Posted on 11/12/2018 1:02:47 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Some in the news media are dismissing President Trump's claim of fraud in Florida's election, even after two judges have found impropriety with the process in specific parts of the state.
CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza on Monday called claims of corruption and “fraud” by Trump and Republicans “baseless” and said that they “tell us about how [Trump] will approach his own re-election race in 2020.”
His colleague John Avlon on Monday morning called on Florida to “count the votes. Don’t demonize the process.”
Trump returned Sunday from a weekend trip to Europe, but his mind was at least in part focused on the closely watched Florida election.
“The Florida Election should be called in favor of [Republicans] Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged,” he tweeted. “An honest vote count is no longer possible — ballots massively infected. Must go with Election Night!”
On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski refused to air Trump's allegation. “You know what, no. We’re not going to read — Just take it down. What a liar,” Scarborough said.
While there has been no evidence of widespread election “fraud,” Broward County officials have admitted they mixed in roughly two dozen ineligible ballots with about 200 eligible ones, all of which were anonymous. Officials had said it was unlikely they would be able to separate the ballots.
Gov. Rick Scott has implied that election fraud could be occurring and has filed a lawsuit over claims that Broward County counted votes past the legal deadline for doing so on Saturday. He said Monday that Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., is trying to steal the election by ignoring state law on how elections are run and counting thousands...
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Have you noticed during Trump’s press conferences, Trump will say something and the media idiots will say can you site the evidence for that?
Unbelievable. I wish Trump would say, ‘isn’t that your fvcking job to ferret that out for the people?’
“GOP still won’t unite.”
Oh, they’re united against Trump. While America is taking her last breaths
“Oh, they’re united against Trump. While America is taking her last breaths
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True. The GOP is silent on this blatant fraud except for the same few who begged and pleaded to expose the corrupt FISA documents.
I want to vomit.
Yep, we had it all......
Supreme Court is important but I was hoping for so much more.
Ill stop crying now..... :)
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