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US Elections: Democrats WIN Georgia After TRUMP STOLE Thousands of Donor $$$
TRUMP: Former President WARNS Rival Ron DeSantis NOT to Run For President in 2024
Recalling The Words of Abe Lincoln on Election Day BBC News 9 NOV 2022 https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.T...Ii&pid=Api&P=0 It’s been as long, as negative and as nasty a campaign as anyone can remember. https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.m...In&pid=Api&P=0 In his second inaugural address Abe Lincoln, who knew a little bit about how deep divisions wound a country, spoke of binding up those wounds, "With malice toward none with charity for all. |
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Katie Hobbs Defeats Election Denier Kari Lake in Arizona Governor Race
Victory For Democrat Over TRUMP-Endorsed Opponent is Seen as a Boost to Voting Rights TRUMP For 2024 Would be BAD Mistake, Republicans Say as Blame Game Deepens Alabama congressman Mo Brooks, a once-zealous Trump ally, comments after party fails to retake Congress in midterms The Guardian UK 15 NOV 2022. The Democratic candidate for governor in Arizona, Katie Hobbs, has defeated her far-right, Trump-endorsed opponent, staving off a major threat to voting rights in the state. Hobbs, who is Arizona’s outgoing secretary of state, defeated Kari Lake, a former TV anchor who denies the 2020 election results. Lake has refused to say if she would accept defeat this time around but tweeted “Arizonans know BS when they see it” after Monday’s result emerged. The Associated Press projected Hobbs as the winner on Monday evening with more than 95% of votes reported. From the Pacific coast to the eastern seaboard, election denialism has seeped from US state capitols into village halls, bars and living rooms -- sickening the US body politic and threatening democracy itself. https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.o...FE&pid=Api&P=0 Two weeks ahead of the midterm election, Republicans up and down the ballot are embracing defeated president Donald Trump's false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen and that voter fraud is rife. Hobbs celebrated her win on Twitter with the message: “Democracy is worth the wait.” Hobbs rose to prominence as a staunch defender of the legitimacy of the last election and warned that Lake would be an agent of chaos. Lake’s loss adds further evidence that Trump is weighing down his allies in a crucial battleground state as the former president gears up for an announcement of a 2024 presidential run. The two candidates had been virtually tied in polls, and Hobbs’s refusal to debate Lake and her lukewarm performance in televised appearances had worried supporters in the weeks ahead of the election. Hobbs gained support and national recognition as Arizona’s top election official, defending the state’s results against a frenzy of disinformation and repeated efforts by Republicans to challenge and undermine Joe Biden’s victory in 2020, even as she became the target of death threats. Voting rights advocates are breathing a sigh of relief, as Hobbs staves off further damage to Arizona’s election systems. Republican lawmakers in the state introduced at least 81 bills seeking to restrict voting access in 2021 and 2022. Had she won, Lake had vowed to further dismantle voting norms in the state, arguing winners should be declared on election night – a rare occurrence in Arizona, where mail-in votes can take days to count – while also forgoing ballot counting machines in favor of slower and less accurate hand counts. And in recent months, rightwing activists had aggressively operated in the state. Hobbs referred several complaints of voter intimidation to law enforcement and the US justice department. And members of the conspiracy theorist group Clean Elections USA had been photographing and intimidating election workers and voters outside the Maricopa county election headquarters in Phoenix. Hobbs’s victory appears to be yet another sign that the Copper State, once a conservative bastion, has transformed into a political battleground. Demographic changes and a decade of activism by grassroots, progressive groups have helped amplify the voices of young and Latino voters, who have been helping deliver key victories for Democratic candidates. Her win also marks a midterm coup for the Democratic party, who defied expectations of a “red wave” to hold onto their Senate majority, although Republicans are favored to win a majority in the US House of Representatives. Abortion rights may have also been a motivator for many voters. In a recent poll, more than 90% of Arizona voters opposed a total ban on abortion. After Arizona revived a pre-statehood ban on abortions, Hobbs made the issue central to her campaign, speaking in personal terms about the impact such a ban would have on women and families. Lake, meanwhile, ran on a deeply conservative platform, supporting