Nine of them come from states with two R senators. So far, the other senator hasn’t signed on.
Officially, they
called for a 10-day audit of election returns in “disputed states,” and said they would vote to reject the electors from those states until one was completed.
I assume that Johnson is the only one from a “disputed state”.
I have no idea what they think they can do in 10 days. One more hand recount?
I don’t think they are contesting the count of ballots that were cast. What they want to find are minor infractions of procedures which they will claim invalidate the entire results of the vote with the remedy being state legislatures selecting the electors for the state.
Yeah, but they’ve been doing that for the last two months. I expect that most of the lawsuits are complaints about rules – claims that election officials exceeded their authority in making it easier to vote. They they lost all but one.
They could give speeches on the 6th, listing all these issues and claiming the courts were always wrong. Then they will lose the vote, assuming the senators who have already announced stay the course.
I see the political advantage in calling for a vague “audit” instead of putting cards on the table. It maintains the fiction that “there is something big out there” instead of admitting that after 2 months all they’ve got is some claims that have already been thrown out.
The line “Who could possibly be against making sure that we have fair elections?” is a winner, where “Here’s a specific technicality that’s already been litigated” isn’t.
“There’s no way I lost Georgia,” Trump said, a phrase he repeated again and again on the call. “There’s no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes.”
Throughout the call, Trump detailed an exhaustive list of disinformation and conspiracy theories to support his position. He claimed without evidence that he had won Georgia by at least a half-million votes. He floated a barrage of assertions that have been investigated and disproved: that thousands of dead people voted; that an Atlanta election worker scanned 18,000 forged ballots three times each and “100 percent” were for Biden; that thousands more voters living out of state came back to Georgia illegally just to vote in the election.
I really like this article. I like the psychologists idea of making it more embarrassing for Trump to not concede than too lose the election. How can the US really make this charade he is performing embarrassing for him? I think releasing recorded phone calls like yesterday is a great way to do it. What else?
Question for people who voted for Trump in 2020: At what point would his behavior post-election make you regret your vote? Presumably supporting an actual physical coup would do so, so there must be a level at which trying to overturn the election results goes too far
I would assume GA wasn’t the only phone call, as it alone could not over turn the election.(then again the man is a moron) , I am waiting for the investigation to turn up admittance of similar conversations, even if not recordings.
Democrats say 97 - 3 percent they believe there was no widespread voter fraud,
independents say 62 - 35 percent they believe there was no widespread voter fraud, and
Republicans say 77 - 19 percent they believe there was widespread voter fraud.
Go over to Newsmax and see what Trump voters see this morning.