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 claims, half-truths, incorrect information, and frankly they also lie to the president,” he said.
He also stated that a post-election audit, as well as the ongoing recount, showed that the elections were 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 small margin in past election cycles, Arizona had a reliable trend toward 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 forbids the governor from interfering 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. “
The Trump crusade on Monday made its fifth request to election officials in Georgia to verify the signatures of the counting process. The press release that delivered the request read:
“Trump’s crusade lawyers have asked the Georgian secretary of state to respect his duty to maintain the legitimacy of his state’s election, saying, “It is not imaginable that you as you should certify the effects of the presidential race from November 3, 2020 elections to and unless there is a thorough verification of signaturesArray that we have now asked for four times in writing prior to this request. You cannot enter the existing legal count in smart religion until you have instituted a signature matching audit,” Ray S said. Smith, III, Donald J. Trump’s legal suggestion 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 fans 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 manual of seeking to undermine 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 simply 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. Michigan, rated its effects in favor of Joe Biden last week. The presidential transition is still underway.
But while the election revealed key spaces in which American democracy fails, they 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 elections coming out of the U. S. Senate, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Monday.
Raffensperger, a Republican, said his workplace was reviewing registration efforts through America Votes, Vote Forward and the New Georgia Project, and said some teams had encouraged others 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 continuously claimed 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 was exercised over fellow Republicans Raffensperger and Gov. Brian Kemp, after Biden gradually won 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-risk dispute centered on a July memo in which Trump ordered the Department of Commerce to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census count used for the number of seats in Congress that each state gets. , 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 maximum damage to immigrant-rich regions like California and Texas, while reaping whiter, 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 wasn’t about the merits of the president’s actions, but about whether it was too early for the United States Supreme Court to interfere and prevent Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the census, send Trump a knowledge kit with a count of undocumented immigrants. Wall told reporters Monday that the Commerce Department had struggled to prepare the briefing 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 of the number of other people 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 taken 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 by 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 is wasting 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 they are the first management to have a fully female-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. By 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 a “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. .
Here are the names Biden’s transition team announced this morning, 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 move after Obama’s leadership to investment The Control Company BlackRock has attracted broad 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 soon-to-be vacant seat in the United States Senate of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Although many names have been introduced to succeed Harris, Padilla has become 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.
[. . . ]
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 training 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 making sure everyone is healthy and safe. “
They also have a shiny new one: bideninaugural. org
And that’s all about me in London today. I pass the hand on the other side of the Atlantic to Daniel Strauss, who will accompany you on Monday . . .