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Pelosi Warns Democrats: Stay in the Center or Trump May Contest Election Results
The New York Times ^ | May 4, 2019 | Glenn Thrush

Posted on 05/05/2019 7:29:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Speaker Nancy Pelosi does not believe President Trump can be removed through impeachment — the only way to do it, she said this week, is to defeat him in 2020 by a margin so “big” he cannot challenge the legitimacy of a Democratic victory.

That is something she worries about.

“We have to inoculate against that, we have to be prepared for that,” Ms. Pelosi said during an interview at the Capitol on Wednesday as she discussed her concern that Mr. Trump would not give up power voluntarily if he lost re-election by a slim margin next year.

Sitting in her office with its panoramic view of the National Mall, Ms. Pelosi — the de facto head of the Democratic Party until a presidential nominee is selected in 2020 — offered Democrats her “coldblooded” plan for decisively ridding themselves of Mr. Trump: Do not get dragged into a protracted impeachment bid that will ultimately get crushed in the Republican-controlled Senate, and do not risk alienating the moderate voters who flocked to the party in 2018 by drifting too far to the left.

“Own the center left, own the mainstream,” Ms. Pelosi, 79, said.

“Our passions were for health care, bigger paychecks, cleaner government — a simple message,” Ms. Pelosi said of the 40-seat Democratic pickup last year that resulted in her second ascent to the speakership. “We did not engage in some of the other exuberances that exist in our party” — a reference to some of the most ambitious plans advocated by the left wing of her party and some 2020 candidates, including “Medicare for all” and the Green New Deal, which she has declined to support.

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To: chief lee runamok; dowcaet; GOPJ; exDemMom; onyx

21 posted on 05/05/2019 7:58:56 PM PDT by 4Liberty ("The Democrats are the Party of Crime." - Donald J. Trump)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not since the first campaign and election of J Q Adams over Andy Jackson has this government been so out of touch with the people.

In those days, many states did not even have a popular vote for the president. They simply had their electors appointed at the state level and cast the ballots for the president.

The result was as corrupt a government you could imagine. The establishment saw to it that the one they wanted to have put into the white house, was put in.

After Andrew Jackson was elected-the second run, the mixture of the popular vote at the state level resulted in those electors casting their vote for the candidate who won that states vote. A system that works, at least till this day. Unless the filth and scum that is the New Democrat National Socialist Party of America get what they want, by force, to change to a complete democracy or mob rule.

BTW, Andrew Jackson, even with his extreme faults, was extremely popular with the people even up to the civil war.

And yes I know, Andrew Jackson was a DEMOCRAT.


22 posted on 05/05/2019 8:02:34 PM PDT by crz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In other words, cheat and lie to the American people, as always.


23 posted on 05/05/2019 8:05:10 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She’s not worried about Trump contesting the results. Its only Democrats who challenge Presidential elections. It’s the fear of a landslide loss to Trump that is worrying her.


24 posted on 05/05/2019 8:07:21 PM PDT by Widget Jr
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To: Jane Long
Hahahahaha! --


25 posted on 05/05/2019 8:09:15 PM PDT by 4Liberty ("The Democrats are the Party of Crime." - Donald J. Trump)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In other words, lie your ass off


26 posted on 05/05/2019 8:09:46 PM PDT by LibertyWoman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Only one who contests elections are democraps. They lose, they mysteriously find votes. When they can’t find votes, they make them up. When they can’t make them up, they get judges to steal the results for them.


27 posted on 05/05/2019 8:10:26 PM PDT by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-amputeca)
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To: 4Liberty

These dummies are on a roll!!!

Love that their backfire poll tweets are being captured for all to see.


28 posted on 05/05/2019 8:10:37 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Nothing to contest if Trump wins by a bigger margin than the degree of cheating and fraud the Democrats are set up to inflict on the nation as a whole, and in those venues where the apparent margins would seem to otherwise tilt to Republicans.

There ain’t no such thing as a “level playing field”.


29 posted on 05/05/2019 8:12:19 PM PDT by alloysteel (Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori [Latin for"Sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country."])
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So, Nancy, what’s on your mind? Stealing the election after the first count is in? Harvesting trunk loads of “misplaced” ballots, which just happen to be predominately for the Democrat, and just happen to turn key precincts to D for the electoral college? Why would that cause anyone to contest the election?


30 posted on 05/05/2019 8:16:58 PM PDT by Tellurian (Demonicrats would smugly tell even God "you didn't build that".)
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To: 4Liberty

Good one!


31 posted on 05/05/2019 8:18:29 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Elites reflexively exempt themselves from the ravages of their own policies." - nathanbedford)
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To: 4Liberty; pookie18

Hey Pookie! Thought you might like this toon above.


32 posted on 05/05/2019 8:20:45 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: Nateman; GOPJ; onyx

33 posted on 05/05/2019 8:23:26 PM PDT by 4Liberty ("The Democrats are the Party of Crime." - Donald J. Trump)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

HA...she’s trying to corral the DEMS....ha...ha...ha...


34 posted on 05/05/2019 8:25:14 PM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"“Own the center left, own the mainstream,” Ms. Pelosi, 79, said. "

AOC says "too late" D'Alesandro....

35 posted on 05/05/2019 8:27:12 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: 4Liberty

Imagine how frustrated RATs will be after losing the House and getting Trump again in 2020.


36 posted on 05/05/2019 8:29:40 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: 4Liberty

THAT is a really good idea....


37 posted on 05/05/2019 8:31:44 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ve noted this post and we shall see if the subject is brought up again by the Dems on November 4,2020. I’m thinking NOT.


38 posted on 05/05/2019 8:37:17 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.”)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
NY Slimes has a paranoid delusional system controlling editorial decisions.
39 posted on 05/05/2019 8:37:38 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: 4Liberty

40 posted on 05/05/2019 8:39:14 PM PDT by Paladin2
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