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Except back then, working across the aisle didn't automatically risk your political career. It made you a maverick, at worst... see McCain, John.

Arizona/Maricopa County drop coming up at top of the hour...

They should just let McConnell appoint them all and then blame him in 2022 when everything has gone to all hell in a handbasket. This would be the first President with an oppositional Senate in most everyone's lifetime.

"Trump won. I have no doubt,” said Youngo, one of about 100 pro-Trump protesters, who gathered Thursday afternoon outside State Farm Arena chanting “Stop the cheat!” Inside, poll workers feverishly counted ballots, most coming from heavily Democratic parts of the state favoring Biden. Youngo, who lives in DeKalb County, said she doesn’t trust the process. “Georgia is a red state,” she said. “The truth is President Trump was way ahead. Now they’re suddenly finding all these Biden votes.”

Like actually giving one speech in WI and not fighting for MI and PA until the last 2-3 weeks. Millions spent trying to turn purple states. NEW DEVELOPMENT: Pro-Trump protesters convinced the fix is in https://www.ajc.com/politics/election/pro-trump-protesters-convinced-the-fix-is-in/FL44ZCNCCFGIPEL5UEEWSLO6DI/

Shocking out of McConnell... As a stream of key swing state votes begins to turn the election in presidential nominee Joe Biden's favor, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., wasted no time in signaling that he would block potential progressive nominees for Cabinet positions if the GOP keeps its grip on the upper chamber. A source close to the majority leader told Axios that a Republican-controlled Senate would work with Biden to confirm centrist nominees but reject so-called "radical progressives" or other individuals who rankle conservatives. The source said Republicans would do all they could to limit a Biden agenda, adding: "It's going to be armed camps." source: Yahoonews.com Axios

Via the Associated Press: U.S. voters went to the polls starkly divided on how they see President Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic, with a surprising twist: In places where the virus is most rampant now, Trump enjoyed enormous support. An Associated Press analysis reveals that in 376 counties with the highest number of new cases per capita, the overwhelming majority — 93% of those counties — went for Trump, a rate above other less severely hit areas. Most were rural areas in Montana, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Wisconsin.

So much for Reagan’s shining light on a hill/beacon of hope for world democracies... Now we have a quite different version of American Exceptionalism that countries like Russia and China and Iran and North Korea...well, pretty much every single dictatorship in the world, to run on their news reels for the next 20-30 years. Hopefully Brazil and India don’t use Trump as an example, or the future of democracy is going to be pretty bleak.

And Fox has pretty much the same number of viewers as CNN and MSNBC. Who reads newspapers any more?

Or the Bengals wide receiver...

Georgia down to around 3,600...

Gee, I thought Arizona and GA had Republican governors...? Let’s just hope Chatham County in GA puts Biden over the top tonight. Unleash Covid on the US, pretty much force the majority of those in the Democratic Party to vote by mail while telling your own supporters to vote in person and then present no evidence or proof of any fraud...didn’t we already spend millions on the Kobach Commission report?

What was Trump’s position of Bush/Gore when he supposedly a NY Democrat?

And the Dixie Chicks once were embarrassed to be Americans. That seems almost quaint right now. Where are ballots being counted without Republican observers allowed in the room?

Stop the count! Oops, we’re actually behind in Arizona and Nevada. Election over.

Russia as a foreign entity “helping” Trump through bots and social media and Facebook and THEN election/voting fraud in terms of the actual process on Election Day are two entirely distinctive issues...

Poll watching and poll interference are clearly two distinct matters...soon there will be heavily armed protestors going to disrupt counting centers and threaten/intimidate the safety of workers.

Apparently the Kennedys in 1960 were much more capable than the Trumps in 2020...especially since Jared didn’t think to recruit a Jim Baker-like figure from Bush/Gore 2000 until late in the night Tuesday or early Wednesday morning.

Just like China sent out Covid-19 but forgot to protect their own people...or had a secret vaccine to save their own citizens after 4,500 died here in Wuhan. Did they ever track down all of the 300,000 ballots from roughly 10-12 urban areas that the US Postal Service refused to recognize?

As President Trump’s lead over Joe Biden continued to fall Thursday, Fox News host Mark Levin suggested that if Trump ends up losing in key battleground states, Republican-led legislatures there should overturn the will of the voters and chose a slate of electors that would keep him in the White House. The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., quickly retweeted Levin, as did Republican national spokeswoman Elizabeth Harrington, both of whom have been quick to claim that Democrats are trying to “steal” the election by actually counting all of the votes. Levin’s all caps entreaty to Republican state lawmakers seemed to typify a growing frustration among Trump’s most ardent supporters, including the president himself, who also hit the caps lock key earlier in the day to demand state officials do something that would not have won him the election. His son meanwhile called out the “total lack of action from virtually all of the ‘2024 hopefuls’” in defending the president. Then Trump Jr. made an even more brazen suggestion, calling for “total war over this election.” yahoonews.com

Fitting how tightly WI and PA are...compared to 2016. That was 77-78,000 over three states. MI is the only one with any significant margin at all. If Trump didn’t loathe traveling to the West Coast so much (wanted to be back in the WH comfortably each time he traveled out for rallies) instead of dealing with late night/red eye flights, he could have picked off one or both of AZ and NV. If we did know that Biden won early Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning, we wouldn’t all be forced to recognize or realize how truly ugly the Trump administration and media supporters could get. Not happy with Supreme Court, Senate and actually winning back some House seats, they would even seemingly prefer a Civil War to a peaceful transition of power. If Esper resigns, I guess he will start doing wilder things like firing Fauci and Barr...trying to find an acting Attorney General to go over Clinton, Obama or the Biden family.

See Roosevelt/Bull Moose fiasco of a century ago. Would definitely be more entertaining, like Clinton/Bush/Perot in 1992.

Speaking of golfing, such a crazy time for Masters...

Let’s not forget North Carolina shifting, possibly. Though Trump prematurely declared victory in the state early Wednesday, this race is too early to call, with thousands of mail ballots and potentially thousands of provisional ballots still left to count. If Cunningham somehow eked out a victory over Tillis, those two January runoff campaigns in a clearly divided Georgia are going to be nuts. Trump, out of boredom assuming he loses, will spend every day holding rallies across the state. That would also be unprecedented behavior for/from a lame duck president. He probably would give Loeffler and Perdue about one minute each to speak, like he did with McSally in AZ. “Nobody really wants to hear her, right?”

Jan Jorgensen has been campaigning across the country since the summer and said many supporters have come from across party lines – mainly, "recovering Democrats" who want troops called home from overseas missions and Republicans upset that Trump failed to cut the national budget deficit as he promised during his 2016 campaign, she said. The major parties' close race this election should be a wake-up call, Jorgensen added. "If I can get Republicans to start acting like Republicans and cutting the deficit. And if I can get the Democrats to go back to being the party of peace, bringing our troops home, and giving the average individual their rights? Then yes, I would be very pleased." About 70% of Jorgensen's campaign volunteers were registered Democrats or Republicans, she said. "In the personal conversations I had (on the campaign trail) a lot of people would say, 'Yeah, in 2016 I voted for Trump. I was so excited and then he didn't follow through on his promises,'" she said. Jorgensen performed the best in rural, Western states. She secured 2.7% of the vote in Alaska and North Dakota and 2.6% of the vote in South Dakota, according to the AP. https://www.yahoo.com/news/libertarian-candidate-jo-jorgensen-pulls-161532757.html