AP: Fraud claims aimed in part at keeping Trump base loyal.

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All you liberal Parlor dwellers have a mission now! :wink:
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Donald Trump Jr. aides launch super PAC as Georgia worries mount - POLITICO

Donald Trump Jr. aides launch super PAC as Georgia worries mount
The president's son stars in a new ad campaign as Republicans worry Trump's voter fraud accusations will depress GOP turnout in the Senate runoffs.

Advisers to Donald Trump Jr. are launching a super PAC to prod the president’s supporters to vote in the upcoming Georgia Senate runoffs, as Republicans grow concerned that Trump’s backers will boycott the elections.

The group, Save the U.S. Senate PAC, will this week start airing commercials featuring Trump Jr. that are aimed at mobilizing Trump backers across Georgia. A person familiar with the plans said it would be the first in a series of commercials spotlighting Donald Trump Jr. ahead of the of the Jan. 5 vote, which will decide control of the Senate.
The super PAC will air its ads only on conservative radio and TV stations to reach Trump loyalists. The organization is investing six figures to run the first ads on radio stations statewide, and later this week it will begin cutting TV and digital commercials with the younger Trump.

Senior Republicans are alarmed that Donald Trump’s accusations of widespread voter fraud in Georgia and elsewhere, which he has not substantiated, will have the unintended side effect of discouraging his voters from turning out in the runoffs.

The idea of a boycott has recently caught fire online, where Trump supporters have accused Georgia’s Republican senators up for election, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, of not doing enough to intervene in the state’s ballot counting. Hashtags like #CrookedKelly and #CrookedPerdue have begun to pop up on social media, and some Trump backers have called for voters to write in the president’s name.

Trump’s conspiracies have MAGA world talking Georgia boycott

Super PAC organizers hope to extinguish such talk.

“There is a critical role that must be played in both Georgia Senate runoffs: turning out the Trump vote. We know from past midterms and special elections that the Trump voter is not guaranteed to every Republican candidate, which is why it’s vital to directly engage these voters and not take them for granted,” said Andy Surabian, a Donald Trump Jr. adviser who is helping to steer the new super PAC.

“To that end, we are launching an aggressive campaign in support of the two Republican candidates, focused on energizing and turning out Trump supporters, using television, radio and digital ads featuring Donald Trump Jr.,” Surabian added.

With just a little over a month until the runoffs, party leaders are racing to address the problem. During a Saturday appearance in Marietta, Ga., Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel got into a back-and-forth with Trump supporters who told her they saw little reason to vote in January because in their view the races had already been “decided” in the Democrats’ favor.
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If the media can know this shit, so can the FBI and DOJ, they fucked with democracy itself.
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'Michigan Wasn't Close': Inside The Voter Fraud Scandal | Morning Joe | MSNBC

Politico's Tim Alberta writes about Michigan's 'fake voter fraud 'scandal' and how the state became a national embarrassment.
 
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Steve Inskeep: Will Trump Remain In The Popular Imagination? | Morning Joe | MSNBC

NPR's Steve Inskeep looks at if President Trump will 'sustain a place in the popular imagination' once his presidency is over.
 
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I tried to listen to that yesterday and made it three minutes into Trump's diatribe. This time it was less than two minutes.

His angry tone and invective triggers me. Add in the lies and I simply have to look away. Trump and his Republican Party are American Ugly to the bone.
 
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I tried to listen to that yesterday and made it three minutes into Trump's diatribe. This time it was less than two minutes.

His angry tone and invective triggers me. Add in the lies and the enabling words from that woman and I simply have to look away. It's American Ugly to the bone.
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I am so happy that outside of the damage he does in the next month and a half what he has to say stops mattering to actual American government policy.
 
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hanimmal said:
I am so happy that outside of the damage he does in the next month and a half what he has to say stops mattering to actual American government policy.
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He can help get some of his wingnuts elected into the Senate so, his ability to do more harm is not unconstrained. I don't know how much damage he's doing right now inside of our government. His lackeys have no oversight right now.

