Posted on 12/02/2016 12:11:52 PM PST by LS
As many of you know, I started working on a Trump book last summer when something told me that he would win the primary, easily. It picked up speed last November when I became convinced he would win the presidency . . . easily.
My original manuscript was very historical in nature, putting Trump in the context of other candidates across our history. Along the way, however, I became a participant, partly because I knew Trump's campaign manager and partly because many of you here were active in doing research into state party registrations, then later, absentee voting, and so on. By September, I was actively providing Team Trump with raw data every morning.
This gave me a theme that I didn't think anyone else had, namely I thought Trump was going to win and I thought it was in the numbers. But other than a few pockets of data here and there, I didn't have campaign "inside" info. I wasn't on the press plane, wasn't at the rallies.
After some back and forth, Regnery decided to publish the book, but to combine my work with Breitbart's Joel Pollock, who was on the campaign plane and in the press pool. This will be edited, woven together, and the e-book will be out in January, probably by Inauguration Day and probably under the title "How Trump Won." A hardcover version will follow.
It will only go up to election day. But watching the recounts and the handwringing by "concern trolls" here, I wanted to include this update. This is strictly MY understanding of state laws and the U.S. Constitution, but I think most of you share it. If, however, someone has different info, please let me know.
* The recounts really don't matter. There are never more than a handful of votes flipped. In WI after 1 day, Trump really has about 400 MORE votes than before, as an input error in one of the precincts failed to include a digit in its original transmission, while the recount so far has "found" one additional Cankles vote.
* It is my understanding, based on the precedent of the U.S. Civil War, when several Southern states were declared "in rebellion" and therefore did not send electors to the electoral college (although Louisiana did!), the winner is determined by a majority of those states who send delegates. The only time in peacetime that a delegation did not participate was 1789 when New York's delegation was late arriving.
* Therefore, it would not matter if one state (WI) or all three (WI, MI, PA) don't send delegates, Trump would still win a majority of those who did.
* It is further my understanding REGARDLESS, any or all of the state legislatures of WI, PA, MI can at any time select/appoint/name the electors to attend the EC. They do not have to wait for a recount. All three are controlled by Republicans.
* MI's AG has filed suit to stop the recount, the election board split 2-2, so the AG has appealed to the state Supreme Court. (Does anyone know if it is majority R or D?)
* On the "faithless electors": You have heard scare-mongering stories of electors who won't vote for Trump: These are from STATES CANKLES WON. It makes no difference. In most states, it's a crime not to vote for the winner, and in all states electors are the creme de la creme of rabid Trump supporters. Highly unlikely any of them will flip. But again, the state legislature---as I understand it---sends in the electoral delegation and would have final say. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this. The last time there was a "faithless elector" was in 2004, and it was a Dem who wouldn't vote for Kerry and voted for Silky Pony. You have to go back to 1976 to find just ONE "faithless" GOP elector who refused to vote for Ford because he pardoned Richard E. Nixon.
* I lived in OH and didn't know that in 2004 OH's count was protested and there was a recount and the House had to vote on Ohio's delegation.
* IF IT GOES to the House, the House selects Trump. The Senate votes on a veep. It's inconceivable that the GOP Senate would choose anyone but Pence.
In other words, for all the concern trolls, nothing will change. Trump is going to be president.
Now for the final concern troll mantra, "Trump will be delegitimized." No. There is only one person who can "delegitimize" Trump and that's Donald Trump. He WILL NOT PERMIT HIMSELF to be distracted by the drive-bys. He doesn't care what they say about him.
No candidate in history, save perhaps Lincoln, has had such a view of the media. They simply cannot threaten, cajole, or scare him. Think of McConnell, Boehner, McCain, Ryan---how these guys are so terrified of the media. Trump doesn't care. They still don't get him. This victory tour is a prime example---who else does this? Bush certainly never did, and I don't recall Reagan ever doing so.
