The 2020 Presidential race

A December 30 Wall Street Journal editorial denounced Donald Trump for pushing Congressional Republicans to object to the January 6 Electoral College vote. "Republicans should be embarrassed by Trump's Electoral College hustle," the editors wrote, adding that Trump's refusal to concede the election "tarnishes" his legacy and "undermines any designs he has had on running in 2024." It is especially sad that almost every Congressional Republican has chosen to support Trump and his baseless accusations of voter fraud instead of supporting our democracy and our Constitution. Keep that in mind when you go to the polls in 2022 and 2024.

At least 140 House Republicans to vote against counting electoral votes

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/31/polit...ans/index.html

Here is an article about the Republicans who are opposing the certification of Biden's electoral votes.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-...the-next-level

A judge has thrown out the lawsuit that sought to force Pence to interfere with the electoral vote count.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/google-...ection-lawyers

Delusional Donald refuses to admit he lost the election – and he maintains such an iron grip on the Republican party, a majority of Republican Congressmen are likewise refusing to accept the election results. Now they want an audit of the election results? There is no need for that. Trump lost the election. He is a loser. L-O-S-E-R. Loser.

Ted Cruz leads 11 GOP senators challenging Biden win over Trump
The Associated Press, Jan 1 2021 9:10 PM

A coalition of 11 Republican Senators announced it will challenge the outcome of the Presidential election by voting to reject electors from some states when Congress meets next week to certify the Electoral College results that confirmed President-elect Joe Biden won.

President Donald Trump's extraordinary refusal to accept his election defeat and the effort to subvert the will of the voters has become a defining moment for Republicans and is tearing the party apart. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has urged Republicans not to try to overturn the election. The 11 Senators, led by Ted Cruz of Texas, said they will vote against certain state electors unless Congress appoints an electoral commission to immediately conduct an audit of the election results. They acknowledged they are unlikely to change the results of the election.

https://www.aol.com/news/gop-torn-ov...051020331.html

Yes sir, many Republicans are every bit as demented, deranged and delusional as Donald Trump.

GOP Congressman-elect Burgess Owens says 'there's no question' Trump was re-elected to a second term

https://www.businessinsider.com/burg...ollege-2021-01

There are now 12 Republican Senators who plan to oppose the January 6 certification of Biden's victory. Deranged, demented, delusional Donald of course sees the 12 as patriotic heroes. In other words, they are loyal to Trump, not to our nation, our democracy, our Constitution and the rule of law. Trump tweeted this: "After they see the facts, plenty more to come. Our Country will love them for it. #StopTheSteal"

What "facts"? The only fact I am aware of is that Trump lost the election.

Toomey and Murkoswki join Romney, Sasse, Burr, Wicker, Moore, Collins and several other Republican Senators who are wisely choosing to support the Constitution instead of supporting demented, deranged, delusional Donald, who continues to insist he won the election that he lost.

GOP Senators Toomey, Murkowski vow to certify Biden's Electoral College win
Forbes, Jan 2 2021 7:29 PM

After a dozen of their GOP Senate colleagues stated they would object to certification of the Electoral College, Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania said today they plan to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory, bolstering a majority of Senators who have already said they would honor the election results. "The oath I took at my swearing-in was to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and that is exactly what I will do," Murkowski said in a statement, adding the courts have "honored their duty" to consider legal challenges. Toomey said in a statement that the dozen Senators – led by Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri – "fail to acknowledge" Trump's inability to prove his election fraud claims in court and called the objections an "effort to disenfranchise millions of voters."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrews...h=d82630d36d71

Demented, deranged, delusional Donald continues to sink lower and lower in his efforts to overturn the results of the election – an election which he lost by more than seven million votes.

In phone call, Trump demands Georgia officials 'find' votes to tilt election
CNN, Jan 3 2021 3:46 PM ET

President Donald Trump pushed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" votes to overturn the election results after his loss to President-elect Biden, according to an audio recording of a phone call obtained by The Washington Post. In excerpts of the stunning one-hour phone call Saturday, Trump lambasted his fellow Republican for refusing to falsely say that he won the election in Georgia and repeatedly touted baseless claims of election fraud.

