Arizona has *finally* called it for Joe Biden. He’s up to 290 electoral college votes.
By the way, congratulations to Mark Kelly, husband of former congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who now goes to Washington as Arizona’s senator. Kelly is a former astronaut and now new Democratic senator, which makes him a bit of a smarty pants, overachiever that Trumpers appreciate so much. 🙄
Oh and congratulations to newly elected Democratic Senator John Hickenlooper from the great state of Colorado who beat Republican Cory Gardner. So we picked up two, lost one in Alabama, and have the opportunity to pick up two more in Georgia. It. Could. Work! That would make Kamala Harris the tie breaker in the Senate. That means Mitch McConnell would be relegated to the role of just another senator!
But what’s this I hear? The Georgia Republican Party and its congressional delegation are attacking their own GA Secretary of State alleging voter fraud lost them the top of the ticket? Funny how voter fraud in Georgia *stops* with the top of the ticket, and probably the two senate candidates but somehow doesn’t affect down ballot congressional races. Unfortunately, almost but not quite half of the voters in Georgia will need to see this drawn out on a white board in little stick figures before they get it.
In the meantime, out going president Trump, is still holding the White House and the rest of the government hostage because, get this, he claims his monitors were not able to watch the vote count in Pennsylvania.
😅😂🤣😂😅🤣😂😅😅😂🤣
You can definitely tell where voters are getting their news when they recite this ridiculous claim. “I don’t get my news only from Fox. I have a variety of news sources.” Hmmm… do your news sources also include the transcripts from the court where RNC lawyers presented their nonsensical claims?
The most famous scene came in Pennsylvania, where a Trump lawyer strained to avoid acknowledging that their people were, in fact, allowed to observe the vote-counting process in Philadelphia:At the city’s federal courthouse on Thursday evening, attorneys for Trump asked a judge to issue an emergency order to stop the count, alleging that all Republican observers had been barred.Under sharp questioning from Judge Paul S. Diamond, however, they conceded that Trump in fact had “a nonzero number of people in the room,” leaving Diamond audibly exasperated.“I’m sorry, then what’s your problem?” asked Diamond, who was appointed to the federal bench by President George W. Bush. Denying Trump’s request, Diamond struck a deal for 60 observers from each party to be allowed inside.At one point on Friday afternoon, 12 Republican observers and five Democrats were watching the count, according to a ballot counter who was working.
After that “nonzero” answer, Diamond pressed the Trump campaign lawyer to be more explicit — and he suggestively invoked their standing with the bar: “I’m asking you as a member of the bar of this court: Are people representing the plaintiffs in the room?” The lawyer responded more directly: “Yes.” By the end of the hearing, Diamond invoked his right to make sure lawyers in his courtroom acted in good faith.
See, if you get all your news from Fox, you miss all of this comedy gold. There are even reports of some Trump monitors using binoculars in the counting room. That’s right, only the Trump counters needed binoculars, every one else could see what was going on. Nevertheless, the state of PA let the babies have their way to get as close as 6 feet from the counters. Close enough to breathe coronavirus on the poll worker volunteer. “Nice set of healthy lungs you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to them.” Oh, sure, everybody is wearing a mask but spending that much time that close to other people in a confined space clearly violates CDC guidelines, which is probably why the Trump counters specifically asked for it. We have already seen that Trumplicans have complete disregard for the safety of others when it comes to Coronavirus.
Anyway, it’s really too bad that Trump voters are buying the mockingly stupid voter fraud “I CAN’T SEE THE COUNTING EVEN WITH MY BINOCULARS AND ACCESS TO THE VIDEO FEED!!” claims of the Trump monitors. It takes away another opportunity to share the humor and potential retrospective satire of future SNL skits. It could have united us in our communal embarrassment of Trump’s image on the national and international stage. As it is, 75 MILLION of us are laughing ourselves blue over the red faced humorless anger of the other 70 million whose brains are wired to Sean Hannity’s butt.
“I’m not getting all my news from Fox and Hugh Hewitt!” my ass. 🙄
They don’t have to get their news from Fox and OANN. It’s a lifestyle choice. No one is born with the attraction to pathological liars. They chose to get their “news” from sources that don’t tell the truth; we choose to ridicule them relentlessly for it until they actually start broadening their horizons.
Kumbaya.
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Regarding Arizona, what’s really amazing to me is that Maricopa County (Phoenix) was blue for Biden and Kelly, albeit barely. We usually blame Maricopa for keeping Arizona red. ☺️
Actually I saw 45K vote lead for Biden in Maricopa, which as you say is unbelievable. I’ve been out of the state for a while (was in Pima) but am still glad to see it go BLUE.
I would b e amazed if Democrats won one of the races in Georgia, much less two. Warnock got 37% or so of the vote, while the two Republicans got 46%. The Collins voters are not going to vote for Warnock. Osoff has a better chance, but not much, as he lost by 1.9%, even with the biggest Democratic turnout in history there, which actually propelled Biden to a slim victory. How are we going to make up a 77,000 vote margin in a runoff? Ii think that we are being set up for headlines about Republicans decisively winning both races, which will lead so-called pundits to state that Republicans actually won the election, except for Trump, and that there is no Democratic mandate at all.
it’s not that i am always negative about these elections; i thought that we would win Arizona, had a good shot in Georgia, and actually thought we would win North Carolina, and that Gideon in Maine would certainly win, and Cunningham in NC.. But clearly there are too many people in these states who just vote for Republicans for whatever reasons; they fear “socialism,’ or they like divided government, or they just hate Democrats. i had hoped for an actual wave, but we will have to work with a mandate for Biden running into the stone wall of McConnell. I would like to win even one of those Georgia seats, it would help, but I would be amazed if we did. The one hope is that voters split their vote, and somehow elect one Democrat. It would be nice if voters actually realized what they were getting with Perdue and Loeffler. But they’ll vote for them, and then complain that the government isn’t helping them with stimulus relief, or anything else.
Did Rethugs actually win the elections, except for Donnie Two Scoops?
It’s questionable:
https://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2020/11/georgia-plus-who-are-real-vote-riggers.html