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2020 Election Results

Titled link: The Senate is a much bigger problem than the Electoral College - Vox - I agree. But it's less prominent than the Presidency, and it will be harder to deal with than the Electoral College.


Hanna Trudo on Twitter: "Top @JoeBiden GOP surrogate @JohnKasich: "Now is the time for Democrats ... to begin to listen to what the other half of the country has to say."" / Twitter
Should Republicans also do that?

Hanna Trudo on Twitter: "Just a stunning statement from, again, Biden surrogate John Kasich: "The Democrats have to make it clear to the far-left that they almost cost him this election."" / Twitter

Hanna Trudo on Twitter: "Kasich is just on an extended several-minute rant ripping socialism.

As we reported, progressives are ready to push Biden immediately. They were anticipating this: https://t.co/vb21WyeJdF" / Twitter

Progressives Ready to Push Biden Leftward ‘Immediately’ - Oct 31 - "They’ve rallied around Biden in an effort to push Trump out. And if Biden wins, he’ll find out quickly that unity is not unconditional."

AOC responded to Kasich:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Anyone saying this after immigrant organizers delivered AZ, Black grassroots flipped Georgia, MI going blue w reality-bending 94% Detroit margin + @RashidaTlaib running up the margins in her district & Trump publicly challenging @IlhanMN in MN and losing isn’t a serious person." / Twitter
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
blastula said:
Trump's 'Big' Press Conference At Four Seasons Total Landscaping Sows Confusion - HuffPo
When Donald Trump said his lawyers would be speaking at the Four Seasons, he didn't mean THAT Four Seasons.

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1325087011464749056?s=20[/TWEET]

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This is what happens when the campaign has no money. Like flies coming of the pocket nothing.
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He thought rabid prejudice would pay the bill.

Four Seasons Total Landscaping is the most 30 Rock joke of the entire election cycle

— Evan Rytlewski (@Evanryt) November 7, 2020
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AOC is sure that a progressive agenda can coexist with being elected outside of yellow-dog-Democrat districts like hers.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Every single swing-seat House Democrat who endorsed #MedicareForAll won re-election or is on track to win re-election.

Every.👏🏽 Single.👏🏽 One.👏🏽" / Twitter

Got this response:
Elon Mollusk on Twitter: "@AOC Receipts 👇 https://t.co/L0FqBsYngY" / Twitter
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I'm concerned about it being selective. We'll need a more comprehensive assessment.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "(We’re running numbers on GND)" / Twitter
That'll be interesting to see.
 
Biden’s victory seemed clear for more than a day. So why did the media hold off on calling it? - The Washington Post
It seems to me that the news-media election watchers were being cautious.
“It sure seems to me like not calling the race when the outcome is obvious . . . gives the president more time to spout misinformation,” fretted polling guru Nate Silver on Friday afternoon.

And then, finally, the dam seemed to break all at once. At 11:24 a.m. on Saturday, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer declared Biden the winner, based on projections that winning Pennsylvania, with its 20 electoral votes, would push him past the required 270. NBC News followed on-air seconds later, followed quickly by CBS, MSNBC, ABC and the Associated Press. The Washington Post reported the projection at 11:34 a.m.

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And it was the media’s role in providing unofficial closure to the race that especially rankled Trump’s backers, who have been claiming, without evidence, that widespread fraud took place. “The media do not get to determine who the president is,” tweeted Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Saturday. “The people do. When all lawful votes have been counted, recounts finished, and allegations of fraud addressed, we will know who the winner is.”

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The tipping point in projecting Biden’s victory on Saturday was the release of a new batch of ballot counts from Allegheny and Philadelphia counties in Pennsylvania, both heavily Democratic areas. Given Biden’s slender but gradually growing lead in Pennsylvania, the batch that came in Saturday morning gave network “decision desk” staffers confidence to predict that Biden’s advantage was insurmountable.
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Seems consistent with caution. I think that they wanted to test their prediction models on big-city votes before going public with projections with them.
 
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "John Kasich, who did not deliver Ohio to Dems, is saying folks like @IlhanMN, who did deliver Minnesota, are the problem.

Please don’t take these people seriously and go back to celebrating and building power 🎉" / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "I’ve been thinking so much of @IlhanMN.

Trump made Minnesota explicitly about HER. Said he’d win because of her. Many Dems in DC believed him, & marginalized her.

