Counting, recounting and any legal challenges should proceed but @realDonaldTrump voters —and I am one— have to study the numbers not the web’s fantasies. @DecisionDeskHQ is best cite for data. It is highly improbable and almost impossible for @POTUS to win but trying to is legit
Attempts to intimidate or bully people into silence over their concerns amplifies the bias of those trying to turn eyes away from any irregularities. As @senatemajldr said yesterday, no lectures needed from the Russia conspiracy theorists and legacy media enablers.
There is no “threat to democracy,” no crisis, no endangering the peaceful transition of power. That’s absurd histrionics by people who don’t read or at least read history. Platforms and microphones don’t make for wisdom. Sometimes the opposite. Stay calm and carry on. To Georgia.
I should add the @realDonaldTrump trails @joebiden by 306 EVs to 214. @POTUS trails by 20,557 votes in Wisconsin, so that is actually closer than PA but he still needs three wins that include PA (20 EVs) or three wins that include GA (16 EVs) AZ (11 EVs) WI (10 EVs). That’s math.
The @realDonaldTrump needs to present a colorable theory of how to get from where he is (a less than 1% probability of winning Electoral College) to something closer. I follow it closely and am eager to hear that theory but it hasn’t been laid or much less presented in a court.
As unlikely as a win for @POTUS is, it is infinitely more likely than the dark murmurings that @realDonaldTrump intends some sort of a coup or violence. That’s absurd hysterics, a fever for high school debate club and Antifa ralllies. Shame on legacy media hinting at such a thing
.@realDonaldTrump won ratings, but @JoeBiden went longer. When voters turned in to Biden?: “The questions were softball. I think Biden lost votes with his answers on why black voters should vote for him, transgender rights and fracking,” said one GOP strategist to @nypost 1
The last debate may move needle, but its still a turnout election, w/ only the GDP number still to come --proving or disproving the "Super V" recovery. And of course @realDonaldTrump rallies. Expect him to rally round the circuit of PA, WI, AZ, NC, FL, OH, NH, GA. It works. 3
Like @JoeBiden, @SteveScully is a very nice guy. He's an excellent host. And, it appears, he doesn't like @realDonaldTrump --which is fine, if he's open about it. The @debates Commission is full of nice people too --I've known, worked w/ Jane Harmon many times for example. 1
But you have to be a moron -there aren't many morons inside the Beltway's many circles- not to see the set-up here, how it has unfolded. Read this column, washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…, listen to @realDonaldTrump on @RushLimbaugh today, and go GOTV. It is "Countryside v. Capital" time.
It will take a 4rth quarter comeback for @realDonaldTrump to get out of the trap the @Debates Commission/Wallace built for him, but I thought he was toast in 2016 too and this time he's got a vast army of volunteers and now, w/ Commission perfidy and @SteveScully DM, a plan. 3
My criticisms of Commission on Presidential @debates are long standing. It represents Manhattan-Beltway interests and is partisan. With regards to this latest attempt to change rules to favor @JoeBiden at expense of @realDonaldTrump, here is text of letter Denver Post. 1
The letter was shared with me with permission to use it:
Editor:
In this morning's edition, you printed four letters regarding the presidential debate, all of them critical of President Donald Trump's performance. Did you receive none about Joe Biden? Well, here's one. 2
The first time the President spoke, there was no interruption. The first time Biden spoke, there was no interruption. When the President responded to Biden's comments about the Supreme Court nomination, Biden interrupted him four times. 3
Issues on which next #SCOTUS justice will prove pivotal: separation of powers; scope of Free Exercise Clause and "tension" w/ Establishment Clause; Free Speech; breadth of Second Amendment; criminal procedure in the age of surveillance; scope of deference to regulatory agencies 1
Property rights and especially regulatory takings; rights of states vis-a-vis the federal government; scope of Congressional power to regulate commerce and of course scope of reproductive rights. People suggesting delay don't know the number and importance of big disputes. 2
Originalists --simply put, people who believe in the Constitution and in limited government, who prize freedom and liberty-- have been taking it on the chin for 33 years...since Judge Bork. They have elected four GOP presidents and one moderate Democrat. one left Democrat. 3
“The rule is that the Senate majority rules in this matter. British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli put it succinctly in the 19th century: “A majority is always better than the best repartee.” Talk all you want, but 51 votes decides.” 2
So expect a nominee quickly (Monday?) and hearings in a week or two chaired by @LindseyGrahamSC Democrats are threatening to do things they have already threatened to do —end legislative filibuster, “pack” the Supreme Court. But they’ve already committed to doing those things. 3
When Harry Reid used the nuclear option to end the filibuster for nominees he changed the Senate. He did so over GOP warnings. Now GOP has the majority and @senatemajldr and must take seriously threats made by Ds before Justice RBG died. Seriously, can people not see this? 4
January 29 of this year, National Security Advisor Ambassador @robertcobrien to me on air: “It’s an incredibly dangerous virus. We’re meeting on it every day. The President’s being briefed by his advisors, Alex Azar, by CDC on an almost hour by hour basis.” 1
“So we’re watching it carefully. We did note that the British Airlines, one of the great airlines in the world, and with a very international reach, has suspended direct flights in and out of mainland China. So we’re monitoring that.” 2
“I believe that was a company decision, not a UK government decision, but I think it’s, I think that sends a message to the American people.” 3