Will Pence Confirm Biden is President-elect?

By rmrd0000 on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 8:49am |

The process

The Electoral College’s certification on Monday of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory will leave just one final venue for President Trump and his supporters to challenge the results of the 2020 election: a joint session of Congress in January.

Every four years, the House and Senate come together to formally tabulate the electoral votes and raise any final concerns about the results. Normally, it is a perfunctory confirmation of the Electoral College vote. But this year, some of the president’s most strident supporters are threatening to transform it into a messy last stand by objecting to the results.

Pence in a vice

Mr. Pence is far from the first vice president to be put in the uncomfortable position of certifying his own ticket’s loss. Overseeing the session in 2001, Vice President Al Gore had to rule against objections that would have delivered the presidency to himself if they were sustained, eventually declaring George W. Bush the victor.

But Mr. Pence serves a uniquely mercurial president with a penchant for disregarding for the democratic process. The joint session will be a final dilemma, forcing him to balance his loyalty to Mr. Trump and his own political interests against his constitutional and legal obligations.

Precedent and statute give the vice president little wiggle room.

“There’s not much he can do,” Donald A. Ritchie, the Senate’s former in-house historian, said in an interview. “His job is really just to read them out aloud. It’s up to the members if they are going to do anything.”

His only other option may simply be not to show up, leaving the task of overseeing the session to Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, who is the Senate president pro tempore, a distinction reserved for the longest-serving member of the chamber’s majority party.

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This comes as electors face pressure from Trump supporters

In Michigan, Democratic electors have been promised police escorts from their cars into the State Capitol, where on Monday they will formally vote for Joseph R. Biden Jr.

In Arizona, state officials are holding the vote at an undisclosed location for safety reasons, far from what is expected to be a heated hearing on election integrity issues that Republicans will conduct in the Statehouse.

Even in Delaware, the tiny, deeply Democratic home state of the president-elect, officials relocated their ceremony to a college gymnasium, a site considered to have better security and public health controls.

For decades, Electoral College voters have served as the rubber-stamping bureaucrats of American democracy, operating well below the political radar as they provided pro forma certification of a new president. Despite its procedural nature, the role has long been considered an honor, bestowed as a way to recognize political stature or civic

This year, the Electoral College is another piece of routine election mechanics thrown into the cross hairs of President Trump’s sustained assault on voting integrity. After five weeks of lawsuits, recounts and Republican inquiries into unfounded claims of fraud, Americans will turn to the 538 members of the Electoral College to provide a measure of finality to Mr. Biden’s decisive victory.

And as small-town electors face harassment and more prominent figures adapt to increased security measures, a duty long considered a privilege has also become a headache. Even as the electors prepared to vote on Monday, Mr. Trump on Sunday railed on Twitter against the “MOST CORRUPT ELECTION IN U.S. HISTORY” and suggested that swing states could not certify “without committing a severely punishable crime” — further raising concerns about electors’ personal security

“Trump supporters did not get the same kind of vitriol in 2016,” said Khary Penebaker, a Democratic elector from Wisconsin who will be casting his vote for Mr. Biden at the State Capitol in Madison. “This is some scary stuff, man, and this is not what America is supposed to be like.”

Aside from safety and pandemic concerns, which led to the closings of the Michigan and Wisconsin state Capitols to the public, the process has become an unlikely news media event. From protests outside the voting sites to livestreamed broadcasts of the activities inside the rooms, electors, state officials and party leaders are bracing for an extraordinary onslaught of attention.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/14/us/politics/electoral-college-biden-trump.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

by rmrd0000 on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 9:06am

“Trump supporters did not get the same kind of vitriol in 2016,”

Really?

https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/30/politics/banerian-death-threats-cnntv/ind...

