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An Election in Overtime
National Review ^ | November 5, 2020 | NR Editors

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

Donald Trump over-performed the polls and shocked the pundits again on Tuesday, getting so close to the finish line that several key states have yet to be called.

This is a significant achievement, and even if he doesn’t ultimately win, Republicans have a strong chance of holding the Senate and defanging a Biden presidency from the outset.

But beginning late on election night, Trump has reminded everyone how he’s always refused to conform himself to the institution of the presidency, a fact that helped repel suburban and college-educated voters, perhaps dooming his reelection bid.

In his 2:30 a.m. appearance before supporters at the White House, Trump said that he had already won the election and it was being stolen away from him in a fraud on the nation, vowing to go to the Supreme Court for redress. He doubled down with an even more outlandish statement on Thursday night.

It’s not unusual for candidates in close, drawn-out elections to project confidence, but a president of the United States obviously shouldn’t declare himself the winner of a national election before the final result is known and allege fraud without any hard evidence.

There is no doubt that mail-in voting is less secure than in-person voting, and the way the vote-counting has played out in the Blue Wall states and Georgia — with Trump leading early, then pauses in the counts before resuming with Biden making huge gains — inevitably fuels suspicions.

But the contours of the count track with the larger pattern of the vote. Trump encouraged his supporters to vote on Election Day, and these same-day votes are counted first, while Democrats tended to vote early, which are counted later.

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1 posted on 11/06/2020 4:37:11 AM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

Didn’t read because %^* these sellouts.


2 posted on 11/06/2020 4:38:05 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: karpov

No you morons at NR, the democrats voted early and often.


3 posted on 11/06/2020 4:39:06 AM PST by FlipWilson
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To: karpov

Please Stop posting Never Trumper hate.


4 posted on 11/06/2020 4:42:27 AM PST by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists)
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To: karpov

Who cares what these pigs have to say?


5 posted on 11/06/2020 4:42:29 AM PST by angmo (#joeknew)
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To: karpov

Time for all of us to let them have it turn off media and defend ourselves when the time comes. Trump should just walk the fuck out of the wh and say you cheated I’m going golfing in fla. He did every single thing he could...we let him down.


6 posted on 11/06/2020 4:47:18 AM PST by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: karpov

There have been “problems” with blatant election fraud perpetrated by the socialist dems for well over 20 years, yet EVERY election the GOP seems surprised and unprepared. I’m guessing in a few weeks they’ll forget again until the next election.


7 posted on 11/06/2020 4:47:59 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Behind enemy lines in the newly occupied socialist state of Georgia)
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To: karpov

National Review — how art the mighty fallen.


8 posted on 11/06/2020 4:49:42 AM PST by odawg
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9 posted on 11/06/2020 4:51:57 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: karpov

...without any hard evidence.


How do they know that is true. Trump fights in courts of law. The court of public opinion is not a court of law.

And a reminder to the left: Even when trump stopped by federal court, the SCOTUS usually reversed the lower court, and this was BEFORE Amy.

This is going to be a very interesting month.


10 posted on 11/06/2020 4:52:34 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: karpov

No you morons at NR, the democrats voted early and often.


11 posted on 11/06/2020 4:54:44 AM PST by FlipWilson
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To: FlipWilson

VDH does not represent NR.

He is a clear thinking American Patriot whose logic and context usually is startlingly refreshing and hateful to nevertrumping elites and progressives overall. He should be heard and read in schools as a Thomas Aquinas level Doctor of natural truths.


12 posted on 11/06/2020 4:55:42 AM PST by epluribus_2 (He, had the best mom - ever.)
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To: karpov

This was not an election. No more than soviet or Saddams elections were.


13 posted on 11/06/2020 4:56:05 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: karpov

Look everyone. Did they cheat? Yes. Was mail voting terribly flawed and inviting fraud? Yes.

Is that why we are losing the presidency? Maybe and no.

And yes. Mail in voting was an abomination, especially combined with early voting. But like everything evil the left does, they normalize it and make it “legal”.

