting based on the numbers of adult citizens could siphon away political representation from two major metropolitan areas in Missouri — greater Kansas City and the suburbs of St. Louis. The change could also come with "stark" racial disparities, the Brennan Center report says, potentially leaving out more than half of Asian and Latino residents in Missouri and more than a quarter of Black residents while excluding only 21% of the state's white population. Still, it remains an open question whether it is legal to draw voting districts based on the number of eligible voters or another group other than all residents. The U.S. Supreme Court left it unresolved in its 2016 ruling for the Texas redistricting case Evenwel v. Abbott. "That open question could be one of the big fights of this decade," Michael Li, a redistricting expert who is a senior counsel for the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, told NPR in May.
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/931908064/a-national-fight-over-who-is-counted-in-voting-districts-may-arise-from-missouri
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/gerrymandering-away-missouris-future
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/578/14-940/#tab-opinion-3553740
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/20/855062093/to-figure-out-whos-a-citizen-trump-administration-is-using-these-records
And it means that it'll benefit Republicans and whites the most. It'll inevitably break up the blue bastions in KC and St. Louis. God damn it Missouri... Kansas City and St. Louis dragged the rest of the state kicking and screaming through Medicaid expansion. I'm just depressed by my former KKK state. Missouri in 2018 passed an amendment that gave district drawing power to a non-partisan demographer which worked out pretty well as it let us get Medicaid expansion because KC and St. Louis turned into two blue bastions. But now that's dead and gone. All because they hid it behind language that was intended to make you lose sight of the real change. So, if you can't vote, you're worthless and should not have any political or legal representation. Unless you're unborn.
Trump eclipses Obama's popular vote record, reinforcing speculation of a 2024 run if he loses. Biden has the most total votes of all time, Trump is about to receive the second most total votes of all time. Obama dumped to third.
Some context for the Philly vote: Barack Obama took a 492,000 vote advantage out of the city in 2012. Hillary Clinton had a 475,000 vote margin in 2016. With 92% of the city's estimated votes reporting, Biden has a 405,000 advantage. So that's going to grow...
Texas swiftly processed more than 11 million votes and quickly announced winners across 2 time zones. MI, PA and WI take longer because their Republican-controlled state legislatures didn't listen to elections officials asking for the same ability.
Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey: "I saw the president's speech last night and it was very hard to watch. The president's allegations of large-scale fraud and theft of the election are just not substantiated."
https://twitter.com/CBSThisMorning/status/1324693642368425984
McConnell's first comments since Trump's unsubstantiated claims of fraud and "rigged" elections last night is: election day votes are legal votes and all election day votes need to be counted. Non-election day votes are illegal and must be voided.
NFL will fine the Las Vegas #Raiders $500,000 & coach Jon Gruden $150,000 and strip the team of a 6th round draft pick for COVID-19 protocol violations related to OT Trent Brown's positive test in late October. Escalated fines/pick were due to being a "repeat offender".
https://twitter.com/CharlesRobinson/status/1324533702215503872
Biden has pulled ahead in Pennsylvania, erasing a large Trump lead from Election Day. The remaining ballots to be counted are coming from heavily Democratic areas in the state.
Trumpism Wins: Alex Cora is back as Red Sox manager
https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/1324717318262411264?s=09
Nevada's Clark County, home to Las Vegas, just delivered big for Biden — he picked up nearly 20,000 votes, more than double what Trump received in this drop, and moved closer to clinching the state.
Arizona voters approve tax on wealthy to fund public schools
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/arizona-voters-approve-tax-on-wealthy-to-fund-schools_n_5fa0783ec5b6869500317d55
Biden campaign on Trump's refusal to concede: 'The US government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the White House'
https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-campaign-says-trump-could-be-escorted-from-white-house-2020-11
Joe Biden will be president, but there will be no Green New Deal | Without Congress, he'll be limited to executive action, just like Obama
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/21547245/joe-biden-wins-2020-climate-change-clean-energy-policy
Fox News told on-air hosts not to refer to Joe Biden as the president-elect even if the network calls the 2020 race for him
https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-told-talent-not-to-call-biden-president-elect-2020-11
Heart of John Lewis' district deals blow to Trump
https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/heart-of-john-lewis-district-deals-blow-to-trump/BCMMSU4ZJFD73AL6MPJCCRPQQM/
USPS rushes to deliver another 2,000 ballots in Pennsylvania, North Carolina before deadline | The Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Charlotte ballots were part of more than 2,000 ballots discovered in dozens of postal facilities across the two states.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/06/usps-2000-more-ballots-pennsylvania-nc-434639
Police union files legal challenge against voter-approved oversight board
https://katu.com/news/local/police-union-files-legal-challenge-against-voter-approved-oversight-board
Georgia secretary of state confirms there will be a recount
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/06/georgia-election-official-recount-434703
Nevada's Clark County, home to Democratic stronghold Las Vegas, still has 63,000 ballots to be counted. So far every update from Clark has helped Biden.
Philadelphia officials said that the remaining 40,000 ballots there fall into three categories: they require review, are provisional or are from military or overseas voters.
The president's new statement is wrong: There are no illegal votes being counted. That is not a thing. The president continues to spread misinformation to cast doubt on a fair election.
The head of the National Nuclear Security Administration has resigned, after months of internal clashes within the Department of Energy. NNSA oversees the modernization and development of all US nuclear warheads.
https://www.defensenews.com/breaking-news/2020/11/06/head-of-nuclear-weapons-agency-unexpectedly-resigns/
They're not "missing." Up to 8,900 military/overseas ballots that were sent out were not yet returned, much like tens of thousands of regular absentees that were requested and not returned because people are allowed to not vote. Deadline to be received is today, too.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1324768077939118083
Impossible to not be energized after spending time with the world class cnn team. Particularly on today of all days. This team keeps going and going. No sleeping around here. So thankful Red heart
Nearly 50% increase in cases in just a week -- and deaths tend to follow.
https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1324784321211879426
Thank you to neazNativeDems for their organizing in Arizona on tribal lands and in high native population centers. We need to invest in their work early and often!
https://twitter.com/neazNativeDems/status/1324777195957489665
Georgia plans a recount. History shows it rarely makes a difference.
https://nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/could-recount-flip-key-battleground-history-says-don-t-count-n1246596
Even as urban and suburban areas moved in large numbers toward Democrats, registered Democrat Hispanic voters voted straight Republican
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/05/us/texas-election-results.html
Trump is quoting Ken Starr about the PA Supreme Court usurping the power of PA Legislature. EVEN IF TRUMP TOOK THIS SUIT TO SCOTUS AND WON, IT WOULD NOT MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THIS RACE'S OUTCOME. These ballots have not been counted and play no role now. Lots of folks don't seem to understand that the Supreme Court, even if it ruled in Trump's favor, would be dealing with ballots that almost certainly will make no difference to the count in Pennsylvania for President.
The Ohio Republican Party is the strongest in America. The 4 Ohio border counties (Ashtabula, Trumbull, Mahoning & Columbian) swung 4.2% right (including flipping Mahoning). The 5 Pennsylvania border counties moved just .5% (including Erie going blue).
https://twitter.com/chrisdepizzo/status/1324779355613077505
.@VaughnHillyard says MSNBC has moved their crew away from the Maricopa County Election Center for their safety and that reporters who are still on site are wearing ballistic vests. Alex Jones is there riling up armed Trump supporters. This is so dangerous.
https://twitter.com/timjhogan/status/1324617118176944128
Trump gained traction in counties with a significant share of registered Democrat Black residents in North Carolina
https://nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/04/us/elections/north-carolina-election-results-county.html
Whoever wins 270 electoral votes becomes the president-elect. The US Constitution doesn't demand that the loser concede, or be gracious, or even remotely mature. Just the 270 electoral votes. Fuck whatever Trump does or does not do.
In a call with Republican activists Thursday night, Minnesota Republican Chair is recruiting Minnesota Republicans to amplify Trump claims of ballot fraud. The roughly hour-and-40 minute call was a peer behind the curtain, showing how the RNC is coordinating with state party leaders to amplify Trump's baseless claims of ballot fraud.
https://minnesotareformer.com/2020/11/06/exclusive-mngop-chair-recruiting-minnesota-republicans-to-amplify-trump-claims-of-ballot-fraud/
Trump Wins Highest Percent of Nonwhite Voters of Any Republican in 60 Years, Doubles LGBTQ Support From 2016
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-wins-highest-percent-nonwhite-voters-any-republican-60-years-doubles-lgbtq-support-2016-1545294
Trump will call an executive order to extend the year 2020. Everyone will wake up on December 32nd, 2020 like... aww fuck. By December 1326th, 2020, it will be time to question if our democracy is intact.
More fines for more mask violations: NFL fined Steelers' HC Mike Tomlin $100,000 and the team $250,000 for not wearing masks during win over the Ravens, sources tell ESPN.
https://twitter.com/adamschefter/status/1324719772894957569
Covid19 doesn't care about your feelings and neither do votes. Bye Don.
Received PA ballot rejection data, but it is clear this is incomplete data
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/PA.html
First post-election action at SCOTUS as PA Republican Party asks for emergency order to illegally and unconstitutionally segregate and invalidate late-arriving absentee/mail-in ballots that were postmarked by election day
https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20402578-20a84
With Georgia's 16 electoral votes likely to be decided by a tiny margin, Democrats are urging voters there to fix absentee ballots that were rejected because of invalid or missing signatures before the deadline on Friday evening.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1324796193809948672
The right is criticizing the Philadelphia count, but Trump's on track to outdo his 2016 showing there, probably due to gains with African-Americans and Latin-Americans and Asian-Americans and Native Americans, like those he's making elsewhere.
Trump spent four months urging his supporters not to vote by mail. They listened. Had they voted by mail, Trump would have won every single state.
Biden won RI by 20 points, and Rs made some gains downballot. So: Large gathering of Trump supporters outside the Rhode Island Board of Elections headquarters in Cranston, demanding a recount here in RI.
https://twitter.com/CoreyWelch/status/1324763375038058499
Democrats lost seats in the House and underperformed in Senate races, making their dream of unified government a long shot, at best and efforts to elect Democratic majorities at the state level also flopped.
A statewide appellate court judge in Pennsylvania has dismissed a request from Republicans to stop the state or counties from counting provisional ballots that were cast by voters whose mail-in ballots were disqualified by a technicality.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1324803795172257793
Ballot counters are actually fixing damaged ballots so that they can be read by the machine. Watchers are in the room overseeing. Mundane, not nefarious.
https://buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/election-rumors-debunked#125916117
Want faster election results and more reliability?
- Adequately fund election systems, software and staff (Republican-controlled state legislatures refuse)
- Make voter ID easy to get (Republican state legislatures refuse)
- Allow people to vote by mail and early in person on at least 2 weekends (Republican-controlled state legislatures refuse)
- Begin processing those early/mail ballots at least 2 weeks before election day (Republican-controlled state legislatures refuse)
Competing slates of electors is Trump's last stand, and it could provoke a constitutional meltdown
Lincoln Project election efforts to swing Republican votes from Trump epic failure
The main reason it would be beneficial to call this race as soon as decision desks are comfortable is to stop the shenanigans at election offices by folks like Alex Jones and to shut down the unsubstantiated voter fraud claims of Trump and others. Not good for this to drag on. And to be clear, decision desks should not move before they are ready, if they are worried about provisional ballots or other outstanding ballots. But a political decision to wait is ill advised. I'd like the race called soon for the reasons I've given, but it is more important to be right than to be quick with calls as well as counting.