That burden wasn’t fair, but she took on the challenge anyway. She won.

Credit and respect her. @RashidaTlaib too." / Twitter

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Trump routinely targeted some of the popular & respected movements & figures - both politicians and non politicians- bc the right wants Dems to run away from our strongest assets.

Strategy can be nuanced & we’re a big tent, but we don’t have to run scared all the time. Be proud!" / Twitter


Kaj on Twitter: "@AOC https://t.co/XFix2V0z8g" / Twitter - some video of GA, AZ, and PA as Melania Trump unwilling to hold her husband's hand.
 
Rex Chapman🏇🏼 on Twitter: "
Brooklyn:
Postal workers getting the love they deserve.
Ok, this is awesome...
https://t.co/3mElStKMcb" / Twitter
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "This makes me so happy.

Thank you to every @USPS worker in the country! We love you! 💌" / Twitter

‏ًً on Twitter: "@AOC “We have noticed several shops have pulled their Maga shirts and hats and different paraphernalia for the President and they’re only selling Biden t-shirts right now” https://t.co/oYlPJUOkDf" / Twitter


Kojo Ebro on Twitter: "People throwing paper towels over the fence in DC ...🤣🤣🤣" / Twitter
In reference to Trump doing that in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "As Bronxites do I went to Orchard Beach to celebrate and this lady said over the speaker “traiga la agua bendita porque Joe Biden is president” 😂🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷" / Twitter
"Bring the holy water because Joe Biden is president."
 
The Prez-elect and the Veep-elect:

ABC News Politics on Twitter: "President-elect Joe Biden: "To all those of you who volunteered and worked the polls in the middle of this pandemic, local elected officials—you deserve a special thanks from the entire nation." [url]https://t.co/dV9BINisLm https://t.co/SEZUyZKT3K" / Twitter[/url]

Kamala Harris on Twitter: "While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last—because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities." / Twitter

Kamala Harris on Twitter: "Now the real work begins.

To beat this pandemic.
To rebuild our economy.
To root out systemic racism in our justice system and society.
To combat the climate crisis.
To heal the soul of our nation.
The road ahead won't be easy.
But America is ready.

And so are @JoeBiden and I." / Twitter

Let's see how well they can overcome everybody's favorite chelonian obstructionist.
 
Election 2020: Latest news, vote counts, and results - The Washington Post

The House:
  • D (prev) 233 - D lead: 11, R lead: 6, R won: 7
  • R (prev) 202 - R lead: 5, D won: 3
One of the D presumed winners is my Rep, Peter DeFazio, D-OR-04

Some others:
  • IL-14 (91% counted): Lauren Underwood D 50.5% - Jim Oberweis 49.5%
  • CA-25 (94% counted): Christy Smith D 49.9% - Bob Garcia R 50.5%

Kamala Harris is currently a CA Senator, and she will resign her seat to become VP. CA Gov Gavin Newsom will then pick her Senate-seat replacement.
 
Coleman Smith said:
Our next door neighbor went to the liquor store to buy some Champaign to celebrate.

The clerk said that they sold more Champaign today than they did on New Years Eve.:joy:
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We drank our bottle of champagne today. Also grilled some steaks. Goodbye to Orango the Clown and his fellow White House freaks.
 
Side note: My city elected a Black woman mayor. :) Her 80 year old dad cried when he heard the results.
 
Opinion | Goodbye, Donald Trump. You Lost This Election. - The New York Times - "Don’t undersell the triumph of ousting Trump."

I like this.
Trump, it turned out, was far better at pumping up his side’s turnout than we might have assumed from polling data. The president lost Pennsylvania, but he received far more votes in the state — close to 3.3 million, when last I checked — than he did in 2016, when he won it. Joe Biden got more votes in Texas this year than Trump did in 2016 and it still wasn’t nearly enough for a flip. There was in fact a red wave; it just wasn’t big enough to carry Trump to victory.

This increased red turnout was a boon to down-ballot Republicans in some states. They appear to have benefited both from people who love the president but haven’t been consistent Republican voters in the past, and from the smaller share of anti-Trump Republicans. Republican senators outperformed Trump in Maine, Texas and, in the case of David Perdue, very slightly in Georgia.

... The implications for Biden’s first term are dire, and the sort of pro-democracy reforms that would stave off a future of minority rule are, for the moment, off the table. It’s understandable that many on the left are dispirited.

