I think he wants to hold pillows over the faces of some Biden voters.
I’ve got a plan, see? It’s brilliant! I’ll polarize my customer base, then receive business from the people who support that side!
Oh, and you chose the side with fewer voters! Brilliant!
How would this work, tho? it’s not like they can limit this type of hijinx to just Republican-controlled areas, it would apply to Democratic-controlled areas as well, and could work against them the next time a Republican wins. I agree with @flurb they will simply go to their Voter Suppression playbook to get the desired election results.
That’s what happened with several states in the 1876 election, when Congress appointed an Electoral Commission to hash things out. Obviously a very different situation from today.
My MAGA friend on Facebook just posted a quote supposedly from Trump, that says “We will never ever surrender!..We are one movement, one people, one family and one glorious nation under GOD!”
That sounded so much like Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer that I thought it had to be fake.
We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause.
It’s old:
The fact that Trump fired the director of cyber-security for having the temerity to disagree with the Trump “facts”, and is calling for the names of the Senators who say he won the election, is just one more example of facsism at work. You must always agree with Der Fuehrer, particularly when we have always been at war with Eastasia, and those who do not provide whole-hearted support must be named and punished for not clapping enough.
No, they’ll change the laws so that they can ignore all those “fake” ballots (wink wink), and ignore those pesky voters who voted for the “wrong” party. And then appoint electors for the “right” party.
I expect that many of them will try various selective voter suppression techniques (as they’re already doing). But laws that say straight out, or even that carefully say in effect, that the legislature can decide which votes are valid based on who they were cast for, I don’t think would wash.
Bad news:
Pennsylvania has an astonishing 203 state representatives, of which 113 are Republicans. 64 of these Republicans (so more than half of the Republicans) support overturning the slate of Democratic electors and essentially proclaiming that Donald Trump won their state. That is not half of the representatives in total, so no danger, but I’m worried that more than half of Pennsylvania’s elected Republicans would support such an anti-democratic stance.
Funnier news:
She was such a well of credibility and computer skill. (Being sarcastic here.)
It’s been about a week since prominent Republicans started calling for martial law and so far as I am aware, no other well known Republicans have expressed any opposition to the idea.
Wonder if everybody he’s been in contact with in the past week will go into quarantine?
Proving yet again that insanity is not a valid defense.
I read the tweet. Trump didn’t say Guiliani tested positive “for the coronavirus”. That’s a paraphrase right there.
They don’t use that phrase in their own lead, but they do quote Trump’s tweet in the article.
My conspiracy theory:
Given that states like Georgia are run by Republicans, could Trump be right that the election was rigged? And that the “They…” are the GOP? “They” want Trump out, but want his support. This would explain the split-ticket voting and some other behaviour of the GOP. And it’s all run by the Lincoln Project.
Sorry, it was late and I wasn’t clear what I meant. They won’t change their laws to having the legislature be the only way to choose electors. They will just make that an option in case of “disputed” elections, with a lot of caveats and wiggle room about what “disputed” means. I agree that doing so would be a terrible idea but we are talking about Republicans. I’m not so sure Kemp wouldn’t have been relieved having that as a legal out.
No. Voting in the United States is a radically decentralized endeavor. Not just among 50 states, but among 3,143 counties, parishes and other subdivisions that largely conduct their own vote count. This is why fraud on the scale Trump is alleging is just not feasible – it would require such a massive conspiracy among hundreds or thousands of election officials that it’s impossible that you could pull it off without generating tons of evidence.
What I don’t understand is how Georgians are letting a damn Yankee like Trump come down to their state and call them a bunch of cheaters. I thought the South had some pride.