Sheldon Adelson's newspaper has at the top of the front page and leading its website a column by Sheldon Adelson's wife lamenting the oppression faced by...Trump voters and urging them to get out to vote. This prejudice Trump voters face "is a tragedy for all Americans." My God.
"Trump supporters are by no means alone. But they certainly will be diminished, as individuals, if they swallow their pride, avert their gaze and shuffle along silently to cast their vote before rushing home."
Oh, the humanity, the tragedy!
"You see it in the boarded-up shopfronts of Manhattan and Washington, D.C., and in the extraordinary police deployments, all in anticipation of day-after rioting by vexed Joe Biden voters and other malcontents."
I remind you: This is at the top of Page One of a major daily.
In case you are not aware: 1. Most newspapers don't put columns at the top of Page One or the website. 2. Most papers don't publish columns by the owner's wife at all. 3. Many editors would resign rather than allow this news page pollution. 4. Most papers are not Adelson's RJ.
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NOW: Trump in Nevada is mangling the state's name as he introduces groups endorsing him, which are absolutely no surprise. Very conservative groups, all.
Ne-vah-duh.
He calls these endorsements "a big deal."
They are not.
Who are these people? They are familiar faces to people in Nevada as lobbyists for very conservative agendas in Carson City, not that there's anything wrong with that.
But it would be "a big deal" if they endorsed Biden.
They all, of course, support Trump.
Now up: Candidate for CD4 Lisa Song Sutton whose campaign coincidentally was run by senior Trump adviser Robert Uithoven. She got 15 percent of the vote, not even close.
Frankly, I like to be endorsed by candidates who were winners.
So Trump went to Pennsylvania to keep lying about NV? Here we go again:
"You know, they want to have a thing in Nevada where you don’t have to prove signature, minor things like that. Right?"
This is the stuff being put out by Trump, Laxalt and the state GOP. Utter garbage.
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FactCheck.org exposed this one today, and pointed out that not only do we have signature verification, but they are also lying about a supposed weakening of the requirement. From SOS FAQ:
"The bill did not ‘water down’ or weaken the signature verification process.”
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This nonsense about mail ballots -- Team Trump/state GOP will be in court on this again tomorrow questioning the integrity of some of the best election officials in the country -- is all they have left. By coincidence, the Dems are dominating the GOP in mail balloting here.
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Of course Washoe decides to post its numbers right after I post -- I added them. GOP won first day of in-person voting by 500, but Dems still have 2 to 1 lead thanks to mail ballots. 16 percent in!
Dems have a 54 percent to 24 percent lead in Clark in mail ballots returned (some will be rejected) plus in-person. That's a 35,000-ballot lead with about 10 percent of active voters in.
I'll post an update to my early voting blog in a few, but 1st: I just saw that while I was enjoying a glass of wine and great seafood last night, Laxalt and Grenell sicced their trolls on me, outraged at my suggestion Adam's grandfather would be appalled by what he is doing.
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I take nothing back. I knew Paul Laxalt. Paul Laxalt was the first pol who really impressed me. Adam Laxalt is no Paul Laxalt. Paul would have been appalled at anyone trying to undermine faith in elections, as his grandson is doing. Paul would have been appalled by Trump.
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What's more, you snowflakes, Adam wouldn't even exist in Nevada if he weren't exploiting his grandfather's name. No one would have paid any attention to him when he moved here to run, getting a sinecure at a law firm where he was known as a "trainwreck."
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A thread on a couple of billionaires trying to influence NV's judicial races:
Sheldon Adelson and his wife recently poured $500K into a PAC set up by one of his consultants that humorously says it is designed "To improve the quality and impartiality of the Nevada Judiciary."
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They are almost entirely funding the PAC, which the consultant says is about to get involved in a state Supreme Court race (against @Ozzie4Nevada, I presume) and four District Court races. You know, to ensure "impartiality." Adelson has a history of not being happy w/judges.
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Once, back in the day, one of his advisers emphasized the importance of donating to judges. That adviser? Ex-Rep. Shelley Berkley. Then 5 years ago, just before he bought the RJ, 3 reporters were assigned to monitor a judge presiding over a big case. reviewjournal.com/local/local-la…
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