US Election Day 2020

[Innula Zenovka]

It's not going to work, it seems, but he's determined to go out kicking and screaming.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Wow! Today's press conference, with Rudy Giuliani and Sydney Powell, seems to have been truly bonkers:

Fact-checking the craziest news conference of the Trump presidency

Evernote link because paywall

 

[danielravennest]

A dangerous turn of phrase in the context of your current issues...

Fixed the wording to "other races"

 

[danielravennest]

It's not going to work, it seems, but he's determined to go out kicking and screaming.

The state has said that once the county board certified their portion, there is no "backsies" afterward by individual board members. The vote occurred during a board meeting open to the public, signed off with affidavits, and that's it. The state will proceed to certify the whole state election now.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Sweaty Rudy Giuliani suffers hair malfunction in latest bizarre press conference

Trump’s personal lawyer was trying to drum up interest in tales of election rigging – but viewers were drawn to the drama on his head

www.theguardian.com

On 7 November, the day the presidential election was called for Joe Biden, former New York mayor turned Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani addressed the media at a landscaping company between a sex shop and a crematorium on Philadelphia’s industrial fringe.

For two weeks, as the Trump campaign continued to claim without evidence that the election had been stolen, America wondered if Giuliani could possibly ever top that.

On Thursday, he gave it a damned good try.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Top Georgia election official says Joe Biden has won state after recount

Joe Biden officially declared winner of Georgia following recount – as it happened

Audit upheld the original tally, Georgia secretary of state’s office said

www.theguardian.com

So, the orange rectal discharge still needs to flip a total of >three< of the battleground states to win, and is no closer to having ONE yet.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Free]

She's probably afraid he'd try to mail it somewhere.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

Today's press conference, with Rudy Giuliani and Sydney Powell, seems to have been truly bonkers:

It seems like you could rephrase this sentence.

 

[Free]

MOAR EDIT:
Georgia manual recount confirms Biden victory

 

[Free]

Trump's legal options to pulling out a win are quickly being whittled down to sawdust. Soon all he'll have left are the illegal options. What will Republicans do then?

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Trump's legal options to pulling out a win are quickly being whittled down to sawdust. Soon all he'll have left are the illegal options. What will Republicans do then?

Back him - they've already been trying illegal shit to help him stay there.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Trump's legal options to pulling out a win are quickly being whittled down to sawdust. Soon all he'll have left are the illegal options. What will Republicans do then?

Well, they are now attempting to get the legislators of the assorted states to replace electors. So far, that doesn't appear to be going anywhere, but I wouldn't underestimate his willingness to call them up to cajole, threaten, etc..

 

[Grey Mars]

Trump's legal options to pulling out a win are quickly being whittled down to sawdust. Soon all he'll have left are the illegal options. What will Republicans do then?

That's... That's a trick question, right? They'll sail right on over to using the illegal options and never even notice or flinch. That's assuming they are not already dipping into the illegal option.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

What will Republicans do then?

Congress will no longer be of any concern to us. I've just received word that the President has dissolved the council permanently. The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.

And then we'll find out who the suckers and losers side with.

 

[Free]

That's... That's a trick question, right?

I don't ask trick questions. I ask troll ones.

 

[Cindy Claveau]

Trump's legal options to pulling out a win are quickly being whittled down to sawdust. Soon all he'll have left are the illegal options. What will Republicans do then?

Invalidate the vote. Disenfranchise millions of Americans, especially minorities. Trump is not above doing anything underhanded to retain power.

Trump uses power of presidency to try to overturn the election and stay in office

In defiance of the vote, Trump and his lawyers are scrambling to stop key states from certifying their results and to enlist Republican state officials to overturn Biden’s wins by seating Trump electors to the electoral college.
Biden’s team expressed confidence Thursday that Trump’s intensifying effort to keep power would fail.
“None of it is legally significant,” said Bob Bauer, a senior adviser to the Biden campaign, who runs the election protection legal efforts. “They are pivoting from this completely failed litigation strategy to a strategy of misleading people into believing that he now has a political option. It is a response to failure. It is the last card that he thinks he can pull from his deck here, but his hand remains a completely losing hand.”

But other Democrats voiced more concern about the threat of Trump’s moves.
“Other people looked at me like I was insane, but I have fully anticipated that Donald Trump would try every trick in the book,” said Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.). “The kind of stuff that’s being done now is undermining people’s confidence in the election process and the integrity of the election and it is fundamentally attacking the roots of our democracy, and it is unacceptable.”

This part gave me some optimism though:

The president’s allies have said that if the board deadlocks, the legislature could choose to ignore Biden’s popular-vote win and seat Trump electors. But experts say such a move would be on shaky legal ground. And multiple election lawyers have said that scenario is unlikely for several reasons. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, has the power to fire members of the canvassing board and appoint interim replacements without legislative approval. And Democrats are highly likely to file suit in the event the board deadlocks, because state law directs the board to follow the popular vote in its decision to certify.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Sweaty Rudy Giuliani suffers hair malfunction in latest bizarre press conference

Trump’s personal lawyer was trying to drum up interest in tales of election rigging – but viewers were drawn to the drama on his head

www.theguardian.com

Another picture from the event.