The State Department confirms to me that there have been Covid-19 outbreaks at its embassies in Algeria & Baghdad. It won't share numbers, but I'm told by other sources that it's serious, especially Baghdad. I'm gonna open my DMs for a bit if anyone wants to send along info.
https://twitter.com/nahaltoosi/status/1324808718572265478
Data from misinformation researchers indicate that the StopTheSteal Facebook page, which had 330K users before it was banned for promoting violence, was run by two operatives linked to Steve Bannon.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/06/trump-linked-figures-boosted-stopthesteal-movement-434733
Trump poll watchers have been observing Philadelphia's ballot processing & counting since 7am Tues, according to Al Schmidt, a Republican member of the city's election board. The ballot counting has been live-streamed the entire time: https://philadelphiavotes.com/en/home/item/1882-live_stream
Many of the Republican Party's most powerful figures are fully in the grip of feverish conspiracy theories and refuse to acknowledge very basic facts. This is who they are.
One of the top takeaways from this election I'll be reporting on is how the Georgia Secretary of State's office+metro counties went from June primary doomsday to one of the smoothest, most transparent November elections when the stakes have been through the roof.
The phrase "legal vote" is doing lots of work for Trump and his allies. It's meant to imply that Election Day votes are the only legal votes, any votes cast before that is an illegal vote. Note that according to their logic, 99% of elected Republicans vote by mail so Republicans voted illegally.
CBS News reports that the FBI is assisting local police in Los Angeles who are investigating a man who allegedly posted a threat on social media to commit a mass shooting if Joe Biden wins. I'm not going to share it his threat.
https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1324808211376054273
It's criminal that counting these mail in ballots is taking this long, every state should have started counting mail in ballots a week before election day.
Navajos contribute to historic shift
https://navajotimes.com/rezpolitics/election-2020/arizona-flips-navajos-contribute-to-historic-shift/
Philadelphia law enforcement officials say an AR-15 was found in the duo's car with 160 or so rounds of ammunition. They say the duo had QAnon paraphernalia. D.A. Larry Krasner says they have no known connection to extremist groups and were believed to be acting alone.
https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/1324805055791378432
By this point yesterday, Trump campaign officials had already announced a series of press conferences in multiple states, and held a call with reporters on their legal strategy and thinking. So far today, just paper statements.
#ELB: "In Georgia, about 23,000 young people were not old enough to vote in the super-close general election this year, but will be eligible to vote in the runoff election for U.S. Senate in January 2021"
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=118224
Trump won't start his own media company because it's a hard business filled with incumbents and he's so bad at running things. It would be more his style to partner with OAN or Newsmax and exploit them and his fame.
Federal judge in Pennsylvania denies Republicans effort to toss ballots that initially contained errors that were later corrected (or "cured")
https://twitter.com/johnkruzel/status/1324811512003891202
For all of the disinformation floating around, turnout in Milwaukee appears to have been remarkably flat, and Trump actually won a higher vote share there vs. 2016:
Major League Baseball has completed its investigation of the events following the Los Angeles Dodgers Victory in Game Six of the World Series. The following statements from MLB, Justin Turner, and the Dodgers were released today.
https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/1324803751094317056
Rob Manfred's official position on anything is no punishment. At least he's consistent. Joe Kelly : What the fuck?? 162 game suspension for Joe Kelly
Rapid Covid19 test missed over 50% of positive cases in pilot
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-test-missed-cases-covid-b1639174.html
Scientists discover bizarre hell planet where it rains rocks and oceans are made of lava
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/astronomers-discover-hell-planet-k2-141b-rock-rain-lava-oceans/
Biden gains more ground in Georgia, netting 2,725 votes in Gwinnett County, a blue-leaning suburb of Atlanta. He now leads Trump by more than 4,000 votes in the state.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-president.html
For all of the disinformation floating around, turnout in Milwaukee appears to have been remarkably flat, and Trump actually won a higher vote share there vs. 2016:
2016: Clinton 188,653 (77%), Trump 45,167 (18%)
2020: Biden 194,646 (79%), Trump 48,413 (20%)
The big difference for Biden in WI was in the suburbs. In Milwaukee Co.'s suburbs plus the three WOW counties...
2016: Clinton 220,390 (40%), Trump 305,426 (56%)
2020: Biden 279,634 (45%) Trump 339,722 (54%)
Walking down a residential street in DC at dusk and every other window is glowing with cable news
Right now Biden's margin of victory in WI, MI, PA, GA and AZ is 205,050. Or three times Trump's "landslide" in 2016.
If you thought prime-time Fox was out of control last night, it's PBS NewsHour compared to what's circulating in Q-adjacent quarters of social media. A friend's very sweet, very Christian mom sent him this:
https://twitter.com/DavidAFrench/status/1324754818288750592
Something to watch in the next few weeks: the very pro-Biden LGBTQ community reckoning with a larger than expected share of their vote going to Trump.
Upwards of 100,000 provisional ballots in PENNSYLVANIA could further delay calling the race https://inquirer.com/politics/election/spl/provisional-ballot-pennsylvania-counting-election-2020-20201106.html
Looking at the house votes and results, really shows how gerrymandered the states are. WI democrats won the state by 20,000 votes, still 5-3 reps in republican favor. In most states, the ratio of Republican house reps to Democrat house reps don't match with the POTUS vote % at all, and I'm pretty sure most people vote down-ballot. Ohio Pres vote - 53% rep - 45% dem. House split - Reps 12, Dems 4. South Caroline Pres Vote - 55% rep, 43% dem. House split - Reps 6, Dems 1. It goes on and on, and it's straight up broken democracy.
Crenshaw eviscerated Qaren Marjorie Greene on twitter: Did you even read past the first sentence? Or are you just purposely lying so you can talk tough? No one said give up. I literally said investigate every irregularity and use the courts. You're a member of Congress now, Marjorie. Start acting like one.
https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1324806575597461504
We were expecting a repudiation of Trumpism, not just a defeat of Trump.
Trump has fired USAID Deputy Administrator Bonnie Glick in an apparent move to keep the acting administrator at the helm
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1324849758377287683
I was one of the first people to argue Trump had a real chance in 2016. After listening to voters across the spectrum for years express frustrations with conventional politicians, I understood that even if insincere, Trump's anti-establishment themes would work.
Rule 9(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure requires that, in "alleging fraud . . ., a party must state with particularity the circumstances constituting fraud," so courts require specific allegations like "the who, what, when, where, and how of the fraud."
If you hear about "watermarked ballots" in the next few days, it's this: There's a conspiracy theory being pushed by Q world claiming Trump has staged an elaborate sting operation by "watermarking" some ballots to dupe the deep state. It's nonsense.
https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1324849977227661318
Gary Gensler and Don Graves are on the Biden transition's Wall Street regulatory work. Gensler is an Elizabeth Warren ally who built a Rep as a tough regulator at CFTC. Graves is a longtime Biden adviser and current KeyBank exec.
https://twitter.com/jeneps/status/1324852976620609537
Latino Republicans Maria Elvira Salazar and Carlos Giménez, who were both endorsed by Trump, defeat two Democratic incumbents and recover House seats in Florida that had long been Republican.
https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1324856863012302848
Two leftists primaried conservative Democrats representing predominately rural districts in the NM State Senate earlier this year. Both leftists lost to Republicans.
https://cnalysis.com/maps/2020-state-legislative-results
So far in the seven heavily red PA counties that have reported provisionals, they've represented just 0.9% of all ballots and have only broken for Trump by 3.7% more than his share of the other votes (76.1% vs. 72.4%). Here's why that's probably not good enough for Trump...If you were to take those proportions and extrapolate them to the rest of the counties, it would only net Trump about 5k votes (+31k Trump to +26k Biden). Right now, he's on track to finish the remaining mail ballot count down by 50k+ votes.
ABC News projects Nikema Williams to win the House of Representative seat in Georgia's 5th Congressional District, which had been held since 1987 by the late John Lewis. The victory would make her the first woman to hold serve as the representative for that district
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nikema-williams-wins-john-lewis-congressional-seat/story?id=74020241
The vote count has slowed to a crawl in key states, leaving Biden tantalizingly close to 270 electoral votes, but without a clear sense of when he might reach that number.
There are still 102,000 mail ballots to be counted in Pennsylvania. Additionally, there are at least 100,000 provisional ballots issued on Tuesday that have yet to be counted.
The latest Arizona ballot releases aren't looking great for Trump. Biden just led Yuma's update. The problem for Trump? That's a place where he led the count up till now.
For all the consternation about the Philadelphia count on the right at the moment, Trump's on track to fare better in Philadelphia than he did four years ago, likely due gains among nonwhite voters like those elsewhere in the country
The longer the Nevada charade goes, the more that I am convinced that nobody wants to call Nevada because it would mean that AP and Fox News would put Biden over the top, while the other networks (that didn't call Arizona) would be limbo.
The Biden impeachment has begun:
https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00762435/1471677/
https://twitter.com/farhip/status/1324861430882037760/photo/1
Meanwhile...the U.S. just broke the record for the most new Covid19 cases in a single day for the third day in a row. 122,365 new new cases today, per NBC News, eclipsing the record of 121,289 set yesterday, which broke the record of 104,296, set the day before that.
https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/1324861817068392466
O'Mara is back up, claiming her client has been "disenfranchised." (Again: Nevada election authorities say she voted in a mail-in ballot with a verified signature, and when they gave her an opportunity to challenge and vote provisionally, she declined.)
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1324861750773215238
Trump's attacks on mail-in ballots rankle some but not all military vets
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-politics-virus-outbreak-elections-981baacc2b977f156a73d036e19e2d43
You can laugh at the wine moms sending $25 to Jamie Harrison all you like but the sums of money the big progressive foundations blow on stuff that's outright counterproductive should be seen as the real scandal.
Most PA counties didn't start on these 100k+ provisional ballots until today. They're used at the polls when a voter's eligibility is in question. They're more frequently challenged and take longer to count because they must be checked against those who voted by mail
A federal judge rejected an injunction in the Republican-touted lawsuit alleging shaky claims of voter irregularity in Nevada. "I don't think the plaintiffs have demonstrated a likelihood of success." Gordon finds plaintiffs failed to demonstrate a likelihood of success on the merits, and he's concerned that the same issues are before the Nevada Supreme Court (referring to what's known as the Pullman abstention doctrine, although he's not formally abstaining for that reason). Twitter thread covering case (woman claims ballot was stolen, election officials had ballot and her signature on file matched signature on ballot, asked her if she wanted to contest the ballot, she declined)
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1324865292858744832
No legal effort will be enough to make up Biden's vote advantage
Biden had planned to address the nation tonight, but there are indications he may well not do so until the race is called. Things are fluid here in Wilmington
'Backbone of the #MAGA Movement': Armed Man Busted Near Philly Vote Center Is 'Vets for Trump' Founder (
https://www.thedailybeast.com/armed-man-busted-near-philly-vote-center-site-is-joshua-macias-vets-for-trump-founder
If you give money to Trump's recount/postelection litigation efforts, half of that money will go towards retiring his campaign debt instead, per the fine print.
https://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/1324825242716446725/photo/1
Polk County's health director said the county is "on track to triple our first peak, from the spring, in the next two weeks," and COVID-19 hospitalizations have jumped from 60 to 153 since late September.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/health/2020/11/06/des-moines-hospitals-urge-iowa-covid-precautions/6189284002/
Trump first said we were "rounding" the corner on coronavirus on Aug. 31. At the time we had about 40,000 daily cases. Today we have three times as many: more than 120,000.
