11/22/2020

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Trump Loses Biggest Remaining Election Case

Nov. 21 - “A lawsuit brought by President Trump’s campaign that sought to block the certification of Pennsylvania’s election results was dismissed by a federal judge on Saturday evening,” the Washington Post reports.

Rick Hasen: “In a total loss the the Trump campaign, a federal district court in Pennsylvania has dismissed the most serious case brought by the campaign and denied the campaign a motion to file an amended complaint.”

“The judge just excoriates this suit, which those of us in the field have called ridiculous from the start.”     source



Wisconsin officials: Trump observers obstructing recount

Nov. 22, MILWAUKEE (AP) — Election officials in Wisconsin’s largest county accused observers for President Donald Trump on Saturday of seeking to obstruct a recount of the presidential results, in some instances by objecting to every ballot tabulators pulled to count.


Trump requested the recount in Milwaukee and Dane counties, both heavily liberal, in hopes of undoing Democrat Joe Biden's victory by about 20,600 votes. With no precedent for a recount reversing such a large margin, Trump's strategy is widely seen as aimed at an eventual court challenge, part of a push in key states to undo his election loss.

A steady stream of Republican complaints in Milwaukee was putting the recount far behind schedule, county clerk George Christenson said. He said many Trump observers were breaking rules by constantly interrupting vote counters with questions and comments.     continue to read
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NOVEMBER 21, 2020
President Trump Departs White House
President Trump departed the White House and traveled by motorcade to the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia.
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Gov. Brian Kemp: Georgia law requires me to formalize election certification

Nov. 20 - Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said Friday that state law requires him to formalize the secretary of state’s certification of the 2020 election results, which showed a narrow win for presumptive President-elect Joseph R. Biden over President Trump.

Mr. Kemp, a Republican, decried voting discrepancies that were discovered in a statewide audit but said he was bound by law to affirm the certification from Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.


“State law now requires the governor’s office to formalize the certification,” he said. “As governor, I have a solemn responsibility to follow the law and that is what I will continue to do.”      continue to read
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Georgia Governor Kemp Statement on Election Results Certification
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) delivered a statement on the state’s presidential election results and certification.
Georgia governor calls for audit after state certifies election results

Nov. 20 - Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Kemp certified the state's election results Friday, saying that now that the results are certified, the Trump campaign can pursue other legal options to call for a recount. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, also a Republican, told reporters Friday morning that President-elect Biden had definitively won the state, after the state's hand recount was completed Thursday.

But Kemp didn't endorse the results, instead calling for another full hand recount. Kemp, who served as Georgia secretary of state before Raffensperger, has not publicly defended the state's election process from accusations from the president and his campaign. He alleged Friday that the audit revealed significant errors made in several counties, including Floyd, Douglas and Walton. 

Kemp said the audit only looked at ballots, not the signatures on the absentee applications or the signatures on the ballot envelopes. He called for Raffensperger to "consider addressing these concerns" and conduct a "sample of audit of signatures on absentee ballot envelopes and compare those to the signatures on applications and on file that the secretary of state's office."

The Georgia Secretary of State's office has said repeatedly that at this point in the process it is not possible to match signatures — which already took place as a part of a two-step signature verification process — because ballots are separated from envelopes to ensure the secrecy of voters' selections.


Kemp's press conference will come after a strange series of events Friday afternoon, starting with Raffensperger issuing a statement saying the results had been certified, then making a corrected statement within a half-hour that they would be certified later Friday. He certified the results around 4 p.m., an hour before Kemp was set to hold his press conference.
 
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump on Friday in tweet accused Kemp and Raffensperger of refusing to "let us look at signatures which would expose hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots" which he alleged would give the "Republican Party and me, David Perdue, and perhaps Kelly Loeffler, a BIG VICTORY."        source

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...In 2018, Kemp was a candidate for governor where he faced Democratic nominee Stacey Abrams. Kemp refused to resign as secretary of state while campaigning for governor, a decision that many allege caused a conflict of interest. Kemp's oversight of elections and election data as Secretary of State stirred controversy and accusations of abuse of power. In 2015, Kemp's office erroneously distributed the Social Security numbers and dates of birth of registered Georgia voters. During the 2016 election, Kemp was the only state official to reject help from the Department of Homeland Security to guard against Russian interference. Kemp also encountered criticism from voting rights advocates; from 2012 to 2018, Kemp's office cancelled more than 1.4 million voter registrations, and during the 2018 election, Kemp held up more than 53,000 voter registration applications, with nearly 70% of the voter registrations belonging to African Americans.[3] On the eve of the election, Kemp falsely accused the Georgia Democratic Party of cybercrimes related to the election; a 2020 investigation by the Georgia Attorney General's office concluded that there was no evidence for Kemp's claims.[4]...

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Georgia recount confirms Biden victory over Trump, says state election official

Nov. 19 - A recount in the battleground state of Georgia has confirmed Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump, another blow to the president who continues to refuse to concede defeat two weeks after election day.
 
Officials in the southern state had announced they were recounting five million of the ballots cast, after a request from the Trump campaign, and after secretary of state Brad Raffensperger initially said the vote was “too close to call”.

Yet though officials spent six days recounting five million of the ballots, there had been widespread anticipation that Mr Biden would hold on to the narrow lead over Mr Trump, and secure the first victory in the Peach State for a Democratic contender since 1992.