At this moment, Trump has 50 days, 8 hours and 53 minutes to wreak his revenge upon us for not being grateful to his highness.

But, yeah, outside of the US, Trump already has no influence.
 
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He can help get some of his wingnuts elected into the Senate so, his ability to do more harm is not unconstrained. I don't know how much damage he's doing right now inside of our government. His lackeys have no oversight right now.

At this moment, Trump has 50 days, 8 hours and 53 minutes to wreak his revenge upon us for not being grateful to his highness.

But, yeah, outside of the US, Trump already has no influence.
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I have hope that individual 1 influence over politics falls apart when he no longer has his trolls in the executive branch.

The next 50 days is very nerve-racking.
 
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We ain't joking Rudy, but you are one, a sad one.
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Rudy Giuliani Says Goo Dripping From His Head Were 'Brains,' Used 'Rag' to Stuff It Back (newsweek.com)

Rudy Giuliani Says Goo Dripping From His Head Were 'Brains,' Used 'Rag' to Stuff It Back

President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani jokingly addressed the dark brown goo running from his hairline to his jaw during a recent press conference, saying they were "brains" and he used a "rag" to stuff it back into his skull.

On November 19, Giuliani spoke to reporters from the headquarters of the Republican National Committee in Washington about the Trump campaign's lawsuits alleging widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. As Giuliani pushed unverified claims of a rigged election, members of the press began to notice that his sweat started to drop in color.

The stream of dark liquid on Giuliani's face became hard to ignore toward the end of his statement, and media outlets quickly began sharing articles on exactly what the substance could have been
 
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We ain't joking Rudy, but you are one, a sad one.
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Rudy Giuliani Says Goo Dripping From His Head Were 'Brains,' Used 'Rag' to Stuff It Back (newsweek.com)

Rudy Giuliani Says Goo Dripping From His Head Were 'Brains,' Used 'Rag' to Stuff It Back

President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani jokingly addressed the dark brown goo running from his hairline to his jaw during a recent press conference, saying they were "brains" and he used a "rag" to stuff it back into his skull.

On November 19, Giuliani spoke to reporters from the headquarters of the Republican National Committee in Washington about the Trump campaign's lawsuits alleging widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. As Giuliani pushed unverified claims of a rigged election, members of the press began to notice that his sweat started to drop in color.

The stream of dark liquid on Giuliani's face became hard to ignore toward the end of his statement, and media outlets quickly began sharing articles on exactly what the substance could have been
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After Inauguration Day, he and Individual 1 can take their routine on the road. Beware, Redneck Comedy Tour! You gots you some compytishen.
 
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I am curious if they are all hoping to get a pardon from Trump.

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-lawsuits-elections-fe784086a81497dcfe38f0eb5bffd36d
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HOUSTON (AP) — The Texas lawsuit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden’s victory has quickly become a conservative litmus test, as 106 members of Congress and multiple state attorneys general signed onto the case even as some have predicted it will fail.

The last-gasp bid to subvert the results of the Nov. 3 election is demonstrating President Donald Trump’s enduring political power even as his term is set to end. And even though most of the signatories are far-right conservatives who come from deep red districts, the filing meant that roughly one-quarter of the U.S. House believes the Supreme Court should set aside election results.

Seventeen Republican attorneys general are backing the unprecedented case that Trump is calling “the big one” despite the fact that the president and his allies have lost dozens of times in courts across the country and have no evidence of widespread fraud. And in a filing Thursday, the Congressional Republicans claimed “unconstitutional irregularities” have “cast doubt” on the 2020 outcome and “the integrity of the American system of elections.”

To be clear, there has been no evidence of widespread fraud and Trump has been seeking to subvert the will of the voters. Election law experts think the lawsuit will never last.

“The Supreme Court is not going to overturn the election in the Texas case, as the President has told them to do,” tweeted Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine. “But we are in bad shape as a country that 17 states could support this shameful, anti-American filing” by Texas and its attorney general, Ken Paxton, he said.

