US Election 2020

[pErvinalia]

He doesn't have friends.

[Tero]

Trump could not get the SC to stop counting. Now Biden will catch him in Georgia:
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/ ... index.html

[pErvinalia]

Trump's just given a speech and continues to allege fraud. When he loses i suspect his words are going to foment violence. I hope they get enough counted before his nutbags start storming the counting centres.

[pErvinalia]

Looks like the Republican party has deserted Trump now that they've held the senate. Trump and his family are looking isolated. Lock them all up!

[Joe]

They smell a lame duck.

[Sean Hayden]

If you haven't seen it I recommend 538's live blog coverage. It has been outstanding. https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/2 ... -coverage/

[Joe]

Yeah, that's a good one!

[macdoc]

Not necessarily held the Senate ....McConnell might be sidelined

Democratic hopes of wrenching control of the Senate from Republicans received an unexpected boost as it seems likely that two key races in the southern state of Georgia may be headed to runoff races.

One of the races is definitely headed to a second round in January, while a second Georgia contest and races in North Carolina and Alaska remain undecided, leaving the chamber now deadlocked 48-48. An outcome may now not be known until the new year.

Republicans look likely to win in North Carolina and Alaska, but Democrats would undoubtedly focus huge amounts of energy and money on trying to win the Georgia runoffs. If both races did go to runoffs – and Democrats were to win them – it would leave the Senate split 50-50, with the vice-president serving as a tie-breaker.

If Joe Biden is in the White House, that would mean a vice-president Kamala Harris would be the deciding vote in the Senate. If Donald Trump wins a second term, then it would be Mike Pence, the current vice-president.

“We’re waiting – whether I’m going to be the majority leader or not,” Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/liv ... 20-updates

That really handcuffs the dumpf.

Thanks for tip on 538

NOV. 5, 9:55 PM
We’re going to run silent for a bit as we await a potential lead change in Georgia. With Biden down 1,902 votes and about 16,000 left to count, Biden needs to win only 56 percent of what remains in order to take the lead statewide. If he does, we’ll let you know right here, so don’t go away.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/2 ... -coverage/

[Tero]

Trump only 26 000 ahead in PA. It will flip sometime early morning.

[macdoc]

bout fookin time

Extraordinary moment. The broadcast networks all cut away from the president's lies. I'm actually surprised.

Oliver Darcy
@oliverdarcy
Replying to @oliverdarcy
NBC News has cut away. ABC News has cut away as well. CBS News is fact-checking right now.

buye buye

Steve Bannon suspended from Twitter, faces YouTube removal after urging violence against US officials

Sam Levin Sam Levin
Steve Bannon, Trump’s former top adviser, has been suspended from Twitter and had a YouTube removed after he called for the beheading of Anthony Fauci and Christopher Wray.

Bannon urged violence against the nation’s leading coronavirus expert and the FBI director on his “war room” show where he asserted that the president would win re-election and that he should fire the two officials in his second term, Media Matters reported. Bannon then said: “I’d put the heads on pikes, right, I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you’re gone – time to stop playing games.”

YouTube took down the episode today, though the channel remains up. A spokesperson told TechCrunch that it removed the video for “violating our policy against inciting violence”. The company did not immediately respond to the Guardian’s inquiry about its decision to keep the channel running. Bannon’s Twitter account was also taken down, and the company told the tech news site that it was “permanently suspended” for violating rules against glorifying violence.

Social media corporations have faced intense pressure to remove harmful content and misinformation surrounding the election. Facebook took down a pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” group earlier today due to “calls for violence”:

[Svartalf]

They smell a lame duck.

Bah, even if biden actually wins, he'll be only a one term president, if that much.

[Svartalf]

Not necessarily held the Senate ....McConnell might be sidelined

that hypocritical cunt deserves to be clotheslined. Not to mention tarred, feathered, and run out of the country on a rail.

[Joe]

They smell a lame duck.

Bah, even if biden actually wins, he'll be only a one term president, if that much.

But I was referring to Trump Svarty.

His "friends" are deserting him as they come to believe he will no longer be useful to them. It couldn't happen to a more deserving lowlife.

[pErvinalia]

What a loser.

[JimC]

Fire him!