I was told everything would open up and this problem would go away!
He's going to say, 'They stole it from me,' and then he's going to go to Florida and continue to be the most influential Republican in the country
I can't help but wonder what other important stories have gone unreported/underreported this past week
People like Ava DuVernay who are now focusing on "the power of Black people" and saying that "Black people won the election" are proof that America will always be racially divided, even amongst people who are on the same team. There are many, many other prominent people in the Black community right now who are putting out the message that Black people single handedly ended Trump's reign and saved the USA. If the past four years were supposedly a tyranny of racism, prejudice and division, then why continue this on into the new Presidency? Now is the time to acknowledge that all races, sexes and genders came together to end Trumpism and block his re-election. It's a beautiful story of how all people came together to push Biden into office. This was an "Avengers Assemble" moment, not one solitary superhero. No one vote was more valuable or important than other. All votes were equal and all votes counted. People like DuVernay who are posting a pro-Black narrative (with thinly veiled anti-white Tweets) are proof that racism will never, EVER go away. The players may change, the parties may change, but the emphasis on RACE, and the natural lean towards racial division is forever American as apple pie.
Source went on to say picture is becoming clear to Trump team that without wins in GA and AZ, it would be difficult to mount legal challenges in PA. Courts will not want to hear challenges if Trump lacks viable path to 270 EV's, source said. What would be the point, source said.
https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1324872629891846148
If Arizona goes for Biden/Harris, Indigenous voters are why: "On some Tohono O'odham Nation precincts, Biden won 98% of the vote."
https://hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-how-indigenous-voters-swung-the-2020-election
As of this morning, there were ~8,400 military/overseas ballots requested but still unreturned in Georgia. The deadline was 5 p.m. In Gwinnett County, the 2nd largest county, they only received THREE more of these ballots today before the deadline, according to JGambleCNN
https://twitter.com/MarshallCohen/status/1324870879617183751
What is the gracious way for a President to concede? Here are 3 recent cases: Gerald Ford(1976), Jimmy Carter(1980), & George H.W. Bush(1992). They did their duty, helped our nation to reconcile & led by example. Will President Trump follow their lead—or further divide America?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1324773183002710017
Stacey Abrams garners praise from Democrats on the verge of achieving a long-held dream: Flipping Georgia
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/stacey-abrams-georgia/2020/11/06/b6aa285e-1e44-11eb-90dd-abd0f7086a91_story.html
I'm fine with them not calling it yet. Let them count every single ballot. Make Donald have to watch and wait as his demise takes its sweet sweet time.
Biden should announce Hunter as ambassador to Ukraine just for shits and giggles.
Civil Servants all over the country are defending our democratic process amid threats and false accusations.
https://twitter.com/hunterw/status/1324874631694708739
The Baudelaire children be like...."I think everybody's at the mercy of the count here," says David Axelrod, sounding like a character in an Agatha Christie novel
This is real: Dressed in the fuzziest pajamas she owns, Hillary Clinton settles on her couch under a massive blanket. A glass of Chardonnay in the hand, she flips on the TV, eager to see Biden's speech. It has been a hard fought campaign, and she is proud of her colleagues, especially with a welling of pride in her heart for Kamala, the next woman to make significant history in the party. Flipping through the channels, she pauses momentarily. Trump is on TV, hosting a press conference in an effort to steal attention. He looks frazzled and deflated, with massive bags under his eyes and his hairpiece a tangled mess. He's droning on about illegal votes, a dull monotone underlying his voice, but uttering the phrase, "This is what I've had to endure ever since I defeated Crooked Hillary." "What the fuck," Hillary scoffs, as she changes the channel.
Alito temporarily orders Pennsylvania counties to segregate late-arriving mail ballots (something most or all are already doing). Refers matter to full Supreme Court for next step. Alito gives PA officials until 2pm tomorrow to respond to Republicans' emergency application
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmLo73XXMAA5t0a?format=png&name=small
Every other outlet making Fox News be the one to call it
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmKKsiVXIAgDFZs?format=jpg&name=small
Chair of Texas Dem Party tells danielmarans that no door knocking or in-person campaigning was the "single most important problem we had" reaching Latinos "It's very hard to do effective campaigning with Latinos unless you're talking to them in person"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-democrats-latinos-in-person-campaigning-2020-election_n_5fa5dc3dc5b67c3259ae998b
New: updated Allegheny Co. totals push Biden's lead to 19.3% and climbing w/ 680k ballots counted there. In 2016, Clinton won Allegheny by 16.4% w/ 658k ballots cast. The only part of PA where Biden is on track for a meaningful decline from Clinton's '16 margin is Philadelphia.
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1324877967412105220
"VLADIMIR
He didn't say for sure he'd come.
ESTRAGON
And if he doesn't come?
VLADIMIR
We'll come back tomorrow.
ESTRAGON
And then the day after tomorrow.
VLADIMIR
Possibly.
ESTRAGON
And so on.
VLADIMIR
The point is—
ESTRAGON
Until he comes."
— Beckett, "Waiting for G/dot"
As President Trump baselessly claimed that all votes received after Election Day are illegal, he attacked the absentee ballots of military members and their spouses that, by law, must be counted.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/06/politics/homefront-trump-military-ballots/index.html
The best thing we could do for Joe is to get him a Democratic Senate. There should be coordination of resources. Everyone who campaigned for Joe should get ready to head to Georgia. I'll go. It's the only way to sideline Mitch and give Joe a unified government.
https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1324809476940189698
I counted votes in Michigan. There's no way to commit fraud. | The process is so complicated, involving so many people, that it would be virtually impossible to fake even a single ballot. And cameras record everything.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/11/05/vote-count-michigan-no-fraud/
Trump's Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, Infected By Coronavirus Because He Refused To Wear A Mask
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2020-11-07/trump-s-chief-of-staff-mark-meadows-infected-by-coronavirus
Armed men arrested in Philadelphia were also trying to deliver fake ballots
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/07/us/pennsylvania-convention-center-arrests/index.html
Trump should have lost in a landslide. The fact that he didn't speaks volumes
Biden added to his margin in Fulton County, Ga., which includes most of Atlanta. He now leads by 7,248 votes in the state, with more than 98 percent of votes reported. Georgia Election workers have worked almost entirely non-stop since election day. Ditto for the PA election workers.
Senate Democrat performance compared to Biden. Half underperformed and half overperformed.
Bullock +4.4
Espy +3.3
Jones +3.2
McGrath +2.0
Kelly +1.7
Harrison +0.8
Bollier +0.4
Greenfield +0.3
Peters -0.7
Ossoff -1.5
Cunningham -1.7
Hickenlooper -1.9
Hegar -2.5
Smith -3.7
Gideon -10.7
"I hate to see they say there's a 99.9% survival rate, because in my family there's a 33% survival rate. It's devastating," said Lindsay Wootton, who lost both her mother and grandfather to Covid19.
https://sltrib.com/news/2020/11/06/these-two-families/
The 2020 Democratic majority is not a majority and not durable, Democrats are done.
- New low-education Trump voters now vote Republican straight down the downballot 2016+2020
- Anti-Trump suburban voters voted for Trump and Republicans straight down the ballot
- Most Latin Americans, most older Black men, most Asian-Americans, most Native Americans, all of them registered Democrats, voted straight Republican down the ballot 2016+2020
- Republican gerrymandering/redistricting has given Republicans control of everything, governors are powerless, the President is powerless
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday in the third major legal challenge to eliminate the PPACA.
https://apnews.com/article/us-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett-ruth-bader-ginsburg-courts-ac34238ec2ca54a741efd65df26ea367
"Why was polling bad..." BECAUSE THAT'S NOT A POLL, THAT'S AN OPINION SURVEY AND NOBODY WANTED TO ADMIT THEY SUPPORTED TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS BECAUSE THEY DID NOT WANT TO BE CALLED RACIST. OPINION SURVEYS ARE NOT POLLS. A POLL IS A PHYSICALLY TABULATED ELECTION VOTE.
In November 2010, Georgia had about 5.8 million registered voters...this month, voter registration reached an all-time high of 7.5 million.
https://wsj.com/articles/georgias-battleground-status-signals-changing-electoral-map-in-the-south-11604693462
Across the country, election workers and officials risked their health so Americans could vote during a coronavirus19 spike. Tonight, many are in quarantine after being exposed to the virus.
In Westmoreland County, PA — an election worker tested positive yesterday, four days after election workers there made the call to see the election through instead of quarantining despite exposure to another election office worker who tested positive.
https://lancasteronline.com/news/health/westmoreland-county-elections-worker-tests-positive-for-coronavirus/article_d817e1e4-de7f-5d86-8203-6a9904ff5cb0.html
Before dying this week, a Missouri election supervisor tested positive but worked Election Day anyway, violating isolation guidelines and exposing 9 other election workers to the virus.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/05/politics/election-supervisor-covid-19-dies-trnd/index.html
In Ingham County, Michigan — an election worker tested positive and 11 other election workers are at high risk of having been exposed. The county clerk (pictured) is working to contact trace.
https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2020/11/05/ingham-county-election-worker-tests-positive-covid-19/6181092002/
In Dutchess County Connecticut — anyone who voted or worked at a site where an election worker tested positive is being advised to get tested and monitor symptoms.
https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/eastdutchess/politics/covid-19-dutchess-county-election-day-poll-worker-tests-positive/797405/
In New Haven, Connecticut a dozen employees in the city clerk's office are quarantining after an election worker there tested positive.
https://ctmirror.org/2020/11/04/new-haven-election-worker-tests-positive-for-coronavirus/
In California's San Joaquin County, 16 staff members are quarantining after another tested positive for coronavirus.
https://www.kcra.com/article/election-worker-san-joaquin-county-tests-positive-covid/34564214
The list goes on and on and on. Election workers and officials shepherded an election through the worst days - so far - of this pandemic, accepting the risk of spending hours upon hours indoors together. Thank you.
In a sign of a totally normal functioning democracy, the head of the Federal Election Commission was just on CNN, rebutting the false claims made by the president.
1) The PA tally doesn't include ballots that arrived during the three-day "grace period." Thus, these ballots have no impact on the current margin. 2) Trump keeps alleging there was a national conspiracy against Republican poll-watchers. He's lying. https://cnn.com/2020/11/06/politics/fact-check-trump-poll-watchers/index.html
Your periodic reminder that no state has counted 100 % of their ballots and even in states with clear presidential winners there's a lot at stake on the rest of the ballot. 14% of the vote remains uncounted in MISSISSIPPI. Counting millions of ballots takes a while, people. This is normal. You're only hyper aware of it this year bc the race is close in a couple of states that will determine the outcome. But most states are still counting.
Remarkable given the suburban churn there and the fact that Biden's performance was the strongest by a Democratic nominee since 1976. It's official: Clean Republican sweep of swing House seats in Texas with Republican winning last swing state. 100% of the seats that flip blue in 2018 in Texas House flipped back red. Democrats invested a billion dollars between 2018 and 2020 trying to flip Texas blue. Democrats need to stop trying to flip Republicans.