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/electors-under-siege-232774

https://nypost.com/2016/12/14/electors-are-being-harassed-threatened-in-...

by Jeff (not verified) on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 9:34am

What we dealing with in 2020 is sedition

AG Bill Barr found noting

SCOTUS threw the Texas case out

18 state AGs went along with sedition

126 Congress members agree with sedition

by rmrd0000 on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 10:10am

The day after the 2016 election:

"Last night I congratulated Donald Trump and offered to work with him on behalf of our country. I hope that he will be a successful president for all Americans," she said this morning.

Hillary Clinton

More than a month after losing the election, Donald Trump, has tallied 734 tweets, comments, public statements calling the election a fraud, a steal, the worst crime in history, a conspiracy, and lying that he won and publicly attacking election workers, election supervisors, secretaries of state, governors, his former favorite Fox News and the free press.

Who's the bad? Who stokes the mobs in the streets? Answer - the self absorbed lying Kool-Ade tsunami dispensing needy self aggrandizing con man who is trying to destroy democracy and America.

by NCD on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 11:49am

They are closing legislative offices in Michigan because of credible threats

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/14/michigan-arizona-threats-electoral-college/

by rmrd0000 on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 12:20pm

Calling out the military Jeff?
Hillary refused to concede, riled up her backers for another 2 1/2 months,
refused to show up at the inauguration?
Obama refused to provide transition resources to the new Administration, refused to even acknowledge they won for a month and a half?

I mean, these are the same asshole dumb fucks who tried to destroy the US Postal Service to prevent mail-in ballots *and failed*.

When did you get so bad at false equivalency? Or you were always shit at it?

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 3:27pm

Losing is brutal Jeff

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 6:48pm

You should be well aware of that. So much so that you need to blame the Hillary's loss on the bogeyman.

But Hey, gloat away if it helps you heal.

by Jeff (not verified) on Tue, 12/15/2020 - 11:44am

The distinctions,Jeff, were:

1) actual evidence of hacking, email dumps, illegal foreign donations, illegal access of 59 million social media profiles, foreign hacking farms (Mueller actually inducted and convicted/got guilty pleas from his investigation, rather than getting laughed out of court *59* times, like Rudy, Sidney, er al)

2) where i at least suspect other possible malfeasance, such as switching votes, i also recognize i may be wrong. Marcy Wheeler has told me directly that the Spectrum/Alfa server link is a dead end. I accept that as an end to that chain of speculation.

3) in other areas, bad Trump behavior has been confirmed and seen to repeat itself, such as his pressuring China and Ukraine for dirt in his opponent, for which he was impeached, and similar to the tactics his campaign manager Paul Manafort used to get Ukraine's PM wrongly thrown in jail. (Manafort if course was also found guilty of Mueller corruption charges)

4) DeJoy in particular did what he could to cripple the postal service and ignored a judge's orders to stop fucking with it until after the election. Again, Democratic allegations were upheld in court. Republican allegations weren't. Your team complains when it loses. Out team complain when it wins, but the remedies aren't followed. Big difference, no?

5) we won this time - take that like a man (or even enjoy that your shithead candidate was tossed out, giving a chance to come back to the light) and quit slinking around here like some pain in the ass partisan trying to piss on people's toes. So far you haven't shown you know dick, except your false equivalency shtick. Up your game if you want to be taken seriously. Your AG was gassing protesters so your Prez could make a PR statement in front of a church where the priest didn't want him to be. 4 years basking in Deplorables behavior should be enough for anyone. Atone.

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 12/15/2020 - 12:43pm

Poor Jeff - 2nd Amdt supplies for Trump lawyers? That's a unique legal angle they don't much teach in law school.

Texas condemns GOP-stacked Supreme Court cuz it's just not stacked enough to rubber stamp teh krazy?

"CONSERVATIVE" is being beaten like a red-haired step-child. Reminds me - is there a 10- or 12-step program to cure Trump addiction, come back to the real world before someone (besides 300,000 Covid deaths and millions who lost their jobs) gets hurt?

