Arizona Call for Biden Flipped the Mood at Trump Headquarters

[JonLP24]

WASHINGTON — With Florida looking red early on Tuesday night, President Trump and his advisers thought they were witnessing a repeat of election night 2016, when a victory in Florida foreshadowed a victory over all.

Inside the East Room, the mood was upbeat as hundreds of people, including cabinet secretaries, ambassadors and former officials who have remained loyal to Mr. Trump, mingled and dined on sliders and french fries. Officials who had been pessimistic about the president’s re-election chances suddenly started to picture four more years in power.

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Mr. Trump and his advisers erupted at the news. If it was true that Arizona was lost, it would call into doubt on any claim of victory the president might be able to make.


What ensued for Mr. Trump was a night of angry calls to Republican governors and advice from campaign aides that he ignored, leading to a middle-of-the-night presidential briefing in which he made a reckless and unsubstantiated string of remarks about the democratic process. Standing in the East Room at 2:30 a.m., he dismissed the election as a “fraud” and claimed he wanted to stop the counting of votes and leave the results to the Supreme Court.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/us/politics/trump-fox-news-arizona.html#click=https://t.co/DD3vPdpNfX

[samnsara]

1. and especially since Fox called it first

[Windy City Charlie]

2. Makes sense

Makes sense since that's potentially the first state Biden flipped from 2016

[Maru Kitteh]

3. I'm sorry, I couldn't make it past the "dined on sliders and French fries" portion

of this article.

[kurtcagle]

6. Catered by White Castle?

The mind refuses to go there.

[spudspud]

7. Yea, I had to read that line a couple times...

so very classy. Like the time he served McDonald's to the college football champion team from Clemson.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. "Sliders and fries"? This does not make him a "man of the people" ...

a la Jackson.

It makes him a just another trailer trash slob.

[AkFemDem]

5. This guy

Sends his regards.

[spudspud]

8. Cue TopGun theme music. /nt

[gratuitous]

9. When Fox called Arizona for Biden

I think I was on DU at the time, and there was immediate push-back from the Trump campaign about that, and it caused my antennae to go up: They got Florida, they're leading in North Carolina and Georgia, they've come back quite well in Ohio; why are they so fretful about six measly votes in Arizona? I surmised there was a significance I wasn't quite getting.

I didn't sleep well last night, but thinking about Fox calling Arizona and the Trump campaign's reaction to that calmed me down more than once.

[mnmoderatedem]

11. Arizona is actually 11 electoral votes

that plus Nevada's 6 would seal it.

[CousinIT]

10. " claimed he wanted to stop the counting of votes and leave the results to the Supreme Court"

Now...I posted just exactly that a few days ago here on DU: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214410569

I said that Trump wanted to toss out all the votes and just let the Supreme Court declare him POTUS. That was my OP. And I got lots of nasty feedback for saying that's what he wanted.

Someone asked for a link. Someone else asked what orifice I pulled that out of.

Well there's the damn link. ---> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/us/politics/trump-fox-news-arizona.html#click=https://t.co/DD3vPdpNfX

And the orifice it came out of was Trump's own mouth.

So THERE.