Today, Trump is fundraising for a lawsuit that's already been dismissed.
https://twitter.com/JanNWolfe/status/1325072413390991360
The judge who dismissed the case found the Trump campaign's "inadmissible hearsay within hearsay" evidence so risible that she scolded their lawyer: "Come on now!"
https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/come-on-now-michigan-judge-scoffs-at-and-tosses-trump-campaign-lawsuit-backed-by-hearsay-evidence/
A group of rich operatives are quietly using money making companies to push people into trying to stop counting votes in an attempt to undermine the popular vote - in the name of populism
https://politico.com/news/2020/11/06/trump-linked-figures-boosted-stopthesteal-movement-434733
https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-pennsylvania-philadelphia-226886a61b7e7ba30af515736e378978
Matt Gaetz, who relentlessly dismissed covid1 as a hoax and mocked mask-wearers tested positive for covid19.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2020/11/07/new-another-trump-ally-contracted-coronavirus-490838
Allegheny has the most mail ballots outstanding of any county in PA. Allegheny County Executive says they have 20-23K mail-in ballots left to count, which have been trending 80/20 toward Biden. Also have an additional 17K provisional ballots to count, have been trending 75/25 Biden. Next update "late this morning or early afternoon."
This is Betsy DeVos's former chief of staff. He spent years running the Michigan Republican Party's election day operations. He knows the Detroit election heads personally, has intimate knowledge of the processes there, and is calling bullshit on his party.
https://politico.com/news/magazine/2020/11/06/the-election-that-broke-the-republican-party-434797
How should House Democrats and Biden govern w McConnell? Pass $2000 month. Extend Medicare. Pass debt forgiveness & rent relief. Force McConnell to vote no and explain why. Ask for more before compromising with ourselves. Build public support before striking any deal.
https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/1324869003853049858
Trump administration in the past **2 days** has abruptly dumped the leaders of 3 agencies that oversee the **nuclear weapons stockpile, electricity and natural gas regulation**
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-2020-election-results/2020/11/06/932376507/trump-dumps-3-agency-leaders-in-wake-of-election
Biden needs a 35K+ lead in PA for it to be out of recount margin. He currently is at 29K , so my guess is that the media is waiting for those 6K extra vote difference to actually make the call, which should be today. PA just upped their estimated remaining to 97,091.
Why is it taking so long to count in Alaska? Officials cite two reasons: the state's late deadline for accepting absentee ballots and the process to ensure people don't vote twice.
This is the first time Maricopa County voters chose a Democrat for president in more than 70 years. With the most recent release of votes in Arizona, Biden's lead in the state now stands at 20,573 votes.
In Pennsylvania, an automatic recount is triggered when the margin is less than 0.5 percent of the total, which would currently be 33,674. At the moment, Biden's lead is 34,400+. He won PA and just barely avoided a mandatory recount.
Joe Biden is the President-Elect and everybody is underwhelmed. Kamala Harris will become America's female, Indian (South Asian), and Jamaican VP. SHE IS NOT BLACK. Her pretending to be black lost Democrats voters.
Trump went to his golf course in Virginia, hopefully he never returns to DC.
The tipping-point state for Joe Biden was Pennsylvania, the state where he was born, where he kicked off his campaign and where he spent the last days of the race.
Conor Lamb, Democrat, wins re-election in Pennsylvania's 17th Congressional District
Northampton County, Pa., a working-class area that once was home to Bethlehem Steel, is living up to its reputation as a bellwether. Biden appears to have flipped the county blue.
Trump Legal Blitz Won't Impact Pennsylvania Vote, State AG Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-07/trump-legal-blitz-won-t-impact-pennsylvania-vote-state-ag-says
President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.: "It's time for America to unite. And to heal. We are the United States of America. And there's nothing we can't do, if we do it together."
A Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate would be the biggest difference maker to help President-elect Biden deliver for working families across the country. PLEASE, ANTI-TRUM GEORGIAN VOTERS. PLEASE.
At the Clark County elections headquarters in Las Vegas, where Trump supporters have rallied to demand that officials "stop the steal," all is quiet right now. Not a single protester.
An enormous relief for children across america who would just like to watch their shows again.
Trump last month: "Could you imagine if I lose? What am I gonna do? I'm not gonna feel so good. Maybe I'll have to leave the country. I don't know."
Huge contrast with Bill Clinton and Barack Obama becoming president on waves of high hopes. Biden takes over a country in unprecedented irreversible crisis, and voters know that. He may benefit from lowered expectations.
America now has a unifier who values existence itself and everything it it and will work tirelessly to heal our nation.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a statement, says that voters "have elected a unifier who values faith, family and community, and who will work tirelessly to heal our nation."
Biden has also captured Nevada, a state where Democrats have built a powerful political machine in the last decade, largely thanks to labor unions.
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https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-pretty-convincing-win-for-biden-and-a-mediocre-performance-for-down-ballot-democrats/
Even if you knew in advance about the "blue shift" that would occur in states like Pennsylvania — and we did know in advance about it! — it's been hard to make enough of a mental adjustment for it this week. Numbers flashing across a TV ticker have a certain magnetic power and certitude to them. It was easy to forget that Joe Biden would gain ground once mail votes were added to the tallies because such votes were overwhelmingly Democratic this year in Pennsylvania and most other states.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/vote-counts-swing-from-one-party-to-another-thats-not-evidence-of-fraud/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-pennsylvanias-vote-count-could-change-after-election-night/
But just because of that blue shift — and the red shift that occurred in states where mail votes were counted first — that doesn't mean the presidential race was all that close in the end. Joe Biden's win was on the tighter side of the likely range of outcomes suggested by polls, but it was a thoroughly convincing one judged on its own merits.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/final-2020-presidential-election-forecast/
So put aside your anxieties of the past few days and the premature media narratives that have been circulating since Tuesday night. Suppose, instead, that you'd been on one of those weekslong rafting trips in the Grand Canyon (sounds pleasant, doesn't it?) and woke up to this map:
https://www.insider.com/grand-canyon-rafters-didnt-know-coronavirus-extent-for-25-days-2020-3
https://fivethirtyeight.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/SILVER.PRES-PAWA.1107.png?w=575
It's not a landslide, by any means, but this is a map that almost any Democrat would have been thrilled about if you'd shown it to them a year ago. Biden looks to have reclaimed the three "blue wall" states — Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin (ABC News has announced that Biden is the "apparent winner" in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin1) — that were central to Hillary Clinton's loss. He may also win Arizona (he would become the first Democrat to do so since 1996) and, in the opposite corner of the country, Georgia (the first Democratic winner there since 1992). Additionally, Biden easily won Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District, which could be a thorn in the side of Republicans going forward. He also ran far ahead of Clinton in rural northern states such as Maine, Minnesota and New Hampshire.
Extrapolating out from current vote totals, I project Biden winning the popular vote by 4.3 percentage points and getting 81.8 million votes to President Trump's 74.9 million, with a turnout of around 160 million. This is significant because no candidate has ever received 70 million votes in an election — former President Barack Obama came the closest in 2008, with 69.5 million votes — let alone 80 million. That may also be a slightly conservative projection, given the blue shift we've seen so far and the fact that late-counted votes such as provisional ballots often lean Democratic. I'd probably bet on Biden's popular vote margin winding up at closer to 5 points than to 4, and 6 points isn't entirely out of the question either.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1324152903364304896
The margin is also a bit more impressive in the context of our highly polarized political era, which has tended to produce close elections. If I'm right about the popular vote margin, Biden's win would come via the second-largest popular vote margin since 2000, exceeding Obama's 3.9-point margin against Mitt Romney in 2012 but lagging behind Obama's 7.3-point win over John McCain in 2008.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/are-blowout-presidential-elections-a-thing-of-the-past/
Biden also defeated an elected incumbent, which is relatively rare. Since World War II, five elected incumbents who sought reelection have won it — Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Obama. Trump is now the third sitting president to lose his reelection bid in that time, along with Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush.
What about the polls? Didn't they show a wider margin for Biden? Yes, they did — Biden led in the final national polls by around 8 points. So we're probably going to wind up with a polling error of around 3 to 4 points, both nationally and at the state level. (Although that will reflect a combination of states like Georgia, where the polls were spot-on, and others like Wisconsin, where there were big misses.) This is, of course, a subject on which we'll have more to say in the coming days. For now, it's safe to say that pollsters will have some questions to answer, especially about how they missed in the same direction (underestimating Trump) in some of the same states two elections in a row.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/national/
At the same time, this election's polling error may wind up being fairly normal by historical standards. Indeed, the final polls miss by around 3 points, on average, in presidential elections. The error this year may be somewhat wider than that, but we should wait for all the votes to be counted because margins may shift substantially in some states before results are certified.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-is-just-a-normal-polling-error-behind-clinton/
https://www.aapor.org/Publications-Media/Press-Releases/Judging-the-Polls-Requires-Patience-on-Election-Ni.aspx
In any case, Biden's ability to survive a polling error of the size that sank Clinton was precisely the reason he was a fairly heavy favorite in our forecast. Biden won (or is likely to win) several states — Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona2 — by margins that will probably be between 0 and 2 percentage points, in contrast to Clinton, who lost Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida by margins of 1 percentage point or less. Biden's 89 percent chance of winning the Electoral College included the possibility of nail-biter wins in critical states — although, again, it's hard to know if this race would be regarded as that much of a nail-biter if not for the timing of ballot counting and the blue shift.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-can-still-win-but-the-polls-would-have-to-be-off-by-way-more-than-in-2016/
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/final-2020-presidential-election-forecast/
The bigger problems — both for Democrats and for the polls — were in races for Congress.
There weren't necessarily any huge upsets in the Senate; it's just that Democrats lost most of the toss-up races. Among races where winners have been projected so far, Democrat Sara Gideon is the only Senate candidate favored in our forecast to have lost, and she had only a 59 percent chance of beating Sen. Susan Collins, according to our final forecast. Gideon, however, is likely to eventually be joined by Cal Cunningham in North Carolina, who had a 68 percent chance, although the polling in that Senate race had tightened in the closing days of the campaign following a Cunningham sexting scandal. Republican Joni Ernst held off challenger Theresa Greenfield in Iowa, although Ernst was a narrow favorite in our forecast.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/senate/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/cal-cunningham/616611/
Democrats do retain a chance at a Senate majority, or more likely a 50-50 split in which Vice President-elect Kamala Harris would be the deciding vote. Democrats currently hold 48 seats,3 but there are two runoffs in Georgia on Jan. 5 that are sure to attract hundreds of millions of dollars worth of advertising. I'm a little too exhausted to prognosticate about the Georgia runoffs all that much, but Democrats are at least mathematically alive here in a state that Biden appears likely to win. They also retain some outside chances at winning a Senate seat in Alaska, where mail votes have not yet been counted.
https://twitter.com/DrAlGrossAK/status/1324520257885773824
But Democrats underperformed in the U.S. House, where they've lost almost every toss-up race that has been projected so far and Republicans have made a net gain of five seats and counting. It also appears as though Democrats will underperform in the House popular vote relative to the presidential vote and the generic ballot, where Democrats led by about 7 percentage points. That looks like a significant polling miss (although the House popular vote can take a long time to finalize). In that sense, the election could be described as more of a repudiation of Trump specifically than of Republicans writ large.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-house.html
https://twitter.com/MattGrossmann/status/1324575100260274178
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-generic-ballot-polls/
Biden did have some shortcomings, however. One major one was his apparent underperformance among key groups of Hispanic voters, especially Cuban Americans in South Florida and Mexican Americans in South Texas. As you can see in this chart from The New York Times, there were huge shifts toward Trump in these areas:
Biden did have some shortcomings, however. One major one was his apparent underperformance among key groups of Hispanic voters, especially Cuban Americans in South Florida and Mexican Americans in South Texas. As you can see in this chart from The New York Times, there were huge shifts toward Trump in these areas:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-president.html
https://fivethirtyeight.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-07-at-12.18.33-PM.png?w=575
Even with the addition of Georgia and Arizona in their column, Democrats' Electoral College coalition is somewhat fragile if it doesn't contain Florida or Texas. It's not clear yet what the tipping-point state will be in this election — but mostly likely it will be Arizona or Wisconsin, where it appears as though Biden will win by around 1 percentage point. That could mean there's around a 4-point gap between the roughly 5-point popular vote victory that we eventually expect from Biden and his margin in the tipping-point state, a bigger Electoral College disadvantage than Clinton had in 2016 (3 points).
https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2020/Pres/tipping_point.html
Still, this brings up one last point: This is the seventh election out of the past eight in which Democrats have won the popular vote for president. If American elections were contested on the basis of the popular vote, this race could probably have been called fairly early on Tuesday night, and we could all have gotten a lot more sleep the past few days. But don't let bleary eyes obscure Biden's accomplishment.