"The people of Georgia are angry, the people in the country are angry. And there's nothing wrong with saying that, you know, um, that you've recalculated," Trump said in one excerpt of the call. Raffensperger responded, "Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is, the data you have is wrong." In another excerpt, Trump said, "So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state."

Raffensperger, a Republican and a Trump supporter, has consistently turned back Trump's claims of voter fraud in Georgia. He has overseen three different recounts of the vote and conducted several other reviews of the process. He recently tasked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation with conducting an audit of the signature match system in Cobb County that determined the system was 99.9% accurate and revealed no evidence of fraud.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/03/polit...ost/index.html

In 1972, Washington Post writers Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein reported on the break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex. Their reporting led to several federal investigations and the resignation of President Richard Nixon. Today, Bernstein says the recording of Trump's phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is a "smoking gun" which reveals Trump's attempts to "undermine the electoral system and illegally, improperly and immorally try to instigate a coup in which he remains the President of the United States." Bernstein says Trump should be indicted and removed from office – but we know that will not happen. A majority of Congressional Republicans have sold their souls to Donald Trump and will remain silent.

Carl Bernstein: This is the ultimate smoking gun tape

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...in-sot-vpx.cnn

This CNN story includes the audio of the entire 62-minute phone conversation between Trump, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. David Worley, a Democrat and a member of the Georgia State Election Board, has asked Raffensperger – who is the board chairman – to investigate the phone call to determine if Trump violated a state law which prohibits "conspiracy to commit election fraud." Trump could be facing criminal charges or a civil case.

Analysis: Trump's bid to steal Georgia exposes GOP election ruse
New evidence of the President caught on tape trying to overturn the election exposes his corruption and makes his GOP Capitol Hill allies complicit in his bid to thwart the will of the voters.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/04/polit...ess/index.html

The Republicans who have sold their souls and are blindly loyal members of the Cult of Donald Trump are, not surprisingly, refusing to denounce Trump's attempt to overturn Georgia's election results. Meanwhile, Trump is upset with the few Republicans who are not going along with his delusion that he won the election. He tweeted, "The 'Surrender Caucus' within the Republican Party will go down in infamy as weak and ineffective 'guardians' of our Nation, who were willing to accept the certification of fraudulent presidential numbers!" The numbers are not "fraudulent," delusional Donald. You lost the election. You are a loser. L-O-S-E-R. Loser!

House Republicans rush to Trump's defense over Georgia call as Democrats prep censure resolution

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/04/polit...ion/index.html

Trump's demand that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger "find" more votes for him is a violation of two federal statutes and one Georgia statute forbidding the solicitation of election fraud. Criminal charges should be filed against Trump. He believes he is above the law – but he isn't. Kathyrn Watson, a White House reporter for CBS News, says Trump's call "represents a new low in this whole futile and sorry episode. I commend Republican election officials across the country who have discharged their duties with integrity over the past two months while weathering relentless pressure, disinformation and attacks from the President and his campaign."

Democrats call on FBI to open criminal probe into Trump's Georgia election shakedown
President Donald Trump pressed the Georgia secretary of state to "find" more votes for him. Some Democrats want to ensure he doesn’t get away with it.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donal...b6ec8ae0b4f31f

Tonight at a rally, Trump said he won Georgia but the election was rigged. He hopes Pence will "do the right thing" and reject Biden's electoral votes. It is scary how the crowds cheer him and believe all his lies.

I saw that on CNN. Trump was speaking at a rally for Georgia's two Republican Senate candidates. He also told the crowd, "I'm unhappy with the Supreme Court. If you're the President of the United States, you should be able to file a lawsuit if you get defrauded out of an election but they won't let us do that." He just doesn't get it. There was no fraud. None. He lost the election. Lost. Trump, his campaign and various Republicans filed 60 lawsuits seeking to overturn the election results. One is still undecided. The other 59 were all dismissed. And today, Republicans filed yet another lawsuit. It, too, has been thrown out.