a total ban on abortions and vowing to declare an “invasion” at the southern border. A staunch supporter of Trump, she had also threatened to only accept the election results if she won. Before entering politics, Hobbs was a social worker who worked with homeless youth and an executive with a large domestic violence shelter in the Phoenix area. She was elected to the state legislature in 2010, serving one term in the House and three terms in the Senate, rising to minority leader. Hobbs eked out a narrow win in 2018 as secretary of state and was thrust into the center of a political storm as Arizona became the centerpiece of the efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election. She appeared constantly on cable news defending the integrity of the vote count. The attention allowed her to raise millions of dollars, and her profile, before going on to comfortably win her primary. She will succeed Republican governor Doug Ducey, who was prohibited by term limit laws from running again. She’s the first Democrat to be elected governor in Arizona since Janet Napolitano in 2006. |
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Donald TRUMP 2024: Six Ways Running For President Will be Harder This Time
US Midterm Elections: TRUMP Has Anounced His Third Straight Presidential Bid, In an Extremely Rare Attempt by a Former US Leader to Recapture The White House After Losing an Election. Anthony Zurcher BBC 16 NOV 2022. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...ator_getty.jpg The speech, which clocked in at more than an hour, was largely a mix of boasts about his presidential record and attacks on the first two years of Joe Biden's presidency. On display were some of Trump's continued strengths. He has an unmatched sense of which issues are important to grass-roots conservatives, such as immigration and crime. His unpredictable and inflammatory style can drive news coverage and deny the spotlight to his competitors. He has a base of loyal supporters and can motivate typically unengaged Americans to vote. And after four years in office, many of those supporters hold positions of authority within the Republican Party. But his speech also highlighted some of Trump's key weaknesses. He glossed over the hardships and missteps during the Covid pandemic and totally ignored his months of election denial that culminated in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol by a mob of his supporters. He attempted to defend the Republican Party's tepid performance in last week's midterm election and his support for losing candidates, which has led to growing criticism from conservative ranks. Mr Trump said the task ahead was not one for a "conventional candidate", but for a movement of millions of people - his movement, his people and his campaign. He rode that movement to the presidency six years ago, but there's reason to believe the obstacles that his latest White House bid will face are more daunting this time around. Here's why. 1. Running with a record Eight years ago, Mr Trump was a political blank slate. With no record as an officeholder, voters could project their hopes and desires on to him. He could make expansive promises - so much winning! - without critics pointing to past shortcomings and failures. That's not the case any more. While Mr Trump had some notable policy achievements during his four years in office, including tax cuts and criminal justice reform, he also had some prominent failures. Republicans will remember his inability to repeal Democratic healthcare reforms and his repeated promises of infrastructure investment that never came to fruition. And then there's Mr Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which could open him up to attacks on multiple fronts. Democrats have long criticised his response as insufficiently aggressive, but there are some on the right who believe he went too far in supporting government-mandated mitigation efforts. 2. The Shadow of 6 January Mr Trump won't just have to run on his policy record as president, either. He will have to defend the way he handled the end of his presidency and his role in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol. The images of that day, with supporters waving Trump banners amid the teargas as they ransacked the Capitol and temporarily halted the peaceful transition of power, will not be easily forgotten. The midterm elections demonstrated that what happened that day - and Mr Trump's words and actions in the weeks leading up to it - may still be influencing voter behaviour. Many Republican candidates who offered full-throated support for Mr Trump's refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election lost. Lots of them underperformed other Republican candidates in their states who were not outspoken in their election denial. 