Actually, some of your colleagues -- @Wheeler4Nevada, for example -- actually are echoing these election fraud claims, which are incredibly damaging, and Assembly lackeys such as @GlenforNevada and @AndyMatthewsNV are worried about "election security."
History will remember.
Ah, I missed this story while I was on vacation:
Asked Friday if he believes Nevada’s elections were fair, Sen. Ben Kieckhefer, R-Reno, said, “I do.”
(He) said he has some concerns about the process, such as the verification of signatures. He said those should be looked at by state lawmakers.. “But that doesn’t mean that massive fraud took place either. Overall, the election we’ve had I think is clearly going to stand.”
Good.
“The idea that there was a Democratic conspiracy to rig the election but stop at the top of the ticket seems somewhat implausible,” Kieckhefer said.
So Ben K. deserves credit for that. Good for him, even though I still think he should have taken on Trump directly.
And good on @jilltolles:
“While I believe there were mistakes and opportunities for possible fraud and there is much we can do to clean up the process to restore faith in our election system...
@jilltolles "...I have not yet seen enough verified evidence to conclude that the results in races won by a large margin will be reversed when it’s all finalized..."
Glad she said that.
Also, kudos to @ColtonLochhead
for doing this important story.
@jilltolles@ColtonLochhead “I do have concerns about where we go from here based on the narrative of unfair elections. I think there are certain things that institute faith in the people’s faith and trust in its government. Primary to that is the belief that our elections are fairly run,” Kieckhefer said..
@jilltolles@ColtonLochhead ".Without that, you don’t have the consent of the governed in the way that allows us to continue moving forward.”
Then you have other Repubs in that same story who won their races but are saying there may have been fraud -- of course not in their races, though! Because they won!
@jilltolles@ColtonLochhead Anyhow, folks, my bad for not seeing that story in which @Ben_Kieckhefer and @jilltolles did not give sustenance to -- and even knocked down -- claims of fraud. Read the whole thread -- I think all GOP electeds should condemn Trump for what he is doing and did again today.
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Finally: Last votes from Clark County are in. As I thought, very slightly favored Trump, but not nearly enough for him:
Biden: 702,277 (50.07%)
Trump: 669,278 (47.65%)
Biden wins Nevada by 32,999 votes, or 2.42 points.
Biden won Clark by just under 10 points. The Clark Dem firewall held, again. It was just over 90K and Biden won Clark by 91K. Republicans did not get super-high rural turnout they needed, and even if they had, Biden won Washoe by 11K.
His win here very closely mirrored Clinton's.
That last update flipped a Dem state Senate seat, so Dems lose one off their majority in the upper house. They already had lost their supermajority in the Assembly. Only bright spot for GOP is legislative races. They are still in minority, but made gains in Senate/Assembly.
Trump sycophant Lindsey Graham under the withering gaze of "FOX&Friends" mangled name of our state as he lied (starts at 4:50):
"The election is not over by the way. Someone needs to look at Nevada. The lawsuits in Nevada are very promising."
No. They are not. All dismissed.
1/
The election is not over! Really, senator? Biden is up by 37,000 votes here and even Sheldon Adelson's paper says the fraud claims are nonsense.
He then claims the signature verification machine "was basically turned off."
Are you kidding me?
Pathetic and outrageous.
2/
"They accepted every signature whether it was fraudulent or not. They may win that lawsuit."
Graham is a lawyer. What he is saying is patently false.
Let me remind you again what Sheldon Adelson says: It's over!
First Sheldon Adelson's paper had that huge "Biden Wins" headline. Today, it has a brutal editorial telling Trump he lost:"(Trump) does a disservice to his more rabid supporters by insisting that he would have won the Nov. 3 election absent voter fraud. That’s simply false." 1/
"There is no evidence, however, that fraud cost Mr. Trump the election, no matter how much the president tweets the opposite and his supporters wish it so...He would remain well behind Mr. Biden in NV even if unverified GOP claims of thousands of illegal votes were dropped..."
2/
"...rhetoric from Trump surrogates alleging widespread illegal activity has been devoid of detailed evidence supporting the charge that there was a concerted effort to 'steal' the election through corruption."
3/
"(Trump supporters) have used the state’s mailed ballots and a few allegations of fraud to claim that widespread voting impropriety helped tilt Nevada's election...But a review of available facts and cases found few, if any, irregularities that could have swayed the results." 1/
This piece, by Adelson's lead investigative reporter, is devastating to the Trump cause here.
Once you've lost Sheldon...
Story methodically debunks all of the nonsense (except maybe for the Biden-Harris van full of fraudsters!) put forth by Trump, Laxalt, Grenell et. al.
2/
"...Trump campaign officials, including state campaign co-chair and former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, have not returned calls and emails and repeatedly have refused to provide detailed information that would allow Review-Journal reporters to verify or debunk.."
Sad!
3/
"Here is what any serious person being honest with you about elections, and the laws surrounding those elections, will tell you: In EVERY election, a certain number (generally very small) of votes will be cast by voters who, for certain reasons, are not actually eligible..."
"And this brings me to the assertions of our former attorney general and those assisting him in besmirching Nevada’s processes in this election..one has to wonder just what was he doing relative to such votes for the four years in which he was the chief law enforcement officer.."
"Every voter and every candidate...deserves a fair election which counts only lawful votes. And in those elections where there is actual evidence of improper votes that actually matter, we have a legal system to find and remove those votes. The system actually works."
@TheNVIndy Remember I told you on the early voting blog that Biden needed to win Clark by 80K and Trump needed to offset that in rurals.
Currently:
Clark - Biden+86K
Rurals - Trump+65K
Washoe - Biden+11K
Rural turnout/margins did not get there for Trump.
Clark firewall held for Dems.
@TheNVIndy So what we have in NV is what I expected to happen: Dems had built up 90K margin Clark in early/mail. Biden is going to win Clark by close to that number or more. Washoe is going slightly to Biden as I thought and Trump crushing it in rurals (bigger than '16 but not big enough).