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5fd8124ac5b62f31c1ffb41d

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 12/15/2020 - 5:31am

Lin Wood, he's running? or looking to have a network TV show? lawyering gets boring

by artappraiser on Tue, 12/15/2020 - 11:47am

Lin Wood is trying to outdo Alex Jones. I guess it's hard to be truly outrageous when you have Trump as president:

President Trump @realDonaldTrump is a genuinely good man. He does not really like to fire people. I bet he dislikes putting people in jail, especially “Republicans.”

He gave @BrianKempGA & @GaSecofState every chance to get it right. They refused. They will soon be going to jail. pic.twitter.com/7PMBLc8L2N
— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) December 15, 2020

BTW, Trump retweeted this one late last night. If his picture doesn't load, make sure to click to see the Chinese flag face masks.

by artappraiser on Tue, 12/15/2020 - 12:59pm

Don't assume everyone is as hyper partisan as you. The Texas lawsuit was sure to be rejected, along with most others.

by Jeff (not verified) on Tue, 12/15/2020 - 12:31pm

So why the fuck did they put everyone through the charade and use it as supposed proof of judicial corruption, so they could encourage their base to go crazy and pull out their guns - oh wait, did I answer my own question?

And your "not-hyper-partisan" view of this fuckery is what exactly?

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 12/15/2020 - 12:54pm

Put on ur party(san) hat!

Rudolph's back in town!

Rudolph the Leaky Lawyer had a very slimy face #RudolphTheLeakyLawyer pic.twitter.com/GAsEaVmUo6
— Randy Rainbow (@RandyRainbow) December 15, 2020

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 12/15/2020 - 1:11pm

Trump Says He’ll Fight On. His Campaign HQ Is Literally Taking Down His Name. https://t.co/y4zKbYLiWi
— Colleen LR (@Cozy1950) December 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 9:36am

#LoserOfTheCentury award goes to
Donald J Trump pic.twitter.com/o37jYQ0yqH
— bendezo (@buffalobenny) December 13, 2020

How would you know? You literally show zero signs of understanding what's even in the Constitution. #LoserOfTheCentury
— Catleesi, Mother of Cats, #Resist (@godivademaus) December 14, 2020

Trump: The Art of Losing Bigly #LoserOfTheCentury
— chulesee (@chulesee) December 14, 2020

Big fucking FACT AMERICANS voted for #BidenHarris2020 at least 8 MILLION more times than #LoserOfTheCentury Crying Criming Lying Will NOT change the FACTS https://t.co/yjT3VxAviO
— Laura Niell (@LauraNiell) December 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 9:45am

Karl Rove rips Trump: "Americans don’t like sore losers" https://t.co/HCSOYklRze
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) December 13, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 10:05am

Trump not doing too well on Fox today, either:

Kilmeade: "Your legal team [has]... 50 times lost — some with Trump judges — so do you have the worst legal team who just don’t seem to be presenting a good case? Or you just too late in this case should have been brought before the election?"

Miller: [blames media for rulings] pic.twitter.com/BOLLlrBz7N
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) December 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 10:24am

Waiting for Paul Simon, "50 Ways to Lose Your Leverage" -

"Don't trust QAnon, Don - they've nothing to run on.

And even Steve Bannon is looking to plea..."

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 4:46pm

Some smart people are thinking about a different scenario than Pence making himself a pariah with the entire establishment across the country:

For Pence to pardon Trump

Trump has to resign

And Pence has to be sworn in as President.

I keep hearing Trump doesn't want to do this.

Doesn't want to resign.

Doesn't want Pence to be President.

But there are real problems with a self-pardon.

