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.
It also stated that a post-election audit, as well as the ongoing recount, turn out that the election is 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 in past election cycles. Arizona has had a reliable leaning towards Republicans. Biden’s victory there was a must for him, as he passed the mark of 270 electoral votes needed to defeat Trump and win the 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 prohibits the governor from intervening 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 Monday made its fifth call to election officials in Georgia to determine the signatures of the counting process. The press release delivering the request read:
“Trump 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 Elections of February 3, 2020 until and unless there is a thorough verification of the signatures , which we have now requested 4 times in writing prior to this request. Ray S. Smith, III, Donald J’s legal suggestion said. Trump 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 subscribers 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 may have already 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 election 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 that some teams had encouraged other people 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 has been exerted on fellow Republicans Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp, after Biden was limited to his state.
The Supreme Court gave the impression of a skeptic Monday about Donald Trump’s efforts to exclude undocumented immigrants from a census of key populations, but gave the impression that he hesitated to end politics soon.
The court heard oral arguments Monday in a high-stakes dispute centered on a July memo in which Trump ordered the Commerce Department to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census count used for the number of congressional seats it gets. each state. , carried out since the founding of the United States, has long used the entire population as the basis for the allocation of seats in Congress. The Trump administration’s policies would likely do the most damage to immigrant-rich regions like California and Texas, while reaping whiter and more conservative benefits. regions over the next decade.
Several states, led by New York, and a coalition of immigrant advocacy teams have challenged politics in courts across the country. Lower courts in several cases blocked the policy as illegal.
On Monday, even two of the court’s top conservative judges, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, seemed suspicious of the letter that allows the president to categorically exclude all undocumented immigrants from the office accounts. “total number of people. “
“Much of the old evidence and practice of many years is opposed to its position,” Barrett told Jeffrey Wall, the acting attorney general, the government’s lead attorney.
But much of Monday’s argument was not about the merits of the president’s actions, but about whether it was too early for the U. S. Supreme Court to interfere and prevent Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the census, from sending Trump a set of knowledge. with an undocumented immigrant count. Wall told reporters Monday that Commerce had endeavoured to prepare knowledge for the president, and it was not yet clear how many other undocumented people the government could rule out. The court deserves to wait until this uncertainty is resolved to see the extent to the number of others who may be affected before making a decision.
Here’s what it is so far:
Biden’s team temporarily and seriously plans court appointments, a resolution that Republicans boast of having made in the two subsequent presidential administrations.
According to the Wall Street Journal:
WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden will begin an effort in January to recalibrate the federal justice formula with more liberal appointments that take a strong judicial role in solving national upheabers and protect an evolving diversity of individual rights, a shift in President Trump’s conservative appointments.
“Joe Biden believes the law deserves to focus on protecting the person,” said Cynthia Hogan, who was Hogan’s lawyer when she was vice president and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. that other people deserve not to be deprived because they are part of the ordinary class, they are poor, they are black, they are women, they are immigrants. “
Biden’s advisers say they will have compiled a list of applicants until the day of the inauguration, adding a short list for the Supreme Court, where the 82-year-old judge, Stephen Breyer, appointed through President Clinton, is 82.
Trump and Senate Republicans are determined not to leave vacancies for Trump Biden, but once he takes office, the people appointed by Clinton and Obama can begin to resign with the certainity that a Democratic president can nominate successors of like-minded. .
In the final days of Donald Trump’s presidency, the parameters he is obsessed with go down the road: his approval rate, which has never been above water, is recovering.
There’s more, too. President-elect Joe Biden is gaining followers on Twitter at a remarkable time, while Trump wastes them, even when he uses the social media platform to express explicit false statements about how this election was “rigged” as opposed to it (this was not the case). Martin Pengelly of The Guardian has more.
After Biden’s team deployed senior executives for communications and press relations, Trump officials began to complain that it is the first management to have a women-led communications team.
