Official 2020 Election Results thread

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Word is that Melania is telling Trump to concede....

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Word is that Melania is telling Trump to concede....

....and as soon as that's done, she and Baron are on the first plane to Slovenia. You know she can't wait to dump Cheeto.

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According to CNN, it would appear that Jared & Malaria are advising Cheeto to concede, while Uday & Qusay are telling him to "keep fighting".....

(CNN)Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, has approached the President about conceding the election, two sources told CNN Saturday.
And first lady Melania Trump has advised the President the time has come for him to accept the election loss, a separate source familiar with the conversations told CNN on Sunday.
Though the first lady has not publicly commented on the election, she has privately weighed in with her opinion, the source noted. "She has offered it, as she often does," the source said.
Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller in a tweet Sunday morning denied that Kushner has approached Trump, although CNN stands by its reporting. "This story is not true," said Miller. "Jared has advised @realDonaldTrump to pursue all available legal remedies to ensure accuracy."

Trump asserted in a statement from his campaign -- moments after CNN and other networks projected that Joe Biden will become the 46th President of the United States -- that Biden is "rushing to falsely pose as the winner" and that the race is "far from over."


"I will not rest until the American People have the honest vote count they deserve and that Democracy demands," Trump said in the statement, which explains that the campaign's legal battle will begin Monday.
Biden-Harris deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield said Saturday night that there had been no communication between Biden and Trump, or between any representatives from either campaign, since the race was called earlier in the day.
And Biden campaign senior adviser Symone Sanders, told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of The Union" Sunday that "a number of Republicans from the Hill have reached out," but said, "I don't believe anyone from the White House has."
Biden won the presidency Saturday after the battleground state of Pennsylvania pushed the Democrat over the 270 electoral votes needed to capture the White House.

Trump, who was at his golf course in Sterling, Virginia, on Saturday when the race was called, has not denied the outcome of the election, privately at least, sources told CNN. But he's continuing to push his attorneys to pursue legal challenges that would delay formal certification of the results.
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who recently tested positive for coronavirus, discussed next steps with the legal team Saturday.
Meanwhile, some members of Trump's party on Sunday vocalized their opposition to the President conceding the election, urging him not to do so.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, one of the President's closest allies in the Senate, said "the President should not concede" during an interview on Fox News.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who was also Trump's one-time primary rival, also advised against concession, saying it would be "premature."
And Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, a member of Republican leadership in the Senate, would not acknowledge on Sunday that Biden is the President-elect, citing both the legal challenges initiated by Trump's lawyers in states across the country and the ongoing vote counting process as reasons.

Trump's adult sons push ahead in fight
Trump's two adult sons have been key voices in urging the President and his allies to continue contesting the results of the 2020 election, according to multiple sources.
Beyond public posturing on social media, both Don Jr. and Eric Trump have been digging in their heels, seeking to drum up broad GOP support for contesting the election results and telling allies they genuinely believe the election was fraudulent.
In recent conversations, Eric Trump has told allies he believes the election was "stolen from us," according to a source familiar with his comments, and vowed to fight to overturn the results.
And in the days since Don Jr. called out Republicans -- and in particular "2024 GOP hopefuls" -- for not offering sufficient backing to the President's claims, the eldest son has been waging a lobbying effort among senators and governors to release supportive statements, according to people familiar with the conversations.
So far there has been only a moderate wave of outward support from Republicans, though some -- including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Republican whip Steve Scalise -- have said the President's legal maneuvers must be resolved before the election can be called. And South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who is said to be considering a run in 2024, appeared Sunday on ABC to say the President deserves his day in court.

Many other Republicans are also growing frustrated with the pressure campaign and lack of evidence of voter fraud thus far presented by the Trump team, with some prominent Republicans urging the President's team to put up or shut up.
But Trump's sons are not alone in encouraging the President to wage legal war rather than concede. Meadows is also said to be encouraging an arduous legal fight as have Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and the President's longtime political advisers Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie.
In the days following the election, Don Jr. traveled to Georgia, where two congressional races -- one of which has already advanced to a January 5 runoff and the other likely to -- could determine control of the Senate. While he was there he held a press conference decrying the vote-counting process in the state. People familiar with the matter said he also held meetings focused on the upcoming Senate contests.

The President has privately expressed frustration that some Republican leaders appear ready to move on from his race to focus on the Georgia election, people familiar with the conversations said, insisting they focus on him instead.

CNN's Caroline Kelly, Betsy Klein, Keith Allen, Chandelis Duster, Devan Cole and Ali Main contributed to this report.

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....and as soon as that's done, she and Baron are on the first plane to Slovenia. You know she can't wait to dump Cheeto.

Slovenia? Naw, she's got an anchor baby!

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How's this for symbolism....

newsweek.com
The Trump Plaza Casino is set to implode just days after Biden's Inauguration, city labels "public safety hazard"
By Benjamin Fearnow On 11/8/20 at 7:13 PM EST


The Trump Plaza Casino tower in Atlantic City, New Jersey, is set for implosion on January 29, just days after President-elect Joe Biden's presumptive Inauguration Day.

