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The Election Battle Is Just Beginning
Townhall.com ^ | November 6, 2020 | Josh Hammer

Posted on 11/06/2020 4:01:37 AM PST by Kaslin

As of this writing, the presidential race has not been called for either President Donald Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden. Not that it actually matters; regardless of whether the hopelessly corrupted political press deems either candidate to have attained the requisite 270 Electoral College votes, the election battle is just beginning. Gird your loins.

All summer, as it became clear that Democratic activists throughout the country were seeking to change election laws midstream to provide for mass mail-in voting, the likes of which our republic has never seen, conservatives and other defenders of a secure and durable franchise pointed out any number of obvious problems. How could we ensure that only duly registered, active voters in a certain precinct receive ballots? What about photo ID, signature validations and postmark dates? All of this, of course, in a country with a long history of voter fraud; younger readers would do well to Google "Box 13 scandal," involving Lyndon Johnson's 1948 Senate race.

In early September, Hillsdale College lecturer and former Trump administration official Michael Anton published an eye-opening essay at the Claremont Institute's American Mind site entitled "The Coming Coup?" Anton quoted a leaked report from a war game simulation, consisting of Democrats and Never-Trump Republicans, to play out the 2020 presidential election. In that simulation, John Podesta, former White House chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, was assigned the role of Biden. Podesta refused to concede, pressured states that Trump clearly carried to actually send Democratic electors to the Electoral College and contented himself with entrusting the military to handle the rest of the funny business.

A coup, that is, by any other name. The question now facing Republicans is: If the Democrats intend to effectuate a nonviolent coup, would they have done anything differently since Tuesday evening?

Early in the evening, it was immediately obvious that the polls were, yet again, wildly off. Trump won Florida, that most quintessential of swing states, by a wider margin than he had in 2016. He decisively prevailed in Ohio, the nation's other paradigmatic swing state and historic decider of hotly contested elections. He barely lost Wisconsin and Michigan, we are told, despite purportedly reliable pollsters assuring us the week before the election that Biden would prevail in each state by double-digits. Numerous outlets called Arizona early for Biden -- an indefensible call in what will be a nail-biter of a finish.

Shortly after it was clear that Trump had Florida and Ohio in the bag, things turned problematic. Vote counting was oddly halted in parts of Georgia, North Carolina, Nevada and the three "blue wall" states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Even more peculiarly, on consecutive nights, in states where Trump led on election night, large tranches of votes were mysteriously "found." As Harvard Law School professor and Twitter wit Adrian Vermeule put it: "Kids, not sure if you knew this, but missing ballots have magical properties that make them visible only between midnight and 6:00 am."

Unbelievably, we are reliably informed from Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight site that one tranche of mysteriously "found" 23,000-plus overnight votes in Philadelphia were "all for Biden." One does not need a doctoral degree in advanced statistics to understand that that is simply an impossibility. This was around the same time, furthermore, that Democrats in Philadelphia actively sought legal recourse to prevent Republican poll watchers from being properly able to observe vote tabulation. Other examples abound: In Milwaukee, for instance, seven voting wards reported more votes in the presidential election than they had registered voters on file.

It is possible, in the end, that all of this will have been revealed to be perfectly kosher. But Republicans might be forgiven for harboring some deep skepticism. The message from the Democrat-media complex seems to be: "Trust us while one-party Democratic political machine cities seek legal recourse to prevent Republicans from properly observing vote tabulation while we report that votes 'found' in the wee hours of the morning 'all' went for Biden." That is not a message that should be well received.

Democrats this cycle were far likelier to vote by mail, and Republicans were far likelier to vote in person on Election Day, so it perhaps makes some degree of sense that initial voting leads for Trump in certain jurisdictions might be countered by ballots later "found" for Biden. But it is time for the Republican Party and conservative lawyers across the country to rally like never before to ensure that each and every vote cast and tabulated is a legitimate one. It is certainly also time for the Department of Justice to get more involved than it has, thus far. There are no other viable options -- certainly not in an election of this profound magnitude.

Thus far, the Supreme Court's inaction on election law matters this cycle has not inspired confidence. The political calculus of the all-too-political Chief Justice John Roberts seems to have been that a Biden landslide would exculpate the court's decisions not to halt dubious last-minute election law changes in states such as Pennsylvania and North Carolina. That Biden landslide clearly did not happen. It's time for conservative lawyers, and the Republican Party at large, to mobilize and do their job to secure the integrity of the election results across a myriad of closely contested states. For those who espouse a desire to unite our ever-fractious polity, it would seem natural to support all measures to ensure that only valid ballots have indeed been counted. Only then can a grieving nation begin to heal.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020preselection; elecintegrity; voterfraud
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To: ClearCase_guy

I would support brand new presidential elections in PA, NC, AZ, MI, WI, GA. Totally start over. In person only.

I have zero faith in any other path.

I would also say this and only this.


21 posted on 11/06/2020 4:30:41 AM PST by heshtesh
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To: Kaslin

This will be over soon.


22 posted on 11/06/2020 4:31:01 AM PST by KobraKai
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To: KobraKai
"This will be over soon"

It's all HERE.

The plan was discussed in public beginning in June and published August 3.

It's over now, except for the military arresting Trump if he doesn't concede part.

But their talking heads are starting to call for that, I presume that part of the plan is locked down since they've executed the rest with military precision.

23 posted on 11/06/2020 4:35:35 AM PST by Jim Noble
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To: Kaslin

Whatever normal predicted events that need to occur the democrats have already taken that into play.
The best but possibly not the correct way to counter is to just ho Hiroshima on them.
Do something. ..not predicted.
Throw them off.


