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4 Dec, 8 tweets, 2 min read
75 R’s in PA legislature urge its Congressional delegation to reject the state’s Electoral College votes, even though Biden’s 82,000-vote win was lawfully certified and Trump’s lawsuits over election issues have been repeatedly rejected.
Signers include the House Speaker and Majority Leader.
A federal judge in PA dismissed a suit w some of the same complaints as the GOP lawmakers, wrote the Trump campaign provided only “strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations” that were “unsupported by evidence.”

nytimes.com/2020/11/21/us/…
A response to this GOP letter from spox for @TomWolfPA:

"Governor Wolf will not allow these unnecessary and false accusations to be used to take away anyone’s right to vote."
The GOP leaders in the State House signed this letter just a day after issuing a statement that the Legislature had no power to name its own electors in contravention of the will of PA voters. GOP leadership is playing a dangerous game, trying to appease Trump’s base.
The GOP leaders also signed this letter after Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis echoed ex-NYC police chief Bernie Kerik - a felon pardoned by Trump —who called PA’s top lawmakers ‘cowards’ and ‘traitors’ for not overturning the will of the voters.

inquirer.com/news/pennsylva…
There are two open statewide seats in PA in 2022, governor and US Senator. If the R nominees are linked to these Statewide efforts to reject the will of the voters, it’s hard to imagine them winning.
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11 Oct
The crush of news is unrelenting but don’t miss this:

‘As a candidate, Trump vowed to drain the swamp. But he did not merely fail to end favor-seeking; he reinvented it, turning his hotels and clubs into the new back rooms, where special interests reign.’ nytimes.com/interactive/20…
‘Trump built a system of direct presidential influence-peddling unrivaled in modern American politics’

By 9 NYT reporters.
Under huge financial stress before his election, Trump’s businesses discovered a lucrative new revenue steam: people who wanted something from the president.
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10 Oct
S.C. absentee ballot received by a voter after SCOTUS ruling Monday that witness signatures *are* required. Seems likely to lead to many discarded votes.
S.C. does not have a process for notifying voters of a missing signature to allow them to ‘cure’ a discarded ballot. lwv.org/newsroom/press…
Election Board records show this ballot was mailed to the voter on Oct 7, two days after the SCOTUS decision. It arrived on Friday.
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7 Oct
On the day POTUS returned to the WH and whipped off his mask, I spoke with voters in central PA, including many who scoffed at the threat of the virus nytimes.com/2020/10/06/us/…
My main takeaway: many Trump voters were full of misinformation about Covid that echoes the false claims the president has made all year.
E.g., they falsely claimed that data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on deaths and cases were wrong, that getting the virus was no worse than getting the flu, and that it was introduced and kept in the spotlight only by Mr. Trump’s Democratic opponents.
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27 Sep
Fasten you’re seatbelts, Ohio results won’t be known for at least 10 days after Nov 3.

—Trump is likely to lead the Election Night in-person vote

—Mail ballots accepted for 10 days
if postmarked by Nov 3. But no interim results announced before 10 days dispatch.com/story/news/pol…
A couple of caveats: Ohio is unlikely to be the tipping point state. And election officials can process absentee ballots received prior to Election Day, scan them and report results soon after polls close Nov 3.
Guide to each state’s timeline for processing absentee ballots ncsl.org/research/elect…
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21 Sep
Ernst’s job approval handling coronavirus has dipped into negative territory 38 approve/41 disapprove.

She recently echoed a conspiracy theory about CDC Covid death stats and suggested doctors had financial incentives to falsely report cases.
More here on the QAnon driven conspiracy that Ernst echoed, later walking it back

nytimes.com/2020/09/02/us/…
Over the weekend, @SenJoniErnst also spoke to the issue:

“What we do want to see as Iowans is just clarity in how things are being reported, how it’s being collected and how it’s being portrayed to the American people...."
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20 Sep
‘This is a choice between a court that will defend your healthcare and take your healthcare away’ is the message Biden intends to run on after the death of RBG. Protecting coverage of preexisting conditions was Dems’ successful 2018 message. nytimes.com/2020/09/19/us/…
Biden will speak at 2pm ET today about SCOTUS in Philadelphia, per press pooler
Though Trump has claimed >100 times that he will protect people w preexisting conditions, he is in court trying to end the ACA that does that; he has never unveiled a replacement plan despite endless promises; and he has issued rules to allow plans that deny coverage to the sick.
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