Federal judge rejects another lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump loss

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/polit...-loss/2271471/

Deranged, demented, delusional Donald continues to sink lower and lower. If he hasn't yet crossed the fine line that separates delusion from insanity, he must be getting awfully close.

Analysis: Donald Trump's election delusions are getting grander
Chris Cillizza, CNN, Jan 5 2021 6:54 PM ET

As President Donald Trump's days in the White House grow increasingly numbered, his delusions about the 2020 election are growing. By a lot. "You can lose and that's acceptable," Trump said during a rally for Georgis Senators. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue on Monday night. "You lose, you lose. You go and you go wherever you're going and you go and say maybe I'll do it again sometime or maybe I won't or I get back to life. But when you win in a landslide and they steal it and it's rigged, it's not acceptable."

Moments later, Trump was back at it. "Over the past few weeks, we've demonstrated that we won the election in a landslide. Almost 75 million people voted for me," he said, to applause from the crowd. "The most of any incumbent president in the history of our country." Notice the repetition of the world "landslide" there. Trump has gone from saying he might have won in the days after the race was called to now saying he actually did win in a "landslide." Yes, Trump did get more than 74 million votes in the election – ut President-elect Joe Biden got 81 million.

On the Electoral College front, Trump took 232 electoral votes to Biden's 306. That's not a landslide for Biden (although Trump got the exact same number in 2016 and claimed a "massive landslide victory"). Judging by the progression of Trump's election delusions, he will have won the Electoral College 538-0 over Biden in a few weeks' time.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/05/polit...ion/index.html

Deranged, demented, delusional Donald still refuses to concede the election. Today he told his blindly loyal supporters, "You don't concede when there's theft involved. Our country has had enough and we will not take it any more." What our country has had enough of is Trump.

Pro-Trump supporters flood DC to protest President's election loss

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/06/polit...est/index.html

The pro-Trump mob at the Capitol has been breaking windows and rioting. They believe Trump's lies that he won the election and it was stolen from him. National Guard troops are en route. Several police officers have been injured and one woman was shot in the chest and is in critical condition. One protester broke into Nancy Pelosi's office and left a note, "We will not back down." This is an insurrection. It is an attempted coup. It is truly frightening. Whatever happens, Trump is 100% responsible.

Joe Biden just spoke: "Our democracy is under unprecedented assault, unlike anything we've seen in modern times. An assault on a citadel of liberty, the Capitol itself. An assault on the rule of law. An assault on the most sacred of American undertakings, the doings of the people's business. The scenes at the nation's Capitol do not reflect the true America. This is not who we are. This is not dissent. It's disorder. It's chaos. It borders on sedition and it must end. Now. I call on President Trump to go on national television now and fulfill his oath to defend the Constitution and demand an end to this siege." Here is an update from CNN:

"Shortly after 1 PM ET, hundreds of pro-Trump protesters pushed through barriers set up along the perimeter of the Capitol, where they tussled with officers in full riot gear, some calling the officers 'traitors' for doing their jobs. About 90 minutes later, police said demonstrators got into the building and the doors to the House and Senate were being locked. Shortly after, the House floor was evacuated by police. An armed standoff was taking place at the House front door as of 3 PM ET, and police officers had their guns drawn at someone who is trying to breach it. A Trump supporter was also pictured standing at the Senate dais."

Demented, deranged, delusional Donald finally addressed the protesters – and he continues to insist he won the election. His little speech likely just made the situation worse:

"We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election and everyone knows it, especially the other side. But you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. This was a fraudulent election but we can't play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. So go home now."

"In the eyes of the world, American democracy tonight appears under siege," said European Union High Representative Josep Borrel. "This is an assault on US democracy, its institutions and the rule of law. This is not America." Unfortunately, this is America. It's America under Donald Trump.

World leaders condemn 'horrifying' riot at US Capitol building

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/06/world...ntl/index.html

At 6:01 PM ET, Trump tweeted, "These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!"

Wow.

And the woman who was shot in the chest during the protest has died.