"Some 92,300 voters who requested ballots have not returned them. […] As long as ballots were postmarked by Nov. 3, state election officials have until Thursday to receive and count them.
The AP will reassess the race once the deadline to return absentee ballots has passed."
Thursday is tomorrow.
~Max
Rudy is going to fight this all the way up to the Supreme Court Yard Marriott.
He’ll ruin all of it. Everything.
…Arizona.
It’s clear that Biden will win the election. I mean, he has.
@Rick_Kitchen posted this in the Clusterfuck thread – kudos for finding it. I’m shamelessly reposting it here in case anyone missed it. The moral, to me, is that Trump can lie and bluster, he can appoint people to lie for him, he can file all the lawsuits he wants, but eventually reality strikes. Lawyers can be disbarred for knowingly lying to a judge, and they can be sanctioned for bringing frivolous suits …
You are evil in the good way!
So the number of potentially outstanding mail-in ballots is greater than the current margin for 45? I guess that makes sense. Abundance of caution and all that.
I suspect that Trump will leave to go take what he’ll call a well-earned vacation, necessary, he’ll say, after all the hard work and stress of being President; and necessary in order to recharge the energy to Keep Up The Battle!
And I suspect that said vacation will be somewhere outside the USA. And outside the reach of, among others, the NYState Department of Justice.
Besides the other excellent explanations, there is some clarification needed for this statement. In Georgia, the Secretary of State is required certify the results of the election by 20 November this year. The state will be called well before the runoff elections.
Trump’s lawyers didn’t want the paucity of the AZ evidence to be public, but a judge rejected that notion.
I’ve already made a note to donate to ACLU and ABA.
From the article:
Though the plaintiffs claim the problem could have left thousands of legitimate votes uncounted, county officials on Monday estimated 180 ballots were at issue.
Lawyers can be sanctioned, but the president can’t be.
I’ve been giving to ACLU and a few other similar organizations monthly since the day after DJT was elected in 2016. (Excuse me a moment while I 
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DJT has been an incredible boon to the ACLU. This is from Jan 2017.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/us/aclu-fund-raising-trump-travel-ban.html
President Trump’s executive order barring millions of refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from the United States has spurred a surge in donations to humanitarian and rights groups like the American Civil Liberties Union.
The A.C.L.U. has raised more than $24 million in online donations since Saturday, the first full day of the immigration ban, said Stephen Smith, a spokesman for the group. That is nearly seven times as much raised online in 2015, roughly $3.5 million, he added.
Those donations came from at least 356,306 individual donors, and about two-thirds of those who gave money were believed to be first-time donors, said its executive director, Anthony D. Romero.
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Remember the Muslim ban? Seems like an eternity ago, doesn’t it?
Right, but few lawyers are going to take the fall for him. Except possibly Giuliani, who may be too stupid or too senile to know better. Poor Rudy. He could have gone down in history as “America’s Mayor”. Instead he’ll be remembered as “Trump’s stooge”. He may even end up in jail, depending on what the post-apocalypse investigations uncover.
Anyway, I find it heartening how many reports of Trump’s “fraud” lawsuits so far begin with the words “Judge denies …” or “Judge rejects …”. Turns out, the courts are different than the adoring crowds at Trump rallies. It further turns out that judges tend to be educated and have some training in distinguishing facts from bullshit. Can’t wait for the Orange Imbecile to start whining about the court system being “rigged”. Very unfair. Sad.
I saw a post the other day that mentioned Paul Ryan being Speaker of the House 4 years ago. I was actually shocked. That was only 4 years ago? I’d damn near forgotten he ever existed.
Well, we already know he doesn’t trust those Mexican judges.
So-called judges.
Thanks for posting this. Reading some of these things gives me a bit more hope. I wish I had more hope that people from either side of the aisle would abandon him when it gets wacky, but absent that I hoped our system would be robust enough that built in circuit breakers would protect it.
It isn’t over yet of course.
FWIW:
Also FWIW: