# Election Day \[Week\]\[Month\[s\]\] \[Year\] 2020 follow-along thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 3, 2020, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618 "2020-11-03T05:36:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 302
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6030 "2020-11-14T19:59:33Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > Associated Press - [“thousands of Trump loyalists”](https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-elections-542e7e916e11255d5ddea6e62b6d5c3b) From the photos in that article, it seems that President Trump isn’t marching for himself; he’s playing golf while his minions stand in the cold streets “rallying”. Did he drive thru the crowd on his way to the golf course or on his way home? ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6031 "2020-11-14T20:10:47Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Did he drive thru the crowd on his way to the golf course or on his way home? From the first sentence of the AP article: > President Donald Trump delighted supporters gathered near the White House on Saturday with a slow motorcade drive-by through downtown Washington on the way **to** his Virginia golf club. (Bolding mine) Of course he did. He’s not even watching them while he plays around. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6032 "2020-11-14T20:19:20Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Of course he did. He’s not even watching them while he plays around.- Should that be “plays a round,” as in _a round of golf_? ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6033 "2020-11-14T20:56:00Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Should that be “plays a round,” as in _a round of golf_ ? I actually meant it both ways… ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6034 "2020-11-14T21:20:29Z")
Is North Carolina currently recounting its votes? ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6035 "2020-11-14T21:23:31Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Is North Carolina currently recounting its votes? They might be, but not for president. There are a couple of down ballot races like AG that might end up being close enough to trigger individual recounts. ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6036 "2020-11-14T21:49:28Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Basically the repubs snuck in a independent in several races- with the same last name as the Dem candidate. This siphoned off a few votes, just enuf to win in one case, and the counts is close in the other. That’s kind of like running Kanye West to siphon off the black vote. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6037 "2020-11-14T21:51:28Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > [Ed Hall pictures the letter Trump will leave in the Oval Office desk for Joe Biden.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmqdkZYXYAIzi_I?format=jpg&name=large) > > 😆 Looks about right - including the misspelling. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6038 "2020-11-14T22:07:26Z")
Trump making Pocahontas jokes with the last living Code Talkers in front of an Andrew Jackson painting likely cost him Arizona: > ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6039 "2020-11-14T22:07:39Z")
According to an incontrovertible authority there were over a million: > ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6040 "2020-11-14T22:09:17Z")
And what’s particularly impressive is that they _all_ returned from Inauguration Day in 2017, when they absolutely _jammed_ the Mall! ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6041 "2020-11-14T22:10:47Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Trump making Pocahontas jokes with the last living Code Talkers in front of an Andrew Jackson painting likely cost him Arizona: > > [https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1327361180357300224?s=19](https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1327361180357300224?s=19) Not just Navajo: > On some Tohono O’odham Nation precincts, Biden and Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris won 98% of the vote. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6042 "2020-11-14T22:31:41Z")
I just saw this of two Navajo women: [![](https://i.redd.it/cppmhrw5g9z51.jpg) ](https://i.redd.it/cppmhrw5g9z51.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6043 "2020-11-14T22:42:56Z")
Came across an interesting bit: apparently the Trump team actually did have a team plotting out a legal strategy. Guys like David Bossie and Bill Stepien. Regular meetings, strategy sessions, scheduled meetings with the President to lay out his options and get instructions. Not bad, for TrumpWorld. Then Rudy stepped in. > [@](#): > > **President Donald Trump’s senior campaign aides were gathered in their headquarters Saturday morning when word emerged that Rudy Giuliani would be holding a news conference in the parking lot of a Philadelphia landscaping business.** > > **They knew that meant trouble.** > > Senior campaign aides scurried to urge organizers to kill the event, infamously staged at the wrong “Four Seasons” — a landscaping business adjacent to an adult bookstore and a crematorium. But Giuliani plowed ahead anyway, delivering a conspiracy-filled rant that undercut the legal strategy the president’s advisers had meticulously mapped out in the run-up to the election. > > **Campaign officials described the episode as disastrous, saying it scared off many of the lawyers they spent months recruiting, who now no longer wanted to be involved.** With the campaign already facing exceedingly long odds in its recount efforts, there are widespread concerns within Trumpworld and GOP circles that Giuliani’s antics are thwarting the president’s legal machinery from within. > **[Giuliani wrecks Trump campaign's well-laid legal plans](https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/14/giuliani-trump-legal-plans-436475)** > > The campaign spent months building a legal apparatus to contest close elections. Then along came the former New York City mayor. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6044 "2020-11-14T22:49:26Z")
So is Rudy Deep State? A double agent? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6045 "2020-11-14T22:55:53Z")
I don’t think he’s deep anything. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6046 "2020-11-14T22:57:02Z")
> [@susan](#): > > So is Rudy Deep State? A double agent? Honestly, I’m beginning to wonder. He has kicked massive amounts of sand in Trump’s gears at nearly every turn between his kooky Fox interviews where he says too much, Borat footage and then stuff like this. I guess the real question is why does Trump keep using him when he’s been nothing but a liability (from Trump’s perspective, anyway). In the end, though, Rudy just seems bat shit crazy and Trump loves anyone who pretends to love him back. Anything else is just a disturbing coincidence. Probably. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6047 "2020-11-14T22:57:24Z")
He’s Derp State. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6048 "2020-11-14T23:02:41Z")
And now Trump has placed Rudy in charge of the legal team: > **[Trump puts Giuliani in charge of post-election legal fight after series of...](https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/14/politics/rudy-giuliani-trump-lawsuits-2020-election/index.html)** > > President Donald Trump has put his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani in charge of his campaign's long-shot post-election legal challenges, according to a tweet from the President Saturday night. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/6049 "2020-11-14T23:12:22Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > there are widespread concerns within Trumpworld and GOP circles that Giuliani’s antics are thwarting the president’s legal machinery from within. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cntvEDbagAw/maxresdefault.jpg "The Specials - A Message To You Rudy (Official Music Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cntvEDbagAw) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=301) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=303)