RealClearPolitics editor Tom Bevan on Monday debunked an assertion that his website had changed its call on Pennsylvania in the 2020 election after the false claim began to circulate widely on social media. Bevan’s clarification came after conservative leaders including President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and Sean Spicer, the Trump White House’s inaugural press secretary, began sharing messages early Monday evening that claimed RealClearPolitics had taken Pennsylvania “away from” Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee and presumptive president-elect, and moved it to “toss-up” territory. “This is false,” Bevan wrote in a message on Twitter, responding to the claim by Giuliani. “We never called Pennsylvania, and nothing has changed.” Spicer acknowledged the correction later in the evening, noting the map didn’t have “either candidate at 270,” the number of electoral votes required to win. https://www.mediaite.com/election-2...lection-call-on-pennsylvania-back-to-toss-up/
“Vice President Mike Pence is planning to travel to Sanibel, Florida, on Tuesday — a regular vacation spot for his family — as President Trump fights to try to reverse his re-election defeat,” Bloomberg reports. “Trump has mounted legal and public relations efforts in four states to try to sow doubt on the election outcome and throw out ballots in order to potentially swing the result in his favor. He has claimed without evidence that Joe Biden benefited from illegal votes. Some of Trump’s allies have noted that Pence has been largely absent from the effort, beyond supportive tweets.”
Washington Post: “Only a smattering of Republican senators have acknowledged Biden’s victory, and there has been little coaxing on the part of senior GOP lawmakers to help Trump come to terms with his loss. Some said there is value in ensuring the integrity of this year’s results, while others described a chaotic and scattershot operation that they hoped would eventually push Trump to cooperate in a peaceful transfer of power.” Said one senior Republican official: “What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time? No one seriously thinks the results will change. He went golfing this weekend. It’s not like he’s plotting how to prevent Joe Biden from taking power on 20 January. He’s tweeting about filing some lawsuits, those lawsuits will fail, then he’ll tweet some more about how the election was stolen, and then he’ll leave.” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) told CNN that some of his Republican colleagues have said to him in private to “please convey my well wishes to the President-Elect, but I can’t say that publicly yet.”
Nearly the whole GOP is scared of one lame duck man-child. You'd think they'd be tired of ball washing for four years. If you voluntarily do something for four years, you like it.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) has enthusiastically taken up President Trump’s efforts to contest the results of the presidential election, asking for online donations to “help us bring it home for the president,” but it appears the donations are set to flow into her own reelection account, NBC News reports.
“As Donald Trump refuses to concede the election over unfounded allegations of voter fraud, defeated Republicans further down the ballot are finding his claims to be a convenient way to save face after their own losses,” the Daily Beast reports.
Remember I said a few days ago the real GOP would start distancing themselves away from trump slowly so that when the courts threw this out they would not jeapordize their seats going forward.... Except for maybe turtle fuck McConnell no one is making a major stink or bitch fest out of this. Even Pence left for vacation. Rudy is just a crazy old fuck that will follow any lead you throw at him. Watch the silence from the GOP grow louder and louder.... they want this Trump saga to end so they can work on winning back seats in 2022 and taking the WH back in 2024.
Vice President Al Gore reluctantly concedes defeat to Texas Governor George W. Bush in his bid for the presidency, following weeks of legal battles over the recounting of votes in Florida, on December 13 2000. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/al-gore-concedes-presidential-election