Critics of President Donald Trump and his ongoing "voter fraud" claims are citing the scheduled January demolition of the 39-story tower as a metaphor for his own behavior since Election Day. Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small announced an end to years of financial wrangling over the former Trump casino, which opened in 1984 before closing permanently in 2014. Atlantic City officials deemed the Trump Plaza structure on the famous Boardwalk a "public safety hazard" last March.

The building's demolition will mean there are no more major Trump properties left in Atlantic City. The New York Times reported Sunday that Trump's return to the family real estate business will be met with lingering financial problems and likely layoffs.

Former "Democratic" Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill shared a video Sunday of an Atlantic City resident proclaiming, "Go Biden" as she stood next to the wrapped and netted structure set for implosion. "There is something poetic that the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City is scheduled for implosion about a week after President Biden takes office," the MSNBC contributor quipped.

City officials and concerned locals have for years proposed fencing, saying pedestrians are at risk of being hit by falling debris from the dilapidated former Trump structure.

Billionaire developer Carl Icahn has owned the property since 2016 and the casino operations closed in September 2014. Trump Organization bankruptcies dating back as far as 1992 plagued the operation with financial troubles for years and city officials said the increasingly dilapidated building had become an eyesore. Citing disrepair, Trump in 2014 sued Trump Entertainment Resorts, which he no longer controlled, and demanded to have his name removed from the Trump Plaza building.

"The Trump Plaza was put out of its stained-carpet, squeaky-revolving-door, no-room-service, center-of-the-Boardwalk misery, as its dedicated hospice workers dealt a final hand of blackjack," The Philadelphia Inquirer said of its September 2014 closure.

Trump previously had two other casinos in Atlantic City, the Trump Taj Mahal and Trump Marina, but both were later rebranded and operated under new management following numerous Trump bankruptcies. Icahn Enterprises still owns the property, which is scheduled for clean-up through June 2021. A smaller tower containing a Rainforest Cafe and a parking deck will remain on the oceanfront property after the demolition.

Trump's Taj Mahal casino was sold for pennies on the dollar in 2017 and ended the New York businessman's prominence in the seaside gambling town he first built up in the 1980s. The Trump Taj Mahal became the Hard Rock Casino and the former Trump Marina building is now the Golden Nugget, Jersey Digs reported.

Trump Plaza opened as Harrah's at Trump Plaza in the mid-80s and was the flagship development property of the Trump Organization in Atlantic City. It boasted 906 guest rooms and 86,000 square feet of casino space.

Newsweek reached out to the Trump Organization and the Atlantic City mayor's office Sunday evening.

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Biden will be like Gore before. Like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown!

Fortunately for Sleepy Joe, in 6 months, he'll never remember it.

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Biden will be like Gore before. Like Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown!

Fortunately for Sleepy Joe, in 6 months, he'll never remember it.

Wait is Biden Lucy or Brown or WTF?

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Go back to your own party Kasich, you worthless Kochsucker

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Abby Spamberger should go to HELL where she can be reunited with her Lord & Savior, Poppy Bush. FUCK these goddamned CIA thugs embedding themselves in government, and FUCK any hypocrite that whines about KGB Putin while encouraging this bullshit.

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Former Vice President Dan Quayle: It is time for Trump to 'move on'

Former Vice President Dan Quayle: It is time for Trump to 'move on'
Justine Coleman November 09, 2020


Former Republican Vice President Dan Quayle said on Monday that it is time for President Trump to “move on” and accept defeat days after President-elect Joe Biden was projected the winner of 2020 presidential election.

Quayle, who served as vice president under George H. W. Bush, is the only surviving member of the last presidential ticket in which the incumbent was defeated in their reelection campaign. He and the senior Bush lost to former President Clinton in 1992.

“You know, it’s tough in defeat,” he said, according to The New York Times.

“Unfortunately, we were the last incumbent president to lose, and it’s not easy,” he said. “But we’ve had enough time to look at what’s going on, there have been a lot of allegations they continue to investigate, but from my viewpoint, I don’t think there’s any systemic fraud.”

“It’s time to move on, and therefore I hope that there’s some sort of announcement from the White House sooner rather than later,” he continued.

Quayle is among the few current and former Republican leaders who have acknowledged Biden’s electoral win.

Trump has declined to concede after Biden was projected to win the election on Saturday. As the former vice president gained a lead in several battleground states last week, the Trump campaign filed several lawsuits contesting the ballot count without substantiating evidence.

For months ahead of the election, the president spread unfounded claims that mail-in ballots, used due to the pandemic, would open up the election to fraud.

Some Republican lawmakers have criticized Trump’s post-election rhetoric, but others have stood by the president and urged him to fight back on the results.

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Congratulations Cheeto! You are now officially dumber than the idiot who couldn't spell "potato(e)"

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Once the states certify their votes, legal challenges play out and Congress finalizes things... then the calls for moving on will be appropriate.

There is a specific certification process... we still have states counting votes... the only ones calling the election results are... the "media"... the media doesn't have an official role here.