Thread: 2020 US Presidential Race

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

And Barr just resigned

He's afraid of losing credibility by being associated with Trump? A bit late . . .

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

His hope is that these alternate electoral votes, cast for Mr Trump instead of Mr Biden, will eventually be counted by Congress on January 6.
The problem here is that the Republicans don’t actually have valid votes to cast, because they’re not actual electors

Hope in one hand and shit in the other. See which one fills up asshole.
Give it up the party is over.

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

And Barr just resigned

Announced minutes after electoral votes confirmed Biden the winner. Barr's resignation announcement was a string of praises on Trump's great accomplishments over the last 4 years. What a crock of shit!

Pushed out.

Trump wants to time it to take airtime away from Biden.

Trump also wants to be able to say, in 2024 "I did everything I could to stop the steal".

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

Electoral college votes live updates

Wondering what for to have the 2 years comedy and the population voting when having the "electors"? (or are they "selectors"?)

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Wondering what for to have the 2 years comedy and the population voting when having the "electors"? (or are they "selectors"?)

Showing your thickness and just being stubborn. You know exactly how the electoral college works. If you dont then replace thickness with stupidity as it has been explained numerous times on here. Most likely in this very thread.

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Wondering what for to have the 2 years comedy and the population voting when having the "electors"? (or are they "selectors"?)

Originally Posted by aging one

Showing your thickness and just being stubborn. You know exactly how the electoral college works. If you dont then replace thickness with stupidity as it has been explained numerous times on here. Most likely in this very thread.

Loondyke wears his stupidity as a badge of honour

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

“An alternate slate of electors in the contested states is going to vote and we are going to send those results to Congress,” Mr Miller said.
“You have an alternate slate of electors in a state like, say, Wisconsin. Or in a state like Georgia. And we’ll make sure that those results are sent up side-by-side to Congress.

Shouldn't they be sending them to an alternate Congress?

Originally Posted by aging one

Showing your thickness and just being stubborn. You know exactly how the electoral college works. If you dont then replace thickness with stupidity as it has been explained numerous times on here. Most likely in this very thread.

I don't know why you even bother responding to the plank.

That's going to irritate the orange shitgibbon , especially as he can't fire him.

His press secretary is still on brand, claiming there’s still legal suits and the electoral college vote is just one step in the process...

Originally Posted by Cujo

That's going to irritate the orange shitgibbon , especially as he can't fire him.

Can't fire him directly but Trump is amassing a huge "campaign fund". A fund the vindictive kunt can use to support opponents of any "RINO" next election.

So both Putin and McConnell acknowledged Joe Biden as president-elect... Which one does Trump start attacking.

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

His press secretary is still on brand, claiming there’s still legal suits and the electoral college vote is just one step in the process...

She's just staying in his good books angling for a job after this is all over I reckon.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Which one does Trump start attacking.

Clearly McConnell as Putin has the dirt on him.

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

And the idiots do, many of them don't have money to eat, they are taking food from the mouth of their children.
and are sending it to trump, 'cause his golden escalator needs a new coat of gold
trump is going to milk this to the last drop, he is not leaving any money on the table. What's the down side for him? Why should he?

Perhaps, before insinuating such statement (originating from TD demagogues), you better look on some official figures: (and this is 4 months old, today is talk about 1 B coming from strange sources)

How Joe Biden is spending his huge fundraising haul
Democratic candidate has significant cash advantage over Donald Trump in final stretch of US poll race

Joe Biden is on a spending spree: a 60-second World Series television spot narrated by the actor Sam Elliott; a quarter-of-a-million-dollar Amtrak train lease for a six-city campaign tour through Ohio and Pennsylvania; an almost $4m TV advertising campaign in Texas.

The Democratic presidential candidate can afford such splurges thanks to the fundraising prowess of his campaign, which pulled in $493.8m over the past two months, breaking records and bringing his total haul for 2020 to $761.2m.

Now, with less than two weeks until election day, the Biden campaign has a final task: spending it all. “The goal is to be at zero by election day,” said a person close to the campaign.

Mr Biden’s historic fundraising total could give him an edge in the closing days of the race against President Donald Trump, who is running low on cash. But it does not guarantee success: Hillary Clinton also outraised Mr Trump significantly, but went on to lose in 2016.

Still, Mr Biden’s ability to raise money is remarkable, even by the standards of recent elections when candidates pulled in enormous sums. Although the campaign and the Democratic party have raised hundreds of millions of dollars from wealthy donors, the vast majority in recent weeks has come from grassroots contributors — many of whom donated to the campaign in August and September for the first time.

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Moreover, the pandemic has handed the Biden campaign cost savings that were not available to previous candidates, who had to spend huge amounts on travel and accommodation as they toured the US.