3. Legal headaches One of the reasons floated for why Mr Trump appears so eager to launch another presidential bid is because it will allow him to more effectively frame his multiple criminal and civil investigations as part of a larger political vendetta. While that might work for public relations purposes, Mr Trump's legal exposure in these cases is very real. The former president is currently defending himself against a criminal election-tampering inquiry in Georgia, a civil fraud case targeting his business empire in New York, a defamation lawsuit involving a sexual assault allegation, and federal probes into his role in the Capitol attack and his post-presidential handling of classified material. Any of these investigations could lead to full-blown trials that would dominate the headlines and at least temporarily derail Mr Trump's campaign plans. At best for him, it would be a costly distraction. A worst-case scenario would include massive financial penalties or prison. 4. A tougher opponent As the Republican presidential contest began eight years ago, Mr Trump faced off against a Florida governor considered to be the party's prohibitive favourite. Jeb Bush, however, proved a paper tiger. A massive campaign war chest and a famous last name was not enough. He was out of step with the Republican base on immigration and education policy. And the Bush name didn't carry the power within the party that it once did. If Trump wants the nomination in 2024, he may once again have to go through a Florida governor. Unlike Mr Bush, however, Ron DeSantis just won an overwhelming re-election victory that suggests he is in tune with his party's core supporters. While he has yet to be tested on the national stage, his political star is ascending. It's unclear if Mr DeSantis will run, or who else will enter the Republican presidential contest at this point. Who are Trump's Republican rivals? The Florida governor could emerge as the consensus pick among the party faithful not interested in giving Mr Trump another shot. If so, Republican voters may have the kind of binary choice that will improve their odds of stopping Trump before his nomination is secured. 5. Popularity woes On the eve of Trump's presidential announcement, a conservative group released a series of polls that showed Trump trailing Ron DeSantis in a head-to-head contest by double-digits among Republican voters in Iowa and New Hampshire. Those states hold votes early in the Republican nomination process. Mr DeSantis also led by 26 points in Florida and by 20 in Georgia, which has a Senate run-off election in December. In all these states, Trump's numbers were well down on previous surveys. Watch: We asked Americans about Trump running again - they have mixed feelings. According to exit polls from the recently concluded midterm elections, Mr Trump is simply not very popular - including in the key states he would need to win to secure the presidency in a general election. In New Hampshire, only 30% of voters said they wanted Mr Trump to run for president again. Even in Florida, that number only rose to 33%. Of course, Trump overcame net-negative views of his candidacy in 2015 as well. But after eight years as a political figure on the national stage, those views may be much less likely to change this time around. 6. Father Time If he wins the presidency, Trump would be 78 years old when he's sworn in. And while that's the same age Joe Biden was when he moved in to the White House, it would make him the second-oldest president in US history. Time takes its toll in different ways on different people, but the increasing burdens of age are inevitable. There's no guarantee that Trump can withstand the kind of rigorous campaigning required to win the Republican nomination - particularly one where he will probably be pitted against much younger candidates. Trump has shown remarkable endurance in the past, but every man has his limits. |
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Pence Explains Why He and TRUMP Have Gone Separate Ways
BBC News 17 NOV 2022. https://tse2.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIF.t...UA&pid=Api&P=0 Former Vice President Mike Pence shares a conversation he had with former President Donald Trump that led Pence to determine it was time to go their separate ways. |
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TRUMP Asks Supporters to Fund New Plane
