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Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) on Sunday said Democrats must "quit lying" about the cost of the Build Back Better Act and called for the House to revote on the massive social spending package. Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Graham claimed that the electric vehicle tax credits included in the bill would exacerbate inflation and hurt companies like BMW and Volvo. Both companies have recently announced commitments to rolling out new electric vehicles, with Volvo aiming to be all electric by 2030.

Far, far, far more than the evidence of Russian collusion which spawned a $40-million, two-and-a-half-year investigation, there is evidence that the Democratic Party stole the 2020 presidential election. Close to half the country believes that it is likely that it did.We could verify the election results, one way or the other — and not over two and a half years, but over a single day — by having, in the states in which such evidence was found, a revote that would not have the vulnerabilities to voter fraud that the November 3 election did. Specifically, in such revotes, we would...

Trump has nominated Scott O'Grady to a top Pentagon post O'Grady retweeted a post calling on Trump to declare 'martial law' The post calls for the military to oversee a revote Also tweeted post calling the election a 'coup' Trump pardoned his former national security advisor before Thanksgiving Flynn blasted out article by 'We the People Convention' calling for martial law It called for Trump to 'immediately declare a limited form of Martial Law' Wants to 'suspend the Constitution and civilian control of these federal elections' Says only the military can be trusted to carry this out Comes as AG...

Ekrem İmamoğlu, the candidate of the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), is leading the race ahead of the Istanbul election rerun on June 23, according to three surveys the party conducted, secularist Cumhuriyet newspaper reported Friday.  The results of the surveys showed that İmamoğlu, who won an initial vote on March 31 in Turkey’s financial powerhouse by a narrow margin, is ahead of Binali Yıldırım, the mayoral candidate of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) by between 1.7 and 5 percentage points, Cumhuriyet said. Turkey’s election council annulled the Istanbul election on May 6 after an appeal by the...

ISTANBUL — Opinion polls show opposition candidate Ekrem Imamoglu pulling ahead of his rival from Turkey's ruling party in his bid to recapture the post of Istanbul mayor. He briefly held the position before electoral officials revoked his mandate and forced a new election next month.Citing technical irregularities earlier this month, the Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) canceled the results of Istanbul’s March 31 mayoral election in which Imamoglu of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) squeaked out a victory with a winning margin of just 13,729 votes out of the 8.5 million ballots cast. The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has controlled the...

House Republicans will need to pass their tax plan for a second time after the Senate parliamentarian ruled that provisions in the bill violated the rules governing the legislation. "Members are advised that we expect Senate Democrats to insist on a Byrd Point of Order on the Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 1, which is likely to be sustained," said guidance from House Majority Whip Steve Scalise's office, which was sent to GOP lawmakers. "As such, Members are further advised that an additional procedural vote on the Motion to Concur is expected tomorrow morning, which will clear the bill for...

Despite Israel’s undertaking of last-ditch diplomatic efforts, the revote at UNESCO today on a controversial resolution denying the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount and Western Wall yielded the same result as before. Earlier, Mexico relieved its UNESCO representative, Andres Roemer, from his position, after he refused to vote for the anti-Israel resolution — in opposition to Mexico’s official stance. …

One in three Germans want a second election, a survey released on Thursday showed—just hours before talks were set to start between Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU/CSU) and the Green Party to explore a potential coalition partnership. Merkel’s CDU/CSU, despite securing its most convincing win since German reunification, was caught out by the dramatic events of election night. Not only did her party just fall short of an absolute majority needed to rule alone, but the chancellor’s previous coalition partners, the Free Democrats (FDP) were booted out of parliament. … In the 30-44 age bracket, 40 percent would support fresh...

..And one lawsuit still pending I have not watched any media coverage after Romney conceded the election on Tuesday night. Why bother? It's just the same old noise we hear every four years. The talking heads spew nothing but meaningless "should have" or "could have" or "did't do this" while completely avoiding the massive amount of problems with vote fraud in all its forms. Fine, let them talk while we fight. Also, stop with the "America RIP" rhetoric. That plays right into the hands of the destroyers. It fosters nothing but a sense of defeat instead of I am a...

Republican Peter J. Durant won the 6th Worcester District seat in today's special election for state representative, beating incumbent Geraldo Alicea, D-Charlton, by 56 votes, 3,325 to 3,269. The two men have been sparring at the ballot box and in the courtroom since November when the razor thin election results put Mr. Durant ahead by two votes, and a Superior Court judge later ruled the election was a tie and ordered a new election. After the court ordered the new election, Peter J. Boria, a Charlton selectman, and Robert J. Cirba, of Spencer, a Spencer-East Brookfield school committee member, declared...

