Detroit News Editorial: Shirkey, Chatfield should tell Trump the truth
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The president presumably summoned House Speaker Lee Chatfield, R-Levering, and Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey, R-Clarklake, to the White House to discuss his ongoing and futile effort to reverse his election loss in Michigan.
It's an opportunity for the two Republicans to deliver a message Trump needs to hear:
"You lost. Accept reality. Concede."
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Trump is doing Michigan Republicans no favor by encouraging them to indulge the fantasy that the election here was in some way rigged and he could yet prevail.
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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/editorials/2020/11/20/editorial-shirkey-chatfield-should-tell-trump-truth/6353778002/
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It's heartening because this is a conservative paper. We Michiganders aren't going to put up with any bullshit from the White House.
FarPoint
(12,474 posts)Yet, we are in the Upside Down Bizzaro World....it just won't happen is my guess.
louis-t
(23,309 posts)Maybe offer some illegal grift. Then, if they resist, he will start threatening them and insult them on Twitter.
NCDem47
(2,253 posts)Or their FBI files.
Or what Russia gave him.
fearnobush
(3,960 posts)Gun up and go.
catbyte
(34,521 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,819 posts)catbyte
(34,521 posts)has no choice but to certify. Brewer says, "What underpins a scenario of a deadlock is that the boards duties are ministerial meaning that their responsibility to certify election results must be performed according to established legal procedure and without exercising individual discretion."
If the votes are there, and theyve been certified by the counties
this board has no choice but to certify, Brewer said."
Certification is a done deal.
Cirque du So-What
(26,026 posts)Mitt der schitt looks like a character who just realized that hes made a very foolish deal with satan. Rump looks like...well...rump.
dware
(12,492 posts)He looks like the epitome of evil, which is appropriate.
dware
(12,492 posts)who said that a Repub legislator in MI told them that that's pretty much what they're going to tell Pissolini, that while they had concerns about irregularities, their hands are tied by MI law, which is quite clear that the winner of the popular vote is the winner of the electoral votes.
catbyte
(34,521 posts)towns, townships, and counties to allege irregularities in Michigan. This is what happens when ignorance, arrogance, and incompetence collide.