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Defiant Trump Insists Election Was ‘Rigged’

December 5, 2020 at 9:58 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump on Saturday stumped for Republican candidates in Georgia’s Senate runoff elections at a rally during which he repeatedly and falsely insisted that he won the Peach State and the 2020 election,” The Hill reports.

Said Trump: “You must go vote and vote early starting December 14. You have to do it. They cheated and they rigged our presidential election, but we will still win it. We will still win it. We’ll still win it. And they’re going to try and rig this election, too.”

USA Today: “Trump did promote incumbent Georgia Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler –- whose Jan. 5 re-election bids will decide control of the Senate -– but framed most of the rally around his own legacy and false allegations about the election.”

Atlanta Journal Constitution: Trump tells GOP in Georgia to vote in “rigged” election.

Why Do So Many Think the Election Was Stolen?

December 5, 2020 at 5:11 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Ross Douthat: “Anyone familiar with his career could have predicted that he would claim to have been cheated out of victory. Anyone watching how he wielded power (or, more often, didn’t) as president could have predicted that his efforts to challenge the election results would be embarrassing, ridiculous and dismissed with prejudice in court. And anyone watching how the Republican Party dealt with his ascent could have predicted that its leaders would mostly avoid directly rebuking him, relying instead on the inertial forces of American democracy, the conscientiousness of judges and local officialdom, and Trump’s own incompetence to turn back his final power grab.”

“So far, so predictable. But speaking as a cynical observer of the Trump era, one feature of November did crack my jaded shell a bit: not his behavior or the system’s response, but the sheer scale of the belief among conservatives that the election was really stolen, measured not just in polling data but in conversations and arguments, online and in person, with people I would not have expected to embrace it.”

Inside Trump’s Continuing Failing Lawsuits

December 5, 2020 at 4:54 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rick Hasen: “Three weeks ago, I and others in the election law field determined that Trump’s path to use lawsuits to overturn the results of the election were dead. The campaign had uncovered no significant fraud or irregularities and none of the states where Trump lost were close enough that a recount could plausibly change the results of the election. By one count, Trump has lost 46 of his lawsuits and won only one minor one, in PA.”

“But the lawsuits keep coming and coming. They make much more sense when one thinks of them as about grift and delegitimizing the upcoming Biden presidency.”


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Trump Wants Names of Republicans Who Say Biden Won

December 5, 2020 at 4:08 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump demanded to know who the Republican lawmakers were who acknowledged President-elect Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election when they were asked by the Washington Post.

The newspaper has since updated the count to 27 Republicans.

What’s Behind Trump’s Pentagon Purge?

December 5, 2020 at 2:08 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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As the pandemic rages across the country, President Trump hasn’t done anything to halt the escalating death toll. He’s done nothing to provide economic relief to millions out of work. And he’s had almost nothing on his public schedule since the election — more than a month ago.

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Trump Calls Kemp to Pressure Him to Overturn Vote

December 5, 2020 at 2:01 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump called Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) on Saturday morning to urge him to persuade the state legislature to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the state and asked the governor to order an audit of absentee ballot signatures, the latest brazen effort by the president to interfere in the 2020 election,” the Washington Post reports.

“Hours before he is scheduled to hold a rally in Georgia on behalf of the state’s two GOP senators, Trump pressed Kemp to call a special session of the state legislature to get lawmakers to override the results and appoint electors that would back him… He also asked the governor to demand an audit of signatures on mail ballots, something Kemp has previously noted he has no power to do.

“Kemp declined the entreaty from Trump.”

2021 Shaping Up to Be ‘Humanitarian Catastrophe’

December 5, 2020 at 1:06 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Top U.N. officials said that next year is shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe and rich countries must not trample poor countries in a “stampede for vaccines” to combat the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters reports.

Arizona Republican ‘Cannot and Will Not’ Overturn Vote

December 5, 2020 at 1:03 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R) said that pleas from some GOP lawmakers to overturn the results of the state’s presidential election are illegal and “cannot and will not” happen, the Arizona Republic reports.

Said Bowers: “As a conservative Republican, I don’t like the results of the presidential election. I voted for President Trump and worked hard to reelect him. But I cannot and will not entertain a suggestion that we violate current law to change the outcome of a certified election.”

Pence’s Political Future Remains Clouded by Trump

December 5, 2020 at 1:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

CNN: “According to conversations with seven Republicans close to Pence, the vice president remains committed to toeing the line for Trump. That’s not only part of Pence’s loyal disposition, it’s also key to what sources say are Pence’s significant ambitions to run for president in 2024.”

“Pence and those around him have long hoped that his fealty would pay off and position him as Trump’s natural successor.”