The lawsuit filed against Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin repeats false, disproven, and unsubstantiated accusations about the voting in four states that went for Trump’s Democratic challenger. The case demands that the high court invalidate the states’ 62 total Electoral College votes. That’s an unprecedented remedy in American history: setting aside the votes of tens of millions of people, under the baseless claim the Republican incumbent lost a chance at a second term due to widespread fraud.

Two days after Paxton sued, 17 states filed a motion supporting the lawsuit, and on Thursday six of those states asked to join the case themselves. Trump has acted to join the case, tweeting Thursday that “the Supreme Court has a chance to save our Country from the greatest Election abuse in the history of the United States.” Hours later, Trump held a meeting at the White House, scheduled before the suit was filed, with a dozen Republican attorneys general, including Paxton and several others who are backing the effort.

Still, some of the top state Republican prosecutors urging the Supreme Court to hear the case have acknowledged that the effort is a long shot and are seeking to distance themselves from Trump’s baseless allegations of fraud. North Dakota’s Wayne Stenehjem, among the 17 attorneys general supporting the case, said North Dakota is not alleging voter fraud in the four states at issue.

“We’re careful on that,” said Stenehjem, who noted that his office has received thousands of calls and emails from constituents asking the state to support the suit. “But it’s worth it for the Supreme Court to weigh in and settle it once and for all,” he said.

Montana Attorney General Tim Fox called the lawsuit “belated” and said its chances “are slim at best.” But Fox supported Texas because he said the case raised “important constitutional questions about the separation of powers and the integrity of mail-in ballots in those defendant states.”

The litigation rankled Democratic attorneys general. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey called the attempt to overturn votes “unconscionable.” And the support among other leading lawyers was disturbing, Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, the co-chair of the Democratic Attorneys General Association, told AP.

“I do think that these individuals are kowtowing to a president who has implemented some level of control and authority over the duly elected attorneys general in their states in a way that is unfortunate,” he said.

“I do think that this is a dangerous precedent to initiate. There is no precedent for this.”

Suits brought by Trump and his allies have failed repeatedly across the country, and the Supreme Court this week rejected a Republican bid to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of Biden’s victory.

Trump looked straight past the high court loss, claiming it didn’t matter because his campaign wasn’t involved in the case, though it would have benefited if the case had continued. He has spent the week relentlessly tweeting about the Texas case with the hashtag “overturn” and claiming, falsely, that he had won the election but was robbed.

Many of the attorneys general supporting the case have shown greater political ambitions.

In Kansas, Republican Attorney General Derek Schmidt, who is considering a bid for governor in 2022, said the Texas case presented “important and potentially recurring constitutional questions.” Schmidt’s announcement that Kansas would back the effort came only hours after former Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer — another potential candidate for governor — tweeted that Schmidt’s office should join the Texas litigation.

The case stirred Republican infighting in Utah, where GOP Gov. Gary Herbert and Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, who will become governor in January, blasted Attorney General Sean Reyes for deciding to join the suit.

“The Attorney General did not consult us before signing on to this brief, so we don’t know what his motivation is,” they said in a joint statement. “Just as we would not want other states challenging Utah’s election results, we do not think we should intervene in other states’ elections.”

Officials in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Wisconsin say the suit is a publicity stunt. More than 20 other attorneys general from states including California and Virginia also filed a brief Thursday urging the court to reject the case.

“Since Election Day, State and Federal courts throughout the country have been flooded with frivolous lawsuits aimed at disenfranchising large swaths of voters and undermining the legitimacy of the election. The State of Texas has now added its voice to the cacophony of bogus claims,” Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, wrote in the state’s brief.

Despite the political pressure, Idaho’s Republican attorney general chose not to join the Texas suit. Lawrence Wasden said he has concerns about “supporting a legal argument that could result in other states litigating against legal decisions made by Idaho’s legislature and governor.” Idaho’s two congressmen, Republicans Mike Simpson and Russ Fulcher, joined the legal brief from GOP House members supporting Paxton’s effort.

“As is sometimes the case, the legally correct decision may not be the politically convenient decision,” Wasden said in a statement. “But my responsibility is to the state of Idaho and the rule of law.”
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