It’s the evening news time the day after the election. The Trumpsters are whining about the election counting is unfair. They are demanding a recount in Wisconsin and they’re trying to get the vote counting halted in Michigan because the Biden votes are gaining on Trump’s initial lead. The votes that are left to be counted are from the major metro areas which are heavily Democratic and Biden’s count is expected to surpass Trump’s.
Think about this. The politicos, especially the Republicans, gerrymandered the districts so that all the Democrats are forced into as few districts as possible. Especially in the urban ghettos.
The vote counter dumps a ballot box from one of these districts onto the table and what happens? Most of them are from Democrats! The damned Republicans are the ones causing the Democratic concentrations! And then they’re the ones who whine about it! 😠😠😠
Trump is kicking and screaming about winning the election. He said, “As far as I’m concerned we already have won.” The president’s tweets are questioning the counts of some states. Twitter has labeled them as not verifiable. Other countries are dismayed at Trump’s actions.
What makes me wonder is how long will it take and what must be done to correct the helluva mess that the Cheeto in Chief has made of the federal government. How many executive orders will Biden have to undo to get things back to normal?
Really!
Update Nov. 5 – it’s 4 PM and the ballots still haven’t all been counted in the important “swing states”. They say the ballot counting may be finished by Friday.
Meanwhile, 2 of the lawsuits Trumpsters filed have been thrown out by judges.
Trump is just now giving a news conference and he is claiming he has won if the legal votes are counted. He implies that the votes that came in after the election day were illegal. This is a false claim. As the votes that came in late are counted, Biden is gaining on Trump’s lead in PA(?). Trump is claiming “suppression” in the states that swung from Trump leading to Biden, Michigan and Wisconsin(?).
Nevada was supposed to be finished counting by this morning. Still hasn’t given an official count. The 6 electoral votes of Nevada would give the Biden either 269 or 270 votes.
Update Nov. 5, 10 PM – The other media are criticizing Anderson Cooper for comparing Trump to an obese turtle, but that’s not as bad as Trump being very disrespectful of the newsmedia multiple times over the last four years. I believe Trump learned his disrespect for anyone who disagrees with him from his bulldog lawyer, Roy Cohn. Cohn would sue anyone who Trump disliked. Trump called the newsmedia “the enemy of the people.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/03/trump-enemy-of-the-people-meaning-history
The AP has called the election for Biden. Biden is ahead in Arizona and Nevada and they’re about finished counting. Tomorrow, Friday, Pennsylvania will give their final count.
It’s Friday, Nov. 6, at 1 PM and the states of Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia and N. Carolina still haven’t finished counting. It is most likely that other states haven’t finished, but thay are all decisively one way or the other, so no further changes will be happening. It is this group of swing states that are the deciding factors. As time goes on, Biden has overtaken Trump in all but N. Carolina. Arizona alone will put Biden over 270 electoral votes. Trump has close to zero chance of changing the outcomes of any of these states. It’s just a matter of time to get the official word from the states that the vote counting is finished.
6 PM PST, 9 PM EST, the vote count at the Pennsylvania Sec’y of the commonwealth shows Biden has over 20 thousand votes more than Trump.
https://www.electionreturns.pa.gov/
9 PM PST Nov 6 – the Georgia count is in Biden’s favor but the lead is so small that they expect to have a recount. It may be a week before that is complete.
Trump still has the lead in N. Carolina. But he needs three other states to reach 270. But Biden is ahead in all those states. If Pennsylvania or Arizona finish the vote count, the votes would put Biden over 270 electoral votes.
6 AM, morning of Nov 7. No change overnite, still counting. But Biden’s leads are well establisher in all except N. Carolina. Georgia is hoping Biden’s slim lead will grow to more so that it will not be necessary to do a recount, which will save a lot of time delay.
The Republicans are whining about how the early counts were in Trump’s favor, but the later mail-in votes were mysteriously more for Biden. Well, it was the Republicans’ fault! One Republican state legislature preventer mail-in ballots from being counted before election day. That has caused delays in counting. Then Trump falsely claimed mail-in votes were fraudulent which caused his voters to vote in-person. But many unafraid Democrats used mail-in ballots. As they are counted, Biden overcame Trump’s early lead and is now ahead. So the Republicans are whining about the problems which they caused!!
Update 9 AM Nov 7 – CNN has said Biden has won Pennsylvania and wins the election. Pennsylvania, the Keystone State, gives Biden 273 electoral votes.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/07/politics/joe-biden-wins-us-presidential-election/index.html