24 posted on 11/06/2020 4:39:57 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
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To: Jim Noble

35m50s to 39m06s: Robert Cahaly, Trafalgar Group. (paraphrasing)
at 37m Laura: if you were told over summer that Trump’s party would gain House seats and hold the Senate, what would you have projected the election result to have been on the presidential level?

Cahaly: I would have told you it means Trump was going to win BIG. and if I said that, I would have been ridiculed, just like I was ridiculed when I said there were shy Trump voters and corruption in Philadelphia.

Bitchute: Ingraham Angle 5 November 2020
https://www.bitchute.com/video/QkGYpEiKu7JE/


25 posted on 11/06/2020 4:40:43 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: granada; Jim Noble
"GOP will manage to force Trump to concede."

Indeed, and as early as today, for the good of the nation.When this transpires, the question becomes what will the GOP do in the various states to insure a fair playing field going forward? Mail in voting, electronic registrations and ballot harvesting are here to stay unless laws at the state level are changed an enforced.

26 posted on 11/06/2020 4:41:38 AM PST by buckalfa
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To: Jim Noble

He will leave and go to florida but no one can force him to concede verbally....he should say I’m going golfing you are a weak stupid nation thzy wasted my time


27 posted on 11/06/2020 4:50:17 AM PST by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: Kaslin

It may be time to “go to the mattresses.”


28 posted on 11/06/2020 4:50:44 AM PST by weezel
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To: Kaslin

I want to have hope. I really do but this corruption is too great and our R leaders with the exception of a very few are in the club of power and really have no courage to do what’s right.


29 posted on 11/06/2020 4:51:06 AM PST by SaintDismas
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To: SaintDismas

They have no desire to do what is right.

If Biden wins, their gravy train of graft is refueled and ready to roll.


30 posted on 11/06/2020 4:52:28 AM PST by Califreak (Virtue signallers are killing America for likes on Facebook)
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To: Kaslin

The amount of hemming and hawing as well as people throwing their hands up to give up in this thread is beyond pathetic.

I mean get out in the streets and fight or vote deomKrat already.


31 posted on 11/06/2020 4:56:20 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Kaslin

They are not even hiding what they’re doing. This is very scary.


32 posted on 11/06/2020 4:58:35 AM PST by WHBates
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To: Jim Noble

“It’s over now, except for the military arresting Trump if he doesn’t concede part.”

This step will the point of no return, it will result in bloodshed in the streets of DC.


33 posted on 11/06/2020 5:01:08 AM PST by DEPcom
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To: Kaslin
I like Mark Levin's recent tweet (he wrote it in all-caps): "REMINDER TO THE REPUBLICAN STATE LEGISLATURES, YOU HAVE THE FINAL SAY OVER THE CHOOSING OF ELECTORS, NOT ANY BOARD OF ELECTIONS, SECRETARY OF STATE, GOVERNOR, OR EVEN COURT. YOU HAVE THE FINAL SAY"

All of that is thanks to the Founding Fathers who were quite level-headed folks. They're not at all like the psycho George Soros & the Democrat Party psychos who psychotically produced & manufactured all this 2020 Election-Year Chaos (beginning with the ongoing nationwide BLM/Antifa rioting). Soros & the Democrat Party despicably took advantage of the Communist China Party Wu-Flu global pandemic that invaded the U.S. Even Hollywood actress Jane Fonda is at least smart enough to admit that the Democrat Party deviously took advantage of Covid-19 to try to defeat President Trump, when Ms. Fonda called Covid-19 "god's gift to the Left" (and then giggled) in a recent Zoom call with fellow far-left progressive/activists.

The Founding Fathers realized that future generations may go off the deep end and pull crazy crap like the Dems are still doing in 2020. The Founding Fathers are much smarter than many people think; it was the 1700s and they actually foresaw the possibility of what the lunatic Dems are trying to pull in 2020. The Founding Fathers were brilliant. Have a little respect for them, instead of maniacally tearing down their statues.

P.S. The commie Jack Dorsey's Big Tech social media company, Twitter, ridiculously flagged Mark Levin's tweet, falsely claiming that Levin's tweet is "in dispute" or "might be misleading." The Biden-protecting Twitter is (as always) intentionally trying to confuse and deceive you. Using Twitter's "flagging" logic, you can literally flag any statement ever made by any human in history. Thus, Twitter has the power (since it owns the news service) to give a pass to anything said by a Democrat and could potentially flag literally every tweet by a Republican (if it wanted to).

34 posted on 11/06/2020 5:01:38 AM PST by gw-ington
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To: Kaslin

Don’t ever doubt Nancy Pelosi, when she said it doesn’t matter what the vote count is, Biden will be President on January 20.


35 posted on 11/06/2020 5:03:27 AM PST by Toespi
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To: Kaslin

I know two-faced Lindsey Graham will pretend to fight for Trump.
Lol. GOP won, Trump lost.


36 posted on 11/06/2020 5:05:46 AM PST by granada
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To: Kaslin

How many illegitimate votes does it take for the courts to intervene? At what point, and who, declares the election as a fraud and terminates the results?


37 posted on 11/06/2020 5:09:02 AM PST by devane617 (Kyrie Eleison, where I'm going, will you follow?)
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To: GailA

Look up the name Marc Elias. He targeted these very states to change the rules for accepting and counting mailin/absentee/provisional ballots. He is now the head of liigating election results for the biden camp. He was formerly killary’s general council.


38 posted on 11/06/2020 5:10:06 AM PST by 100%FEDUP (I'm seeing RED!)
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To: granada

Being the scumbags that they are, the GOP will no doubt try to get him to concede. I’m not so sure he’ll go along with it. At least not for a bit.


39 posted on 11/06/2020 5:25:57 AM PST by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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To: Kaslin

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40 posted on 11/06/2020 5:29:51 AM PST by sauropod (Let them eat kale. I will not comply.)
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