I’m going to pass the blog on to my colleague Julia Carrie Wong, here’s what’s happened so far:
Add Wisconsin to the list of states that certify their electoral effects with a win through Joe Biden.
Earlier in the day, Arizona also rated its electoral effects for Biden. Donald Trump promised to combat those effects, arguing (without evidence) that he lost the presidential election only to fraud.
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley returned to his workplace in Washington after his quarantine because he tested positive for Covid-19.
According to a press in Grassley’s office, the senator said:
“Although I continue to paint from home when I was 40, I am satisfied to be back in the workplace with paintings for the inhabitants of Iowa. At 40, I heard so many Iowans and Americans across the country. Wishes. This disease affects others differently. I didn’t feel any symptoms, yet more than a thousand Americans die every day and many more are hospitalized. This means that we will all have to do our component to help protect our friends, circle of family and fellow citizens. I’ll keep wearing a mask and practicing social est estating.
“Promising news about vaccines means there’s softness at the end of the tunnel. This makes it even more vital to remain alert in the coming months. Congress will have to fulfill its component and pass the long-awaited relief law to help families and businesses. “communities through this crisis. I hope that my colleagues will come to the same conclusion and that very soon a two-component invoice can be passed.
Grassley is one of the developing legislators who have tested positive for coronavirus and, in the case of the Iowa senator, became asymptomatic and allowed to return to work.
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s top senior Republican, welcomed Grassley in his Senate address:
“First, as the Senate meets this afternoon, I am pleased to welcome our President Pro Tem.
“Senator Grassley went into quarantine and painted from home after his positive COVID check two weeks ago. We all predicted that if a member of this group had the stamina and ingenuity for the virus, it would be him, and of course, our colleague reports. that showed no symptoms. Your doctors have allowed you to repaint and we are very happy to see you today.
“President Grassley had to temporarily suspend his epic series of consecutive votes for the sake of others. Of course, leadership and example creation are not new to Iowa’s top senator. I am sure that our colleague will answer precisely where he left off, repeating his record for best attendance and the harsh paintings of the Iowans he represents.
“We all get huge benefits from his leadership. “
Cases of coronavirus in California continued after a week of vacation travel, reaching unprecedented levels even at the worst of the pandemic.
The state reported an average of 14,657 cases consistent with the day over seven days, adding 14,034 reported cases in more than 24 hours, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said at Monday’s briefing. At the height of the California pandemic in July, the state reported an average of seven days out of 9,881 instances consistent with the day.
Hospitalizations increased by 89%, and 59% of all hospital beds are used in the state fitness system, Newsom said.
Currently, 51 of California’s 58 states have again experienced severe maximum restrictions on coronavirus, including 10 p. m. curfew, a restriction that is not part of the original blockade that took place in March.
California has reported more than 1. 21 million cases of coronavirus since the onset of the pandemic. In California’s case-by-case ranking, California ranks 39th in the country, with 34. 5 cases consistent with 100,000 inhabitants. More than 19,000 people died.
Along with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to fend off Donald Trump, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger spoke Monday, according to CNN.
“There are those who exploit the feelings of many Trump supporters with assertions, half-truths, incorrect information and, frankly, they also lie to the president, apparently,” he said.
He also said that a post-election audit, as well as the ongoing recount, showed that the elections were fair.
“Once this recount is completed, everyone in Georgia will have even more confidence in the effects of our election,” he said, adding that the recount is on track to be completed by Wednesday night’s deadline.
More about Arizona certifying election results. Here’s Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, tweeting about it.
And here’s Democratic lawyer Marc Elias doing a round:
Arizona rated its electoral effects on Monday, ending doubts that Biden won the state in the 2020 presidential election.
Biden won the state through approximately 11,000 votes, a narrow margin even though in past election cycles, Arizona had a reliable trend toward Republicans. Presidency.
Continuing the exchange between Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, a Republican, and Donald Trump, whom I mentioned earlier, Kemp’s spokesman responded that Kemp had acted within the boundaries of his work.
According to the Washington Post:
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (right) on Monday rejected President Trump’s exhortations, suggesting that the president ask him to interfere in the November 3 election in a manner prohibited by state law.
Georgian law forbids the governor from interfering in the election,” Kemp’s spokesman, Cody Hall, said in a statement. “The secretary of state, who is an elected constitutional official, trains on elections that cannot be annulled by decree. “
Trump’s crusade on Monday made its fifth request to election officials in Georgia to verify the signatures of the counting process. The press release that delivered the request read:
“Trump’s crusade lawyers have asked the Georgian secretary of state to respect his duty to maintain the legitimacy of his state election, stating, “It is not imaginable that you as you should certify the effects of the presidential race from November 3, 2020 to the election unless there is a thorough verification of signaturesArray that we have now asked for four times in writing prior to this request. You cannot enter the existing legal count in smart religion until you have instituted a signature matching audit,” Ray S said. Smith, III, Donald J. Trump’s legal suggestion for President, Inc. “
Donald Trump has lost followers on Twitter since wasting the presidential election with Joe Biden, while the Democratic president-elect has added them.
According to Factbase, committed to tracking Trump’s public statements, the president has lost 133,902 fans since November 17, while the president-elect has won 1,156,610.
It is still transparent whether American democracy “survived” unscathed in the 2020 presidential election.
If Donald Trump’s playbook aimed at undermining a valid election becomes a popular Republican practice: refusing to give in, making false accusations of fraud, stoking the flames of conspiracy, prosecuting and refusing to certify any victory in the other respect, then American democracy could already have suffered a fatal wound.
But Trump did not borrow the 2020 election, despite his historic attempt to do so, in what analysts call the ultimate damaging frontal attack on American democracy since the civil war. The two states that Trump’s plot focused on to the fullest, Pennsylvania and Michigan, rated its effects in favor of Joe Biden last week. The presidential transition is still underway.
But while elections have revealed key spaces in which American democracy is failing, they have also highlighted structural features that make national elections in the United States difficult to steal, regardless of the determination of possible despot or the complicity of their colleagues.
Here is a varied list of those features:
Reuters reports:
Georgia’s electoral government has opened investigations into progressive teams seeking to recruit a new electorate before January’s dual elections coming out of the U. S. Senate, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Monday.
Raffensperger, a Republican, said his workplace reviewed registration efforts through America Votes, Vote Forward and the New Georgia Project, and said some teams had encouraged others living outdoors in Georgia to register to vote in the state.
“These third teams have a duty to inspire illegal voting. If they do, they’ll be responsible,” Raffensperger said.
Organization representatives did not respond to questions about the announcement.
The state is the setting for a couple of five January senate seats that will determine which party will take up space over the next two years and thus the ability to move forward or block democratic President-elect Joe Biden’s legislative agenda.
Raffensperger said he had also opened several investigations into allegations of irregularities in the US presidential election.
Donald Trump has continually stated without evidence that his loss to Biden was the result of widespread fraud, state and federal election officials have said there is no evidence of that.
Much of Trump’s anger was exercised over fellow Republicans Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp, after Biden gradually won his state.