Tax Revolt and Recall Protest draws 15,000 Fullerton – An estimated crowd of 15,000 people showed up at a tax revolt and recall protest hosted by The John & Ken Show of radio station KFI 640. The hyperactive John Kobylt and immaculately groomed Ken Chiampou prodded the crowd into chants of "heads on a stick" and "off with their heads" several times during the three hour event, referring to lazy legislators and the lying governor. Some people brought bloody effigy heads of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and stuck them on the end of a pike, while the crowd joined their hosts...

Michigan Democrats seemed to smother any chance of a presidential-primary revote yesterday, but the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton added a surprise stop to the state ...to try to keep prospects alive. On Monday Florida Democrats also dropped the idea of a vote-by-mail presidential primary... Michigan's efforts to regain those seats seemed likely to end after state legislators yesterday were unable to agree to a bill... Late yesterday the Clinton campaign announced that the New York senator would host a "Solutions for America" rally in Detroit... "We're going to Michigan because she wants to personally press the case that the...

Revote could offer Michigan a final sayDems question impact of 2nd primary Article published Sunday, March 16, 2008 By TOM TROY BLADE POLITICS WRITER It's not often that people get to vote twice in the same election, but it could happen this year for Michigan Democrats. **SNIP** Four prominent Michigan Democrats announced a tentative plan Friday to have a revote primary on June 3, but numerous details remain. **SNIP** One essential element, laid down by Michigan Republicans who control the state Senate, is that the party - not Michigan taxpayers - must put up the estimated $10 million to $12...

SCRANTON, Penn. - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton Saturday said she supported a plan being developed by Michigan Democrats to hold a new primary in June. "It needs to get resolved and hopefully Michigan by the end of this week will have done that," Clinton told reporters on her campaign plane between stops in Pennsylvania. "I think they are moving in an appropriate direction to have a revote." Under the plan being finalized by several Democratic members of Congress and other party leaders in Michigan, the state would hold a new primary in early June — most likely on June 3...

I don’t get it. Like Karl says, neither one of them has a rational interest in compromising; I’d go a step further and say neither one of them (but especially Obama) has an interest in holding new elections. Hillary has more of an interest, of course, since she’ll likely win and pick up delegates, but as we’ve discussed, the pick-up will be marginal and Obama’s likely to do better in the popular vote this time around now that he’s the frontrunner. The popular vote is what she cares about since it buttresses her moral case for the nomination before the...

For a moment, it looked like party leaders were marching toward a Florida revote. But Obama's campaign signaled today that the mechanics would be an obstacle, and Florida's congressional delegation just took a hard line against a re-vote in a joint statement: Washington, DC – The Members of Florida’s Democratic Delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives issued the following statement regarding the seating of Florida’s delegates at the DNC National Convention this August. “We are committed to working with the DNC, the Florida State Democratic party, our Democratic leaders in Florida, and our two candidates to reach an expedited...

Dem Dirty Tricks in Florida [Greg Pollowitz] So, why do they really want a mail-in revote in Florida? From Dan Gelber's blog (Gelber is Minority Leader of the Florida House of Representatives): The major reason is that the revote, in addition to making sure Florida voters are heard, should also be a party building exercise. Returned ballots (because of address changes) will help us dramatically improve our voter database. If appropriate we could also ask Democrats to voluntarily give us their emails and telephone numbers so we can communicate with them in November and beyond. All this would help us...

On Wikipedia's site in regards to the Florida legislatures overwhelming decision to buck the DNC and go with their own front-loading primary date, I noticed an amazing coincidence:The Florida legislature voted via House Bill 537 to move forward the date of their state's primary to January 29th, causing a chain reaction which moved many other states’ primaries and caucuses to much earlier dates. The vote passed with bipartisan support 118 to 0 in the House, 37 to 2 in the Senate.Now many of you may recall that after the tussle between the Florida Supreme Court and the US Supreme Court...

King County Elections Director Dean Logan yesterday said his staff had used "flawed methodology" but hadn't attempted to falsify a report on absentee ballots cast in the contested November election. Yet even as Logan sought to control damage from revelations about the ballot report, a manager testified that Elections Superintendent Bill Huennekens knew in November that the report was inaccurate. Huennekens didn't inform his boss or the county canvassing board, which certifies election results. Garth Fell, assistant superintendent of ballot processing and delivery, said in a newly released legal deposition that Huennekens was aware of the flaws before the canvassing...

WSU Prank Legit WSU graduate Matt Nelson offered Huckleberries Online proof that the prank pulled on Gov-for-Now Christine Gregoire by the Accounting college during graduation ceremonies last weekend. In the first photo, you see some of the letters on the top of the graduation caps worn by accounting graduates spell: "A-C-C-O-U-N-T-I-N-G": In the second photo, with Gov. Christine Gregoire delivering her commencement speech, you see an "A" added and a "C" subtracted and the letters scrambled to reveal what 11 WSUers think about Gregoire's controversial election victory over Repub Dino Rossi: "C-O-U-N-T A-G-A-I-N." And in the final photo, you see...