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Virginia Beach voted for a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time since 1964
https://www.pilotonline.com/government/elections/2020-results/vp-nw-virginia-beach-presidential-race-1108-20201107-asbat5wjpnbspaynt43tumczcq-story.html
Protecting the Native vote: How Election Day played out in Indian Country
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/06/native-voting-advocates-help-smooth-out-person-balloting/6072497002/
Intel agencies still see no evidence of foreign attack on mail ballots
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/07/intel-agencies-mail-ballots-attack-434889
Obama statement: "Your efforts made a difference. Enjoy this moment. Then stay engaged. I know it can be exhausting. But for this democracy to endure, it requires our active citizenship and sustained focus on the issues – not just in an election season"
The hilarious thing is that Trump and his supporters spent four years arguing that 306 electoral college votes *without* a popular vote victory constituted a "massive landslide." Biden won millions more votes than Trump and he's on track to get...306 electoral college votes.
Celebration now by Biden/Harris supporters at BLM Plaza outside the White House:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1325135417977475078
House Democrats are nearing the 218-seat threshold needed to hold onto the majority in the chamber, with Susie Lee of Nevada clinching her re-election.
The street celebrations recall Obama's election in 2008. But that was a celebration of Obama. This seems (without taking anything away from Biden) very much a celebration of Trump's ouster.
Fox journalists calling Biden "president-elect" is not going to make Trump happy when he gets back to watching coverage
I think we can all agree that the Twitter hive mind was totally right about one thing this election: there was no way the Democratic Party would nominate Biden and, even if it did, that he could beat Trump. Good job, guys
This is a Trump tweet from exactly eight years ago today: Another four years--not good for the country but we'll have to live with it!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/266230348491399168
Pennsylvania Latinos were pivotal for Biden in the state
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/pennsylvania-latinos-were-pivotal-biden-state-n1246802
Andrew Yang: 'Something deeply wrong' with Democratic Party's messaging to working class
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/nov/6/andrew-yang-something-deeply-wrong-with-democratic/
The media didn't decide anything; the voters did. It's just math.
The Trump campaign has NOT committed to put up the $3 million required to pay for a recount in Wisconsin. It is an indication that they're not super serious about pursuing one and that their announcements are mostly for show.
Keep thinking back to this admission and rare introspection from Trump on Election Day at campaign headquarters: "Winning is easy. Losing is never easy. Not for me, it's not."
Voters who sued over the use of Sharpies to fill out ballots in Maricopa County in the battleground state of Arizona have dropped their lawsuit after election officials prove the permanent markers did not invalidate votes
Trump's motorcade is headed back to the White House and will likely see more of this on the mall. Trump has left his VA golf club where he learned of Joe Biden being declare president-elect and is now on his way back to the White House, where a large crowd has gathered to celebrate Trump's projected failure to be re-elected. A tough scene for someone who hates losing.
Biden Campaign Spent $125 Million on Latino Voters, Who Fueled Arizona Win
https://newsweek.com/exclusive-biden-campaign-spent-125-million-latino-voters-who-helped-him-win-arizona-1543362
Republicans currently have a net gain of 69 seats in single-member district State House/Assembly races across the country.
https://cnalysis.com/maps/2020-state-legislative-results
Joe Biden becomes the first person since 1960 to win the presidency without carrying Ohio, which held the longest active winning streak of any state.
Whether Trump concedes or not is not relevant. Biden has won the election. He's going to be inaugurated.
Chuck Schumer thinks Biden can cancel student debt with an executive order and wants him to do so. Schumer isn't Bernie Sanders. The policy is on the table.
UAE announces relaxing of Islamic laws for personal freedoms - The United Arab Emirates announced on Saturday a major overhaul of the country's Islamic personal laws, allowing unmarried couples to cohabitate, loosening alcohol restrictions and criminalizing so-called "honor killings."
https://apnews.com/article/dubai-united-arab-emirates-honor-killings-travel-islam-bce74c423897dc77c7beb72e4f51a23a
3,000 Tanzanian girls have escaped female genital mutilation (FGM) in five years after using a volunteer-created mapping project
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/tanzania-female-genital-mutilation-crowd2map-b1645295.html
Animal abusers in Greece will face up to 10 years in jail
https://www.theanimalreader.com/2020/11/06/animal-abusers-in-greece-will-face-up-to-10-years-in-jail/
The White House declared a "lid" at 3:59 p.m., indicating that Trump has no intentions of appearing in public today to discuss his loss. (He could still tweet his feelings at any moment.)
Georgia will have two Senate runoff elections on Jan. 5
Jets players alert NFLPA about hidden locker room cameras at team facility
https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/ny-jets-hidden-cameras-locker-room-20201107-7yypllxtwjcn5oxacjsqxlsgoe-story.html
People are more disgusted by drinking a woman's breast milk than they are the breast milk from a female in a completely separate species.
Trump and Republicans still have 74 days to undermine Joe Biden
People gather in Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House as they celebrate Joe Biden winning the presidency, on Saturday.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmQQsMoVoAA51Ca?format=jpg&name=small
Glenn Greenwald laments that Steve Bannon's plan to raise taxes on the wealthy, build the wall, and a massive infrastructure bill, was "swept to the side by Jared Kushner."
https://twitter.com/i/status/1325078028678881287
Vladimir Putin said today about Hillary and Dems: "In my opinion, it is humiliating. One must be able to lose with dignity." So true!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/812450976670121985
What do we know about control of state governments?
Trifectas before:
Dems: 15
Repubs: 21
Split: 14
Trifectas after:
Repubs: 15 to 16
GOP: 22 to 24
Split: 11 to 13
(Key races in MN, AZ, AK are technically still uncalled, hence the indecision.)
https://twitter.com/Taniel/status/1325201049557356547?s=20
Asked about Biden tonight, 48 years after his first Senate win, his sister Valerie tells me: "We had the same commitment, the same passion, the same joy of thinking that we could do something very positive ... My brother's energy commitment and passion never changed."
Wanted to share my thread on Latino vote stories from 2020, since a lot of people suddenly cared about Latino voters on Tuesday! Campaigns, but also the media, must invest/pay attention if they want to understand a diverse and diffuse group of Americans growing in political power twitter.com/carrasquillo/s…
I love seeing TRUMP lose, it's my daily medicine, my weekly energy, my monthly inspiration and my yearly motivation. His loss is the only reason i'm still alive, i was born to love and enjoy the failure that he has achieved.
71,000,000 Legal Votes. The most EVER for a sitting President!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1325195021339987969
Just FYI: the first Vice President to be a person of color was Charles Curtis — Veep to Hoover, a Native American and member of the Kaw Nation, and a son of Kansas, born when my home state was still a territory.
Thank you so much for acknowledging the hard work of the growing population of Asian/Indian folks in Texas! It's an often overlooked demographic change here in Fort Bend & neighboring Harris counties. We didn't quite get the state blue this time, but we are getting there!
https://twitter.com/albyselkie/status/1325205542478864390
Top congressional Republicans silent on Biden win as Trump allies remain defiant.
Biden leads Trump in Georgia by roughly 7,600 votes in the latest tally released by the state. Few ballots remain to be counted, though exactly how many is unclear. Officials say they expect Biden to hold his lead, though a recount is expected. #gapol
https://ajc.com/politics/live-updates-georgia-vote-count-nears-end-as-biden-leads-by-7200/ABFW5O66JZEUPCCXV2AUDYYEAI/
Will be interesting to see what @gtconway3d looks like on Twitter after his views are no longer constrained by having a wife in the administration. Winking face
Two years ago, the AP projected HawleyMO the winner of the senate race as votes were still being counted. HawleyMO and his campaign celebrated, and clairecmc congratulated him.
https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1325136203851526145
Netanyahu, Ashkenazi and Gantz agreed that they would send their congratulations after Biden's speech, which is at 8 PM eastern time
His moronic campaign staffers confused the Four Seasons landscaping company with the Four Seasons Hotel: To clarify, Trump's press conference will NOT be held at Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia. It will be held at Four Seasons Total Landscaping— no relation with the hotel.
https://twitter.com/FSPhiladelphia/status/1325102014964109312
Let us not soon forget that this victory was never guaranteed. We need to vote like this, every time.
He said, "I alone can fix it."
Biden did worse in rural Texas than Beto who in turn did worse than Hillary who in turn did worse than Obama. This is why I'm skeptical when people say Rs are "maxed" in rural Texas. Here's Biden's TX performance vs the last two #TXSen Dem candidates. That red diagonal on the left map stands out -- Beto did much better with Hispanics in west/south TX. Hegar did worse than Biden in most larger counties, but still ran ahead of him in the RGV.
https://twitter.com/JMilesColeman/status/1325179046267817984/photo/1
The Trump campaign has filed a lawsuit alleging irregularities in some in-person voting in Maricopa, County, Ariz., seeking to delay certification of results pending an investigation.
Biden plans immediate flurry of executive orders to reverse Trump policies. Paris Climate Change Agreement, Muslim Ban, Covid19, WHO
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-first-executive-orders-measures/2020/11/07/9fb9c1d0-210b-11eb-b532-05c751cd5dc2_story.html
The majority of people are wearing masks and no one is flying an alternative version of the American flag to support blue lives, Qanon, or some other bullshit. Is this what a normal country with sane politics looks like?
When did political speeches turn into NBA tip off time schedule?
Lamb has won three times in less than three years in a red district. Fuck off AOC, you are a major reason why Trump almost won and his support surged even greater in 2020: AOC, attacking D colleague Conor Lamb: "Lamb spent $2,000 on Facebook the week before the election. I don’t think anybody who is not on the internet in a real way... and loses an election can blame anyone else when you’re not even really on the internet." AOC doesn't seem to realize the House majority is made in competitive districts, not in 90% Leftist Liberal Democrat districts in NYC.
