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9 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Bruce Castor explicitly recognized President Biden won the election fairly by saying, "the American people just spoke, and they just changed administrations" and that Americans are "smart enough to pick a new administration if they don’t like the old one" businessinsider.com/trump-lawyer-b…
Castor's argument:
-Undercuts what Trump's lawyers said in their brief that Trump's speech on Jan. 6 was justified b/c Trump thought the election was "suspect."
-Undercuts the logic behind Trump's attempts to overturn the election, aka how we got here
businessinsider.com/trump-lawyer-b…
.@thedailybeast reported today that Trump "has made clear to advisers that he absolutely doesn’t want his lawyers saying that Biden beat him fair and square" and "strongly feels...that doing so would amount to Trump admitting defeat" — which Castor did thedailybeast.com/welcome-to-tru…
Another thing I realized thanks to a @NewDay segment — Castor clearly acknowledging that Trump lost the election as part of his argument against conviction is gonna be a blow to the QAnon followers who think Trump will be re-inaugurated on March 4 rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

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excited to attend Bruce Castor's standup routine after the pandemic is over
“hey, what’s the deal with senators? You hear people saying ‘my Senator said this,’ I don’t even think about ‘my Senator’”
"I got lost then, and I still do" same
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The senate finally finishes debate on whether to sustain the objection to AZ’s electors, will now vote
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"Nothing before us proves illegality of the massive scale that would have tipped the entire election. Nor can public doubt alone justify a radical break when the doubt was incited without any evidence. The constitution gives us here in Congress a limited role" — Mitch McConnell
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NEW analysis from @sonam_sheth and me: Republicans bit the hand that fed them by attacking the integrity of Georgia's elections and election officials. Georgia voters rewarded them by giving Loeffler, Perdue, and the GOP's Senate majority the boot businessinsider.com/republican-sup…
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