“That’s like losing the Super Bowl and then saying ‘I want a review of a certain play using different rules than what applied to the rest of the game.'"
@WI_Elections@realDonaldTrump Dean Knudson, a Republican member of @WI_Elections board, says Trump raised "significant legal questions that have never been adjudicated in Wisconsin.”
But Democratic member Mark Thomsen says Trump is showing the essence of hypocrisy and cheating and dishonesty.”
@WI_Elections@realDonaldTrump Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett on Trump only calling for recount in Milwaukee, Dane counties:
“This is an attack on cities, on minorities, on places that have historically voted Democratic. Don’t let anyone fool you that this is about irregularities.”
.@WI_Elections Commission meeting is off to a rocky start, with GOP members arguing for another meeting before @realDonaldTrump recount results are certified
Democrats say there's no point to meet again because the law spells out how certification goes
Commission is split 3-3
@WI_Elections@realDonaldTrump Commission is now arguing over what changes, if any, to make to its recount manual providing guidance to local elections officials
Democratic member Mark Thomsen, from Milwaukee, says "I've never felt so attacked" by Trump seeking recount only in Milwaukee, Dane counties
@WI_Elections@realDonaldTrump Republican commission member Den Knudson is arguing that the order calling for the recount should tell the counties to set aside ballots in bulk that Trump is questioning in expectation of a future court challenge
@JoeBiden@realDonaldTrump Trump campaign legal adviser Jenna Ellis today stops short of promising a recount in Wisconsin:
“The legal team continues to examine the issues with irregularities in Wisconsin and are leaving all legal options open, including a recount and an audit."
The two leaders of Milwaukee's host committee for the 2020 Democratic National Convention have been fired amid allegations that they oversaw a toxic work environment
The dramatic shakeup comes less than six months before the showcase political event in swing state Wisconsin.
The host committee board issued a statement saying that the group's president, Liz Gilbert, and its chief of staff, Adam Alonso, were no longer employed by the organization effective immediately.
The firings came a day after Gilbert and Alonso were placed on leave
Joe Solmonese, the chief executive of the Democratic National Convention Committee, said the “gravity of the concernd raised” demanded a serious and meaningful response and he was grateful for the board acting promptly to address the issue.
BREAKING: Wisconsin judge sides with conservatives, orders elections commission to deactivate up to 234,000 voters who may have moved
Decision expected to be appealed
The judge said Wisconsin law clearly required the elections commission to deactivate voters who didn't respond to the mailing within 30 days. The commission had no basis to set a different time frame, he said.
Judge Paul Malloy:
“I don’t want to see anybody deactivated but I don’t write the legislation. If you don’t like it, then I guess you have to go back to the Legislature. (The elections commission) didn’t do that."
The case is expected to go to the state Supreme Court
.@ScottWalker tells reporters his interactions with Maria Butina, who is charged with being a foreign agent for Russia, did not extend beyond an NRA convention in 2015 where they had their picture taken together:
"We had no meeting, just so it's clear."
@ScottWalker "What we did is what we do just about every day in Wisconsin. As we go to events, we meet people, they introduce themselves, often they ask for a picture. That's not a meeting. A meeting is where you sit down in a room and have a discussion."
@ScottWalker Walker on pictures of him with Maria Butina:
"I just ask the logical question. If it was something covert, why wold we post that picture on a website? It just seems ridiculous to think that would be the case."