Thread by @DrewHolden360

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Okay, all my thoughts as of 8 PM on Thursday on the election. Stay with me before you get mad.

1. I think they’ll call Pennsylvania & Georgia for Biden, either tonight or tomorrow AM.

2. I think they call Arizona for Trump. If they do, people at AP and Fox should be fired.

3. I think they eventually call Nevada for Trump, too.

4. I think the margins are super narrow in PA and GA. I think there will be recounts. I think the way those turn out - especially in PA - is anyone’s guess.

5. I don’t think there’s a widespread, concerted effort by Democrats to steal the election through nefarious means.

6. I DO think that there may very well be election irregularities that we need to get to the bottom of and the courts will need to decide on.

7. I thought Trump’s press conference was bad. Unbecoming of the leader of the free world and plenty of it didn’t appear tethered to the truth. Also didn’t help his cause. I thought he looked whiny and defeated.

8. I DON’T think his presser was some enormous threat to democracy.

8a. I’m not interested in hearing that Trump’s press conference was an attack on democracy from people who have told me for four years that Donald Trump has been a Russian asset since 1987, operating at Putin’s direction as a Manchurian candidate.

8b. I think the media lit their collective credibility about election integrity and norms on fire between the way they’ve covered “Russian collusion” and by providing a platform for both Hillary Clinton and Stacey Abrams to float conspiracy theories suggesting they were robbed.

9. Back to the election.

I think that we don’t get clarity on who won the election for weeks. I think things will go really sideways after this thing is called. I don’t know why people aren’t preparing or bracing for that.

I think we are VERY far from the finish line.

10. Because of that, I think it’s incumbent on elected republicans to go on their record about what’s going on. I think a lot of them are hiding so that they can throw in with whichever team wins this.

That’s cowardly. Put yourselves out there. Pick a side. Have some integrity.

10a. I can’t help but think that a lot of republicans are hiding because they would rather be rid of Trump than fight.

If your calculation on the well-being of our democracy is that narrow, you are either a coward or a fool, and you don’t deserve the office you hold.

End.

PS

11. A huge part of the problem is that certain states do a horrible job of counting votes. We should encourage better policies - no same-day registration, no late mail-in votes, voter ID laws, etc. - that a) help get accurate numbers quickly and b) increase public confidence.