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BREAKING:
@realDonaldTrump
admitted in private that he lostCNN
Link to tweet
C_U_L8R
(44,987 posts)The question is when will he stop trying to cheat it.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)a. that this is fucking news
and
b. so what, he is still calling canvassers and electors as I type this and bribing them to steal it by not certifying or switching their votes....
NCDem47
(2,248 posts)This is the most meaningless piece of "news." It goes totally against what Trump's actions are.
Honestly, embarrassing for CNN to even put it out.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)GOP canvassers? Well, they are typically low-level pols who will not stand up to public outrage for long (see Wayne County for example).
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)Cant states controlled by GOP change their electors?
These questions expose two truths, I dont know as much about this as I should, and there should be no such thing as the electoral college.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)In nearly all states, state law awards all electors to the party that gets the most votes, and each party picks their slate of electors. State law does not allow the legislature to change that choice. State constitutions generally forbid retroactive changes to laws, particularly regarding elections.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)4 votes, not sure what could happen there but it would not matter even if all 4 changed.
So the ELECTORS in PA and GA and MI and AZ will be only democrats due to election results and those electors were hand picked by the party, right?
I cant take anymore sedition and treason, I am committed to fighting for my country, fighting, but I dont want to have to.
So this is why the pressure to NOT CERTIFY is on, which is what Thom Hartmann warned about months ago and I mentioned here.
If the 12th kicks in as a result of this, traitor wins.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)But there are extremely high barriers to that happening, for example, Dem governors who would definitely veto such crap.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)would be surrounding the WH with guns.
Furious
I dont want to die fighting a civil war...but as it stands now I will die soon of either the virus or a civil war if this isnt done the democratic/legal way.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,392 posts)keeping this "private" gives GSA the excuse to continue refusing to releasing the funds for Biden's transition?
stillcool
(32,626 posts)Breaking news tomorrow...Trump farted!! Other than that he's just destroying the country, but that doesn't really matter.
MontanaMama
(23,295 posts)will pitch a fit about this until Joe Biden is inaugurated. More importantly, he will burn anything and everything around him in his wake and that shit is apparently "normal" now.
33taw
(2,436 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)BComplex
(8,017 posts)MissB
(15,803 posts)Hes said it publicly too. Of course he immediately backpedaled but hey he said it.
ffr
(22,665 posts)Emily Murphy, the GSA Worker Holding up Presidential Transition of Power, Is Not a Victim
https://www.themarysue.com/emily-murphy-is-not-a-victim/
Ferrets are Cool
(21,102 posts)Cha
(296,821 posts)DFW
(54,277 posts)I'm sure he'd like to steal that, too, if a couple of sleazy lawyers and Republican state legislatures will help him be successful in return for a couple of 100 ounce gold bars.