It's so fucking nice seeing people happy and not at the expense of others
Listening to Kamala speak I realized I'm actually fine with living in America again. I was ashamed to be living in the US over the last 4 years but I dont think I realized how deep the shame was.
I think this is the less threatened I've felt after seeing a USA flag
So refreshing to hear this compared to the incoherent vile that dumps from Trump's lying mouth during his rallies.
"For four years you marched and organized for equality and justice, for our lives and for our planets. And then you voted," Harris says. "You chose hope and unity, decency, science, and yes, truth."
It’ll be interesting to see how big a role Kamala Harris plays in a Biden White House. There have been a lot of powerful V.P.s in recent years, like Dick Cheney — and Joe Biden.
ABC news reports that the Trump campaign "voter fraud" hotline "has turned into a nightmare...bombarded with prank calls from people laughing or mocking them over Biden's win before hanging up..."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/inside-trump-campaign-grapples-defeat-plowing-forward-legal/story?id=74082317
If we decide not to cooperate, we can decide to cooperate
This is where we're at: normie voters are cheering Joe Biden saying that he will be announcing a team of experts to deal with the coronavirus. This sort of thing was a boring procedural no-brainer before the current administration, not an applause line.
We’ve got TWO Senate seats in the run-off on Jan. 5. @Ossoff and I are focused on bringing Georgians together, while our opponents are focused on tearing them apart. Chip in now to split a donation between @Ossoff and I & join our movement: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/gasenatebattleground
https://twitter.com/ReverendWarnock/status/1325193811597799424
"I understand the disappointment tonight. I've lost a couple of times myself. But now, let's give each other a chance."
Biden is actually echoing what top Pentagon, CIA and national security leaders have warned for years, pledging to end domestic political demonization and work with opponents. | "This is the major national security issue," said Panetta, a politician turned CIA director, on Thursday. "Because if this country can’t deal with major problems that we’re facing, then, you know — you can have the finest defense in the world, but if you’re falling apart it, doesn’t do you a hell of a lot of good." | To the national security community, the American presidential campaign of 2020 has been a horror show. The biggest story line is simple: hundreds of experts, veteran leaders, generals, admirals, ambassadors, diplomats, senators, wonks and warriors — yes, the Blob, the Swamp, the establishment that Trump has ignored and banned from important national security posts across government — have warned that the United States is squandering 75 years of global leadership in a international system it once shaped to its advantage. Now the country is ignoring the world, allowing adversaries to grow and flourish, sapping its own economic, military, and ideological strength. | Americans, we are our own top security threat, these leaders are telling us. Not China. Not terrorism. Not cyber attacks, or anti-satellite weapons, or hypersonic missiles. Not Russian information ops or little green men in Eastern Europe. Not robots or drones. Not climate change or water security. Not communism, or socialism, or extremism. The top security issue is not the need for a 500-ship Navy, or 386 squadrons, or more ICBMs, or strategic bombers. The top security issue on the ballot this Election Day is ourselves. After we vote, America’s future will be shaped by our willingness to work together through our differences and govern effectively. As Panetta said, "This will be the issue that will answer the question of whether our democracy can survive."
https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2020/11/we-are-our-own-worst-enemy/169728/
There's gonna be surging unemployment during the Biden administration as fact-checkers become unnecessary
Saturday's split screen: Trump alone on a golf course; Biden surrounded by his family under fireworks.
Catholic explainer: "On Eagles' Wings" is a popular Catholic hymn just mentioned by Catholic President-Elect Joe Biden
A man wearing a Puerto Rican flag tosses paper towel over the fence toward the White House. "Never forget," he said.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1325148092228804614
The Washington Nationals have announced they plan for President-elect Biden to throw out the first pitch at Opening Day 2021 in Nats Park. The Rays also had him scheduled to throw the 1st pitch but Kevin Cash went to the bullpen right before he could.
https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1325260977693188101
Trump has arrived again at Trump National Golf Club in Virginia, even as he and his allies refuse to concede his loss and as Biden moves ahead with building his new administration.
Trump was greeted at his golf course by a small handful of people, including two holding Trump 2020 signs. But another sign said, "Orange Crushed."
Defund the police is hideously bad messaging. On CNN, Clyburn says that he talked with John Lewis about how damaging the "defund the police" sloganeering was before his death. Clyburn said it was like "burn, baby, burn" sloganeering of the 1960s. On CNN, Stacey Abrams declined to criticize the "defund the police" message when asked if she agreed with Jim Clyburn. Had she hit back at the "defund the police" message throughout Sept and Oct, Georgia would have been an easier win for Biden, Ossoff, Warnock
I love seeing TRUMP lose, it's my daily medicine, my weekly energy, my monthly inspiration and my yearly motivation. His loss is the only reason I'm still alive, I was born to love and enjoy the failure that he has achieved.
If the election is "rigged" and it's a "massive issue", you would think your focus and energy would be on that, not golfing and rave tweeting.
Trumpism still won
Reach out to Trump's victims, not his shitstain TERRORIST base
Democrats Gave Up on Stacey Abrams. She Didn't Give Up on Democracy
Texas becomes first U.S. state to exceed 1 million coronavirus19 cases and I really don't care. They relentlessly elect terrorists to govern them then scream and scream and scream that they're dying from a virus the vey people they elected dismiss as a hoax.
Virtually impossible to fake even a single ballot, Michigan poll worker says
https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/virtually-impossible-to-fake-even-a-single-ballot-michigan-poll-worker-says/
Don Lemon 2020-11-07 at 11:06 PM. Beware, he uses the n-word
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPJ_vq_RdjM
Protests changed to celebrations in downtown Portland following Joe Biden's election win
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/celebrations-in-downtown-portland-following-joe-bidens-election-win/283-3a6383b2-8d12-441a-986b-f8cc3b7dac99
The fact that the election came down to the wire in the swing states, that 70+ million Americans looked at the last four years and opted for more, is an ominous sign for the future.
Remember that this isn't evidence of fraud. This is evidence that our system works. There was an error and it was fixed. The official tallies go past so many sets of eyeballs that it's almost impossible to partake in widespread fraud short of literally hacking voting machines.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-technology-voting-michigan-6beeef230376e75252d6eaa91db3f88f
And it begins: Alabama Congressman says he won't vote to ratify Biden victory
https://www.al.com/news/2020/11/alabama-congressman-mo-brooks-says-he-wont-vote-to-ratify-biden-victory.html
#Browns QB Baker Mayfield will he placed on the COVID-19 list today because he was a close contact to someone who tested positive. Could be cleared as early as Wednesday.
https://twitter.com/mikegarafolo/status/1325452958054686722
Matthew Stafford's COVID test came back negative this morning and he officially is cleared to start today vs. Minnesota, per source.
https://twitter.com/adamschefter/status/1325435128609378304
Everyone seems to think Rudy's press conference at the landscaping company with the adult store nearby was accidental. I don't. There's no way they could have gotten around the happy crowds and traffic jams downtown yesterday, Center City would have been too risky. And NE Philly is Land of the Trumpers.
Biden and family are in church this morning. The president and himself are at golf.
This is an important (and very sad) Twitter account: DANIELLE KATER, 30, of Bloomington, Illinois died of COVID-19 on November 3. "It should've never become a political issue. It should have never been something where we didn't pull together and do all the right things."
https://wglt.org/post/remembering-dani-kater-covid-s-youngest-mclean-county-victim#stream/0
https://twitter.com/FacesOfCOVID/status/1325241271770902528
"It was all a sham. I felt terrible, terrible. I knew I was lying. I knew I was doing something wrong." Two census takers tell The AP
that supervisors pressured them to enter false information into a computer system about homes they had not visited.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-massachusetts-census-2020-98d187302fbcec5e422fa43522d51dfe
Even though President-Elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. now leads by more than 10,000 votes in Georgia, a recount is still expected there. As Biden's lead increases in Georgia, the remaining votes are coming from about 22,000 military and overseas voters, as well as provisional ballots that required additional information, such as missing IDs.
In 2008, the Government Services Administration certified Obama's win so quickly ChrisLu44 missed it because he had fallen asleep after results came in. This time around, GSA still hasn't formalized Biden's win and the transition team is getting antsy.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-biden-election-day-2020/card/jx3Ha1fOT6IA41bAlmtl
A national treasure. RIP: Jeopardy! is saddened to share that Alex Trebek passed away peacefully at home early this morning, surrounded by family and friends. Thank you, Alex.
https://twitter.com/Jeopardy/status/1325490106329751553
Maybe I am underplaying the strength of Joe Biden's victory. He rebuilt the blue wall, cracked 2 red states, and retained control of the House. Biden won the popular vote with record-breaking numbers + Electoral College vote. The Senate is still in play.
Alex Trebek rapping on Jeopardy is still one of the all time great moments on the show. He will be missed - a true TV icon.
https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/status/1325491519625834497
He handled pancreatic cancer with courage, grace and wit. Who was Alex Trebek?
Super pronounced Northeast vs. Midwest split that runs right through Pennsylvania. Holy moly did the northeast come home for the democratic party this cycle.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmUOm9dW8AEyZH6?format=png&name=360x360
"The modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt. By rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything." - G.K. Chesterton
Climate change is a myth they tell us as Floridians are told to prepare for a mid-November hurricane
https://nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT4+shtml/081504.shtml
Request Georgia absentee ballot for runoff election now
https://ballotrequest.sos.ga.gov/
https://alex.github.io/nyt-2020-election-scraper/battleground-state-changes.html#
Missouri's first Black Congresswoman: "I've slept in my car… I don't want that for anyone else."
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp-video/mmvo95545925790
Andrew Yang heading to Atlanta to help Democrats win Senate runoffs
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/politics/andrew-yang-moving-atlanta-help-democrats-win-senate-runoffs/BTGI65ATNZHTJMJWFXRLAZV4HU/
DeSantis calls on Republican-led states where Biden won to send 'faithless electors' to Electoral College to elected Trump
https://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/extra/news/desantis-calls-on-gop-led-states-where-biden-won-contested-vote-to-send-faithless-electors/article_8605ddbf-c86b-5886-a4b8-46da0bae004e.html
Jeopardy! episode last week: Alex Trebek: "Any family members back home cheering you on?" Contestant Burt Thakur: "I learned English because of you. My grandfather who raised me...I used to sit on his lap and watch you every day."
https://twitter.com/i/status/1325496032692736002
Abigail Spanberger, Democrat, wins re-election in Virginia's Seventh Congressional District
Todd Gloria elected as San Diego's 1st mayor of color, will be 1st Democrat to hold seat since 2005
https://ktla.com/news/california/todd-gloria-elected-as-san-diegos-1st-mayor-of-color-will-be-1st-democrat-to-hold-seat-since-2005/
Kyle Allen was off to a 5-of-7 start for 62 yards before his injury. A What a nightmare this game has been for #WashingtonFootball. Alex Smith time.
Trump administration plans "flood" of sanctions on Iran by Jan. 20. The sanctions wall of market and political deterrence: https://wsj.com/articles/build-an-iranian-sanctions-wall-11554246565
Israeli Entrepreneurs Welcomed in Dubai | The Israelis had arrived at a moment when the coronavirus pandemic had disrupted trade and exposed one vulnerability of the United Arab Emirates: It imports up to 90 percent of its food.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/world/middleeast/israel-dubai-entrepreneurs.html?smid=tw-share
But it counted when the media called the race, correctly, in your favor in 2016? You quickly accepted the calls.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1325511603157159942
Trump, who for four straight years has touted at rallies when news outlets called various states for him in 2016, now makes a meaningless complaint on Twitter about the media projecting the 2020 election results. The media is calling the election based on official vote counts from states.
