And with tiresome predictability, Ms Lake has tweeted that the result is "BS". I wonder if she would have expressed any concern if she had been declared the winner??
A required hallmark of a MAGA-moron. I'd be honestly be more surprised if she conceded defeat, but then if she dared to contradict him, the cheeto-dusted windsock would throw an all-caps fit at the wall of his Soylent Twitter.
Yeah, they know it alright, and they voted to keep it out of the governership. Rather fitting that this is the same state that the late Senator John McCain represented, one of the lame duck's most vocal and consistent Republican critics while the former was still with us.
Am personally gonna wait and see what happens with respect to this being a turning before making any assumptions/assertions. What is rather entertaining to watch play out though is the GOP flail, flounder and descend into back-biting, sniping etc, in their vain search to find something, anything or anyone, to blame other than their themselves. A good portion of them actually think it's squarely rests on the shoulders of you-know-who (which is the only other vaild, direct reason), in what is the one spasm of political cognizance I thought they were simply incapable of having. Remains to be seen how long that lasts.
I was under the impression she made the call in the small hours of election night to the Trump campaign to concede and made a public statement the following morning?
I'm not sure it's actually a partisan issue as such more that some states are just incompetent and their voters don't appear to be willing to elect people who will fix it (assuming there is anyone standing on such a platform of course!). Florida for instance has had a Republican governor and Republican State Legislature since the 90s and they, after the farcical 2000 Presidential election, have excellent elections that delivery the preliminary results basically on the night (the formal verification comes a few weeks later but changes to the result seem very unlikely so it's a simple formality). Meanwhile in California which has had a Democratic State Legislature since the 90s and Democratic Governor since 2011 is still counting.
If that's what it takes. It's crackers that we're a week on and we still don't know who controls the House of Representatives. Again if a state like Florida can manage to get it's initial results out within a day then it should be possible for the others to manage the same. By all means take a bit more time before final verification to cross the t's and dot the i's (which is what Florida is doing, I think final results are due in a few days but there's no expectation that they'll change) but not being able to say with near 99% certainty within 24 hours of the close of the polls "these are the winners" is crackers.
On this, however, I agree wholeheartedly. In some places you have to queue for hours to vote. Hours. The fact that these are often in urban, black and Democrat leaning areas rather than rural, white, Republican leaning areas is I'm sure is a coincidence...
That isn't in dispute, at least by me, as it's clear that the 2020 election was free and fair despite being utterly messy. It still isn't great that we can be a week on from the election and still not know who has won a the House of Representatives and probably won't know for some time yet.
It also should (but, obviously, won't) quieten those who say that all those 'late counted' votes mysteriously go to the Democrats: Kari Lake's deficit in votes was declining as more ballots were added in, such that she was 'winning' nearer 60% of the new ones, but, given they knew the maximum number of potentially outstanding votes, it was calculated that even if she'd maintained that momentum she would ultimately lose. Given Fox's belated realisation that Trump might just be a busted blush, I hope she doesn't return to their employment.
If your mantra is 'small state' then the last thing you want is public money spent to ensure the public get the result the majority want!
Only if his aim is to ensure that no Republican candidate (other than him, such as DeSantis) could win at the next election by splitting the vote, ensuring a Democrat win.
Whatever he says, I'm looking forward to it a lot more than when he first announced he'd be making this announcement given how badly he's being received now with the GOP.
That could be something he'd be quite sanguine about.
Murdoch has never really liked Trump personally and his disastrous showing in the midterms has given the former the convenient excuse needed to cast the latter aside. Only took him 4 election cycles to do it...It would appear the big announcement probably wasn't quite what he had in mind....nice to learn however.
Murdoch tells Trump he will not back fresh White House bid – report
Media mogul turns to ‘DeFuture’ Ron DeSantis after ex-president’s poor showing in midterm electionswww.theguardian.com
Indeed, @ainsworth74: Clinton conceded through the night over the phone (before Trump reached the required 270 electoral college votes, it should be noted) when it became clear which way things were going, with an official statement being released the following morning. Whatever you may think of her, she at least didn't do what her opponent did when he found himself in her position 4 years later.
I was watching the Orange One make his expected speech in the early hours UK on Wednesday morning in which he formally announced his expected decision to stand for candidature in the 2024 election. Not a mention made by him of "The Storming of the Capitol".
I think he's run for president more times than he's run over half a kilometre...