This is why Trump is melting.
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) December 13, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 10:13am

Trump won't resign or self pardon. He's a mob boss, and a mob boss can't imagine having the humiliation of the law catch up with them.

by NCD on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 1:29pm

meanwhile, out in the real nationwide political system:

“Republicans fell into a trap by expecting Brad Raffensperger and Brian Kemp to cheat for them,” said Jordan Fuchs, a longtime Republican strategist in Georgia who is a deputy secretary of state under Raffensperger https://t.co/W6gfC5js3D
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) December 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 10:48am

interesting related point of interpretation:

One reason the president assumes everything is coordinated against him is because he and his advisers often coordinate criticism of/political attacks on others. Weirder seeing it on the op-ed page of the WSJ. https://t.co/6DsGoUlSNa
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 10:51am

Notice how #BidenCalm hasn’t reacted to a single thing trump does or says. Real leadership doesn’t have knee jerk unhinged reactions
— BRIAN MAESTAS (@BRIANMAESTAS11) December 13, 2020

BOOM: President-elect Biden to address the nation tonight, following the Electoral College vote affirming his win.
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) December 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 12:23pm

A Republican state representative in Michigan was rebuked by members of his own party on Monday hours after he made comments suggesting that he and others planned to disrupt the Electoral College vote at the state Capitol in Lansing.

The top Republicans in the Michigan legislature announced that they had removed state Rep. Gary Eisen (R) from his committee assignments.

The move came hours after a radio interview in which Eisen did not specify what the plans to disrupt the Electoral College entailed, but said that “it’ll be all over the news later on.” [....]

from Michigan Republican rebuked after refusing to promise no violence as electors vote

By Max Greenwood @ TheHill.com - 12/14/20 11:20 AM EST

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 12:31pm

The removal lasts for the remainder of the year. About seventeen days.

by rmrd0000 on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 12:46pm

Senator Lamar Alexander:

.@SenateGOP headed for the showers. The stink of @realDonaldTrump doesn't wash off...ever. https://t.co/Nn3DUsZndL
— Reed Galen (@reedgalen) December 15, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 8:15pm

It's like this "senior columnist" at The Washington Examiner is talking right to a born-again Mike Pence, especially with his title:

Trump demands loyalty, and to show your loyalty he demands you break the law. https://t.co/8mH3hiMrti
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) December 14, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 9:39pm

thread https://t.co/mtcjagDinO
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) December 15, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 9:44pm

and

A number of GOP Senators today acknowledged Biden's win today and/or said any efforts to challenge his electors would fail. 1/
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) December 15, 2020

THUNE, the No. 2 Senate Republican, said it's time for everyone to "move on" after Biden's Electoral College win and said any effort to toss the electors Jan. 6th joint session of Congress would fail.
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) December 15, 2020

CORNYN said Biden is president-elect barring any litigation he’s unaware of, and likewise predicted resistance to Biden’s electors Jan. 6th would be “futile.”
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) December 15, 2020

ALEXANDER said the election is over, Biden won and he hopes Trump “will put the country first” and help Biden with the transition, especially given the pandemic.
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) December 15, 2020

CAPITO: “It’s time to turn the page and begin a new administration.”
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) December 15, 2020

GRASSLEY, asked if it’s time to declare Biden president-elect:
“I don't have to, the Constitution does that. ...I follow the Constitution"
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) December 15, 2020

THANK YOU to all of the Capitol press corps and pool members who are asking these senators questions in person.
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) December 15, 2020

ERNST also acknowledged Biden is president-elect. “...I know for Iowans it's disappointing. But the process is what it is and the Constitution will be followed."
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) December 15, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 9:51pm

Cascade of GOP senators acknowledging @JoeBiden won:

Sen Blunt: “We've now gone through the constitutional process and the electors have voted, so there's a president elect.”

Sen Capito: “It certainly looks that way...it's time to turn the page and begin a new administration.”
— Nancy Cordes (@nancycordes) December 14, 2020

Sen Ernst: “I know for Iowans it’s disappointing, but the process is what it is and the constitution will be followed.”

Sen Thune: “At some point you have to face the music. And I think once the electoral college settles the issue today, it's time for everybody to move on."
— Nancy Cordes (@nancycordes) December 14, 2020

Sen Cornyn: “I think (Biden is) president-elect subject to whatever additional litigation is ongoing. I'm not aware of any.”

