US election 2020 thread

[MickiQ]

If the GOP are out of funds. I wonder if the lawyers in these multiples of Trumps legal actions are going to get stiffed

Oh yeah, I'm surprised he can find a lawyer willing to take on any case for him

 

[co-op]

The next time the Republicans are going to get someone like Trump but who actually knows what they are doing and who shows a degree of competence in fucking everything up. Just because Trump may be on the way out, that country is far from fixed. Politically it will only get worse.

Also; so long as the drive to harsher and harsher neo-liberalism is pushed by whichever Biden/Clinton/Starmer suit manages to scramble in, the more the material conditions driving a new Trump are fostered. Obama's utter capitulation to Wall St over the 2008 bankers crash was as important as anything in getting Trump elected in the first place.

4 years of Biden ain't going to fix anything for pissed off voters.

 

[planetgeli]

Trump declaring victory in PA with a million votes to count is both desperate and embarrassing. And at this stage completely unsurprising.

Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is falsely declaring victory in the key swing state of Pennsylvania, which remains too close to call.

Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien said on a press call, “We are declaring a victory in Pennsylvania.”

The president’s son echoed that message in a tweet:

 

[JTG]

I'm absolutely shattered but it's occurred to me that if MI & GA finish their counts this evening with Biden in the lead then it's over tonight bar the recounts etc

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Wayne County has nearly finished its good work. Biden up to 61,000 lead in WI.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Also; so long as the drive to harsher and harsher neo-liberalism is pushed by whichever Biden/Clinton/Starmer suit manages to scramble in, the more the material conditions driving a new Trump are fostered. Obama's utter capitulation to Wall St over the 2008 bankers crash was as important as anything in getting Trump elected in the first place.

4 years of Biden ain't going to fix anything for pissed off voters.

Also Biden will be 108 by the time of the next election.

 

[Dogsauce]

Also Biden will be 108 by the time of the next election.

he’s already said he won’t do a second term. Harris next.

 

[Wilf]

Trump declaring victory in PA with a million votes to count is both desperate and embarrassing. And at this stage completely unsurprising.

TBF, Man United have just won the Premier League.

 

[Plumdaff]

Getting tense in Detroit where a crowd of unofficial 'poll watchers' have turned up at the Wayne County count and have pushed their way in. Now too many people there so many locked out and unhappy and some official poll watchers can't get in.

 

[killer b]

I'm absolutely shattered but it's occurred to me that if MI & GA finish their counts this evening with Biden in the lead then it's over tonight bar the recounts etc

When are they going to finish in Pennsylvania?

 

[JTG]

When are they going to finish in Pennsylvania?

Tomorrow I think. I know the Dems were saying they expected Philly's mail vote to be dropped tonight or tomorrow so guessing it's not gonna be super quick

 

[littlebabyjesus]

When are they going to finish in Pennsylvania?

According to NYT, they have said that most votes will have been counted by Friday.

 

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[littlebabyjesus]

Getting tense in Detroit where a crowd of unofficial 'poll watchers' have turned up at the Wayne County count and have pushed their way in. Now too many people there so many locked out and unhappy and some official poll watchers can't get in.

We can only be thankful that these idiots are not very good at what they do. Too late.

 

[JTG]

Getting tense in Detroit where a crowd of unofficial 'poll watchers' have turned up at the Wayne County count and have pushed their way in. Now too many people there so many locked out and unhappy and some official poll watchers can't get in.

That's... not good?

Only MI counties still counting are Wayne, Genesee (Flint), Kent (Grand Rapids) and for some reason Antrim which is showing zero votes which I assume must be a data error

 

[littlebabyjesus]

That's... not good?

Only MI counties still counting are Wayne, Genesee (Flint), Kent (Grand Rapids) and for some reason Antrim which is showing zero votes which I assume must be a data error

Population: 23,000. No worries.

 

[JTG]

Trump margin in PA now below 6 points (350k).

Just gonna quote verbatim from the 538 blog

We just got about 15,000 more votes from Allegheny County, Pa. (home of Pittsburgh), with four-fifths of that going to Biden. Biden leads the county 56 percent to 42 percent (with 79 percent of the expected vote in), a margin similar to Clinton’s margin over Trump in the county in 2016. Trump’s statewide lead is down to about 6.5 points, with 82 percent of the estimated vote in.
And just as I wrote that, two more batches of Pennsylvania vote were reported: 23,277 votes in Philadelphia, all for Biden, and about 5,300 votes in Luzerne County, nearly 4,000 of which were for Biden. Trump’s lead in the state is now just below 6 points, with 83 percent of the expected vote in.

Which gives you an idea of just how heavy these votes are for Joe Biden

 

[JTG]

Population: 23,000. No worries.

Yeah it's way up north and the surrounding counties aren't very big so assumed it wasn't worth worrying about

 

[SpookyFrank]

280-odd thousand Michigan votes left in play, Biden up by 60,000+

Means trump needs over 60% of the remaining votes.

 

[JTG]

280-odd thousand Michigan votes left in play, Biden up by 60,000+

Means trump needs over 60% of the remaining votes.

And that ain't happening in any of the three counties still reporting

 

[Lord Camomile]

Biden due to speak imminently:

 

[JTG]

Biden now more than 1% ahead in Michigan which is nice to see

 

[Ax^]

Hmm not let see if Biden comes across like a dement asshole

 

[Idris2002]

Spoiler

 

[agricola]

Biden setting a record here for the oldest person to ever popcorn a sitting US President.

 

[Sue]

Spoiler

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Step away from the spoiler, ska invita .

 

[Ax^]

hmm whilst its not hard to sound more like a president than trump

thats not a bad reaction to Trumps bullshit

 

[agricola]

Michigan called for Biden by CNN

 

[JTG]

"I haven't won yet, but I've definitely won"

Fair enough really

 

[Ax^]

slightly confused why is the BBC reporting 214 for trump?