“Donald Trump closes in on victory with two crucial swing-state wins”, reports the Guardian.
I am glad that lawfare and censorship did not prove to be winning tactics.
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The BBC is reporting that some States may take days to report their results, so there is some scope for rigging, so do not count chickens yet. But the optics are 2016, although the House and Senate might flip. As things stand, the incumbent VP looks set to call someone else as President come January. Perhaps Biden will step down to give Harris a few months in the White House anyway.
This… Bigly!
Depends on how fast his pardon-staffers can draft up several hundred pardon apps and get them investigated and organized and put in front of him for signature. He has a LOT of people who will be looking to him for pardons from future prosecution before he goes, and he’s already been paid to do them.
I did indeed wonder how the January handover would be handled…couldn’t see them wheeling on Biden for the defeat speech.
I hope he does better this time choosing his teams. At least it sounds as though he recognizes that he blew it last time in that regard.
Also sounds like he’ll have the Senate, which means his judge picks are safe and easy – the Senate votes on them, not the House – but maybe he won’t have a tame House, so actual voted-on legislation will be tough, and so exec orders will be his pathway to accomplishment.
Too bad, in a sense. The trifecta would have been awesome.
I fear the problem is as it was in 2016, namely, the “best” (or at least, the most savvy and experienced and connected) people in the beltway and beyond would consider it social death to accept a role in his administration.
Actually, David, I think that will be a huge advantage!
Trump = mandate of heaven
Harris = jobber
Providing the election process wasn’t any more corrupt than usual (a big if of course) I never doubted this.
The surge of Trump voters meant the election was “too big to rig” – although some Democrats in some areas tried to rig the vote (“problems with voting machines” and other tricks).
Overall the Dems (and the RINOs) are telling themselves that “at least Trump will take the blame for the economic collapse” – and perhaps he will, UNJUSTLY, take the blame for the economic collapse of 2025 – but I am still happy that he won, as we at least have a delay to the plans for world “governance” – the tyranny, total and absolute tyranny, that the international establishment have planned – which would have made future elections meaningless anyway (with taxes and regulations all decided by international agreements).
I just wish some dead friends of mine could have lived to see the victory of President Trump – as it is their victory, they gave everything they had (including their lives) for it to happen.
All I have done is sit on my backside typing on a computer.
I predict kalamity will resign as VP tomorrow to avoid the embarrassment of facing the people again and of having to declare the electoral college vote. biden is too far gone even to resign to protect her from it.
As with 2016, election night will be the high point of Trump’s 2nd term. It will be downhill from here.
Which is not to say that 4 more years of Trump will be much less awful than Obama’s 4th term.
But don’t get your hopes up. Put not your trust in Princes.
“[Biden] has a LOT of people who will be looking to him for pardons from future prosecution before he goes, and he’s already been paid to do them.
So if Biden grants a pardon to, for example, Shrillary, for (specifically) using an insecure server for top secret messages, does that insulate Shrillary from being charged with bribing Biden to get that pardon. (Biden himself has presidential immunity.)
Asking for a (worried) friend…
““Perhaps Biden will step down to give Harris a few months in the White House anyway.”
Oh, that would be great! Mike Johnson in charge of the certification of the electors. The lawfare would be chopped of at the knees!
@Mr Ed
Perhaps Biden will step down to give Harris a few months in the White House anyway.
Will not happen. Although I think Biden is probably disappointed that the dems lost, he is surely feeling some degree of self satisfaction that she lost. Some feeling that his demand that he run against Trump. Some vindication that he is the only person to have beaten Trump in an election.
I think there is probably a lot of schadenfreude at the Whitehouse today. And he will do NOTHING to help her, give her a legacy or any such thing. In fact she will be even more sidelined than she already has been. Kamala Harris is now radioactive and nobody on the left will ever have anything to do with her again. Her career is over, and she is unlikely to get any of the usual sinecures and lecture series that ex politicians expect to get. No doubt she will write a book that will sell 15,000 copies. You’ll be able to pick it up in the discount bin at Barnes and Noble for $2.50.
Biden, on the other hand, will undoubtedly go on to a post career bonus, inasmuch as his diminished mental capacity will allow. Jill (excuse me, “Dr.” Jill) will do even better. He will, however, fade off into the night though, in more ways than one.
It’s too quiet.
Antifa didn’t burn any cities last night. BLM failed to march and destroy. Hamas is still sitting at home washing their keffiyehs.
There were law enforcement alerts and staffing bumps all over last night and this morning, but nothing has happened.
I’m getting the impression that no one actually liked Kami as their candidate – or even just as a person. No one is, today, outraged enough at her loss to do anything about it.
Our worst danger now comes from the Never-Trumpers who will be boring us to death with stories about how the next four years are going to suck.
bobby b – I agree with you that who President Trump picks for various offices will be critical.
Personnel are policy – without, for example, a 100% pro President Trump people as Attorney General and FBI Director (in a better America there-would-be-no-FBI) the Administration may be finished before it starts.
Speaking of BLM, you might be as surprised as i was that a BLM leader endorsed Trump.
His rationale is hard to argue with: