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Trump campaign wins legal battle in Pennsylvania to oversee vote counting

Mike Brest
Washington Examiner
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 11:56 UTC
President Trump
© AFPUS President Donald Trump
President Trump's legal team won a battle in Pennsylvania that will grant them closer access to vote counting in the state.

On Thursday, appellate Judge Christine Fizzano Cannon overturned a previous ruling that will allow them more access to watch those who are counting ballots in the vital swing state.

The judge's order demands that Philadelphia election officials allow:
"all candidates, watchers, or candidate representatives be permitted to be present for the canvassing process ... and be permitted to observe all aspects of the canvassing process within 6 feet, while adhering to all COVID-19 protocols, including, wearing masks and maintaining social distancing."
The Trump campaign declared the decision "a major victory for election integrity [and] election transparency," which came after they filed a lawsuit to stop the vote tallying until they were granted "meaningful access" to oversee the counting. The campaign filed a similar suit in Michigan, filed a separate lawsuit in Georgia, and plans to demand a recount in Wisconsin.

Comment: Not awaiting a legal and transparent voter count, Dems are hellbent in calling Pennsylvania for Biden:
As counting resumed on Wednesday, Trump's lead was a comfortable 400,000 votes. Dumps of mail-in ballots in Philadelphia since whittled that lead away.
Biden overtook Trump in the Keystone State on Friday morning, and is currently more than 5,500 votes ahead of Donald Trump. Though counting is still in progress, Decision Desk HQ, whose statistics are used by a number of news organizations, called the race to the White House for Biden, with Pennsylvania's 20 Electoral College votes bumping the former vice president above the 270 needed to win.


Though Biden is on the cusp of taking the White House, more than 135,000 votes remain outstanding in Pennsylvania, according to election officials there.

Once Pennsylvania is officially called for Biden, Trump's path to reelection all but closes. The president would need to win Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina, and rely on a recount or court intervention elsewhere.
As expected, Biden has effected a lead over Trump in Georgia as well:
The Democrat secured a 917-vote lead in the early hours of Friday after Clayton County, which is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area, posted new results. That figure later grew to 1,097 after another batch of results was announced.

Ninety-nine percent of the ballots in the state have been counted. It's believed that there are also military absentee ballots that still need to be tabulated. Georgia has not voted blue since 1992, when Bill Clinton took the state.

Georgia law allows for a recount if the difference between both candidates is within half a percentage point.
Joe Biden pulled ahead of Donald Trump in Georgia by just over 1,000 votes on Friday morning, with more than 99 percent of ballots accounted for.

The Trump campaign said "we are confident we will find ballots improperly harvested."


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Democrats already blame each other for failed house races and Republican gains

Mike LaChance
American Lookout
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
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© Unknown/KJNHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi
The Democrats have kept control of the House of Representatives, but no one's popping any champagne.

It will be a smaller, louder, and perhaps more ideologically volatile majority than what Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has led over the last two years. And it could be full of political tripwires for her — and for a possible President Joe Biden — if they're in the position of governing while Republicans retain their grip on the Senate.

A slew of moderate lawmakers, whose wins in the 2018 midterms handed the gavel again to Pelosi, have lost or are on track to lose their seats. Meanwhile, several establishment Democrats are set to be replaced by staunch progressives, shifting Democrats' political center of gravity further left in the lower chamber of Congress.

Democrats came into Tuesday optimistic that the party would actually expand its House majority by picking off GOP-held seats in suburbs and rural areas, which would have preserved the centrist wing's powerful sway in the caucus. Those hopes have evaporated.

This, in short, was not the flock Pelosi was expecting.

Comment: It would not be far-fetched to entertain the notion the House is set to implode. Republicans have gained position while Dems have atrophied.
Have you noticed that you don't hear a lot of Democrats cheering about the election? There's a good reason for that.

First, it's looking like Republicans will retain control in the Senate.
Second, the Democrats failed to make any significant gains in the House, but Republicans did.

And now the blame is already flying.

Politico reports: 'Dumpster fire': House Democrats trade blame after Tuesday's damage
House Democrats are asking themselves one question after Tuesday's election stunner: What the hell happened?

