2020 Election
November 12, 2020 — Scott Johnson
The George Senate runoff elections are critical to our future. Jeremiah Wright style leftist Raphael Warnock is running against Kelly Loeffler. Pajama Boy Jon Ossoff is running against David Perdue. Only Loeffler and Perdue stand in the gap against permanent one-party rule. Chuck Schumer has already explained, “First we take Georgia, then we change America.” Warnock and Ossoff are the keys. As the terrorist in Leonard Cohen’s song puts it,
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November 12, 2020 — Scott Johnson
Among the egregious errors of fact committed by FOX News on election night, the early projection that Democrats would pick up five seats in the House. As of this morning, Republicans have picked up at least 9 House seats. The tweets below document the call and ask what happened. I've still seen no explanation regarding how the Fox News Decision Desk got this projection so wrong on Election night. Polls
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November 11, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
Last night, I cited an analysis by Steve Cortes that concluded there were 95,000 “Biden only” ballots in Georgia and virtually no “Trump only ballots” in the state. Cortes cited these numbers as suggesting voter fraud. I cited them as a warning that in the crucial Senate runoff races, the “Biden only” ballots might become new votes for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. But Dan McLaughlin disputes Cortes’ claim that
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November 11, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
My favorite result from last week’s election was the defeat of Proposition 16 by the voters of California. Prop 16 was the left’s attempt to repeal California’s ban on racial and other forms of discrimination by the State. It lost decisively, 56.5 to 43.5. Prop 16’s sponsors attribute the defeat to voter confusion. But Prop 16 didn’t lose because voters were confused. It lost because most people don’t favor the
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November 11, 2020 — Scott Johnson
Asking whether he was aware of possible fraud in his own Senate race, a reporter sought to provoke Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at a press conference yesterday. Senator McConnell shifted gears from Cocaine Mitch to Deadpan Mitch (video below). At Twitchy, Sarah D. urges him on: “Slay, Grim Reaper. Slay.” I’m hard up for a laugh, but this has had me chuckling all morning. REPORTER: "Was there any fraud
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November 11, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Right now it appears that Republicans will have at least 210 seats in the House in the next Congress, and perhaps a many as 214 if the remaining races where the GOP candidate leads all break their way. That would leave Democrats with a slim 7-vote majority, and leave the GOP needing to gain only four seats to take control in the next election. Given that over ten House Democrats
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November 11, 2020 — Scott Johnson
The Reverend Raphael Warnock, 2020 Democratic candidate for Senate from Georgia, goes off on a false and slanderous anti-Israel tirade in a 2018 sermon (video clip below, full video here). He accused Israel of shooting Palestinian like “birds of prey,” compared violent Palestinian riots to peaceful African-American civil rights protests, and claimed that Palestinians are “struggling for water and for their lives.” As Uri Pilichowski states in a comment on
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November 10, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
In this column, Steve Cortes identified four statistical anomalies associated with last week’s presidential vote. Any one of them, he argued, “would cast intense doubt upon election results.” Put all four together, and “the result is a seemingly impossible statistical perfect storm.” Considering the importance of the Georgia runoff elections, I was struck by this passage in Cortes’ article: In the Peach State, President Trump’s vote total almost exactly tracked
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November 10, 2020 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday the Trump campaign and two Pennsylvania residents sued Pennsylvania’s scofflaw Secretary of the Commonwealth and seven county election boards in federal court. The lawsuit is premised primarily on equal protection; it alleges that some Pennsylvania counties, which were uniformly favorable to Joe Biden, systematically violated Pennsylvania’s election laws, at times with the encouragement of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, while Republican-leaning counties followed the law. The result was systemic
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November 10, 2020 — Steven Hayward
The biggest surprise for the mainstream media and the conventional pollsters was that there were a significant number of “shy Trump voters.” Who were these voters? One segment was non-white voters, especially Hispanics but also blacks. Trump received the largest GOP share of the non-white vote in 60 years. Liberals are spinning furiously to explain this away. More on this later on. The other group of shy Trump voters appear
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November 10, 2020 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel held a press conference and unveiled 131 affidavits and 2,800 incident reports documenting fraud and other irregularities in the election in Michigan. Reporters were unimpressed: In Wayne County, Republican poll watchers were denied their legal right to monitor the election and purposefully kept in the dark…there are thousands of reports of poll watchers being intimidated and unable to do their job and as of 4
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November 10, 2020 — Scott Johnson
Democratic West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin seeks to help his partisan colleagues take the majority via the pending Georgia runoff elections. He appeared on FOX News Special Report last night to announce that he would not support the realization of Chuck Schumer pre-election vows to pack the Supreme Court and kill the Senate’s legislative filibuster. His purpose was to pacify voters with moderate and conservative leanings in Georgia. He sought
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November 9, 2020 — John Hinderaker
Paul wrote a little while ago that the Senate should investigate the 2020 election to determine how susceptible our electoral systems are to fraud, and to recommend improvements. I agree. A reader offers another suggestion: why doesn’t Attorney General Barr appoint a Special Counsel to investigate voter fraud in the election, and bring criminal charges where appropriate? The nation is coming out of another close election and the air is
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November 9, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
If Republicans hold onto the Senate majority, one of their top priorities should be an investigation of the election that just took place. The purpose of that investigation shouldn’t be to relitigate the outcome of the presidential race. The purpose should be to determine the extent, if any, to which our revised, post-coronavirus election system is susceptible to and/or plagued by fraud. Stated differently, the purpose should be to determine
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November 9, 2020 — Steven Hayward
This is the most anomalous election in American history (which lends some additional circumstantial credence to suspicions of vote fraud in the presidential tally). I’ll defer to later the voting problems currently under contest, and note some macro observations on the scene. • First, it is certainly the case that but for COVID 19, Trump would have been re-elected comfortably. Even with COVID 19, he is still in the hunt.
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November 9, 2020 — John Hinderaker
The Attorney General of Texas has announced a voter fraud prosecution relating to ballot harvesting: A Mexia social worker, Kelly Reagan Brunner, who worked at a State Supported Living Center (SSLC), was charged with 134 felony counts “of purportedly acting as an agent of election fraud,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Office announced. If convicted, Brunner faces up to 10 years in prison for these offenses. SSLCs serve people who
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November 9, 2020 — John Hinderaker
An election fraud lawsuit was filed today in Detroit. It is supported by affidavits by eyewitnesses who describe systematic voter fraud. The lawsuit seeks an order requiring preservation of evidence: pic.twitter.com/Eym0WItLF7 — Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) November 9, 2020 More from Jessy Jacob affidavit claiming she was instructed to improperly pre-date absentee ballots and not to look at signatures. I’ve reached out to Detroit and Sec. of State for response. pic.twitter.com/5jSk5rTia9
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