Great NYT column from Mark Leibovich. … Continue reading
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NYT goes back to Hayes-Tilden. … Continue reading
The latest: JUST IN: Michigan Senate leader issues a readout of meeting with President Trump. pic.twitter.com/dwi3vGHj24— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 20, 2020 … Continue reading
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Rob Kelner: It is possible that today was the lowest point in the history of the Republican Party. So far. The Judiciary, on the other hand (Trump appointees included) is standing firm for the rule of law.— Robert Kelner (@robkelner) … Continue reading
CNN: A GOP Senate source told CNN that the combination of Giuliani’s news conference, as well as the President meddling in the Michigan election process, has some GOP senators reconsidering their silence. This source says most had hoped that Trump’s … Continue reading
National Review editorial: The Rudy Giuliani–led press conference at the RNC yesterday was the most outlandish and irresponsible performance ever by a group of lawyers representing a president of the United States.If Giuliani’s charge of a “national conspiracy” to produce … Continue reading
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy for the Brennan Center. … Continue reading
Detroit News: In a Thursday meeting punctuated by outbursts from attendees, a wheelbarrow full of letters and repeated calls to order, two county clerks recommended a raft of election changes during the first testimony taken in a legislative inquiry into … Continue reading
AJC: Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said “numbers don’t lie” as he plans to certify Georgia’s election results Friday that showed Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump.Biden was ahead of Trump by over 12,000 votes in both machine counts and a manual recount of … Continue reading
Politico: Another bid by an ally of President Donald Trump to overturn the results of this month’s election was roundly rejected in court on Thursday, as a federal judge appointed by Trump turned down a bid to block the certification … Continue reading
Yesterday Jenna Ellis of the Trump campaign (who had comically attacked me for noting that one of campaign’s proposed orders erred in signing a proposed order as if the judge had signed it) said at a press conference that the … Continue reading
CNN: President Donald Trump told an ally that he knows he lost, but that he is delaying the transition process and is aggressively trying to sow doubt about the election results in order to get back at Democrats for questioning the legitimacy … Continue reading
NYT: President Trump on Thursday accelerated his efforts to interfere in the nation’s electoral process, taking the extraordinary step of reaching out directly to Republican state legislators from Michigan and inviting them to the White House on Friday for discussions … Continue reading
New Josh Douglas for CNN: Yes, there is election fraud. It’s coming from inside the White House.President Donald Trump’s attempts to steal the election and win another term are exceedingly unlikely to work. But he is already succeeding in undermining key … Continue reading
Here’s the filing. Also pending is the motion to dismiss. Briefing ends Saturday and certification can come as early as Monday, so I expect a ruling on Saturday or Sunday. … Continue reading
Political Wire: “President Trump’s strategy for retaining power despite losing the U.S. election is focused increasingly on persuading Republican legislators to intervene on his behalf in battleground states Democrat Joe Biden won,” Reuters reports. “Having so far faced a string of losses … Continue reading
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Wow: That press conference was the most dangerous 1hr 45 minutes of television in American history. And possibly the craziest. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you’re lucky.— Chris Krebs (@C_C_Krebs) November 19, 2020 … Continue reading
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From this Jonathan Lai interview: Tell me about the state legislature’s role with regard to the rest of the process. There are a lot of people worried about some sort of overturning of results.The electors are selected by the winner … Continue reading
The Detroit News reports: The top two leaders in the Republican-controlled Michigan Legislature are expected to visit the White House Friday, according to a source with knowledge of the plans.The visits by Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake, and House Speaker … Continue reading
Tierney Sneed for TPM: The Census Bureau has identified issues in the data from the 2020 decennial census that will take an additional 20 days or so for it to fix, and thus delay the release of survey’s apportionment data … Continue reading
They got caught. As you’d expect. … Continue reading
Ned Foley in WaPo: If the losing party can’t accept defeat, the whole enterprise of electoral democracy is finished. Two-party competition means each party taking turns depending on what the voters want in any given election.President Trump himself will never … Continue reading
NYT: The prevailing view today is that courts should not invalidate election results because of problems unless it is shown that the problems were of such magnitude to negate the validity of which candidate prevailed,” said Edward B. Foley, director … Continue reading