In the House, bleary-eyed Democrats were still sorting out the wreckage when they awoke Wednesday with dozens of their members' races still uncalled and not a single GOP incumbent ousted — an outcome that virtually no one in the party had predicted in a year in which Democrats were going on the offense deep in Trump country.

Even with tens of thousands of ballots still to be counted, shell-shocked Democratic lawmakers, strategists and aides privately began trying to pin the blame:
The unreliable polls.
The GOP's law-and-order message amid a summer of unrest.
The "hidden Trump voters."
The impeachment hangover.
The lack of a coronavirus stimulus deal.
Some corners of the party were also beginning to question the message and tactics at the top, with several Democrats predicting — and some even demanding — a significant overhaul within the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, including possibly even ousting chairwoman Cheri Bustos, whose Illinois race has yet to be called.

Republicans not only gained seats, they won with women candidates.
There's even a slight chance that Republicans will end up the majority.
If the Dems manage to subvert their way to a presidential win, they have already ham-strung their ability to legislate. Thus, Americans must prep for four years of volatile controversy and road-blocking that foreshadow yet a deeper level of government corruption, chaos and ineptitude. Ah, the plan behind the plan, behind the plan! Someone, somewhere, is popping the champagne. Without Trump to blame for everything, the honors go directly to Pelosi.

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Best of the Web: Trump says 'if you count the legal votes, I easily win', accuses media & big tech of election interference


RT
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 23:58 UTC
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© Reuters/Carlos BarriaUS President Donald Trump addresses reporters on the election results
Bradley Press Briefing Room, White House • November 5, 2020
US President Donald Trump has called for defense of the integrity of the election, as key states are still counting votes that could determine the outcome. The race is still too close to call, according to US media. Trump said at the White House on Thursday evening:
"I've decisively won many critical states, including massive victories in Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, to name just a few. We've made these and many other victories despite election interference from Big Media, Big Money and Big Tech."
In a press conference where he didn't take any questions, Trump accused the media of "knowingly" circulating what he called "suppression polls" where he was trailing his Democratic challenger Joe Biden.

He referred to the polling by the Washington Post, Quinnipiac and others that was purposely skewed to falsely make Democrat rival Joe Biden appear to have a large lead to suppress Republican voter turnout.

He then claimed that the alleged count irregularities might cost his campaign what otherwise would have been a certain election victory.
"If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try and steal the election from us.

"It's going to end up, perhaps, at the highest court in the land. We'll see."

Comment: It may very well become the task of the Supreme Court to sort the legalities and pronounce the winner. The media is not the determiner of elections, nor has it the authority to name a victor.

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Donald Trump declares election fraud: 'If you count the legal votes I win.' He's right.

Charlie Spiering
Breitbart
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 00:00 UTC
Trump
© AP/Evan VucciUS President Donald Trump
President Donald Trump promised Thursday to level significant legal action to challenge elections in important swing states after watching his margin of victory whittled away by late-counted ballots for Vice President Joe Biden.
"We think there's going to be a lot of litigation because we have so much evidence, so much proof, it's going to end up perhaps at the highest court in the land, you'll see. We think there'll be a lot of litigation, because we cannot have an election stolen like this."
The president spoke to reporters at the White House press briefing, demanded transparency in the process, and casting doubt on the Democrat-run voting systems.
"We want every legal vote counted, and I want every legal vote counted. We want openness and transparency - no secret count rooms, no mystery ballots, no illegal votes being cast after Election Day."
The president said he correctly predicted that mail-in ballots opened the election up to fraud and that they would challenge the results.
"Democrat officials never believed they could win this election honestly. I really believe that that's why they did the mail-in ballots, where there is tremendous corruption and fraud going on. If you count the legal votes, I easily win. If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us."

Comment: Frontman for corruption and a consummate liar, Biden says there is 'no doubt' he has won the presidency, calling the system the 'envy of the world':
"We have no doubt that when the count is finished, Senator [Kamala] Harris and I will be declared the winners. So, I ask everyone to stay calm, all people to stay calm. The process is working, the count is being completed, we'll know very soon."

