Tag: Electoral College

Trump, Still Claiming Victory, Says He Will Leave if Electors Choose Biden

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Trump, Still Claiming Victory, Says He Will Leave if Electors Choose Biden

When asked whether he would leave office in January after the Electoral College cast its votes for Mr. Biden on Dec. 14 as expected, Mr. Trump replied: “Certainly I will. Certainly I will.”

Speaking in the Diplomatic Room of the White House after a Thanksgiving video conference with members of the American military, the president insisted that “shocking” new evidence about voting problems would surface before Inauguration Day. “It’s going to be a very hard thing to concede,” he said, “because we know that there was massive fraud.”

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Where is Trump still trying to fight election results?

In Wisconsin, the Trump campaign is trying to leverage the recount to ask the courts to throw out tens of thousands of votes. It is arguing that all absentee ballots that people cast in person, rather than by mail, should be tossed because they were supposed to be mailed. State officials dispute their interpretation of the law, and legal experts told The Post that courts would probably be reluctant to throw out so many votes otherwise cast in good faith.

Election Crisis and the Electoral College

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Election Crisis and the Electoral College (Watch on YouTube)

Alan Hirsch, author of A Short History of Presidential Elections Crises: (And How to Prevent the Next One), says while there is no election crisis now – Biden’s win is definitive – the electoral college is undemocratic and increases the possibilities of fraud, uncertain results, and more post-election crises. Hirsch joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.

The danger of a Trump coup is rapidly escalating

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The danger of a Trump coup is rapidly escalating

It’s becoming increasingly apparent though, that very serious people are directing the strategy off-screen. Steve Bannon, the confirmed white supremacist and architect of Trump’s nationalistic and xenophobic “America First” policies, appears to be the one laying out the president’s battle plan. And behind Bannon has long stood the big money of those capitalist interests who’ve never had much concern for democracy, especially if it gets in the way of profits.

Within hours of the election ending, on Nov. 5 Bannon declared the outlines of the approach we now see coming to fruition: “Fortune favors boldness… Kick it to the state legislatures, kick it to the House of Representatives…. We win there.”

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ORGANIZING TO PROTECT THE RESULTS OF THE 2020 ELECTION

President Trump is seeking a recount in two Wisconsin counties, but what he’s really doing is preparing for a lawsuit.

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

President Trump is seeking a recount in two Wisconsin counties, but what he’s really doing is preparing for a lawsuit.

The recount petition he filed Wednesday asked to throw out broad swaths of votes in the state’s two most Democratic areas — something the county clerks there are sure to reject.

I hope that the Disabled and Military Personal, overseas, realize that he’s trying to invalidate their votes, for him, as well! They vote by absentee ballot! There’s no difference between mail-in ballots and absentee ballots!