Posted on 08/27/2023 7:12:19 PM PDT by DallasBiff
“Here’s what I would have said: ‘We need single-day voting on Election Day, we need paper ballots, and we need government- issued ID matching the voter file.’ And if we achieve that, then we have achieved victory and we should not have any further complaint about election integrity. I would have driven it through the Senate," he said
“In my capacity as president of the Senate, I would have led through that level of reform, then on that condition certified the election results, served it up to the president — President Trump — then to sign that into law. And on January 7th, declared the re-election campaign pursuant to a free and fair election,” he said. “I think that was a missed opportunity."
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Con men always do..
He’s a fraud
Rammy’s got some ‘jagged edges’ you just don’t see them yet.
I’m seeing someone who is looking for VP and a future.
Huh?
I know nothing about the guy. Why do you think he’s a conman?
If Trump were to select him for VP, it would be like Reagan-Bush. Why go through hell just to give the Swamp any edge for the next cycle? Don’t think I would even bother to vote if he did that, but I don’t think he will.
Saying what you want to hear is all he’s ever done.
“Odd… Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy lives in Columbus Ohio, but not a registered Republican in Ohio…
“Vivek Skipped half of the elections since registering to vote in Franklin County.
“His wife is also unaffiliated and skipped the same elections.
Have you skipped local elections?
He obviously has no clue how the Senate works. This guy’s a total clown.
No we do not
Go read/watch.
Man is an abject fraud on every level.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4177455/posts
It’s a false headline because there were conditions attached. But those suffering from RDS (Ramaswamy Derangement Syndrome) are not going to read past the headline.
Anybody can say the right things.
Or state election laws.
This guy’s a total clown.
He's a pharma bro who gives of SBF energy. It's amazing, and depressing, he's hoodwinked so many.
But, hey, he "says" the right things!
Apparently, that's all it takes.
“ Why and how is Vivek a fraud? ”
He is a fraud because HamiltonJay has dealt with fraudsters in the past and he gets that vibe from Vivek, therefore Vivek is a fraud. That’s how pronouncements are made on FR.
HamiltonJay is scared of competition from people who do not have same skin color.
But good news is rednecks are a vanishing breed.
Perfectly weasel-worded answer. He would have extracted a “promise” out of the Congress? Yeah, right. There’s zero chance they would have followed through. They would have negotiated with him until the clock ran out, then called him an election denier.
"...It was a dark day for democracy. The loser of the last election refused to concede the race, claimed the election was stolen, raised hundreds of millions of dollars from loyal supporters, and is considering running for executive office again.
I’m referring, of course, to Donald Trump.
Conservatives have their own victimhood complexes these days; we are, after all, a nation of victims now. All that differs is whom we see as our oppressors. The worst victimhood narrative that afflicts modern conservatives is their budding belief that any election they lose must have been stolen. Instead of distinguishing ourselves as the party that strives for excellence and rejects the easy path of victimhood narratives, we simply created our own.
I voted for Trump in 2020. I had some policy disagreements with him—for example, I disapproved of his large-scale government spending and his tariff policies—but I voted for him anyway because he refused to apologize for the things that make America great. Like many Americans, I hungered for the unapologetic pursuit of excellence in our nation. To me, that was something worth voting for. Donald Trump was, notwithstanding his shortcomings, the candidate who best embodied American greatness.
But while Trump promised to lead the nation to recommit itself to the pursuit of greatness, what he delivered in the end was just another tale of grievance, a persecution complex that swallowed much of the Republican party whole.
When my candidate lost the election, I was dissatisfied, but I also felt a sense of peace. The election was done, and it was time to move on. No one likes a sore loser; that’s one of the worst victimhood complexes of all. Accepting the outcomes of elections and having a peaceful transition of power is part of what it means to be a constitutional republic: sometimes your team loses, but if you accept the result and prepare for the next election, eventually the scales will tip your way again. We fought, we lost, and I accepted the result.
So I was especially disappointed when I saw President Trump take a page from the Stacey Abrams playbook. His claims were just as weak as Abrams’s. She claimed voter suppression, he claimed voter fraud. He filed scores of lawsuits over various claims of fraud, as was his right, but they came nowhere close to changing the outcome in a single state, let alone the several swing states whose results he needed to overturn. In many cases, judges the president himself had nominated ruled against him, a sign of health in our nation’s institutions. Of the sixty-two lawsuits he and his supporters filed, he lost all but one, a minor victory in Pennsylvania that affected few votes. A Supreme Court with a strong conservative majority ruled against President Trump twice.
Top election officials in virtually every state, regardless of party, said they’d found no evidence of any significant level of fraud. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a statement saying “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history… There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised. The president fired the agency’s director a few days later. In a call with Georgia’s secretary of state, the president implausibly claimed to have won every single state—something unprecedented in the nation’s history, and a sign that his claims weren’t grounded in fact.
Mike Pence, a man I have great respect for, decided it was his constitutional duty to resist the president’s attempts to get him to unilaterally overturn the results of the election, even in the face of the January 6 Capitol riot. Our institutions did hold, in the end. But they shouldn’t have been tested...
His words. HIS. So to summarize:
I don't trust this person at all. And if we take his advice and simply shut up and accept what happened, it will happen again. And again.
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