Posted on 10/29/2021 8:45:34 PM PDT by Signalman
During the first Virginia gubernatorial debate in mid-September, Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe assured voters he would not question the election results if he lost. He may not have meant it, though. On Thursday, five days before the Virginia elections, it was reported that McAuliffe has hired election attorney and liberal activist Marc Elias. As law professor Jonathan Turley pointed out, this suggests McAuliffe may be preparing to challenge the election results should his Republican opponent, Glenn Youngkin, win.
As I referred to Elias in April, he's "the gift that keeps on giving." At the time he was mocked over a viral tweet lambasting the Georgia election integrity law, which he filed suit against immediately after it was signed by Gov. Brian Kemp in March. In a since deleted tweet, Elias questioned voters would know how to vote by mail with their ID, which many called racist.
He was also involved in representing Rita Hart, who challenged and was prepared to have her opponent, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), removed from Congress after the congresswoman won her seat by six votes.
Recently, it was revealed that Elias may be of interest in the investigation of John Durham. Elias is cited in last month's report from The New York Times regarding that investigation, which resulted in a grand jury indictment of Michael Sussmann, a former DNC attorney who was a partner of Elias at Perkins Coie:
Another partner at Perkins Coie, Marc Elias, was then serving as the general counsel for the Clinton campaign. Mr. Elias, who did not respond to inquiries, left Perkins Coie last month.
In their attempt to head off any indictment, Mr. Sussmann’s lawyers are said to have insisted that their client was representing the cybersecurity expert he mentioned to Congress and was not there on behalf of or at the direction of the Clinton campaign.
They are also said to have argued that the billing records are misleading because Mr. Sussmann was not charging his client for work on the Alfa Bank matter, but needed to show internally that he was working on something. He was discussing the matter with Mr. Elias and the campaign paid a flat monthly retainer to the firm, so Mr. Sussmann’s hours did not result in any additional charges, they said.
As Turley writes about Elias on his website:
...Elias is a critical figure in the ongoing Durham investigation and has been accused of lying to the media to hide the role of the Clinton campaign in funding the Steele dossier. His former law partner Michael Sussmann at Perkins Coie was recently indicted by Durham. Elias has also led efforts to challenge Democratic losses, even as he denounces Republicans for such election challenges. Elias has been sanctioned in past litigation.
Like Sussmann, Elias has left Perkins Coie. He ironically created a law firm specializing in campaign ethics. McAuliffe may be preparing to challenge any win by Republican Glenn Youngkin. He has given $53,680 to the Elias Law Group. McAuliffe does not appear disturbed by Elias’ highly controversial career or his possible exposure in the Durham investigation.
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Elias’ work embodies the inherent hypocrisy of some advocates and some in the media on election challenges. He often solicits contributions to challenge election results while denouncing Republicans for challenging election results.
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Elias has not been criminally charged in his actions related to the 2020 election. Yet, bringing Elias into the Virginia race in the midst of the Durham investigation is an astonishing decision by McAuliffe. There are a host of election lawyers but McAuliffe selected an attorney accused of lying to the media, advancing rejected conspiracy theories, and currently involved in a major federal investigation that has already led to the indictment of his former partner.
Such a move from McAuliffe shows that the candidate is going back on his word, which is its own separate issue, regardless of any controversy surrounding Elias.
On September 16, at the Appalachian School of Law, moderator Susan Page asked both the candidates "If the state certifies that you lost this election, even narrowly, will you pledge tonight to recognize [your opponent] as the legitimately elected governor?"
McAuliffe answered "absolutely." Youngkin had also answered "absolutely."
McAuliffe has frequently accused Youngkin of questioning the results of the 2020 election, based on his stated commitment to election integrity.
Also in that first debate, Youngkin assured Page when asked if he thought Democrats would cheat in this election that "No. I think we're gonna have a clean, fair election and I fully expect to win." On multiple occasions he has reaffirmed that Biden was legitimately elected president, including during an interview on "The Guy Benson Show."
Recommended Rand Paul Has Some Questions For Fauci On Puppy Torture Katie Pavlich Meanwhile, McAuliffe has repeatedly questioned that President George W. Bush was legitimately elected in 2000. Additionally, as Turley also pointed out and Townhall has extensively covered, he's campaigned with fellow election denier and failed 2018 Georgia gubernatorial candidate, Stacey Abrams. On Sunday, McAuliffe even repeated that Abrams "would be the governor" and claimed that "they took the votes away" from her.
