It struck me today at how strong a statement the victory tour is. Straight out of Trump’s playbook.
Which means unprecedented.
It’s fantastic.
MISC has a GOP majority.
An order halting the recount would probably get appealed to the SCOTUS.
But this is not Bush vs Gore. Trump’s win was decisive.
Recount games won’t change the outcome.
Thank you so much for posting this. All of your threads...thanks so much.
On the list, please, for a signed copy!
Great news, LS!
This past year has certainly separated the ‘men from the boys’. Thank you for your work.
Trump is repeating all his promises.
He hasn’t changed a thing.
LOL, read it and weep #NeverTrumpers...
We have the Trump effect, and you have the dumped effect.
2008 I understood. It was coming off of 8 years of George W. and the country wanted a change, and with Obama being the first black president people wanted that to happen.
But 2012, I thought for sure Romney would win, and after that disappointment I wasn’t sure a Republican “could” win again. So every time I started to get positive about 2016, I reminded myself of 2012 and how some of the polls gave us a chance, and we lost again. So I didn’t get my hopes up.
But I sure am glad we won. Thank God.
Thank you for this!!!
1) Who Archie tell Meathead that he wrote in for President?
2) Who did he really write in?
If you have a ping list to notify people when your book becomes available, please put me on it!
LS, 5 - 2 Republican Majority on the MI Supreme Court, just looked it up.
Congratulations on your new book, can’t wait to read it.
LS, Did you forward information regarding voter fraud reports to the Trump campaign?
There were at least two serious attempts to steal the Florida vote from DJT in Broward County. Dems routinely count on their Broward friends in the SoE to make this happen. Of course you know Broward is also home of Deb W-Schultz.
Whistleblowers thwarted this activity, but had they not been there- She would have prevailed. Aside from the usual shenanigans, over 130K absentee ballots were at risk. Followed by a second issue whereby four SoE employees are completing stacks of blank ballots (quantity-massive.)
Well, something else to look forward to on Inauguration Day!
Thanks for the information now and all during the campaign. I am looking forward to your book.
:) Irish
Looking forward to your book!!!
Thanks for posting this, Larry. It helps put the nervous 25% of my mind at ease.
Brilliant analysis!
I eagerly awaited every positive post you made this past year over this election. You ALLWAYS hit the bull’s-eye with each reply!
Can’ wait to get your election book! I already have your history book, A Patriot’s History; for many years—read it cover to cover. If I buy the new one, and mail it to you along with my copy of A Patriot’s History, and pay postage, would you please sign them and mail them back to me?
Bump
In many ways I guess I am a purist. The Constitution assigns to each state the ability to “appoint” one Elector for each senator, and one Elector for each Congressman, to which it is entitled. It says nothing at all about popular election. It is traditional that all a state’s electors are selected by a statewide ballot. With the exception of Nebraska and Maine, which select only two Electors statewide, and one additionally within each congressional district. The existence of a functioning Nebraska Plan state (or two) dramatizes that the state legislatures do in fact control the way the Electors are selected.There is one quibble, in that as I understand it if a state legislature acts to name Electors outside the mechanism of popular election, the House would reserve the right to second guess. But I suppose that since the Republicans control the House that should not constitute a serious problem.
Say what you will about popular election, the Electors are clearly a mechanism which could be robust in unforeseeable circumstances. What if a winning presidential candidate dies before the Electors meet? Even, what if both president and vice president die? The Electors might be able to agree to adapt to such circumstance - and at least present the House with a second and a third place candidate to choose from other than the (surviving) second place finisher.
But when we hear about a “faithless Elector” who is nineteen years old trying to make that sort of decision, there is something wrong with the picture. What, the POTUS has to be at least 35 - and the kid who elects him/her is not even 20? To be responsible for that sort of decision you ought to have a few gray hairs - the age requirement should be at least 35, and I would argue 45 yo. IMHO each state should consider that issue for itself.
I have a certain respect for a movement in the losing side to try, as these “faithless” electors are doing, to present the winners with an attractive counter offer. Propose a fusion candidate. Reasonable.
But I’m glad Trump won, and that it is all moot. Trump has hit the ground running already, demonstrating decisiveness and clarity and responsibility. The Carrier thing is IMHO irresponsible showmanship - but not so irresponsible that serious damage will be done. It is justifiable in that it enables Trump to mark POtUS as his territory, at a time when the Democrats are trying to undermine him. Time enough to smooth things out later, to the extent it is needed. It isn’t as if he were driving Republican small businesses under, as Obama did to auto dealers he didn’t like in ’09 . . .