Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Ga., Nev. to begin investigations into election
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UPDATED 2:07 AM PT – Monday, November 9, 2020
Investigations are underway in key battleground states after widespread allegations of voter irregularities.
In Georgia, where the race has been too close to call through the weekend, congressman Doug Collins is leading the recount after claims of ballot dumping and a lack of transparency with the original tabulation. Two counties, Fulton and Gwinnett, reported technical issues during counting, which led officials to question the veracity of the unofficial tally.
Another technical issue occurred in Antrim County, Michigan. Election officials wrongly gave Joe Biden a 3,000 vote lead, marking an incorrect tally of 20 percent of the county’s entire electorate. A later recount corrected the tally and put President Trump ahead by 2,500 votes.
Meanwhile on Sunday, the President’s team said Nevada had at least 200,000 votes that were not signature matched by both a machine and a human being as required by law. Additionally, state officials were notified of two cases were ballots were allegedly cast by residents who were deceased at the time of the election.
Megyn Kelly to Newsmax TV: 'I Would Have Loved to Have a Shot at' Biden
After delivering some of the most potentially damaging debate moments against President Donald Trump in 2016 as a moderator, media personality Megyn Kelly on Newsmax TV lamented she did not have a "shot at" pressing Joe Biden.
"I would have loved to have a shot at him on the Hunter Biden thing," Megyn Kelly told Monday's "Greg Kelly Reports." "'Is it Hunter's laptop? Have you asked him? Why not?'
"'Did you have the meeting, whether it's on your calendar or not? You don't remember meeting with the executive at Burisma, a company where your son was getting $50,000 a month? That didn't strike you as odd?'
"'You didn't look into it? Why not? You were the vice president. Didn't you have an obligation to know what your son was doing with respect to foreign policy that might affect the administration?'
"We could have gone on for awhile."
Megyn Kelly, who left Fox News for NBC after the 2016 presidential election, was forced out of her lucrative contract and her talk show after she questioned the criticism of wearing Blackface costumes, particularly as actors and even liberal supporters have worn them in the past.
"But I was on my couch," she demurred to host Greg Kelly, no relation.
"Journalism as we knew it is gone, Greg, it's gone."
Megyn Kelly, once a member of the anti-Trump media, now sees the attacks on the president and then-candidate Trump as a mission to seek and destroy.
"And I said this on my podcast: It was like a Kamikaze mission to take down Trump," she said. "And they may have done it. They may have taken him out.
"And they certainly took themselves out, too. And there's no coming back from it."
Megyn Kelly finished with mocking CNN anti-Trumper Don Lemon.
"Don Lemon is another one at CNN," she said, mock crying after Lemon cried on camera when that network called the race for Biden. "'Single tear for myself; I just want you to remember how hard it's been for all the journalists and journalism.'
"By the way, [inaudible] you, state TV!"
State TV is a term used for biased media propaganda favoring the Democrat Party.
10 GOP Attorneys General Back Lawsuit Challenging Pennsylvania Mail-In Ballots
Republican attorneys general from ten states have filed an amicus brief in the GOP lawsuit challenging the extension of counting mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene and reverse the decision.
“The Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision overstepped its constitutional responsibility, encroached on the authority of the Pennsylvania legislature, and violated the plain language of the Election Clauses,” reads the brief, signed by attorneys general in Ohio, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, South Dakota, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi and Oklahoma.
“Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our republic and it’s one of the reasons why the United States is the envy of the world,” Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt said at a press conference announcing the brief. “We have to ensure that every legal vote cast is counted and that every illegal vote not cast is not counted. To do so would disenfranchise millions of Americans.”
The U.S. Supreme Court in October ruled that Pennsylvania could count mailed-in ballots received up to three days after the Nov. 3 election, rejecting a Republican plea in the presidential battleground state.
Many news outlets have called the race for Democratic challenger Joe
Biden, though President Trump has refused to concede, citing voter
fraud.
Newsmax has yet to call the election.
