Sen. John Thune, of South Dakota, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, made headlines last week for dissing the GOP attempt to overthrow te election on Jan. 6, saying it will “go down like a shot dog.” Almost immediately, Trump called on South Dakota’s governor, Kristi Noem, an extr[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2020 Election’
December 31st, 2020 - 11:28 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Rookie GOP senator backs Jan. 6 nonsense
The House of Representatives, with 435 members, is bound to have a few kooks. See, e.g., Mo Brooks, Louie Gohmert, and incoming freshman and QAnon supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene. The Senate, on the other hand — historically an older, wiser, and more experienced body — has traditio[...]
Pence won’t join conspiracy to overthrow U.S. government
The U.S. government, as of noon on January 20, 2021, is the one that was elected by the American people on November 3, 2020, and one of our political parties is trying to overthrow it. As part of this lawless conspiracy, they’ve attempted to enlist the outgoing vice president, but apparently h[...]
Georgia audit drives another stake through Trump’s fraud fantasy
Georgia completed its audit of ballot signatures on Tuesday and “found no fraud in the presidential election, dealing yet another blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results,” Huffington Post reported on Wednesday, December 30, 2020. “The secretary of state�[...]
The latest crazy scheme to overturn election
Trump diehards are now focusing on Vice President Mike Pence’s role on January 6, which is to read off the states’ electoral votes. They think he can arbitrarily pick and choose which states’ electoral votes count. That’s preposterous on its face. Louis Gohmert (R-TX), univer[...]
Tommy Tuberville, loose cannon
Tommy Tuberville, 66, has a degree in physical education from a small state college in Arkansas. He knows a lot about football, but so little about government he was mocked for describing the three branches of government as the House, Senate, and Executive. He’s displayed equally shocking igno[...]
December 26th, 2020 - 12:32 pm § in Politics
Where polling stands now in Georgia Senate election
About half a point separates the candidates in both races. The Republican is up in one, and down in the other. (Read story here.) Polls overestimated the Democratic advantage in the November election across the board — in the White House, Senate, and House races. If that repeats in GeorgiaR[...]
White House staff now fending off crazy lawyer
American history has never see a spectacle like this, and hopefully never will again. It’s over. The electoral votes have been signed, sealed, and delivered, and there’s nothing left except reading them. Everyone knows the results; who each elector voted for isn’t secret. Biden wil[...]
GOP suppresses black voting in Georgia’s runoff election
Voting rights groups denounced election officials in Hall County, Georgia, for shuttering 4 of the county’s 8 polling locations, “which the groups say is limiting turnout of Black and Latino voters” in the early voting in the Jan. 5, 2021, Senate runoff election, Huffington Post re[...]
Election company employee sues conspiracy peddlers
“An election systems worker driven into hiding by death threats has filed a defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s campaign, two of its lawyers and some conservative media figures and outlets,” Talking Points Memo reported on Tuesday, December 22, 2020. Read their story he[...]