Mod: Mike Pence cannot wipe out 7 million votes with the wave of his magic wand today? He just shows the audience the numbers. And he dared to say this to extremist bloviator Benedict Orange? Oh, to be that fly on the VP's head.Pence Said to Have Told Trump He Lacks Power to Change Election Result (The New York Timeslink): Vice President Mike Pence told President Trump on Tuesday that he did not believe he had the power to block congressional certification of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in the presidential election despite Mr. Trump’s baseless insistence that he did, people briefed on the conversation said.
Mr. Pence’s message, delivered during his weekly lunch with the president, came hours after
Mr. Trump further turned up the public pressure on the vice president to do his bidding when
Congress convenes Wednesday in a joint session to ratify
Mr. Biden’s Electoral College win.
“The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter on Tuesday morning, an inaccurate assertion that mischaracterized Mr. Pence’s largely formal and constitutionally prescribed role of presiding over the House and Senate as they receive and certify the electoral votes conveyed by the states and announcing the outcome.
Mr. Pence does not have the unilateral power to alter the results sent by the states to
Congress. When the results from all of the states have been considered,
Mr. Pence, who as vice president also serves as presiding officer of the
Senate, will be called on to read out the
Electoral College votes for each candidate, formalizing
Mr. Biden’s victory.
Mod: In other words, rather than a bloodthirsty Ming the Merciless of electoral vote executioners, Mike Pence is actually Vanna White. Got it. Turn those numbers, Mr. Vice President. More at the link.
Americans flock to thank Stacey Abrams for her campaign to turn Georgia blue (
Raw Storylink): Long before it became clear that
Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) was going to lose her appointed seat, and Jon Ossoff was narrowing the lead of Sen. David Perdue, there was
Stacey Abrams.
Democratic candidates Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff served as a contrast to the likes of Loeffler and Perdue, both of whom were accused of insider trading for questionable stock trades this year. But the key to Democratic turnout proved to be a substantial organizational structure in the state from the years-long effort of Abrams and her staff of organizers.
Her person-to-person campaigning created relationships with voters, got them registered, and ensured they made it to the polls. That election turnout in November and again in the January runoff was the true victory in the state.
Abrams was one of few
Democrats willing to take on the daunting task of registering voters and ensuring they understood the absurd voter suppression laws in
Georgia and how to cast their ballots.
Mod: Stacey Superhero. If you don't think so, just ask the new Senate Minority Leader, Moscow Mitch McConnell.
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