Sen Graham: “Yeah it’s a very, very narrow path for the president. I don't see how it gets there from here, given what the Supreme Court did.”
— Nancy Cordes (@nancycordes) December 14, 2020

Sen Portman: “...the Electoral College vote today makes clear that Joe Biden is now President-Elect.”

Sen Braun: “The Electoral College has cast their votes and selected Joe Biden...Legislatures (and courts) have not found enough evidence of voter fraud to overturn the results.”
— Nancy Cordes (@nancycordes) December 14, 2020

Republican Senators don’t have to like the results of the election.

But they have a duty to confer legitimacy on them.

They have a solemn responsibility to accept them.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be the next President and Vice President of the United States.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) December 15, 2020

Senator Mitt Romney to Shepard Smith tonight: "I thought I was gonna win too, when I ran for President in 2012. I didn't. I didn't go out and say 'fraud'. We have a process. We count the votes. That's the way it is."
— Molly Kordares (@mollykord) December 15, 2020

The WaPo has a roundup of some GOP senators who have and haven’t quite acknowledged Biden’s win. A few GOP senators had previously acknowledged it. pic.twitter.com/LxZRCuPURx
— Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) December 15, 2020

Republican Senator @lisamurkowski of Alaska just issued a statement: “President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have crossed the 270-vote threshold needed to be declared our elected President and Vice President. I congratulate them on their victory.”
— Wolf Blitzer (@wolfblitzer) December 15, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 10:37pm

more from that Epstein thread of statements from Biden today on a call to grassroots supporters, to encourage to look at the whole thread:

"I predict to you, and I may eat these words, I predict you as Donald Trump's shadow fades away, you're going to see an awful lot of change," Biden said as he reflected tonight on outreach from Senate Republicans.
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) December 15, 2020

“I know I've been criticized heavily for saying from the beginning, we've got to unify the country," Biden said. "I think you're going to be surprised. It's going to take six to eight months to get it under way but I think you’re going to be surprised."
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) December 15, 2020

"I’ve never once misled any of my Republican colleagues. Not one single time. And they know they can trust Kamala as well. And we can figure out where we can cooperate. Where we can’t, we have our arguments," Biden said tonight on a video call with grassroots supporters.
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) December 15, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/14/2020 - 10:00pm

Trump's lost Geraldo!!!

“We have litigated this for six weeks! Twice the Supreme Court of the United States rejected it!” Geraldo Rivera told Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk in a fiery exchange. https://t.co/qMZHzIVfuL
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 15, 2020

by artappraiser on Tue, 12/15/2020 - 2:35am

Uggh, agist - how can Geraldo not respect the next Greatest Generation? I have a feeling this isn't gonna end well.

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 12/15/2020 - 4:59am

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Russia's hosted such meetings in the past, most recently Feb 2019

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Events: Heavy gunfire is occuring around the area of the U.S. Embassy and residential compounds adjacent to the Trutier area of Tabarre. All Embassy personnel have been instructed to remain indoors and shelter-in-place until further notice. All others should avoid the area.

Actions to take:

Avoid the area;

Avoid demonstrations and any large gatherings of people;

Do not attempt to drive through roadblocks; and

If you encounter a roadblock, turn around and get to a safe area.

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[Chapter I news is HERE, Oct. 7 til today]

You don’t get it.
It’s not about an UNRWA teacher who held an Israeli kid hostage in his house.
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It's wild that Venezuela is now holding a vote on whether 2/3 of Guyana actually belongs to them! Analysts suggest that Modoru may want military action to pump up his sinking popularity.

Could we have a war in South America?!?

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"Both the AU and the intl community place more weight on whether elections are held than whether they are free and fair. Sanctions/expulsions occur when there is a coup but not necessarily when elections are rigged or if an “institutional coup” occurs." https://t.co/m9dNimJP0D
— Cameron Hudson (@_hudsonc) November 28, 2023

Read the article at https://africanarguments.org/2023/11/central-africas-dinosaur-regimes-and-the-art-of-coup-proofing/

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