But that should not distract from the monumental accomplishment of ending Trump’s malignant presidency.
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In the Messiest Contested Election, One Man Saved the System From Itself - The New York Times - about the 1876 Presidential election. It was a big mess, with House Speaker Samuel Randall brokering a deal a few days before inauguration.
 
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Biden’s Win, House Losses, and What’s Next for the Left - The New York Times

When asked her main takeaways,
Well, I think the central one is that we aren’t in a free fall to hell anymore. But whether we’re going to pick ourselves up or not is the lingering question. We paused this precipitous descent. And the question is if and how we will build ourselves back up.

We know that race is a problem, and avoiding it is not going to solve any electoral issues. We have to actively disarm the potent influence of racism at the polls.

But we also learned that progressive policies do not hurt candidates. Every single candidate that co-sponsored Medicare for All in a swing district kept their seat. We also know that co-sponsoring the Green New Deal was not a sinker. Mike Levin was an original co-sponsor of the legislation, and he kept his seat.
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She noted that she, Ayanna Pressley, Jamaal Bowman, and Cori Bush had defeated candidates that used the DCCC's sort of campaigning. That's the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

"Some of this is criminal. It’s malpractice. Conor Lamb spent $2,000 on Facebook the week before the election." He's in PA-17.

"If you’re not door-knocking, if you’re not on the internet, if your main points of reliance are TV and mail, then you’re not running a campaign on all cylinders." - this is someone who wore holes in her shoes in her first campaign.
Our party isn’t even online, not in a real way that exhibits competence. And so, yeah, they were vulnerable to these messages, because they weren’t even on the mediums where these messages were most potent. Sure, you can point to the message, but they were also sitting ducks. They were sitting ducks.

There’s a reason Barack Obama built an entire national campaign apparatus outside of the Democratic National Committee. And there’s a reason that when he didn’t activate or continue that, we lost House majorities. Because the party — in and of itself — does not have the core competencies, and no amount of money is going to fix that.
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Disbanding his campaign organization was a big flub - and a disaster for his party and his Presidency. His campaigners had to rebuild it for his re-election.
 
What surprised AOC about the election?
The share of white support for Trump. I thought the polling was off, but just seeing it, there was that feeling of realizing what work we have to do.

We need to do a lot of anti-racist, deep canvassing in this country. Because if we keep losing white shares and just allowing Facebook to radicalize more and more elements of white voters and the white electorate, there’s no amount of people of color and young people that you can turn out to offset that.

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If you are the D.C.C.C., and you’re hemorrhaging incumbent candidates to progressive insurgents, you would think that you may want to use some of those firms. But instead, we banned them. So the D.C.C.C. banned every single firm that is the best in the country at digital organizing.
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Then about how the party leadership has "anti-activist sentiment".
I’ve been begging the party to let me help them for two years. That’s also the damn thing of it. I’ve been trying to help. Before the election, I offered to help every single swing district Democrat with their operation. And every single one of them, but five, refused my help. And all five of the vulnerable or swing district people that I helped secured victory or are on a path to secure victory. And every single one that rejected my help is losing. And now they’re blaming us for their loss.
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She said that her colleagues have to understand that the Democratic base is not the enemy. BLM is not the enemy. M4A activism is not the enemy.

Then about the next steps of the Biden Admin.
These transition appointments, they send a signal. They tell a story of who the administration credits with this victory. And so it’s going be really hard after immigrant youth activists helped potentially deliver Arizona and Nevada. It’s going to be really hard after Detroit and Rashida Tlaib ran up the numbers in her district.

It’s really hard for us to turn out nonvoters when they feel like nothing changes for them. When they feel like people don’t see them, or even acknowledge their turnout.

If the party believes after 94 percent of Detroit went to Biden, after Black organizers just doubled and tripled turnout down in Georgia, after so many people organized Philadelphia, the signal from the Democratic Party is the John Kasichs won us this election? I mean, I can’t even describe how dangerous that is.
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Twitter: "WE DID IT!!! https://t.co/6RPKSmvRfc" / Twitter - showing her celebrating at her home: "Thank you! Thank you, voters!"