GSA Delays Transfer of Power to Biden
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The General Services Administration, which is charged with approving transfer of power to a new presidential administration, is resisting requests from Democrat Joe Biden to approve the process, saying the winner has yet to be determined.
"An ascertainment has not yet been made," The Epoch Times quoted a GSA spokesperson on Monday. "GSA and its administrator will continue to abide by, and fulfill, all requirements under the law."
According to the agency, GSA administrator Emily Murphy
will not initiate the transition until a "winner is clear, based on the
process laid out in the Constitution."
Mainstream news organizations called the election for Biden on Saturday,
but President Donald Trump has refused to concede, alleging election
irregularities in several states. His legal team has filed lawsuits in
five states, some in which vote counting continues.
Newsmax has not called the race, instead waiting for the legal process to play out.
"The administrator's ascertainment is done for the purposes of making services provided by the [Presidential Transition Act] available," the GSA spokesperson told the Times. "Until an ascertainment is made, the statute allows for the Biden Transition Team to continue to receive the pre-elect services from the government (e.g., limited office space, computers, background investigations for security clearances). GSA has met all statutory requirements under the PTA for this election cycle and will continue to do so."
The federal agency normally recognizes a presidential candidate when it becomes clear who has won an election, an official told reporters on a call, adding that the transition team may take legal action.
The begin the official transition is keeping Biden's team from receiving travel expenses and salaries.
Monday, November 9, 2020
Trump Admin Planning to Hit Iran With Flood of Sanctions Before Jan. 20
The Trump administration is planning to hit Iran with a "flood" of sanctions before the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20 in hopes of making it more difficult for Joe Biden, should he be elected president, to return to the 2015 U.S. nuclear deal, two Israeli sources briefed on the effort told Axios.
The sanctions are separate from the Iranian nuclear program and instead linked to its ballistic missile program, assistance to terror organizations and human rights violations.
Trump backed out of the agreement in 2018, saying it failed to curtail Iran's ballistic missile program and its influence in the region.
A Biden win has boosted hopes of revitalizing the nuclear deal – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday said "an opportunity has come up for the next U.S. administration to compensate for past mistakes and return to the path of complying with international agreements through respect of international norms."
Tensions between the U.S. and Iran have escalated under the Trump administration, and the U.S. since leaving the nuclear deal has reimposed punishing sanctions on Iran that have crippled its economy.
Axios said Elliott Abrams, the Trump administration's envoy for Iran, will meet Monday with Israeli Minister of Defense Benny Gantz and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi to brief them on the plan.
Abrams in a closed-door briefing said the Trump administration wants to announce a new set of sanctions every week until Jan. 20.
Lindsey Graham Urges Trump to 'Fight Hard,' Don't Concede
One of the most prominent Republicans in the US Congress on Sunday urged Donald Trump to "fight hard" and not concede his loss to Joe Biden in the race for the White House, saying unfounded allegations of fraud by the president must be investigated.
Other Republicans sought to walk a finer line, saying legal challenges must be allowed to play out.
"We will work with Biden if he wins, but Trump has not lost," Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said on Fox News.
"Do not concede, Mr. President. Fight hard."
Graham alleged "shenanigans" related to mailed ballots, the method a large number of Americans preferred in Tuesday's election due to the coronavirus pandemic.
"It's the wild-wild west when it comes to mail-in balloting," said Graham, a former Trump critic turned unstinting supporter.
There is no evidence that fraud has ever been a significant problem affecting mail-in voting in US presidential elections.
"Everything we worried about has come true, so if we don't fight back in 2020 we're never going to win again presidentially," he nevertheless added.
Other top Republicans were more guarded in their comments, but nonetheless refused to acknowledge Biden had won, saying legal challenges must go forward and vote counting must continue.
"What we need in the presidential race is to make sure every legal vote is counted, every recount is completed, and every legal challenge should be heard," Kevin McCarthy, the top Republican in the House of Representatives, said on Fox News.
"Then and only then that America will decide who won the race."
Biden currently has at least 279 electoral votes, with only 270 needed to win. Trump has 214.
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