"Democracy is sometimes messy. It sometimes requires a little patience as well. But that patience has been rewarded now for more than 240 years with a system of governance that has been the envy of the world."

Biden's post-election approach has been in line with an Axios report Tuesday that said he would assert control and behave as the president-elect as soon as media outlets report him to be the winner. The race was too close to declare full victory on Tuesday, but with more states being put into his win column since then, he's portraying even greater confidence.



The election, as conducted, is a sham. We shall see if investigation and justice are allowed to be the priority and adjudicator. If Biden is so confident, he will sign on to this process. If not, it speaks volumes.

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Former WH strategist Steve Bannon: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey should be arrested for censoring Trump's tweets


RT
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 20:10 UTC
Dorsey
© Reuters/Greg NashCEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey • Senate Hearing October 28, 2020
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon says the president has had an "overwhelming" reelection victory, adding that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey should be "arrested" for censoring Trump's tweets on potential voter fraud.

"They're taking down the president of the United States," Bannon said on one of the latest episodes of his podcast 'War Room: Pandemic', with the fate of the election still unknown.

The former Breitbart CEO went on to say Dorsey is interfering with the election by censoring tweets from the president alleging voter fraud as "misleading."
"If the president of the United States does not call Bill Barr now, today, this moment ... and send US marshals out to San Francisco and arrest Jack Dorsey today - I said it on Vice the other day and that interview was from two weeks ago. I knew this moment was going to come. When some punk like Jack Dorsey is going to take down and suppress the free speech of the commander-in-chief."
Bannon added that "every piece of equipment" at Twitter's headquarters should be "seized" because Dorsey is "calling it for one side."

Comment: See also:

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Terminal TDS: NYT pilloried for 'conspiracy theory' op-ed claiming Trump's Twitter typos are strategic 'code' messages


RT
Fri, 06 Nov 2020 20:03 UTC
New York Times building
© AFP/File photo
The New York Times has been mocked online for an opinion piece claiming President Trump's Twitter typos are deliberate, suggesting that he is sending "strategic" messages to his "network of right-wing operatives and activists."

In the editorial penned by Harvard alumna Emily Dreyfuss, the author alleges that the president is deliberately misspelling words and hashtags to circumvent attempted censorship by Twitter.


"One of Trump's tweets looked like it had a typo. In fact, it was probably code to his most extreme supporters," the article reads.

Dreyfuss singles out Trump's cryptic deployment of the hashtag '#BidenCrimeFamiily' before describing the now-popular tactic of #typosquatting, "often used by trolls and media manipulators to get around the rules of social media platforms," apparently unravelling the very thesis upon which the article, or at least its headline, was based.

Comment: These people are literally hallucinating. They have been for the past 4 years.

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News broadcasters cut away from Trump's election fraud speech, igniting social media row: 'It's not your job'


RT
Fri, 06 Nov 2020 18:49 UTC
trrump press conference election fraud
© REUTERS/Carlos Barria‘It’s not your job’: Debate sparked on ‘unbiased’ journalism after news broadcasters cut away from Trump’s election fraud speech
US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, November 5, 2020.
A fierce debate about the role of journalism has emerged on the internet, after multiple media outlets cut away from a live address in which US President Donald Trump leveled allegations of voter fraud.

In an unprecedented move, MSNBC, NBC News, CNBC, CBS News, ABC News, and even publicly funded NPR, cut their feed from the White House as Trump began to speak about alleged voting irregularities during the 2020 contest. Among the major broadcasters, only Fox and CNN chose to air the full speech. A CNN chyron shown during his speech read: "Without any evidence, Trump says he's being cheated."

Comment: What a bunch of smarmy, self-righteous toadies. Ministry of Truth indeed.

President Trump's remarks on the blatant election fraud, in full:



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Putin has Parkinsons? Western media goes into frenzy over claims of notorious Russian conspiracy theorist


RT
Fri, 06 Nov 2020 13:58 UTC
Putin
© Sputnik / Alexey DruzhininRussian President Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin is poised to step back from the Russian presidency after being diagnosed with a neurological condition. That's according to a Moscow commentator who once claimed membership of a shadowy, secret intelligence group.

