# 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:** 352
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7035 "2020-11-26T22:34:27Z")
That made me smile — thanks — as does this (Biden on bongoes, Trump dancing, plus a cat): > ---
**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 26, 2020, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7036 "2020-11-26T23:35:58Z")
He doesn’t say when, however. > **[Trump says he will leave the White House if Biden is confirmed by electoral...](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-27/donald-trump-says-he-will-leave-white-house/12926866)** > > US President Donald Trump says he will leave the White House if, as expected, the electoral college confirms Joe Biden has won the 2020 election. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7037 "2020-11-26T23:36:51Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > He doesn’t say when, however. - > > [Donald Trump says he will leave the White House if Joe Biden is confirmed by electoral college - ABC News](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-27/donald-trump-says-he-will-leave-white-house/12926866) Or how. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7038 "2020-11-26T23:50:10Z")
Dear Trump, we don’t need you to tell us that you’re going to leave the White House, you moron. You will leave. We don’t require you to concede, either, you moron. Fuck off. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7039 "2020-11-26T23:51:16Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > He doesn’t say when, however. No later than Inaguration Day. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7040 "2020-11-27T00:33:07Z")
I’m so worried for our country that we’re at a place where “defeated President says he’ll leave the White House” is a front page headline. Long after Trump has shuffled off the scene, we will continue to reap the consequences of his flouting of our democratic norms. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7041 "2020-11-27T00:45:07Z")
You could look at it the other way. The votes were counted, there was no fraud, the machines weren’t hacked, massive voter suppresion did not happen, the Proud Boys aren’t rioting, the courts aren’t buying the bullshit, and the legislatures aren’t going to flip their states (although the dumb fuck still thinks he can get them to do that). The system worked. No defeated candidate is going to try this again The exception is if the entire system, legislatures and courts, becomes so corruped with facists, that it could succeed. But if that happens, we are aleady fucked. ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7042 "2020-11-27T02:45:40Z")
Re: [Trump says he will leave the White House if Biden is confirmed by electoral](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-27/donald-trump-says-he-will-leave-white-house/12926866) This shouldn’t be news, but it is ☹ ---
**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 27, 2020, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7043 "2020-11-27T03:07:24Z")
Will he host a counter-rally? On January 20 at noon? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7044 "2020-11-27T03:19:35Z")
> [@Kimera757](#): > > Trump says he will leave the White House if Biden is confirmed by electoral In handcuffs. ---
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jungian_camisole1/32/3646_2.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole1)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7045 "2020-11-27T03:58:16Z")
But he’s not even touching her butt like Trump was touching Vanky’s butt! It’s obvious that Joe doesn’t care for Dr. Jill at all. /s, just in case. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7046 "2020-11-27T04:11:09Z")
Defiant Trump supporters are protesting, in what media estimates are numbers like 60, in the town square in support of the guy who clearly lost the election! Time to stand in the front yard brandishing your weapons, am I right, Righties? > **[Trump supporters gather downtown, insist election isn’t over](https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2020/11/26/21721932/2020-election-president-trump-rally-chicago-biden-protesters-voters-ballots-electoral-college)** > > Anti-Trump activists also marched to Millennium Park, where they shouted down the president’s backers as “losers.” The president’s attempts to fight the election results in court keep getting shot down. “Four more years!” a group of roughly 60 defiant Trump backers, mostly maskless, shouted as they congregated in Millennium Park after marching from Trump’s riverfront skyscraper. " ---
**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 27, 2020, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7047 "2020-11-27T12:51:56Z")
The insanity continues. This letter appeared in my local newspaper today in reaction to an editorial last Sunday: > Re: “Biden won the election: That’s a fact; let’s move on,” Editorial, Sunday: > > First: That is not a fact, but an opinion. But I have to agree that it is time to move on, and I will be moving on by not renewing my subscription. List me as one of — your words, not mine — the “spineless” Republicans. At least we have the guts to see the lawsuits through to really find the facts. > > But that is not something you would be interested in — facts. It’s an “opinion” that Biden won the election. “The guts to see the lawsuits through…” The mind boggles. 🤦🏽‍♀️ ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7048 "2020-11-27T16:40:38Z")
4 years ago there was considerable talk about the influence/interference Russia and other bad actors had on the election. As best I could figure, the primary effect was via fake social media posts to gullible voters. Did this sort of thing take place this time around? If not, why not? ---
**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 27, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7049 "2020-11-27T16:52:50Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > 4 years ago there was considerable talk about the influence/interference Russia and other bad actors had on the election. As best I could figure, the primary effect was via fake social media posts to gullible voters. Did this sort of thing take place this time around? It’s a great question. I would bet it definitely was there again and contributed to Trump doing as well as he did. I mean, he lost by 6.5 - 7 million, but he really could have lost by 10+ million, ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7050 "2020-11-27T17:11:00Z")
I never understood why it was that big of a deal 4 years ago - at least if we aren’t willing to enforce any meaningful restrictions on social media. All it suggested was that a lot of our voters are gullible idiots. Big surprise. There is certainly plenty of domestically created disinformation on social media. And it isn’t as tho our wonderful country has never interfered w/ any other country’s domestic politics. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7051 "2020-11-27T17:35:53Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Will he host a counter-rally? On January 20 at noon? Probably. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7052 "2020-11-27T18:56:02Z")
Pennsylvania lawsuit smacked down: “Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy. Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here,” ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7053 "2020-11-27T19:08:41Z")
Is this the one where a judge on Wednesday said for Pennsylvania to stop any further certification? Or a different one? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618/7054 "2020-11-27T19:10:32Z")
I’m not sure. You can’t tell your lawsuits without a program. I couldn’t tell from my [source article.](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-appeal-pennsylvania_n_5fc14674c5b6e4b1ea4b3578) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=351) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/election-day-week-month-s-year-2020-follow-along-thread/924618.md?page=353)