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Explainer: Can Trump override the popular vote?
Reuters ^ | Nov 20, 2020 | Tom Hals

Posted on 11/20/2020 7:49:59 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's latest strategy for attacking the legitimacy of the U.S. election appears to be focusing on a bold power play of persuading Republican state lawmakers to overturn the vote in states won by his Democratic challenger Joe Biden.

To succeed, Trump would have to surmount considerable legal hurdles, overcome public condemnation and sway lawmakers in at least three states to break with democratic norms.

Most election scholars said the odds of Trump ultimately being named president are exceedingly slim....

The president has repeatedly claimed without providing evidence that the election was stolen....

This is a difficult legal argument since the campaign is asking a court to override the vote of millions of Americans because of relatively minor alleged voting irregularities.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: certification; election; fakenews; fraud
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To: ConservativeMind

Joe Biden did NOT win the popular vote based on what we have learned.


21 posted on 11/20/2020 8:08:21 AM PST by applpie
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To: All; where's_the_Outrage?

As we discuss this with people we need to forcefully challenge any idea that VOTES are being thrown out. We want ILLEGALLY SUBMITTED ballots and FRAUDULENT OVERCOUNTS to be Excluded, and these are NOT VOTES. (Yes, I am Cap-Yelling.)

Emphasize that we want all Legally Cast vote to count. If they Support Fraud because it helps their side then they make themselves a legitimate target of opposition for the honest majority of voters. (Hopefully just for legitimate legally based opposition... Beyond that we do not know yet.)


22 posted on 11/20/2020 8:09:27 AM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: a fool in paradise

This is the globalists against the United States. For many years we have heard that there was a plan for a New World Order—this is it. It was not a “conspiracy theory” this was real all along. What is the United Nations building doing in New York City on American soil?

This has always been about the elites taking away our basic human rights. It was the globalist elites against the American people and all the people of the world as well.


23 posted on 11/20/2020 8:10:06 AM PST by cradle of freedom (ET TU FOX NEWS)
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To: ConservativeMind
overcome public condemnation

In another thread it was stated that 1/3 of dimrats believe the election was stolen from Trump.

If that is the case, a clear majority of people in this country probably believe that (except romney).

24 posted on 11/20/2020 8:11:46 AM PST by pfflier
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To: MountainWalker
The AP headline this AM referenced the Trump team’s efforts to “subvert” Biden’s election.

Their bias is now beyond being brazen.

25 posted on 11/20/2020 8:12:09 AM PST by daler
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The “popular vote” is not relevant except within individual sovereign states in our federal republic. See US Constitution. I’m sure Reuters can find a copy buried in some library somewhere.


26 posted on 11/20/2020 8:13:16 AM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: cradle of freedom

>>For many years we have heard that there was a plan for a New World Order—this is it. It was not a “conspiracy theory” this was real all along.

Cranky Walter Cronkite was onboard with that agenda from the 1940s onward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oFS-KT377M


27 posted on 11/20/2020 8:15:20 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The Stupid. It burns.


28 posted on 11/20/2020 8:15:34 AM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: Leaning Right

The traitors coalition is making as much noise as possible to intimidate everyone. After all they have the big media and they will use it to the best of their advantage. It is their version of shock and awe. We have to watch them closely and come together in shows of strength throughout the nation.

We have to save everything useful on the internet as they will disappear it as soon as possible.


29 posted on 11/20/2020 8:18:35 AM PST by cradle of freedom (ET TU FOX NEWS)
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To: Leaning Right
Sorry for being so pessimistic. But that's my prediction.

If anyone is on the verge of suicide but they can't quite get themselves to jump off the ledge, pull the trigger, or swallow the pills... all they really need to do is click on your name in one of your posts and look through your posting history. You write the most asinine crap here day in and day out that it could motivate just about anyone to finish themselves off. You are a born loser.

So congratulations I am again awarding you the daily Eeyore award!

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30 posted on 11/20/2020 8:18:42 AM PST by fireman15
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

pravda speak


31 posted on 11/20/2020 8:18:46 AM PST by ConservativeDude
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To: ClearCase_guy

Turn off the devil box. Only watch, read or listen to what you can believe. Fox News has gone to the devil.

Save anything you can, newspaper articles, internet sites and write down notes of anything that is of use.


32 posted on 11/20/2020 8:22:23 AM PST by cradle of freedom (ET TU FOX NEWS)
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To: V_TWIN

I’ve been thinking of the Biden ballots with the perfectly filled ovals. If those are in hand and can be shown to have been printed with the oval already filled, I would like to think that that would be grounds to throw the ballot out.


33 posted on 11/20/2020 8:24:37 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I do not see this as the path to success. This is what we have seen so far:
1) The added votes in several states (4 or 6) are in exactly the same proportion - defying the laws of probability. Thus, as master change was made somewhere.
2) The server in Germany appears to be the source, and has the original numbers in it before they were altered.
3) Someone paid for this fix and there is a money trail to be followed.
4) The guilty parties will be charged with treason.

I think all of the re-counting is a smoke screen.


34 posted on 11/20/2020 8:24:55 AM PST by impactplayer ( )
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To: a fool in paradise
Save any useful newspaper articles like this one. Print it up if it is on the internet in case it “disappears”.
35 posted on 11/20/2020 8:25:06 AM PST by cradle of freedom (ET TU FOX NEWS)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Yes! Trump can easily overcome Biden's LEGAL votes.
36 posted on 11/20/2020 8:28:25 AM PST by entropy12 (No president of past kept as many promises as PDJT. )
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To: Leaning Right

My worry is that the SC, knowing the mass rioting and destruction that would follow if they do the right thing, will “do what’s best for the country” instead.


37 posted on 11/20/2020 8:32:55 AM PST by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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To: a fool in paradise

Yep. Television was the New World Order’s hypnobox machine. I was a child when television came out. We used to sit around the tv at 6 o’clock and watch the three networks. They were all the same, whether it was NBC, ABC or CBS, they all had the same news. No one questioned them. Imagine millions of American’s through out the whole country were watching the same version of the news trusting every word they said.


38 posted on 11/20/2020 8:32:59 AM PST by cradle of freedom (ET TU FOX NEWS)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

There are no provisions in the Constitution for a popular Presidential vote. The President is elected by the delegates of the Electoral College.


39 posted on 11/20/2020 8:39:54 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Neither safety nor security exists in nature. Everything is dangerous and has risk.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
"The president has repeatedly claimed without providing evidence that the election was stolen...."

That must be talking point number one on the leftist's memo.

There is plenty of evidence of suspicious situations, including eyewitness affidavits, statements from experts based on statistical analysis, etc.

The more that the media and the Democrats stonewall any meaningful review of what happened the more they convince the public that they are hiding something.

40 posted on 11/20/2020 8:44:07 AM PST by freeandfreezing
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