So, long and short: President Trump will be sworn in, on time, on schedule. He won't be "delegitimized." America will be great again, and we will have a book documenting it out in January!
Thank you for all of your great posts over the months! Congrats on your book, too! Looking forward to reading it!!
What a wonderful Christmas gift to have our country back—and what a Happy New Year it will be :)
Many thanks for the ping, Albion Wilde!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3500777/posts?page=1#1
Dollycali, Doug, lucyt
Ping to LS’s excellent article on the election & ballot counts
Thanks for the ping; post; comment.
(Waking up in the middle of the night from a bad dream...)
Soap box, ballot box,...
Never underestimate the depths of the criminal mind. There are EVIL people in the republic/world.
HOORAY LS
HOORAY Mr. Donald J. Trump. Thank you, sir. America’s finest.
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Check out Article.
Thanks, WildHighlander57.
Did you notice the smiles on the people seated behind him in Cinncinnati ? Went CHRISTMAS shopping yesterday (got to buy a new water heater for myself) the same smiles were on clerks and fellow customers. It IS contagious 😀
Ok, so I want a personalized, autographed version with a wonderful handwritten message. :)
That’s nothing, I want a personalized, autographed Kindle copy!
Pure crap. I want the original manuscript with a flowerly, flattering personalized message on every page.
I guess they can arrange an e-signature page.
We have one signed book in this household, looking forward to another :)
Well, gee, I think I have about 20 titles on Amazon. Let me help you . . . .
In the Civil War, the Southern states were subtracted from the calculation of an electoral vote majority because those states had been formally declared to be in rebellion. Today, no such subtractions would be made from the electoral vote majority required for the election of a President.
Since the Constitution does not set a number, it’s common sense (and I’m sure legal precedent) that you vote with what brung ya, or the majority that shows up. There can be, and has been, no precedent for a “quorum.” Hence, the Civil War example remains the example.
Donald Trump is handling all this perfectly. He's not allowing it to be a distraction and he's proceeding full speed ahead in assembling his administration. Even many people who did not vote for him have accepted him as our President-Elect. Only us political junkies are paying much attention to these recounts at all. The average guy on the street couldn't care less and knows they won't go anywhere.
Good news on your book being published. Definitely put me down for a copy. Let me know by Freepmail when it is available for purchase.
Between Carrier, taking the calls from foreign leaders, moving ahead with cabinet appointees, he just blows this stuff off, establishing in the minds of the people he is already president.
It’s pretty amazing. Were anything remarkably destructive-—as you mention, the Hail-Hail Mary Pass-—to occur, the built-in presumption he is president would result in a civil war.
It’s also having a pretty remarkable affect (do you agree with this?) of pushing Obama aside even before he’s done. I get the sense that Obama is a non-entity now in DC, despite his power to still do damage. It’s almost as thought he’s bewildered.
Looking forward to the book.
I can't really back it up but I'm thinking that Obama is secretly pleased that Hillary Clinton lost. Had she won, she and her people would have taken complete control of the Democrat Party and Obama would have been shunted aside rather quickly. In this scenario, Obama can at least hope for Trump's failure, which he believes will redeem his own legacy. Kind of like how those "Miss Me Yet" GWB memes were popping up once it became established that Obama was in over his head. back in 2009. His ego would be salvaged if people out there started missing him and pining for his return.
It's amazing how many people still think Trump is going to fall flat on his face. He continues to be underestimated. It's clear to me that Trump knows exactly what he's doing and he's putting a team in place that will truly make our heads spin during those first 100 days.
"Begone. You have no power here."
When all the marbles are at stake, common sense and historical precedent are weak considerations easily brushed aside on the way to a preferred result. For clever lawyers and an accommodating Supreme Court, the Twelfth Amendment could provide a counter example and plausible authority for a two thirds quorum and a majority vote of the states to chose a President.
hahah! wish I could! you graciously provided a signed copy of your Patriot book to my son (who was active duty USAF at the time). So I definitely owe you at least one legit purchase!
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