#Trump says he will not run again if he loses in November, 'that will be it'
If ever there was a reason to #vote, this is it people.
Trump said that he will not make a 4th consecutive run for the US presidency if he loses the Nov 5 #election, saying "that will be it" in an interview.
Asked if he saw himself running again in 4 yrs:
"No l don't. I think that will be — that will be it. I don't see that at all. Hopefully, we will be successful."
It is disgusting to read this garbage by BBC calling the left wing social democratic president elect of Sri Lanka for Marxist leaning, typical red-scare propaganda like the cold war days.
#SPRINGFIELD, #OHIO — #Trump says he’s coming. #VivekRamaswamy actually came. But for #Republican leaders who are just standardly here, day-to-day life has been upended in a city under political siege.
Critics included #democracy advocates who accused the board of intentionally injecting #chaos & uncertainty into the presidential contest as well as #election supervisors & poll workers who said hand counts would take too long, cost money & almost certainly produce counting errors.
The board voted 3-2 to approve the measure, which would require the #HandCount in addition to the customary machine count in each precinct.
The rule requires the #HandCount to take place the night of the November #election or the next day. But dozens of election officials said that would be physically impossible in all but the smallest counties. Many also said in public comments Friday that it is far too late in the year to adopt new procedures for which their staffs have not been trained & for which they have no funds.
#DeJoy defends #USPS readiness to handle mail-in ballots
Postmaster General DeJoy defended the Postal Service’s readiness for a spike in #election-related #mail, including #MailInBallots & other political mail, amid concerns from both parties that the agency is not prepared.
In a call w/reporters Thurs, DeJoy cited an Office of Inspector General report showing that the USPS processed between 97.01 & 98.17% of political & election mail on time between Dec 1, 2023, & April 30.
“We recognize that #election officials are under an extreme amount of pressure & will remain so for at least the next 2 months,” #DeJoy said. “Let me be clear: The Postal Service is ready to deliver the nation’s mail-in ballots. … Our track record is strong. We have been transporting & delivering ballots since 1864.”
After Trump claimed the 2020 Presidential election was “rigged,” a short #documentary shows the effect of election #ConspiracyTheories in the crucial jurisdiction of #MaricopaCounty, #Arizona, through the experience of one elected official.
That year, the #filmmaker Paul Moakley watched from afar as a hostile crowd massed outside the #MaricopaCounty Tabulation & #Election Center while the ballots were being counted. Protesters wrapped themselves in #Trump flags & carried #AR15-style rifles; on a bullhorn, the political commentator & conspiracy theorist #AlexJones warned of “another 1776.”
2 yrs later, Moakley & Daniel Lombroso travelled to #Arizona to follow Gates during the week before the 2022 midterm #election, when #ElectionDenial was, once again, in the spotlight. The result is “#Denial,” a short #film that explores the corrosive effects of election conspiracies through the experience of one elected official in one crucial jurisdiction.
It would appear that the #ChiefJustice of #SCOTUS, #JohnRoberts, has been fully captured by the #cult of #Trump. The article…details how Roberts has been help[ing] Trump accomplish his #legal & #political goals.…It reveals…that Roberts wanted to make sure Trump could run in this #election, wanted to make sure Trump escaped #accountability for his many #crimes, & wanted to grant Trump unprecedented #immunity to commit additional crimes should he be returned to office.
How does #Trump’s running mate have so much time on his hands?
By David Frum
A first draft of this story opened: “It’s not every day that a candidate for vice president of the #UnitedStates rage-tweets at you.”
Backspace, backspace, backspace. Although it’s not every day that a candidate for vice president of the United States rage-tweets at me personally, it is almost every day that Senator #JDVance rage-tweets at somebody.
The day before that, the Secret Service had fired upon a man w/a rifle near #Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course. The apparent assassination attempt drove the headlines, but beneath the story was the reality that a candidate for president took a day off to #golf only 50 days before #Election Day.
Trump golfs a lot, & #campaigns surprisingly infrequently.
All but 2 #Senate#Republicans got baited into voting yesterday against a #law to protect #IVF from state-level #abortion restrictions. Meanwhile, Republicans in the #House …stumbl[ed] to forcing a #GovernmentShutdown because #Trump vetoed their own plan to fund #government operations through the November #election. That’s all just in a single week.
#House votes to reject #GOP bill to avert #GovernmentShutdown
The House on Wed rejected Speaker #MikeJohnson’s plan to fund the govt for 6 months, cranking up tensions around a fast-approaching #government#shutdown deadline not only throughout #Congress but also w/in #Republicans’ House majority.
14 #Republicans joined w/ #Democrats [sick of doing the GOP’s work for them & who objected to racist additions to the bill] to block it.
#Funding for the federal #government expires Sept 30, & w/o an extension, most federal govt operations would shut down Oct 1 as millions of #Americans begin early #voting in Nov’s #election.
Wed’s result—a 220-202 vote w/2 voting present—was hardly in doubt. #GOP lawmakers from across the ideological spectrum had said publicly for more than a week that they opposed the #legislation. But #MikeJohnson has insisted there is “no Plan B” to prevent a #shutdown if the bill fails. .
Trump has said he would cancel all unspent funds from President Joe Biden's signature #ClimateLaw if he wins the presidential #election on Nov 5.
But the vast majority of grants will be spent by the time a new president takes office in Jan, & targeting what remains would be a massive #legal challenge.
A key #election ofcl in #Arizona’s #MaricopaCounty plans to ask the state’s highest court as early as Tues to prohibit nearly 100k longtime residents from voting in STATE & LOCAL races this fall after discovering the state has no record of asking them for documents proving their #citizenship.
Like other states, AZ requires voters to swear that they are citizens when they register to #vote.
But for 20 yrs, #Arizona#law has gone further & required residents to show birth certificates, naturalization papers or other documents proving #citizenship to vote in state & local #elections.
At issue is a pool of voters who county & state ofcls have no record of submitting those documents. Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D) said the vast majority are likely longtime citizens who are eligible to #vote in all races.
“While he is not here to experience the current moment, we who worked for [#Reagan] in the White House, in the admin, in campaigns & on his personal staff, know he would join us in supporting the #HarrisWalz ticket," the group writes. "The #TimeForChoosing we face today is a choice between #integrity & #demagoguery, & the choice must be Harris-Walz. Our votes in this #election are less about supporting the Democratic Party & more about our resounding support for #democracy."
This account draws on details from justices’ private memos, documentation of the proceedings & interviews w/ #SCOTUS insiders, both conservative & liberal,who spoke on the condition of anonymity because deliberations are supposed to be kept secret. I thank them for providing evidence of such blatant [#bias & #corruption]
The #ChiefJustice wrote the majority opinions in all 3 cases, incl an unsigned one in March concluding that #Trump could not be barred from #election ballots in #Colorado.
That would have deferred oral arguments until Oct & almost certainly pushed a decision until after the #election. But #ChiefJustice#JohnRoberts provided crucial support for hearing the historic case earlier, siding w/the liberals.
Then he froze them out. After he circulated his draft opinion in June, Justice Sonia #Sotomayor, the senior liberal, signaled a willingness to agree on some points in hopes of moderating the opinion….
…Both #conservatives & #liberals saw it as an epic win for #Trump. He & his supporters exulted over the decision, which greatly expanded presidential #immunity & pushed off any trial until well after the #election —if ever. To #Democrats, the #Republican-appointed #SCOTUS justices were brushing away the #violent Capitol attack & abandoning the core principle that no one is above the #law. The #ChiefJustice, who had long said he wanted to keep the court out of #politics, had plunged it deeply in.