It’s Monday.
Today across the country the Electoral College Delegates will meet to cast their votes by paper ballot for President and Vice President separately.
The Washington Post has listed the states by meeting time and provides a link to each states live stream of the EC ballot casting. While the meeting of the Electoral College tends to be a mere formality, this year, because it’s 2020, people have all eyes on six of the Battleground states:
- Nevada (6) meets at 11:30 D.C., time.
- Arizona (11) meets at 12:00 p.m. D.C., time. Arizona is live streaming via Facebook.
- Georgia (16) meets at 12:00 p.m. D.C., time. Georgia Public Broadcasting is providing the live stream.
- Pennsylvania (20) meets at 12:00 p.m. D.C., time. PAcast, a local government website is providing the live stream.
- Wisconsin (10) meets at 1:00 p.m. D.C., time. Wisconsin Eye is providing the live stream.
- Michigan (16) meets at 2:00 p.m. D.C., time. Michigan Senate is providing the live stream.
NEVADA has sent its 6 electoral votes to Biden/Harris. No drama in the livestreamed ceremony. pic.twitter.com/OHWFZhywlZ
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 14, 2020
We have now arrived at What Fresh Hell is This?, Day 40.
For What Fresh Hell is This?, Day 40, The almost Impeached former President of the United States, has tweeted 4 times and retweeted 4 times, so far.
12:03 a.m. D.C., time.
How it Started:
November 4th, 2018.
How it’s Going:
December 14th, 2020.
1. Says “What a fool Governor @BrianKempGA of Georgia is. Could have been so easy, but now we have to do it the hard way.”
The Washington Post has a detailed account of the “feud” between Impeached One-Term Bastard and Brian Kemp the Governor of Georgia.
The first major fissure in the relationship between President Trump and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp came a year ago, when Kemp paid Trump a clandestine visit in the White House residence.
On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, Kemp flew up to Washington to introduce Trump to Kelly Loeffler, an Atlanta business executive he wanted to appoint to fill his state’s open U.S. Senate seat.But when Kemp and Loeffler finally got their audience with the president, Kemp presented Loeffler as a fait accompli — telling Trump that he wanted the president to meet the woman he was planning to name to the Senate.
Well, if you’ve already made your decision, Trump grumbled, then I’m not sure why you’re here, according to people familiar with the conversation.
Trump later complained to aides that Kemp was rude and impolite — never forgiving the Georgia governor for what he viewed as a major slight.
Washington Post. 12/14/2020.
Why does Georgia matter, well, as you my daily readers know Senate control is hanging on the January 5th, runoff between 2 Republicans and 2 Democrats. According to Jordan Fuchs a longtime Republican strategist in Georgia, who spoke to the Washington Post, there is a civil war ongoing within her party.
She is quoted as saying:
Republicans fell into a trap by expecting [Georgia’s Secretary of State] Brad Raffensperger and Brian Kemp to cheat for them. The Democrats only have one, singular turnout model, and that’s the argument of voter suppression. They say it in their litigation — it’s the number one poll-tested message they have. This has fed into the hands of Democrats.
Washington Post. 12/14/2020.
The article is based on interviews with 15 allies and advisers of One-term and Kemp’s.
Since the election, Trump has personally berated Kemp in private phone calls, people familiar with the conversations said. In one call, the president told Kemp he was losing all of his popularity by not strongly supporting him, and in another, the president pointedly reminded the governor that he had endorsed him in 2018.
Trump has also called Loeffler and Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) — both of whom face runoffs on Jan. 5 — to complain about Kemp, though he has not given them any specific edicts beyond generally pressuring Kemp to support the president’s efforts to overturn the election results, one person familiar with the calls said. Loeffler and Perdue did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
“Maybe I should recruit someone to run against him,” the president said in one of these calls, this person added. “Your governor is horrible. He would be nothing without me.”
Washington Post. 12/14/2020.
In short, shocking nobody paying any attention at all, our almost Former Loser, is a pathetic cry-baby, who is trying to bully his way into a second-term, denied him, by voters.
2. Try’s to appear Presidential…
8:57 a.m. D.C., time.
3. Quotes his Fox Business Friend Maria Bartiromo.
From the above tweet, “a fake “water main break””.
In Fulton County, Georgia, counting was paused when a pipe burst at a facility in Atlanta. 11 Alive reported on November 6th, 2020, that according to the external affairs for Fulton County Jessica Corbitt-Dominguez, a pipe burst at the State Farm Arena, which caused a water leak. No ballots or machines were damaged. It took 2 hours to repair the leak that affected the room where absentee ballots were being tabulated.
Corbitt-Dominguez issued the following statement on November 3rd, 2020.
At approximately 6:07 a.m. on November 3, the staff at State Farm Arena notified Fulton County Registration & Elections of a water leak affecting the room where absentee ballots were being tabulated. The State Farm Arena team acted swiftly to remediate the issue. Within 2 hours, repairs were complete. No ballots were damaged, nor was any equipment affected. There was a brief delay in tabulating absentee ballots while the repairs were being conducted
11 Alive. 11/03/2020
November 4th, 2020, Politifact fact-checked Facebook posts claiming that battleground states stopped counting as President Sir Lies A Lot was headed for the win.
From the fact-check article:
In three states cited in the Facebook post — Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — election officials were not allowed to start tabulating mail-in ballots until Election Day or just before. That resulted in reporting delays overnight on Nov. 3, since mail ballots take more time to count than in-person votes.
“At no point has the counting process stopped since it began at 7 a.m. yesterday morning, which was when, per Michigan election law, it could begin,” said Tracy Wimmer, director of media relations for Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, referring to the morning of Nov. 3.
[The only state that did stop counting overnight?]
The only state that stopped counting votes overnight on Nov. 3 was North Carolina — but that doesn’t mean it’s done counting votes, and the halt had nothing to do with Trump being ahead in the state.
“North Carolina stopped counting votes on election night because there were no more votes to count at that time,” said Patrick Gannon, public information director for the state Board of Elections.
In North Carolina, 100% of precincts have reported in-person votes, and the results show that Trump has a slight edge over Biden. But Gannon said county boards of election across the state will now begin counting provisional and absentee ballots that arrive by Nov. 12, as long as they’re postmarked by Election Day.
Politifact. 11/04/2020.
9:24 a.m. D.C., time.
4. Appears to pretend the first coronavirus vaccine was given in the U.S..
While it appears he’s dismissing the vaccine given last week in the UK., I don’t believe that’s the case, he’s just being lazy, and vague, because he does that all the time and he truly doesn’t care about things that happen around him, unless he can take credit for it, or bash it. What he means is the first U.S., vaccine was administered this morning.
At the current time of 11:50 a.m. D.C., time, there is no stream provided for the signing of another EO that will be meaningless.
Here’s Biden’s schedule guidance for tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/1dGrFjbPgZ
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 14, 2020
As of right now I plan to carry President-Elect Biden’s national address in a separate thread.
Washington Post tracker has the cast EC votes at President-Elect Biden 36 and One-Termer at 56.
This post might be updated.
Happening in the long away future…
A life-time away…
This is an open thread
