Biden's Lead in Arizona Shrinks

Townhall.com ^ | November 10, 2020 | Leah Barkoukis

[Kaslin]

An update to the Arizona vote count posted the evening of Monday, Nov. 9, shows the gap between the two presidential candidates shrink even more.

Overall, Joe Biden now leads in the state by 14,746 votes, down from 16,952 votes on Sunday afternoon. This puts President Trump within about half of a percentage point from Biden with approximately 61,500 ballots left to be counted.

BREAKING

Donald Trump is now within 1% of Biden in Arizona.

Have you heard that from our sycophantic DNC media?

Nope. — Benny (@bennyjohnson) November 10, 2020

Gap in Arizona falls a little more. Biden now leading by about 15k with 2% to be counted. A recount likely given the margin. pic.twitter.com/bx0VDrbaSK — Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) November 10, 2020

Secretary of State Katie Hobbs reminded voters the ballot cure process deadline on Nov. 10 is fast approaching.

The ballot cure period is ending soon, and time is running out for voters who need to correct certain ballot issues. For more information, including ways to contact county election officials, visit https://t.co/fUw8UPtvzK or call 1-877-THE-VOTE. pic.twitter.com/GtKvS0Gan2 — Secretary Katie Hobbs (@SecretaryHobbs) November 9, 2020

The latest batch of votes, which included those from Maricopa County, shows President Trump did not perform as well as he needed to.

Trump took 49.2% of 6,495 votes that were posted in Maricopa County at 7 p.m. on Monday, with Biden taking 47%. That was far short of what Trump needed. To overtake Biden, he needs more than 60% of all the remaining ballots statewide. (AZ Central)

No matter the outcome, the media was too quick to call the race for Biden in The Grand Canyon State given the razor thin margin.

When Fox called Arizona, its decision desk said Trump could not eliminate the 7 point lead Biden had. Biden's lead is now down to .5 (one-half of a point) with 1000s more ballots to count. Fox may luck out and be right, but the race was, in fact, too close to call. https://t.co/sdKceJ28iV — Sharyl Attkisson???‍?? (@SharylAttkisson) November 10, 2020

The Trump campaign and Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit in Arizona on Saturday over "incorrectly rejected votes" in Maricopa County.

“Poll workers struggled to operate the new voting machines in Maricopa County, and improperly pressed and told voters to press a green button to override significant errors,” Matt Morgan, Trump 2020 campaign general counsel, said in a statement. “The result is that the voting machines disregarded votes cast by voters in person on Election Day in Maricopa County.”

The lawsuit is seeking "the manual inspection of purportedly overvoted ballots that were cast in-person, the same way that elections officials examined overvoted ballots that were mailed in or dropped off," the Trump campaign press release states.

[Blue Turtle]

Ridiculous - count taking so long.

[COBOL2Java]

RATS: "Quick! Get more votes sent in to Arizona!"

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[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Get us within a few thousand and then dig for fraud.

[azkathy]

Praying AZ goes for Trump. I want to rub Fox News face in the win.

[entropy12]

Exactly. Counting dead voters and fake votes and illegal votes is meaningless.

Count only LEGAL votes.

[patriotspride]

Praying AZ goes for Trump. I want to rub Fox News face in the win.

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Bingo... cause their further ratings decline

[Kaslin]

So you are saying there was no fraud?

[Kaslin]

They deserve it.

[MountainWalker]

So, it sounds like the president needs 76% of the remaining ballots which, not knowing the composition, seems like is a tall order though I hope I’m wrong.

[Phillyred]

Slowest counters ever

[Dan in Wichita]

Even if somehow Biden prevails in AZ (not likely unless fraudulent votes are counted in the end), Fox was clearly wrong to call AZ for Biden 20 minutes after the polls were closed. How wonder how many Trump voters left the line to vote upon the news the state was already lost.

About the time Fox called AZ for Biden, the vote counting in several battleground states (WI, MI and others) mysteriously came to a halt. In my opinion, the AZ call was a signal to the fraud machines in those states to begin executing Phase 2. Phase 1 was the software "glitch" fiasco, improperly adding votes to Biden's total.

The problem for Dems is the Red Wave was so massive, Phase 1 was insufficient to control the outcome of the election for Biden, so Phase 2, consisting of harvesting and manufacturing ballots for Biden, was carried out in the dead of the night in the absence of poll watchers.

[Eleutheria5]

Zombo Americans and undocumented workers have needs, too. Theay may not be very eloquent, but they do need to eat your brains and steal your jobs, and you should let them.

[LS]

Latest as of last night:

Of the 61,000 AZ ballots out (Trump trails by 14,500), some 18,000 are provisionals from Pima County (Tucson). Not good, but the fact they are provisionals means many may be tossed.

There is a very large batch of NON-provisionals from Maricopa and a few Trump friendly counties. All the rest of the Trump friendly counties are provisionals.

So what does this mean?
1) Provisionals in Pima are going to be 60/40 D. Let’s hope most get tossed because they lack sufficient signature, etc.
2) Maricopa ballots all depend on where they come from. N. Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, southern suburbs like Chandler, east Mesa, Gilbert, heavy Trump. West side/south before the suburbs, D.
3) Yuma has a couple of thousand out. I don’t know enough about this county to call it.
4) Some of the other counties are north, very heavy red.

Conclusion: this will be VERY close. There are more than enough good counties out there to get 14,000, but the wild card are the Pima provisionals. Remember a provisional is a ballot in question. Could come from Rs or Ds, could be Sharpiegate.

Yesterday there was a report that RCP “pulled” its PA projection. NO, they never made it.

I still give Trump only about a 30% chance of pulling this off. The path goes like this. I think he has to get AZ; second, he has to get 25,000 out of WI, which wins it. That’s 21 EVs. Then the real battle is on between PA (20), GA (16?) and MI (18). We need as best I can tell AZ + WI +one other.

The state legislatures are engaged, but who knows how totally committed they are. GA will be recounted, but we need ALL of these to be “re-canvassed,” that is, a review of all the machines, for in WI and MI there were machine errors where a single machine was off by 4,000 for Biteme.

Don’t kid yourselves. Trump can win the court case in PA and still come up short if he doesn’t get two of AZ/MI/WI/GA. An AZ win here would be very, very big.

[ponygirl]

Don’t forget that AZ used Dominion also.

[newfreep]

Since you accused me of “handwringing” when I posted Corey L’s comment that it would be a very close election, are you engaging in the proverbial “handwringer”?

Asking for a friend...

[reviled downesdad]

Let’s all Pray AZ flips
That would be bombshell news and put Biden on defense.
Let’s pray all pending Military ballots in Georgia are enough to flip to Trump before a recount.

Let’s pray more sw glitches are uncovered in WI and MI enough to force recouns and scrutinty.

Let’s pray the GOP state houses get a backbone esp in PA and root out fraud

[Fiddlstix]

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[CedarDave]

Don’t forget that AZ used Dominion also.

I saw a report yesterday that only Maricopa County used Dominion. The other counties used another software (ES&S or some name like that)..

[Mr Rogers]

Not looking good. Right now the votes being tallied are running about 50:50. The Arizona GOP Cheap Labor Express combined with old people who believe submission to government is their only hope of avoiding death by COVID have screwed the rest of us. Add in Jeff Flake Mormons....