Sarah Cooper on Twitter: "I knew we’d be happy but I didn’t realize we’d be spontaneous dance parties in the street happy. What a moment https://t.co/8NsGheybEU" / Twitter
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Jamil Smith on Twitter: "It is as if a regime has been toppled. We've seen this kind of thing in other nations, or perhaps at the end of RETURN OF THE JEDI. But in our lifetimes? Not in the United States." / Twitter


Rep. Anna V. Eskamani 🔨 on Twitter: "@SunSentinel With all due respect, it does not surprise me that my colleague who receives the bulk of his contributions from corporations and lobbyists thinks corporate money isn't a problem. Democrats who defend corporate influence are often the ones who benefit from it (the party included)." / Twitter
She's in the Florida State House, FL HD47

After drubbing, Florida Democrats chart a new future - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
When Rep. Anna Eskamani of Orlando returns to the state Capitol this month to start her second term, something will be missing: Five fellow Democrats.

“My friends are gone, and that pisses me off,” Eskamani, a blunt-talking leader of the party’s progressive wing, told me.

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Now, in the aftermath of their latest drubbing, Democrats are blaming themselves, with some demanding a party house-cleaning.

A confrontation is building between the party’s younger progressive wing and older traditional liberals and moderates over the future. Let it rip. These are Democrats, after all. The so-called circular firing squad is practically part of the party’s bylaws.

Disappointed by the Democrats’ ground game and what she sees as a failure to counteract Trump’s talk of “socialism” in Miami, Eskamani wants the resignations of Party Chair Terrie Rizzo and executive director Juan Peñalosa.

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“There’s a pattern here of corporate money holding back Democrats from being the party of working people,” Eskamani said. In a progressive refrain, she said Democrats are too beholden to big-money interests such as Disney, U.S. Sugar and Florida Power & Light, who will always shower Republicans with many more millions to protect GOP majorities in Tallahassee.
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Buttigieg: McConnell will have to decide if he'll stand in the way of health care, tax plans | TheHill
“Mitch McConnell's gonna have a decision to make,” Buttigieg told host Chris Wallace. “Is his purpose in Washington to defy the American people who, along with the president and the House of Representatives, will believe in expanding, not taking away health care, ensuring that the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes instead of slashing their taxes, no matter what, raising wages, treating climate change as real.”

Buttigieg said that if McConnell “wants to stop progress” he feared the Republican party would “pay a devastating price politically.”
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Kamala Harris's husband tweets photo of couple after presidential race called: 'So proud of you' | TheHill - the two hugging each other

Trump refuses to accept Biden victory, promises legal challenges | TheHill
Trump issued a statement minutes after numerous news outlets declared Biden the winner of the presidential race claiming that networks were helping the Democrat “falsely” pose as the winner and promising to fight the results in court.

“The simple fact is this election is far from over. Joe Biden has not been certified as the winner of any states, let alone any of the highly contested states headed for mandatory recounts, or states where our campaign has valid and legitimate legal challenges that could determine the ultimate victor,” Trump said in a statement released by his campaign.
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If they had any sense, they'd give it up.

But Trump is accustomed to winning by litigation, often by wearing down his targets until they don't have much more money to continue. But this time, he has opponents with much deeper pockets. Fortunately, some judges have the good sense to slap down his lawsuits.
 
Biden's victory margin is now:

PA 0.61%, GA 0.21%, AZ 0.56%, NV 2.4%, NC -1.4% (Trump still ahead in that state)

Fireworks in London, Edinburgh as Biden win celebrated abroad | TheHill

Also Canada, and Berlin and Munich in Germany.

Biden plans to issue orders reversing Trump policies immediately upon taking office: report | TheHill
People close to Biden’s plans told the Post that he plans to rejoin the Paris climate accords, which the U.S. officially left on Wednesday. He’s also reportedly planning to reverse the U.S.’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization, which is slated to take effect July 6, 2021.

Biden also wants to immediately repeal the ban on immigration that targeted many Muslim-majority countries and reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, according to the Post.
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Kushner has approached Trump about concession: report | TheHill - conceding defeat. Seems like he is sober. But Trump has issued a statement saying,
“The simple fact is this election is far from over. Joe Biden has not been certified as the winner of any states, let alone any of the highly contested states headed for mandatory recounts, or states where our campaign has valid and legitimate legal challenges that could determine the ultimate victor,” the president said in a statement released by his campaign after Biden was declared the winner on Saturday.

The president said his campaign will begin court fights the later this week “to ensure election laws are fully upheld and the rightful winner is seated.”

“We all know why Joe Biden is rushing to falsely pose as the winner,” Trump said, while also accusing the media trying to aid him.
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