How TRUMP Stole Thousands In Donor Money & Moved it To His Business After His Presidency ‘I Am a Never-Again Trumper’: Ex-House Speaker And GOP 2024 Hopefuls Line uUp Against TRUMP "With TRUMP we lose," he added. MORE: Billionaire Donors are Defecting From TRUMP BBC News 22 NOV 2022. https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/LD...cdf2d592661bd0 https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/Xf...a5f9bbdfed56e5 https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/r2...ff5972feb4fd46 https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/0q...473991da281fdc Former Speaker Paul Ryan calls himself a 'Never-Again-Trumper' Just days after Donald Trump announced his third bid for the White House, former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan denounced the twice-impeached former president's political future, calling himself a "Never-Again-Trumper." "I'm proud of the accomplishments [during the Trump administration] -- of the tax reform, the deregulation and criminal justice reform -- I'm really excited about the judges we got on the bench, not just the Supreme Court, but throughout the judiciary," Ryan told ABC News' chief Washington correspondent and "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl in an exclusive interview that aired Sunday. "But I am a Never-Again-Trumper. Why? Because I want to win, and we lose with Trump. It was really clear to us in '18, in '20 and now in 2022." While Republicans secured the House with a razor-thin majority, they failed to flip the Senate. The "red wave" that was widely predicted this midterm season did not come to pass. Ryan put the blame directly on the former president. "I personally think the evidence is really clear," Ryan said in his first Sunday show interview since he left office in 2019. "The biggest factor was the Trump factor … I think we would have won places like Arizona, places like Pennsylvania, New Hampshire had we had a typical, traditional conservative Republican, not a Trump Republican." "We lost the House in '18," Ryan continued. "We lost the presidency in '20. We lost the Senate in '20. And now in 2022 we should have and could have won the Senate. We didn't. And we have a much lower majority in the House because of that Trump factor." During the interview, Ryan pointed to the Trump-endorsed candidates' lackluster performance during the midterms. At least 30 of the former president's hand-picked candidates, including some of the most notable nominees in various states, lost in their general elections after winning their primaries. https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/qT...ed27565fe0f737 |
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US Midterm Elections.Georgia Runoff: Democrats Solidify Senate Control With Victory
US President Joe Biden's Democrats have cemented their control of the Senate by winning a bitterly fought seat in Georgia, according to projections. BBC 7 DEC 2022 https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...1245419271.jpg Raphael Warnock fought off Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a race that had been left undecided after last month's midterm elections. Because no candidate passed 50% of the vote in November, the contest had to be settled by a run-off. Democrats will now run the upper chamber of Congress by 51-49. Mr Warnock won by about 37,000 votes in November's vote, not enough to cross the 50% threshold for victory. The 53-year-old southern Baptist preacher at the Atlanta church once led by civil rights leader Martin Luther King had argued that the race was about competence and character. Mr Walker, an American football legend and political newcomer, joins a string of defeated candidates who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump. His campaign was dogged by claims - which he denies - that he paid for two former girlfriends' abortions, despite his calls for the procedure to be outlawed. The 60-year-old also had to acknowledge during the campaign that he had fathered three children out of wedlock, despite having long railed against absentee fathers. Republicans, meanwhile, ran an attack ad reminding voters of an allegation by Mr Warnock's ex-wife that he ran over her foot in a car during a March 2020 domestic dispute. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cp...1446964125.jpg Herschel Walker is a longtime friend of Donald Trump Election day voting numbers in Georgia reached 1.4 million, election official Gabriel Sterling said after polls closed, adding there had been "record turnout across the board". A record-breaking 1.9 million Georgians had already cast early or postal ballots. Mr Warnock's campaign enjoyed a big fundraising advantage, spending about $170m (£140m), compared with Mr Walker's nearly $60m, according to federal filings. Mr Walker's Senate bid was the last Republican opportunity to flip a Senate seat following midterm defeats by Trump-backed Senate candidates in New Hampshire, Nevada, Arizona and Pennsylvania. Other candidates Trump championed won in Ohio, Wisconsin and North Carolina. Both President Biden, who has had low approval ratings, and Mr Trump largely avoided wading into the race. In the US midterms, Republicans won a slender majority in the US House of Representatives, the lower chamber of Congress. Tuesday night's victory means that although most legislation will still need Republican support, it will be slightly easier for Mr Biden to appoint judges and members of his administration. If Democrats had lost Georgia, the party's control of a 50-50 Senate would have depended on US Vice-President Kamala Harris' tiebreaking vote. |
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