Given all we heard about postal delays, that’s very good news. … Continue reading
Must-read: Joe Biden’s lead in the presidential election results in Pennsylvania has now surpassed 81,000 votes, far exceeding Donald Trump’s 44,000-vote victory margin there four years ago. Yet the Trump campaign continues to claim in court huge but incalculable levels … Continue reading
WaPo: President Trump has abandoned his plan to win reelection by disqualifying enough ballots to reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s wins in key battleground states, pivoting instead to a goal that appears equally unattainable: delaying a final count long enough to … Continue reading
WaPo Fact Checker. … Continue reading
AP: Getting nowhere in the courts, President Donald Trump’s scattershot effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory is shifting toward obscure election boards that certify the vote as Trump and his allies seek to upend the electoral process, sow chaos … Continue reading
Josh Gerstein for Politico: President Donald Trump’s campaign has filed yet another version of its lawsuit over the election results in Pennsylvania, now contending that he should be named the victor in the presidential contest there or that the state … Continue reading
NYT: President Trump’s false accusations that voter fraud denied him re-election are causing escalating confrontations in swing states across the country, leading to threats of violence against officials in both parties and subverting even the most routine steps in the … Continue reading
Reuters: About half of all Republicans believe President Donald Trump “rightfully won” the U.S. election but that it was stolen from him by widespread voter fraud that favored Democratic President-elect Joe Biden, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll.The Nov. … Continue reading
Axios: Tom Donohue — CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and longtime confidant of Republican presidents — tells Axios that Joe Biden is president-elect, and President Trump “should not delay the transition a moment longer.”…Business leaders are speaking with one … Continue reading
Axios: President Trump’s frantic post-election challenges are having the opposite effect of what he intended: He’s documenting his demise through a series of court fights and recounts showing Joe Biden’s victory to be all the more obvious and unassailable.Why it … Continue reading
Zach Montellaro for Politico. … Continue reading
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NJ: U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey on Wednesday put some distance between himself and President Donald Trump’s efforts to throw out hundreds of thousands of votes cast in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, trying to flip a state carried by Joe Biden.Asked at the U.S. Capitol about … Continue reading
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Lachlan Markay for the Daily Beast: The good news is that the nation’s top campaign finance watchdog may soon be functional again. The bad news is that its current chairman has gone off the rails.Trey Trainor may not be a … Continue reading
NYT: President Trump’s campaign said it would request a recount of votes in Wisconsin’s two largest and most Democratic counties, the latest effort to reverse the result of an election Mr. Trump lost to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.The Trump … Continue reading
NYT: Mayor Mike Duggan on Wednesday accused President Trump’s allies in Michigan’s most populous county of racism after they threatened to block certification of the election over slight discrepancies in majority-Black precincts — while ignoring similar problems in heavily white … Continue reading
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Hasen on Costa on Giuiliani: They are not going to be able to stop certification in any state, and certainly not in enough states.And then what? Face Nancy Pelosi's House? With electoral college slates coming from governors of Michigan, PA, … Continue reading
NBC First Read: Forget Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Or Trump’s impeachment for asking Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden.Arguably the biggest political scandal we’ve ever seen in this country is playing right before our eyes: President … Continue reading
NPR: Things did not go well Tuesday for the Trump campaign’s effort to stop certification of the Pennsylvania vote count — which has Joe Biden ahead by more than 73,000 votes.At almost the same time the president’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, … Continue reading
NYT: In 2016, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina praised the integrity of the nation’s elections system, criticizing claims by Donald J. Trump that the vote was “rigged.”“Like most Americans, I have confidence in our democracy and our election system,” … Continue reading
Josh Gerstein for Politico: Giuliani’s presence amped up the drama of the hearing and briefly displaced the predominant narrative that the president’s legal challenges have thus far been almost completely unsuccessful. However, it was less clear whether his presence would … Continue reading