Maybe we’ll win recounts. Maybe we’ll prove enough actual fraud.

But the legal voting system was a disaster for us, and I’m sorry to say Trump squandered opportunities.

Do I love his arrogance and honesty? Yes. But continuing to be negative about dead McCain in AZ? Refusing to just say wear masks (voluntarily) without going on and on about a waiter touching their mask? Blowing the chance in the first debate to be “presidential”? After all he was in fact president.

He did great as president, he did great in the election, but he also screwed up, and the legal voting system was designed to make him lose.

Speaking for myself, I’m tired of hearing that losing votes in Democrat cities is just fraud, and that someone should cancel and redo the election.

Yes the democrats are evil, antisocial media is evil, leftists are haters and liars, America may very well lose out to China. But we have a POPULATION of minorities, illegals and their kids and brainwashed leftists.

And you were NOT going to prevent the popular vote from spreading to the electoral vote. Not forever. That’s because the electoral system works and eventually was going to reflect the national popular vote.


14 posted on 11/06/2020 4:59:01 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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“This is a significant achievement, and even if he doesn’t ultimately win, Republicans have a strong chance of holding the Senate and defanging a Biden presidency from the outset.“

Bullshit. He will have the party of the CIA, FBI, communist AG who will launch prosecutions against us. They will designate us as terrorists and criminalize speech like in England. All will be rubber stamped by federal courts.

By the way, we don’t have the senate yet either.


15 posted on 11/06/2020 5:01:11 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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5 Nov: Gateway Pundit: EXCLUSIVE: Poll Watcher in Michigan Kicked Out of Detroit Hall But Not Before They Obtained Evidence of Potential Fraud
by Joe Hoft
One poll worker was expelled from the TCF Center where Wayne County/Detroit ballots are being counted, when they caught this snap...PIC

You can read seven out of eight voter names listed on the screen image below – all their birthdays showed as January 1, 1900...
What’s interesting is that all these people exist, but with different birth years and none of them appear to be regular voters...

The electronic system should include the most accurate data. Experts when asked said there was no reason this data should be wrong as displayed in this photo...
The suspicion is that thousands of individuals are entered into the database with the birth year of 1900. We saw cases of this yesterday. These may be duplicate entries of real people. We don’t know...

The voter rolls in Michigan should be obtained now and all records with 1900 years of birth identified and compared to ballots received.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/exclusive-poll-watcher-michigan-kicked-detroit-hall-not-obtained-evidence-potential-fraud/


16 posted on 11/06/2020 5:02:59 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: Williams

Williams explain the precincts where voter turnout was 205%


17 posted on 11/06/2020 5:03:09 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: MAGAthon

35m50s to 39m06s: Robert Cahaly, Trafalgar Group. (paraphrasing)
at 37m 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/


18 posted on 11/06/2020 5:04:10 AM PST by MAGAthon
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To: karpov; wny; The Duke; UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide; poinq; DesertRhino; Saveourcountry; ...

None of us needs to underestimate the power of prayer! God has brought Trump through all of the attempts to destroy him and we must have faith that he will do it again.

There is an enormous battle raging right now in the spiritual realm. The darkness is trying to prevent itself from being exposed. We need to call on all Saints, intercessors and prayer warriors to lift up the supernatural wind and help the President who is called for in such a time as this, to cross the finish line.

So, let the Lord God hear your constant prayers! He will listen.


19 posted on 11/06/2020 5:08:34 AM PST by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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The Democrats called out Trump as an illegitimate President since election day 2016. Dozens boycotted his inauguration and the RESIST movement was inflicted upon our government. The Democrats, with media’s help, waged a 3-plus year Russia collusion war on no basis, and ultimately impeached Trump in the House. Mainstream media stories on him were negative well over 90% of the time. Democrats and the media then blamed him for a virus created and China which has infected the world.

And they are upset that he’s not acting more o their liking now?


20 posted on 11/06/2020 5:08:40 AM PST by trublu
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