The country finally throwing trump in the garbage where he belongs. GTFO clown.

Yeah, the initial shock that the Senate didn’t flip dazed me and I wasn’t able to appreciate this more. Kinda mad at myself for that.

This is big. This is a good first step back.

There’s clearly issues that we can discuss at another time but we should all appreciate this and be happy in the moment.

Even if Biden clinches 270, not over yet. Fairly important he takes either Penn or Georgia, just to get a bit of margin for error re faithless electors, and to hedge against court fuckery.

Never trust people with two first names.

Posted by bad_luck on 11/4/2020 10:06:00 AM (view original):
The country finally throwing trump in the garbage where he belongs. GTFO clown.

BL!

Trump spent the last push of the campaign downplaying the severity of the coronavirus pandemic and dismissing concerns about it as politically motivated, while his surrogates have made claims that the coronavirus pandemic would disappear once it was no longer a politically useful tool to drive votes to Democrats and stop his rallies. So it’s worth pointing out that the pandemic has not stopped in its tracks since the votes have been cast. In fact, yesterday turns out to have been a new high in daily new cases with 100,000 people diagnosed. This is a big deal because it’s indicative of the ongoing surge in cases that America is experiencing right now, with many of the hotspots centered in rural counties where the president has had a large following. It’s both a shift in how many people are getting COVID-19 and where they are getting it. So far, thankfully, daily deaths appear to not be rising in the same way. (Although 1,280 Americans died from COVID-19 on Election Day, according to the nonprofit federal data aggregator USA Facts.) There are multiple reasons for why that is, though, and it’s something we’ll be returning to in the next few weeks.

The president has been tweeting more this morning about wanting to “stop” the (legitimate, of course) vote count. Apparently, what Trump means, according to his campaign, is that they want to stop the count until the Trump campaign can monitor it (again, as we’ve said before, there is no proof of fraud.) The specific rules for partisans observing the vote-counting process vary from state to state and the National Council of State Legislatures has a handy guide for those rules. But take for instance, Pennsylvania, which is a pretty big prize today. “Partisan observers are permitted to be present when absentee and mail-in ballot envelopes are opened, and when the ballots are counted and recorded,” the NCSL writes. In Arizona, “Partisan observers are authorized to observe processing at the county recorder’s office.” In Nevada, “Members of the general public may observe the preparation of absentee ballots at central counting boards.” So, it’s unclear why the Trump campaign would argue that these vote counts would need to be stopped so they can observe them; they’re already allowed to observe.

https://mobile.twitter.com/NeolibPhilly/status/1324350030891896841

PA could have the vote counted by now if Benninghoff hadn’t blocked a bill to let them start counting mail in votes, like FL does. But nope, he helped allow this predictable delay and now of course...he blames democrats. It’s just ridiculous.