“There’s just one problem: Trump doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. He has floated the idea of running in 2024, and has raised hundreds of millions of dollars since the election, some of which went to a new leadership PAC Trump has established that could help fuel his future political ambitions.”

Quote of the Day

December 5, 2020 at 12:58 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“I think the long term impact of this could be devastating… It’s important to be outspoken. That’s why I decided to put this on the line. We’ve lost our moral authority to be outraged. When you end up where principles don’t matter, beliefs don’t matter, it’s just about who can be the loudest and kind of maintain power through raw anger and aggression, you’re no different than a lot of Latin American countries at that point.”

— Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), telling Politico that the Republican Party has lost its way.

More Combative Ivanka Trump Hints at Future

December 5, 2020 at 12:43 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A more combative Ivanka Trump has emerged with little more than one month left in her role as adviser to President Donald Trump, as the first daughter makes a conscious effort to publicly push back on her critics,” CNN reports.

“According to a source familiar with her thinking, Ivanka Trump recognizes there is a time stamp on the administration and she’s spent the last several weeks highlighting on social media the causes she feels she has impacted during her tenure, as well as showing hints she is ready for a fight.”

Report Points to Microwave ‘Attack’ on U.S. Diplomats

December 5, 2020 at 12:40 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The most probable cause of a series of mysterious afflictions that sickened American spies and diplomats abroad in the past several years was radiofrequency energy, a type of radiation that includes microwaves, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has concluded in a report,” the New York Times reports.

“The conclusion by a committee of 19 experts in medicine and other fields cited ‘directed, pulsed radiofrequency energy’ as ‘the most plausible mechanism’ to explain the illness, which came to be known as Havana syndrome, though they said secondary factors may have contributed to symptoms.”

Giuliani’s Star Witness Sent Sex Videos To Boyfriend’s Ex

December 5, 2020 at 11:57 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Two years before she’d become the breakout star of the clown show Rudy Giuliani brought to Lansing this week, Mellissa Carone was sending her then-boyfriend’s ex-wife graphic videos of the two of them having sex,” Deadline Detroit reports.

Runoff Pits Old South Against New South

December 5, 2020 at 11:46 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Politico: “Georgia’s campaign ads tell a tale of two states: Raphael Warnock’s ads are bright and sunny, featuring the pastor expounding on health care policy, telling his family story and walking a puppy. But the majority of Kelly Loeffler’s spots take a grimmer tone, attacking Warnock as ‘the most dangerous, radical candidate in America.’ In one ad, the camera pans across a photo of Warnock, who is Black, darkened and superimposed over footage of riots. ‘Saving the Senate,’ the narrator intones, ‘is about saving America … from that.’”

“It could work. But with Georgia’s demographics shifting, Loeffler’s approach — a familiar playbook tailored to older, whiter voters who skew Republican — is just as likely to prove out of step with a changing electorate. It’s pitting the politics of the Old South, often characterized by thinly-veiled racist rhetoric and maintenance of the predominantly white status quo, against the New South’s increasingly young and racially diverse constituency.”

Working from Home Causing a Tax Mess

December 5, 2020 at 11:44 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Lawmakers are pushing to sort out a tax mess created by millions of people working from home during the coronavirus pandemic — and fears are rising that Congress will fail to reach a solution before tax filing season,” Politico reports.

“People who’ve been working in a state different from the one in which they normally work face potentially nasty headaches when they do their taxes next year, thanks to uncertainty over who should get their local tax dollars.”

“It could be a big problem not only for individual Americans, but also their employers, tax preparers and cash-strapped local governments already jostling over the revenue.”

Economists Say Proposed Relief Is Not Enough

December 5, 2020 at 11:42 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “A $908 billion plan would fall short of doing everything that economists argue Congress should do to help workers and businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. But they said that if lawmakers could get the details right, Congress should do it anyway.”

Money Floods Into Georgia for Senate Runoffs

December 5, 2020 at 11:39 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “New campaign financial reports filed late Thursday showed a staggering influx of money into the state in the first days of runoffs that were expected to set spending records, with more than $300 million booked in television, radio and digital ads, according to data from AdImpact, an ad-tracking firm. Media buyers said the price of ads was soaring, especially for super PACs, to unseen heights.”

Pentagon Blocks Biden Transition from Spy Agencies

December 5, 2020 at 9:42 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Trump administration has refused to allow members of President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team to meet with officials at U.S. intelligence agencies that are controlled by the Pentagon, undermining prospects for a smooth transfer of power,” the Washington Post reports.

“The officials said the Biden team has not been able to engage with leaders at the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency and other military-run spy services with classified budgets and global espionage platforms.”

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