The new county with the longest streak of picking presidential winners is Clallam County, Wash., population 77,000, which has gotten every election right since 1980.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/08/us/election-results/a-county-in-washington-claims-the-title-for-the-longest-streak-of-picking-presidential-winners
We won the battle but the war rages on. Advocate for automatic voter registration laws in your own state, which Stacey Abrams credited as a major factor in Georgia's turnout this year. 800,000 new voters were added in Georgia with automatic voter registration.
https://mashable.com/article/how-to-help-stacey-abrams-election-support/
An "I voted" sticker decorates the grave of Beau Biden, late son of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, in the church cemetery at St. Joseph On the Brandywine in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. November 8, 2020.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmUvMtpXYAMJi8j?format=jpg&name=small
Kyle Allen suffers severe leg injury. Alex Smith is coming in for the injured Kyle Allen.
KC TE Travis Kelce doesn't have a touchdown, but he's a big reason the Chiefs now are leading the Panthers. Kelce has nine catches for 146 yards. Nobody on the Carolina defense with Jeremy Chinn (knee) out is capable of containing him.
Dolphins announce they will be without 5 asst coaches today due to Covid-19 protocols
From midnight until noon, the Trump campaign sent out a flurry of solicitations to supporters asking for money to fund its legal battles — at the rate of almost one every hour.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/08/us/trump-biden/trump-remains-out-of-sight-but-is-active-on-social-media-where-his-messages-were-flagged-for-inaccuracy
Katie Hill, a Democratic newcomer, won this seat in 2018 as part of California's "blue wave." But her resignation a year ago reopened the field to a wide range of contenders, including Mike Garcia, a Republican former military pilot, who easily beat Christy Smith, a Democratic member of the State Assembly, in a May special election. That win for the seat was just on a temporary basis, though, and the two are now fighting a rematch.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-california-house-district-25.html
Some foreign leaders who have not yet congratulated Joe Biden: Bolsonaro, Putin, Xi Jinping. Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz and his son the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman expressed "sincere congratulations and best wishes for success to His Excellency, and to the friendly people of the USA."
What happened to Megyn Kelly?
https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1325419579187859456
In a 23-day period last winter, Steve Cohen announced his deal to buy the Mets was dead and the Red Sox fired Alex Cora. Within an hour on Tuesday, the Mets will introduce Cohen as their owner and the Red Sox will welcome back Cora as manager.
The Trump team continues to spread disinformation. It's sad at this point: Those photos have been doctored. The Washington Times never ran a "President Gore" headline.
https://twitter.com/WashTimes/status/1325525833713324034
I've been an International Flight Attendant for 36 years. Last night I heard from friend all around the globe. The Freedom Bell in Berlin was rung for the first time that wasn't Christmas or New Years!
https://twitter.com/TOCB10/status/1325428987166941184
Starting with the Khashoggi report
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1325524657802522624
Titans will be without their disruptive pass rusher Jadeveon Clowney against the Bears today. He will be inactive per sources.
https://twitter.com/diannaespn/status/1325441301370777602?s=21
Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh appears to have deleted this tweet after the Washington Times pointed out that it never ran such a headline. The Trump campaign had to engage in a new fantasy in order to back up its current fantasy
https://twitter.com/feliciasonmez/status/1325535135870152706
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmVA83qXUAcoEU9?format=jpg&name=small
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmVA845XcAI6fKW?format=jpg&name=360x360
Election workers plan to finish counting almost all votes in Georgia by the end of the day Monday as President-elect Joe Biden held a 10,195-vote lead. The networks may still wait to call the race until a recount is complete, but we'll see.
Trump's and the Republicans' entire endgame was undoing Obama's legacy. How poetic that he gets defeated by Obama's VP who goes on to restore everything. Except now the Republican's Supreme Court battlestation is fully armed and operational.
Be bye Melania
Trump was the first President since James K. Polk in 1849 not to have a pet in the White House. Other than Bill Barr, McConnell, Graham
Trump and his toxic culture isn't going away anytime soon. 70 million people are on board with their ideology.
She wanted her husband assassinated? Back in 1999, when Trump ran for president, Melania Trump fantasized in interviews about being the next Jackie Kennedy.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/goodbye-melania-trump.html
Trump ran in 1999 and wanted free universal healthcare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2000_presidential_campaign
The political attacks on Hillary Rodham started when she became first lady of Arkansas but had kept her maiden name. Yesterday, Kamala Harris became VP-elect without anyone so much as mentioning that she married late in life and has no biological children. That too is progress.
This is garbage. People ROUTINELY vote for the Presidential ticket only and leave the rest of the ballot unmarked. It's called undervoting.
https://twitter.com/HeyTammyBruce/status/1325472807749373952
A lot of folks are learning about the work Arizona grassroots groups and activists did over the last decade bearing the scars from 2010's SB1070, to Arpaio, Trump, and every hard day in between.
https://twitter.com/Carrasquillo/status/1325539368044548102
Trump is back at the White House and aides called a "lid" meaning no expected news events for the rest of this day.
For the last four years Trump has been celebrating at his rallies the moment when Wisconsin was called for him and put him over the top in 2016. That moment that he cites as the linchpin of his victory was a media projection.
Panthers coach Matt Rhule said earlier in the week that Christian McCaffrey has elite production. McCaffrey is showing that with 69 yards rushing and a touchdown, nine catches for 92 yards and a touchdown. It may not be enough as the Panthers trail 33-31 with 1:53 remaining.
Stacey Abrams helps raise $3.6m in two days for crucial Georgia Senate runoffs
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/08/stacey-abrams-helps-raise-millions-georgia-senate-runoffs
You were asking us to call the race election night
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1325511603157159942
We will not allow anyone to stop us: Day and night, under historic scrutiny, the nation's vote counters carried on
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020-election-workers-count/2020/11/08/a6136514-2083-11eb-b532-05c751cd5dc2_story.html
YEP: In a now-deleted tweet, Arizona Republican Paul Gosar calls George W. Bush an "expert on stealing elections" https://projects.propublica.org/politwoops/tweet/1325513323715162114
Mississippi's new flag looks great
https://twitter.com/i/status/1325179259497799680
Just in: According to latest @AP totals, Democratic Rep. @LaurenUnderwood pulled ahead of GOP challenger @JimOberweis in #Illinois14 House race on Sunday with a 584 vote lead. Lots of ballots still not counted in Democratic turf in DuPage, Will Counties.
https://twitter.com/lynnsweet/status/1325540668610056196
The nonpartisan Presidential Transition Center, former W. Chief of staff Josh Bolten, and former UT Gov. Mike Leavitt call on the GSA to ascertain that Biden has won. Until they do, Biden's transition can't officially begin.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmVQOn7W8AAG1cs?format=jpg&name=900x900
Teddy Bridgewater dives through the air like Superman and converts on 4th and 14
https://twitter.com/nfl_dovkleiman/status/1325538374866923520
Daniel Jones channelling Aaron Rodgers
https://streamable.com/9h626f
Bills force Russel Wilson's 4th turnover of the day
https://twitter.com/BradleyGelber/status/1325542795357130753
Tre White picks Russell Wilson off
https://twitter.com/BradleyGelber/status/1325538898282426370
Alex Smith throws a 68-yard touchdown pass, scores his first touchdown since November 2018
https://streamable.com/j9m7cp
Dalvin Cook's day is over. He finishes with 203 rushing yards, 46 receiving yards and 2 TDs. He has 475 total yards and 6 TDs over the last two weeks.
https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1325540459809284103?s=21
Luton runs and spins his way for a 13-yard touchdown to cut the deficit to 2 with 90 seconds left
https://streamable.com/bgkfat
Alex Smith has 300+ passing yards for the first time since 2017
I have never seen a team struggle so hard to gain 4 yards on 3rd-and-13 like the 2020 Chicago Bears.
Democrats won the battle against Trump but not the war against Trumpism
Chesterfield and Lynchburg hadn't backed a Democrat for president since 1948. Biden changed that.
https://www.virginiamercury.com/2020/11/05/chesterfield-county-hadnt-backed-a-democrat-for-president-since-1948-biden-changed-that/
We are 2 hours into the Bears/Titans game. LB Barkevious Mingo (11 yards) is Chicago's leading rusher
https://twitter.com/pff_steve/status/1325525079065813012
Just check out this map by @JMilesColeman. Collin County got bluer, yes, but D's lost support in Dallas. They LIKELY didn't flip a single seat in Dallas County as a result (one race uncalled), even though it was expected they'd get at least one in Central Dallas
https://twitter.com/ChazNuttycombe/status/1325500973746368517
This moment is about celebrating intelligence and competence; so oddly meaningful that this is when the universe claimed him. In the dumbest and darkest of times, Alex Trebek maintained a safe space for intelligence.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/alex-trebek-jeopardy-appreciation/2020/11/08/99173148-21ea-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html
Joe Biden flipped four Kent Counties Trump won in 2016. Delaware, Maryland, Michigan, and Rhode Island.
Republicans have flipped AR HD-11, which is a plurality-black district along the Mississippi River. We had this seat as Safe D in our ratings. We're seeing a common theme here: Democrats focused too much on moderate white voters in the suburbs. They lost base support and seats as a result. Their focus on moderate white voters in suburbs didn't even pay off; there are very few flips for Democrats in state legislatures.
https://cnalysis.com/maps/2020-state-legislative-results
Get ready for a lot more of this from the entire global community: No joke: Ahead of U.N. review of U.S. rights record, China—which herded 1 million Muslims into camps to kill their religion & culture—asks: "What measures has U.S. taken to eliminate systematic racism, racial discrimination, white supremacy, religious intolerance and xenophobia?"
https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1325549919286009858
The SC Legislature, already in Republican control with a Republican governor, became even more red Tuesday night, sending shock waves down the spine of a party that had mounted one of its most aggressive campaigns in years to flip legislative seats. https://thestate.com/news/politics-government/election/article246987147.html
Most Q followers are still deep in denial. And they're probably going to stay there until Trump concedes and/or on inauguration day. Maybe even beyond then honestly. Soon we're going to discover the resilience of the QAnon milieu in the face of powerful disconfirmation.
Trump said on Twitter that he would appear on a conservative talk radio show at 8 p.m. Eastern to discuss what he inaccurately referred to as the "Mail-In Ballot Hoax."
Fox News's audience plummeted yesterday after Biden became president-elect. During the Biden/Harris speeches, Fox had 3 million viewers, the lowest total of any network.
DA Charges Trump Supporter Who stormed Into Pro-Biden Group in Attack Viewed by Thousands on Social Media
https://www.kget.com/news/local-news/viral-assault-da-charges-trump-supporter-who-stormed-into-pro-biden-group-in-attack-viewed-by-thousands-on-social-media/
Cowboys punished for the other team's penalty. That's how this season is going.
"How long can we make 2 seconds last" -NFL, probably
Carr to Agholor for a 45 yard TD as Agholor beats Hayward in coverage. #Raiders back on top of #Chargers 21-17
https://twitter.com/joereedy/status/1325570137072656384
Mason Rudolph is in the game for the Steelers at quarterback.