For instance, Mr Biden’s campaign spent $4.8m on travel this year, with $3m going to private jet transport in August and September, significantly lower than the Clinton campaign, which spent $12.5m on travel in the first three quarters of 2016.

Mr Trump’s campaign has spent even less on travel, just $3.2m this year, although that does not include the considerable cost of reimbursing the federal government for the use of Air Force One, the presidential plane, for campaign stops.

Savings on expenses has freed up money for Mr Biden’s campaign, and it has spent the vast majority of it on one thing: advertisements.

Of the $592.9m the Biden campaign has spent this year, almost 84 per cent has gone to paid advertising, according to an FT analysis of Federal Election Commission data. Just 0.6 per cent has gone to travel and 0.3 per cent has gone to event production.

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I won't post the whole thing, but there is an interesting article here about how these Republican retards will keep this fucking nonsense going as long as they can.

Trump’s Coup Attempt Isn’t Over | The New Yorker

Former Houston police captain charged with pointing gun at air-conditioner repairman, believing he was a voter fraud 'mastermind'

A former police captain who was part of a private citizens group investigating still unsubstantiated 2020 election fraud claims was charged Tuesday with running a man off the road and pointing a gun to his head two weeks before the election, the Harris County district attorney said in a statement.Prosecutors say former Houston Police captain Mark Anthony Aguirre said he believed the man was transporting fraudulent ballots.

"I believe it's a political prosecution," Terry Yates, Aguirre's attorney, told CNN affiliate KTRK.

Prosecutors say Aguirre was paid over a quarter million dollars by a private group called "Liberty Center for God and Country" to investigate alleged ballot schemes in the Houston area.

Jared Woodfill, the center's president, told CNN the group and Republican activist Steve Hotze hired a private firm that included "Aguirre, a former FBI investigator and about 20 investigators that investigated reports of voter fraud," reports that were sent to Hotze. The Republican activist was also one of the plaintiffs who filed a petition prior to Election Day seeking to invalidate 127,000 ballots cast in drive-thru early voting. A federal judge rejected that request.

CNN has reached out to Hotze for comment.

According to the district attorney's news release, Aguirre, 63, told authorities he had conducted surveillance for four days on an unidentified man driving a truck that he suspected had 750,000 fraudulent ballots inside. The release said Aguirre believed the man was "the mastermind of a giant (voter) fraud."

Instead, prosecutors say the victim was an "innocent and ordinary" air-conditioner repairman.

"Aguirre ran his SUV into the back of the truck to get the technician to stop and get out," the news release said, describing the October 19 incident. "When the technician got out of the truck, Aguirre, pointed a handgun at the technician, forced him to the ground and put his knee on the man's back -- an image captured on the body-worn camera of a police officer."

Responding authorities found no ballots inside the vehicle, only air conditioner parts and tools, prosecutors said.

After an investigation, Houston police said they found the allegations of election fraud "unfounded" and referred the case to the district attorney's office.

Aguirre had been paid more than $260,000 by the "Liberty Center" group, prosecutors alleged, and received about $211,400 the day following the incident.

He was arrested Tuesday and is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison, prosecutors said. He is currently at a Harris County jail facility with bond set at $30,000.

"He crossed the line from dirty politics to commission of a violent crime and we are lucky no one was killed," Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said in a statement. "His alleged investigation was backward from the start -- first alleging a crime had occurred and then trying to prove it happened."

Yates, Aguirre's attorney, told CNN affiliate KTRK, "He was working and investigating voter fraud, there was an accident. ... A member of the car got out and rushed toward him and that's where the confrontation took place. It's very different than what you're citing in the affidavit."

The statement from prosecutors about Aguirre's arrest came one day after the Electoral College voted to affirm Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States.

Despite the announcement of election results by media outlets and government officials, outgoing President Donald Trump has continued to claim that widespread voter fraud occurred during the 2020 election, and has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for a purported legal defense fund, despite official certifications that former Vice President Joe Biden won the presidential election.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/16/us/fo...ent/index.html

^ Beat me to it. That is one crazy story!

I would also sue the "Liberty Center for God and Country" since he was their paid agent,and the incident occurred while in their employ . Also sue the "Liberty Center for God and Country" for failing to include in their name, "Mother" "Apple pie" "Chevy " and the 4th of July!!

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

"Liberty Center for God and Country"

These treasonous scumbags need to be held accountable.

Originally Posted by bsnub

These treasonous scumbags need to be held accountable.

I agree!! part of his sentence should be that he would have to sit in a room and for a week listen Noam Chomsky lectures , Then thrown in a prison cell with a TV that only toons on MSNBC, and Amy Goodman's Democracy now .

Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai

I agree!! part of his sentence should be that he would have to sit in a room and for a week listen Noam Chomsky lectures

If only these clowns had the brain cells. 70 million Americans suffer from Dunning-Kruger