Thread by @Elaijuh

A few thoughts from watching this clip President Donald Trump RTd of Lewandowski talking about vote-counting in Philly.

https://twitter.com/JudgeJeanine/status/1327808540988354567

“They had an armed guard that stopped us first, they had magnetometers, and they had uniformed police officers who threatened to arrest us if we went in.”

Sounds like a high level of security around the ballot-counting process.

“I presented that order to both the chairman of the board of elections”

The chair, Lisa Deeley, is a woman. Her deputy says Lewandowski “never spoke to Lisa.”

“I called the sheriff to enforce the order, the duly-elected sheriff of Philadephia County. He wouldn’t even respond to our calls, said he wasn’t coming.”

Philadelphia’s sheriff, Rochelle Bilal, is also a woman.

Lewandowski names Seth Bluestein, the chief deputy commissioner overseeing the counting of mail ballots, on national TV and Trump RTs it.

Bluestein has already faced anti-Semitic harrassment and abuse after Pam Bondi named him at a press conference.

inquirer.com/politics/elect…

“And what did they [Philly] do? They summarily — They then turned around and they appealed it to the state Supreme Court, who overruled the Commonwealth judge”

The campaign, of course, is pursuing every legal avenue and similarly appeals its losses, as it is allowed to do.

(Which is how the Commonwealth Court order came to be in the first place.)

Important to remember that Trump campaign observers were always allowed to watch the ballot-counting, and Democrats and Republicans had the same rules.

Also, the order slowed the counting: inquirer.com/politics/elect…

The Trump campaign is pursuing a lot of legal challenges over Pennsylvania’s election, mostly unsuccessfully.

The latest, from @jeremyrroebuck and @julieshawphilly (what a headline):
inquirer.com/news/pennsylva…

And last point: Although the Trump campaign is targeting Philly, Trump did better here than he did four years ago.

inquirer.com/politics/elect…