Aaron Blake of The Washington Post threw unscrutinly water on that argument. After all, there are several men in Trump’s press (who become the most reactive public servants) in key positions as well. Here’s Blake:
The first is that, objectively, Biden’s team will be more feminine. As many others noted after McEnany tweeted what he did, Judd Deere is Trump’s deputy assistant and undersecretary of the press, Brian Morgenstern is also deputy press secretary and deputy director of communications. Biden’s deputy deputy deputy deputy deputy press secretary will be Karine Jean-Pierre, while his deputy director of communications will be a woman, Pili Tobar.
Other reasonable people would possibly disagree on whether those roles are technically “superior. “Deere, for his part, seemed to agree that he was not playing a leadership role, retwating McEnany’s tweet and writing his own edition of the same complaint.
But the same goes for Vice President-elect Kamala D’s press team. Harris. Su spokesman will be Symone Sanders. This position has been held lately through Devin O’Malley.
In other words, three of Biden’s seven spots on Sunday lately have men occupying positions in Trump’s White House. Calling him “senior” or whatever, Biden’s White House communications team will come with many more women.
The problem at the moment, however, is that McEnany and others behave a little like a straw man. McEnany’s headline in his tweet just said biden had appointed a senior communications team made up exclusively of women, which is true regardless of the definition of “senior. “The name does not refer to a statement that is unprecedented or that Trump has not made, however, McEnany warned that the name was “fake news” that discredited The Post.
The president criticized Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, for his handling of the Georgian Secretary of State and the vote counting procedure in Georgia.
Trump has been furious for days because Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brian Raffensperger have blocked certification of the effects of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, where Joe Biden beat Trump.
President-elect Joe Biden has officially announced a list of economic appointments he plans to make for his cabinet and administration. The names the new president is deploying today have been informed, so what’s going on is that Biden is making it more official. .
These are the names announced this morning through Biden’s transition team, in a press release:
Brian Deese, whom The Times reported Biden will appoint to lead the National Economic Council, is not included here. Deese had been discussed in the past as a possible director of the Office of Management and Budget, but his decision after Obama’s leadership for Investment Control Company BlackRock has attracted wide opposition from progressive Democrats.
The composition of the Senate will be (slightly) this week. Democrat Mark Kelly will take the oath of office on Wednesday.
Kelly joined the Senate early because she won the Senate seat, formerly represented through the vanquished Arizona Senator John McCain, who serves the remainder of the six-year term.
Good morning. Daniel Strauss succeeds Martin Belam.
Shawn Hubler and Alex Burns of the New York Times are the variety of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who will succeed Vice President Kamala Harris as California Senator. Harris will resign his Senate seat when she is sworn in as vice president in January.
Here’s the decision of the Times on Newsom:
You will need to appoint someone to hold the seat that will soon become vacant in the United States Senate of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Although many names have been introduced to succeed Harris, Padilla has established hes the favorite, according to more than a dozen advisers, political experts and fellow legislators familiar with the governor’s thinking.
However, nearly a month after Harris’ election, Newsom has not yet appointed a successor, and tension rises.
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Newsom has had conversations with some potential candidates, does not appear to have conducted formal interviews for the position, other people familiar with the process said.
Padilla, 47, has a favorite of Latin American lawmakers, defense teams and several hard-working officials, and his circle of political advisers largely overlaps with Newsom’s. The moment, the son of Mexican parents, a short-lived chef Jalisco and a Chihuahua housekeeper: Padilla headed to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated in 1994 in mechanical engineering.
The Biden-Harris team has announced the formation and senior composition of its inaugural Presidential Committee (PIC). The control team will consist of Tony Allen as General Manager, with Maju Varghese as Executive Director, and Erin Wilson and Yvanna Cancela as Deputy Executive Directors.
On a media date, Tony Allen said, “I know and enjoy Biden’s family circle for 25 years and I am deeply revered for helping organize the historic inauguration of an intelligent and decent patriot at an unprecedented time in our country. The opening of the year will be another in the midst of the pandemic, but we will honor inaugural American traditions and have interaction with Americans across the country while ensuring the health and protection of all. “
They also have a shiny new one: bideninaugural. org
And that’s all about me in London today. I shake hands on the other side of the Atlantic to Daniel Strauss, who will accompany you on Monday . . .