The explosive suggestion, made by political scientist Valery Solovey, was covered widely in US and UK news on Friday. Outlets including the Sun, the Daily Mail and the New York Post ran the story that Putin has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. The tabloids, among the most read in the West, suggested that the president would stand down next year.

Solovey has become a regular commentator in the anglophone media, particularly after stepping down from his role as Chair of the Public Relations Department at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO). He argued he had been pushed out, apparently "for political reasons." The gabby conspiracy theorist is beloved of British and American hacks in Moscow as he will pretty much say anything to suit their agendas.

Comment: Putin continues to fend off the most vicious attacks by Western governments of any leader in recent history, if he had Parkinsons then it would say more about the incompetence of the West than anything else.

It's notable that at this very moment some of those involved in promoting this fake news are also doing their utmost to help steal the US presidency from Trump and push Biden, who's clearly suffering from something akin to senile dementia, into the White House:





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Government slammed by experts for repeated failings on data used for lockdown

Will Jones
Lockdown Sceptics
Fri, 06 Nov 2020 18:38 UTC
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Professor Carl Heneghan from the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine
Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson from the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine have penned a searing piece in the Telegraph excoriating the Government's abysmal failures in presenting clear, honest, reliable data to justify its decisions.
The data failures in this pandemic have been considerable: continually they have overestimated the numbers going to die, mis-categorised COVID-19 deaths, exaggerated the impact on hospitals, and missed some 16,000 cases because of an Excel blunder.

Perhaps even worse, these failings do not come to light because of Government transparency - but rather when painstaking analysis, eagle eyes, and sometimes even the simplest of questions are enough to expose major faults.
Tellingly, the errors and misrepresentations only ever skew in one direction.
This week has seen death estimates invalidated; statements on case numbers from the chief medical officer to the Science Technology committee requiring "clarification to avoid any misinterpretation"; and significant errors in medium term projections that seemingly do not affect interpretations.

To understand and interpret the current Covid-19 data is proving nigh on impossible. The publication and presentation of data is confusing, and at times it is unsound.

The methods and data underlying the models used to generate "scenarios based on assumptions" are inscrutable and decisions taken on their basis are unaccountable. While the fog of a pandemic - with events taking place in real time - can justify or at least excuse some of these mistakes, nothing can justify the lack of transparency and humility.

Former Prime Minister Theresa May stated this week that: "For many people, it looks as if the figures are chosen to support the policy rather than the policy being based on the figures."

The growing number of errors seem to occur in only one direction (the worst case scenario) which underpins the point.
Worth reading in full.

Comment: Along with the Telegraph and Spectator, the Daily Mail has been one of the only UK sources providing anything close to sanity when it comes to Covid. The data may not be transparent, but the lies and manipulations have been transparently absurd.

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"What a spectacle...Grab your popcorn!" Iran & Russia mock US election impasse


Zero Hedge
Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:06 UTC
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© AP
America's rivals and enemies are attempting to make the most of this unprecedented election impasse still unfolding.

On Wednesday, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei mocked Trump's comments as well as those of Republican allies claiming "fraudulent" activity and that the election is being "stolen" from him. In the same statement he also took a swipe at Biden.

"What a spectacle!" Khamenei tweeted ."One says this is the most fraudulent election in US history. Who says that? The president who is currently in office. His rival says Trump intends to rig the election!"

Previously Foreign Minister Javad Zarif outright stated that many in the Islamic Republic's government preferred a Biden win, given the Democratic candidate has vowed to ease sanction as a path to returning the US to the 2015 Obama-brokered nuclear deal (JCPOA).

However, hardliners have said a Biden victory will make no difference and that Washington has already demonstrated it can't be trusted no matter who is in power.


Comment: German Foreign Minister Maas had this to say:
"What is happening in America does not quite correspond to the democratic culture we know from the United States," Maas tweeted on Thursday. "It is important that the result is then accepted by everyone. It's easy to be a winner, but sometimes it's hard to be a loser."
Ouch.

Meanwhile, the U.S. is lecturing Cte d'Ivoire on its own election.



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