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Philip Bump

@pbump

7 Jan

Reminder that Hawley's stated objections to the election amount solely to the argument that votes in PA were cast through a mail-in process enabled by a law that he argues was in violation of the state's constitution.

That's it. No fraud. Just that. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…

He says this was passed last year; it wasn't. It was passed in 2019 by the state legislature, with majority GOP votes.

The court has looked at the constitutionality claim and EXPLICITLY said that even if the issue were legit, the votes should stand.

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Philip Bump

@pbump

22 Dec 20

My jaw actually dropped.

It's the media's fault that lung cancer is increasing.
By Philip Morris

Anyway, this, from Dec. 1, is the last thing I will write about Scott Atlas. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…

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Philip Bump

@pbump

10 Dec 20

Over and over, we keep being told that rising cases are no big deal. Over and over, we keep seeing how deaths inevitably surge as a result.

That we're losing more people in a day than died on 9/11 was a predictable outgrowth of letting the virus spread. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…

It's infuriating to watch people pretend that rising case numbers bears no consequence, to wave away the increase as unimportant or, as Trump did this week, to pretend it's a good thing.

People are dying and we knew people would die.
washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…

One percent of the total recorded coronavirus death toll around the world was recorded in the last seven days in the United States. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…

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Philip Bump

@pbump

2 Dec 20

In this endless speech of lies and nonsense, Trump holds up a graphic that I described as an "unusually easy" thing to debunk when I did so two weeks ago. washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…

Anyway, now we know what he's been doing for four weeks.

"The mail-in voting scam is the latest part of their four year effort to overturn the results of the 2016 election," Trump says of the 2020 election.

It's just ... what do you say to that?

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