This isn't the only extremely questionable legal news to do with McAuliffe this week. On Tuesday, Luke Rosiak reported for The Daily Wire that "McAuliffe-Linked Law Firm Fighting Virginia Student Who Said She Was Gang-Raped." The law firm in question is the Hunton Andrews Kurth law firm, where McAuliffe served as a senior advisor from 2019 until recently.
While McAuliffe once held a comfortable lead over Youngkin, it has now shrunk considerably. Many polls show the race to be tied. According to the RealClearPolitics average, McAuliffe is ahead by just 0.8 percentage points for October 9-25. FiveThirtyEight shows McAuliffe with 1.5 percent lead.
Who would take McAweful’s word on anything?
He likely doesn’t think the electorate are capable of electing their Governator.
Terry will be worse than ‘that woman from Georgia’ if he loses too much to cheat his way out of a loss.
He will firstly, be angry, because in his mind, Democrats like him, well connected Democrats are ‘not supposed to lose’. He will be pointing fingers and blaming others for not doing enough for his campaign. “They failed me, is what really happened! My constiuents let me down!”
I hope he does! Then Youngkin can demand a scientific forensc audit by the same team the did Arizonas and expose the rampant fraud in VA, of which believe it or not Trump may have won that state!
You can bet on it. McAuliffe will never concede unless its a wide spread.
the most under-reported FB story in the world:
28 Oct: Fox News: Hemingway: Mark Zuckerberg funded quiet takeover of government offices to help Democrats in 2020 election
The Facebook CEO planted left-wing activists into local election administration offices, Hemingway tells Tucker
by Yael Halon
Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway sat down with Tucker Carlson to discuss how Big Tech swung the 2020 election for the Democrats, and why her new book “Rigged” exposes Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the mastermind behind it all.
In the latest episode of “Tucker Carlson Today,” Hemingway describes a strategic effort by the tech billionaire, who she says bought left-wing activists access to local government administration election offices, enabling partisan staffers to organize massive get-out-the-vote efforts in largely blue cities from the inside.
Through the Center for Technology and Civic Life and the Center for Election Innovation and Research, Zuckerberg poured $419.5 million into the election, Hemingway said — which reportedly went to advance mail-in voting efforts and rally Democratic voters.
“This is crazy that it was allowed to happen,” Hemingway told Carlson. “So he [Zuckerberg] spends about as much money as the federal government does in running our 2020 elections. He gives $419 million to two left-wing groups who then funnel the money primarily to Democrat counties in swing states...
It enabled “this army of left-wing people to come in and handle everything… they target[ed] registration to Democrat communities, they translate[d] ballots, they design[ed] ballots,” she explained...
A stunned Carlson questioned how “Mark Zuckerberg gets to design U.S. government election ballots.”
“I think no-one ever imagined that one of the world’s wealthiest people would take over government election offices, so they didn’t have a system in place to prevent it,” Hemingway said...
https://www.foxnews.com/media/mollie-hemingway-mark-zuckerberg-election-facebook-tucker-carlson
McAuliffe comes from the Stephanopoulos camp of "he kept the promises he intended to keep."
-PJ
I wouldn’t put anything past that little sh$t.
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate saved the day, and the US House seat, by moving the ballot drop boxes where they could be monitored more closely.
He saved Miller-Meeks' seat, and likely another one of the three up for grabs.
Iowa secretary of state gives new ballot drop box guidance to auditors
September 30, 2021
https://archive.vn/jrB9O
Unfortunately, the Demoscum were successful in rigging the Iowa 3rd CD vote.
Doesn’t apply here. This is a Democrat, remember?
He won’t loose. The elections are rigged.
And WTF will the RNC do about it? Nothing, as usual. That’s why the DNC will wipe the floor with us until the RNC gets their act together and learns to fight dirty.
Expect this to continue until it is fully exposed and made a federal offense.
Until we go back to paper ballots and voter ID, this is going to happen after every election.
We (everyone) can not trust our elections. It has/will destroy(ed) our republic.
Looks like they’re going with plan B. Gin up an ISIS attack days before the election to postpone it.
We must get rid of motor-voter registration and strictly limit mail-in voting to overseas USA citizens and the verifiably disabled. Early in-person voting should be no longer than 2 weeks.
Terry McAuliffe questioning election results? -Sublime.
Terry McAuliffe has nothing to worry about.
He won't lose because the same process that created modern California has created modern Virginia.
In many states, and nationally, people who want what "conservatives" want are a minority. Virginia is one of those states.
Says the deep state.
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