Cowboys with a trick punt return
https://twitter.com/ftbburner11/status/1325564568790159361
3 states had ballot initiatives to make future ballot initiatives harder (Florida, Arkansas, North Dakota.) All three lost. FL's measure was the most emblematic; it was part of Republican's retaliation after the 2018 initiative expanding voting rights, & other progressive measures.
Basically, Trump and his allies are trying to portray every run-of-the-mill, benign counting issue - even ones that actually show the system is working as it should! - as evidence of nefarious doings.
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1325576030048972800
This is not evidence of fraud. It is the system work precisely as designed. The Republican Sec of State sent monitors to Fulton County to oversee a rescan that Fulton itself determined was necessary. You'll always get the straight facts from me. Biden now leads by 10,196 https://twitter.com/BrendanKeefe/status/1325508285487869953
I'm giving you an honest account of what I'm hearing from my own constituents, which is that they are extremely frustrated by the message of defunding the police and banning fracking. And I, as a Democrat, am just as frustrated. Because those things aren't just unpopular, they're completely unrealistic, and they aren't going to happen. And they amount to false promises by the people that call for them. If someone in your family makes their living in some way connected to natural gas, whether on the pipeline itself, or you know, even in a restaurant that serves natural gas workers, this isn't something to joke around about or be casual about in your language. That's what we're trying to say: that the rhetoric and the policies and all that stuff — it has gone way too far. It needs to be dialed back. It needs to be rooted in common sense, in reality, and yes, politics. Because we need districts like mine to stay in the majority and get something done for the people that we care about the most. | I think we can do it much more clearly and repetitively and show it with our actions. We need to have a unified Democratic message about good law enforcement and how to keep people safe, while addressing the systemic racism that I do believe exists and the racial inequities that absolutely do exist. And when we passed the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act, that's exactly what we did. | But the people that I was on the phone with, when we were passing that at the time, were not the freshmen members who are criticizing us today. It was Karen Bass and Cedric Richmond and Colin Allred — and I was listening to them. And, you know, pretty much most of our moderate conservative Democrats all voted for that bill. We listened, we compromised and we got something done. And that's what this job is really about. | I wouldn't put it that way. Because that really focuses on them as individuals and their personalities. And that is not what we're trying to do. We're trying to have a discussion about policy, not personality. And I want to be really clear on that, because I respect every one of those members and how hard they worked to get elected and how hard they have worked to stay elected and represent their constituencies. But the fact is that they and others are advocating policies that are unworkable and extremely unpopular. | At the end of the day, it's individual candidates that have to win races, and then work with their fellow officeholders to pass bills into law and change people's lives. So you can tell me all the polling you want, but you have to win elections. And I've now been through three very difficult elections in a Republican-leaning district, with the president personally campaigning against me. And I can tell you that people are not clamoring for the two policies that you just asked about. So, that's just what probably separates a winner from a loser in a district like mine. | She doesn't have any idea how we ran our campaign, or what we spent, to be honest with you. So yeah, her statement was wrong. But there's a deeper truth there, which is this — that our districts and our campaigns are extremely different. You know, I just leave it at that. | I have to be honest and say that I was surprised about the whole interview on the day when Vice President and now President-Elect Biden was having the election called for him. I just don't think it was a day for people to be sniping at other members, especially in districts that are so different from their own. I respect her and how hard she works. And what she did in an extremely low-turnout Democratic primary. But the fact is that in general elections in these districts — particularly in the ones where President Trump himself campaigns over and over and over again, and attacks members within their own Republican-leaning districts, like me and Representative Slotkin and Representative Spanberger — it's the message that matters. It's not a question of door knocking, or Facebook. It matters what policies you stand for, and which ones you don't. And that is all that we are trying to say. The American people just showed us in massive numbers, generally, which side of these issues that they are on. They sent us a Republican Senate and a Democratic president; we're going have to do things that we can compromise over. | That's just honestly a hard question to answer, because I don't know who the anonymous people are. I believe we should put your name behind those types of comments and that's generally what I do. But I got to say, as you've talked a lot about Representative Ocasio-Cortez, she can put her name behind stuff and that's I guess courageous, but when it's a damaging idea or bad policy, like her tweeting out that fracking is bad in the middle of a presidential debate when we're trying to win western Pennsylvania — that's not being anything like a team player. And it's honestly giving a false and ineffective promise to people that makes it very difficult to win the areas where President Trump is most popular in campaigns.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/08/us/politics/conor-lamb-democrats-biden.html
Truly deranged stuff at this Trump camp press conference in NV. Matt Schlapp cites an unnamed "whistleblower" in a counting center who saw a Biden/Harris van pull up, unload ballots, open them with a letter opener, swap votes, and replace them — all apparently in plain sight!
https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/1325572141027373057
No evidence for this claim, remind you! Just a guy somewhere! Ok!
https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/1325572268248997893
They're now saying the whistleblower is too scared to officially come forward to Nevada's *Republican* secretary of state. Refusing to answer Qs on whether they will actually file any lawsuits. Truly clown car stuff here.
https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/1325572906114560001
Meltdown much? Not only did the Raiders give up a first down on 3rd and 16 and then a 27-yard TD catch to a ridiculously wide-open Keenan Allen, Derek Carr was stripped-sacked with less than 10 seconds to play in the first half and the Chargers took advantage by kicking a late field goal to take a 17-14 halftime lead. The Raiders get the ball to start the second half and need desperately to regain momentum. As well as figure out a way to slow Allen, who has six catches for 81 yards.
Trump continues to narrow the gap in Arizona, where he now trails by just 0.51 points. But he still isn't doing well enough to overtake Biden — and the number of remaining mail and provisional ballots is dwindling.
The Trump campaign announced that Representative Doug Collins, a staunch Trump ally who failed in his recent bid for a Senate seat, would lead its recount team in Georgia, where Trump trails by about 10,000 votes.
Twitter has flagged 62.5% ofDonaldTrump's tweets for disputed / misinformation this weekend. That's 15 / 24 tweets. Since 11/4 Twitter has similarly flagged 30 / 86 tweets (34.9%), if counting all, or 30 of 65 (46.2%) original (non retweets).
https://factba.se/topic/flagged-tweets
Democrats have won 218 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and will maintain their majority.
She says the sheriff fired her for being gay. Now, she'll be the sheriff. After losing her job at Ohio's Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, Charmaine McGuffey decided to run against her former boss.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1325604015187533824
AZ - Biden's lead increased
GA - Biden's lead increased
PA - Biden's lead increased
https://alex.github.io/nyt-2020-election-scraper/battleground-state-changes.html#
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-president.html
Congress will have a record number of LGBTQ lawmakers next session.
https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1325603026648829960
The Dolphins have won 4 straight games. Building something very special with Brian Flores and Co.
https://twitter.com/mysportsupdate/status/1325597577321066498
Tua spins the wrong way, nearly gets sacked for a loss of 13 yards, but winds up with a 17-yard gain on the scramble
https://streamable.com/0zlmi9
Here representative elect Marjorie Taylor Greene is amplifying claims from an anonymous Twitter account about voter suppression and unrequested absentee ballots in Georgia. The account was created two months ago only tweeted about Iranian issues in Persian until recently. https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/1325603480384405504
The rate of new cases is soaring, and for the first time is averaging more than 100,000 a day in the United States. An astonishing number — one in 441 Americans — have tested positive for the virus just in the last week
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/08/us/covid-united-states-joseph-biden.html
Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/694890328273346560
Biden, in coming days, to reach out to governors and mayors on mask mandates | "If a governor declines, he'll go to the mayors in the state and ask them to lead," said a senior Biden adviser.
https://nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/blog/meet-press-blog-latest-news-analysis-data-driving-political-discussion-n988541/ncrd1247067
I voted straight Democrat and I do not wear a mask and will NEVER wear one and literally nobody where I'm at - a deep blue stronghold - wears one either
An 82-year old Hobart woman died two days after voting early. Now her ballot is going to be purged.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/ct-ptb-davich-early-voting-ballots-not-counted-after-voter-deaths-st-1-20201027-fiwm23dvozbv7dounljwc6vi3i-story.html
To put into perspective how fast this surge in COVID cases has been:
Oct 18: 49k cases, 36k hospitalized
Oct 25: 65k cases, 42k hospitalized
Nov 1: 74k cases, 48k hospitalized
Today: 103k cases, 57k hospitalized
Over double the cases in 3 weeks and over 50% more hospitalized.
https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/status/1325615567026475010
Trump-appointee Emily Murphy at GSA illegally and unconstitutionally refuses to sign letter authorizing Biden transition to formally begin its work this week. The Trump administration, in keeping with Trump's refusal failure to concede the election, has no immediate plans to sign one. This could lead to the first transition delay in modern history, except in 2000, when the Supreme Court decided a recount dispute between Al Gore and George W. Bush in December. "Her action now has to be condemned," said Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.), who leads a House oversight panel on federal operations. "It's behavior that is consistent with her subservience to wishes of the president himself, and it is clearly harmful to the orderly transition of power." If only SpeakerPelosi wasn't afraid to use that little jail in the basement. COWARD DEMOCRATS: HAVE THE PERSON PUT INTO PRISON. USE YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL POWER YOU FUCKING COWARD DEMOCRATS. THIS IS WHY YOU LOST HOUSE SEATS AND NEARLY LOST THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. And we're supposed to treat these people with kid gloves, feel their pain and work with them when EVERYTHING THEY DO IS TERRORISM?
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-gsa-letter-biden-transition/2020/11/08/07093acc-21e9-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html
Transition officials get government email addresses. They get office space at every federal agency. They can begin to work with the Office of Government Ethics to process financial disclosure and conflict-of-interest forms for their nominees. And they get access to senior officials, both political appointees of the outgoing administration and career civil servants, who relay an agency's ongoing priorities and projects, upcoming deadlines, problem areas and risks. The federal government is a $4.5 trillion operation, and while the Biden team is not new to government, the access is critical, experts said. This is all on hold for now. | GSA has been part of transition planning since the Presidential Transition Act was signed in 1963. Since then, the agency has identified the winner within hours or a day of media projections, and weeks before the results were made official by the electoral college.
https://washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-gsa-letter-biden-transition/2020/11/08/07093acc-21e9-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html
In PA, Biden carried his home county, Scranton's Lackawanna, last week, but it wasn't as blue as when he was on the ballot with Obama in 2012. He carried Lackawanna County 54%-45%, down from Obama's 63%-36%. The last two maps show that realignment along educational lines is real.
https://twitter.com/JMilesColeman/status/1325607714995789824
Barbara Bollier was the best Senate candidate that Kansas Dems ran in years, but she and Biden ended up getting roughly the same percentage of the vote. Interestingly, the only county where she ran behind Biden was her home county of Johnson.
https://twitter.com/NilesGApol/status/1325614060617015304
Maricopa County just dropped about 7k ballots -- there are ~35k left.
Biden: 3,753
Trump: 2,999
The county says these are special ballots they had to process: "Duplicating military & overseas ballots, braille ballots, large print ballots & damaged ballots."
https://twitter.com/VaughnHillyard/status/1325576570396938240
Pittsburgh Rapists reach 8-0 for first time in franchise history with ugly win over Dallas Cowboys
Racism is now the MAJORITY of voters in the USA. Unless younger people decide to REALLY get involved the country is going to die.
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