2020 Election
November 9, 2020 — Scott Johnson
At the moment it appears that approximately everything hangs on the outcome of the two Georgia Senate seats that are headed for runoff. Take it from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer himself (video below). We can thank him for spelling it out for us. He’s the Senate Majority Leader wannabe. Good Lord, don’t let it be. Schumer sounds like the terrorist in Leonard Cohen’s song: “First we take Manhattan, then
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November 9, 2020 — Scott Johnson
With 97 percent of the vote counted in Arizona, Joe Biden’s holds a narrow 19,000 vote lead over President Trump. That’s one-half of 1 percent, down from the 8 percent lead Biden held on election night when FOX News called Arizona for Biden. At that time the head of the so-called Decision Desk turned up to explain that Biden’s 8-point lead over Trump would expand substantially when the uncounted votes
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November 8, 2020 — John Hinderaker
The establishment is in full protect-Joe mode. The Left’s most important propaganda theme these days is that there is no such thing as voter fraud. Thus, when I did a post on Power Line titled Massive Voter Fraud In Wisconsin?, and linked to it on Facebook, the Facebook lefties were lying in wait. This is what it looked like: If you followed the link, this is what you saw: So
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November 8, 2020 — John Hinderaker
Rudy Giuliani conducted a press conference yesterday in Philadelphia, at which several Republican poll watchers described how they were prevented by Democrats from carrying out their function, and in some cases prevented even from entering the room where ballot validation was going on. In effect, contrary to law, no Republicans were able to see or to evaluate the mail-in ballots that ostensibly swung the state to Joe Biden. Here is
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November 8, 2020 — Scott Johnson
I missed the early call of five Dem pickups in the House on election night. Accordingly, I shortchanged my case against the wrongdoing by FOX News that night. The Federalist’s Christopher Gage takes it up in “Why Hasn’t Fox News Retracted Its Wrong Call on the House?” Gage makes a devastating case against the bona fides of FOX News in its call on the House races. I focused on FOX’s
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November 7, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
My source for all things Georgia politics, a Republican insider, filed this report today: Georgia is now the political center of the universe. Trump’s team is here looking into voter irregularities and reports of fraud. Secretary of State Raffensperger announced today that there was a machine issue from the Friday count in Fulton County that they are now looking into. Former Governor/AG Secretary Sonny Perdue [not to be confused with
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November 7, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
On my walk today, I encountered an outdoor victory party in honor of Joe Biden being declared our next president by the media. A huge sign instructed neighbors to “Celebrate, Unite.” This is a useful reminder to conservatives and Republicans that we lost this election. There’s no other realistic way to view it. At the same time, the small number, and fairly subdued nature, of the neighborhood celebrants was more
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November 7, 2020 — Steven Hayward
The media pixels announcing Joe Biden’s putative victory hadn’t even faded on the screen before the progressive left began firing on Biden. From Jacobin magazine: No Honeymoon for Joe Biden If there was ever a case where the victory of the lesser evil over the greater evil merited busting out a bottle or two of champagne, this was it. But once you’ve sobered up, remember that being less evil than
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November 6, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Hoo boy! I’m not sure three whiskies are enough this week. Fortunately I procured a relatively cheap Islay single malt—Finlaggan—to get me through the travails of Election Overtime. The election is still a fast moving scene, so I decided that “Lucretia” and I should take a longer term view of the scene, and ponder the “metaphysics” of the election, which are not comforting to the left. In fact it is
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November 6, 2020 — John Hinderaker
The presidential election seems to be going South and a Joe Biden administration may be in the offing. It is a bitter pill to swallow and I am profoundly depressed. Nevertheless, here are a few mostly-optimistic observations on the current scene. * My guess is that in a perfect world, where only legal voters vote, and everyone votes only once, President Trump won the election. The problem is that, while
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November 6, 2020 — John Hinderaker
This afternoon, the Republican Party of Michigan held a press conference and alleged that a software “glitch” caused thousands of votes for Republican candidates to be counted for Democrats instead: The Republican Party of Michigan held a press conference Friday afternoon and revealed six thousand Republican votes were calculated for Democrats after a software glitch. That software was used in dozens of counties around the state. “In Antrim County, ballots
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November 6, 2020 — Scott Johnson
David Rutz has compiled one of his Washington Free Beacon SUPERcuts videos (below), this one taking a look back at the landslide Biden victory foreseen by the garbage media. He notes that Republicans have gained House seats and appear poised to maintain their Senate majority, while the presidential election remains in doubt. Numerous national polls showed Biden with a double-digit lead over President Donald Trump, but they vastly underestimated Trump
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November 5, 2020 — John Hinderaker
As we sift through the results of this year’s election, there are lots of bright spots–holding the Senate, gaining seats (potentially a lot of seats) in the House, holding all state legislative assemblies. Another bright spot is that President Trump took 93% of the Republican vote, up from 90% in 2016. This far-left site headlines: “Lincoln Project ‘Epically Failed,’ Say Progressives as Trump Wins Bigger Share of Republican Voters Than
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November 5, 2020 — Steven Hayward
Most pre-election forecasts were certain that Republicans would lose ground in the House of Representatives, but as of this moment, it is not impossible that Republicans might take the House right now. They elected a record number of GOP women candidates. (Incidentally, Republicans did well in state legislative races around the country, and didn’t lose control of a single chamber.) The GOP has gained about 10 House seats so far,
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November 5, 2020 — Paul Mirengoff
Last week, I wrote about what to expect from the election in Georgia. I based my post largely on the analysis of a Power Line reader from Georgia, an insider with extensive experience observing and participating in Georgia politics. He alerted me to the prospect of two Senate runoff races in Georgia. He also predicted that Joe Biden would narrowly carry Georgia, but that Sen. Perdue would ultimately be reelected.
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November 5, 2020 — Steven Hayward
You have to love this Tweet from PBS: “Trusted source.” That’s the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. If you have to proclaim that you are a “trusted source,” um, I have some fake news to sell you. Meanwhile, this, from comedian Angelo Tsarouchas, is worth a read: Early November is finally here. I have seen a lot of hate spewed in recent days about a man who
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November 5, 2020 — Scott Johnson
Melissa Mackenzie is the publisher of The American Spectator. Her daily email this morning is titled “Be of good cheer!” The exclamation point is Melissa’s. I would insert a question mark there. Commenting on the election, Melissa’s mood doesn’t gibe exactly with mine, but I found her message helpful. With Melissa’s kind permission, I am posting it here in the hope that readers might also find it of use: Dear
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