November 1, 2020

Lindsey Graham says Amy Coney Barrett shows young women can go anywhere in America "if you are

https://twitter.com/chrisjohnson82/status/1322635298237485057

Sen. Lindsey Graham says Amy Coney Barrett shows young women can go anywhere in America "if you are pro-life, if you embrace your religion and you follow traditional family structure."

November 1, 2020

Trump comments about Sean Connery's death - are really about Trump. SURPRISE!!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1322899819661303808

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1322899821267689472

November 1, 2020

REPUBLICANS ARE NOW CONTESTING ABSENTEE BALLOTS ONE BY ONE

REPUBLICANS ARE NOW CONTESTING ABSENTEE BALLOTS ONE BY ONE
Instead of trying to cut off expanded access to voting, Republicans are challenging individual votes and, in some cases, trying to invalidate ballots that have already been cast.
BY CHARLOTTE KLEIN

Now that more than 85 million people have already voted, many using mail-in ballots, Republicans have reportedly shifted their political strategy to challenging individual absentee votes and, in some cases, attempting to invalidate ballots already cast.

According to the Washington Post, recent tactics aimed at challenging individual votes include a lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign this week in Nevada “seeking images of the signature of every registered voter in Democratic-leaning Clark County — a potential first step toward challenging individual votes on grounds that the signed ballots don’t match the signatures on file.”

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The strategy is a pivot away from broader GOP efforts to limit expanded access to voting, a campaign that began months ago with President Donald Trump’s incessant and false claims linking mail-in voting to fraud — misinformation that Republican officials have embraced in trying to adjust election rules at the last minute.


https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/10/republicans-are-now-contesting-absentee-ballots-one-by-one

November 1, 2020

Total Early Votes: 92,038,417 In-Person Votes: 33,141,215 Mail Ballots Returned: 58,897,202

https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html

November 1, 2020

Trump "I could have been the greatest.."

https://twitter.com/ZevShalev/status/1322653888093323264

November 1, 2020

Stanford study: Trump campaign rallies led to 30,000 COVID cases, 700 deaths

Stanford study: Trump campaign rallies led to 30,000 COVID cases, 700 deaths

Researchers at Stanford University believe President Donald Trump's re-election campaign rallies — which are not socially distanced and mask wearing is sporadic — are responsible for 30,000 COVID-19 cases and 700 deaths across the country.

In a paper published Saturday, the four researchers examine infection patterns in 18 separate counties before and after they hosted Trump rallies between June 20 and Sept. 22. The researchers conclude the rallies "ultimately resulted in more than 30,000 incremental confirmed cases of COVID-19" and "likely led to more than 700 deaths."


To isolate the impact of the rallies, the researchers monitored the trends in counties that did not host rallies that were on "similar trajectories" to the 18 rally counties. They found a clear link between rallies and increased community spread of the virus.

“For the vast majority of county matching procedures we employ, our estimate of the average treatment effect across the eighteen rallies implies that they increased subsequent confirmed cases of COVID-19 by more than 250 per 100,000 residents," the authors write.

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Stanford-study-Trump-rallies-deaths-super-spreader-15691006.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight

November 1, 2020

republican Asian American group once for Trump now says 'we made a mistake'

Asian American group once for Trump now says 'we made a mistake'

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/US-elections-2020/Asian-American-group-once-for-Trump-now-says-we-made-a-mistake

Less than a week before one of the most hotly contested elections in U.S. history, President Donald Trump lost the support of an Asian American group of Republicans that could be the difference in Florida and other swing states.

The National Committee of Asian American Republicans, or "Asian GOP," endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, saying in a statement Friday, "We need a president with empathy, integrity, and broadness capable of bringing all sides to the table." The group backed Trump in the 2016 contest.

Cliff Li, head of the Asian GOP, told Nikkei Asia that there has been a gradual "opinion shift" in the Asian conservative community, especially among Chinese American conservatives.

He added that he is personally enraged by Trump's finger-pointing and calling the new coronavirus the "China virus," with no regard for the effect of such rhetoric.

"Even calling it the 'kung flu' virus, he has shown a total disregard of the impact it could have on the Chinese American community," Li said.