As it is, reports suggested that Mr Biden’s lead over Mr Trump will be cut to 12,800 from the previous 14,000. This was because of the discovery of 2,500 ballots in Floyd County that had not been scanned.     continue to read

Trump has reportedly given up on overturning battleground defeats and is trying to delay a final vote count in a desperate bid to throw Biden's victory into doubt

Nov. 19 - President Donald Trump has reportedly abandoned hopes of disqualifying enough mail-in ballots to overturn the election result and is now attempting to delay final vote counts for long enough to throw President-elect Joe Biden's victory into doubt.

The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that the Trump team was pinning its hopes on a bid to delay vote certification in key battleground states such as Pennsylvania.     continue to read
Seriously Disturbing and Unprecedented: Trump Personally Reached Out to Wayne County Canvassers and Then They Attempted to Rescind Their Votes to Certify (After First Refusing to Certify)

Nov. 19 - Getting nowhere in the courts, President Donald Trump’s scattershot effort to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory is shifting toward obscure election boards that certify the vote as Trump and his allies seek to upend the electoral process, sow chaos and perpetuate unsubstantiated doubts about the count.


The battle is centered in the battleground states that sealed Biden’s win.

In Michigan, two Republican election officials in the state’s largest county initially refused to certify results despite no evidence of fraud, then backtracked and voted to certify and then on Wednesday flipped again and said they “remain opposed to certification.” Some Republicans have called on the GOP statewide canvassers to so the same. In Arizona, officials are balking at signing off on vote tallies in a rural county.     continue to read


NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Michigan Governor Whitmer Coronavirus News Conference
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) held a briefing in Lansing on the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. She addressed the surge in cases and urged the federal government to pass additional COVID-19 relief legislation. Gov. Whitmer was joined by Michigan Health and Human Services chief medical executive as well as several local business owners. 


 

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A supporter of President-elect Joe Biden holds a sign referring to President Donald Trump outside the Pennsylvania State Capitol.
Borrowing immunity from Trump? It could mean life or death...

Even when a vaccine is available, not everyone will respond well to it. For those who don’t get protection from vaccines, antibodies could be their only chance of immunity, so writes Colette Sheridan in her weekly column


Nov. 18 - THE likes of Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and the not so famous that have survived Covid-19 could help save people’s lives by donating blood.

The plasma — what remains after red and white blood cells, platelets and other components are removed — of people who have recovered from the disease contains precious antibodies that helped them fight the virus.

They could help others to do the same or even make them temporarily immune, according to the New Scientist magazine.
U.S health official, Anthony Fauci, has said that antibody therapies could act as a “bridge to a vaccine”, allowing us a stop-gap before we get inoculated.

The use of antibody-suffused blood plasma was developed more than 100 years ago to treat diphtheria. With the introduction of antibiotics, it wasn’t used much but was revived in 2002 during the SARS epidemic and has gone on to be used against Ebola.     continue to read
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci Provides Update on Coronavirus.
Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, provided the latest update on the coronavirus pandemic during a University of Virginia School of Medicine virtual event. He addressed the recent surge in coronavirus cases in the U.S. and Europe as well as the COVID-19 vaccines announced by Pfizer and Moderna. Dr. Fauci was introduced by University of Virginia Medical School Dean Dr. David Wilkes.
Immunity to Covid-19 may last years, scientists say
Washington, Nov 19 (Prensa Latina) A new study reveals that the number of immune cells that provide defense against Covid-19 could decline at a slow rate.


These cells may persist for a very long time in the body of people who have recovered from the infection, according to a research published on Biorxiv.

Scientists showed that eight months after infection, most people who have recovered had enough immune cells to fend off the new coronavirus.

Survivors of another coronavirus still carry certain immune cells 17 years after recovering, the research suggests.

That amount of memory could prevent the vast majority of people from being hospitalized many years after contagion, the new study notes.

Researchers from the University of Washington suggested that this kind of cell can persist for at least three months in the body.

Another study also found that people who have recovered from Covid-19 have immune cells even when antibodies are not detectable.     source
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Speaker Pelosi on Leadership Election Results
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the House Democratic leadership team held a news conference at the Capitol on the results of the Democratic caucus' leadership elections. Speaker Pelosi (CA), Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD), Majority Whip James Clyburn (SC) and Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries (NY) were re-elected by their colleagues and Representative Katherine Clark (MA) was elected as the new assistant speaker. Speaker Pelosi seemed to suggest this would be her last term as speaker, but did not say so definitively. When asked about a term-limit pledge she made during her last speakership bid two years ago, Speaker Pelosi said “whether it passes or not, I will abide by those limits.” The speaker added, “I don’t want to undermine any leverage I may have, but I made the statement.” 


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NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Senate Minority Leader Schumer Holds News Conference
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer held a news conference on Capitol Hill on the increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases and the Republicans' reaction to the election. He was joined by Tim Kaine of VIrgina and Tammy Duckworth of Illinois.
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Live updates: Trump fires top election security official; Biden names senior staff

The Post's Sean Sullivan discusses who is in the running for some of President-elect Joe Biden's top appointments.


Nov. 18 - ...President Trump on Tuesday said in a tweet that Chris Krebs, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director, has been “terminated.” The president, who has continued to refuse to accept that he lost the election, said a recent statement by Krebs, in which he called the Nov. 3 election “the most secure in American history,” was “highly inaccurate.” There is no evidence to back Trump’s claims....   continue to read
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President Donald J. Trump golfs at Trump National Golf Club on Sunday, Nov. 15, in Stering, VA

Trump Grows Increasingly Reclusive As Reality Of Election Loss Sets In

Nov. 17 - President Donald Trump has increasingly receded from sight, even going dark on Twitter Tuesday after GOP plaintiffs dropped lawsuits challenging the election results in key states and allies in Congress acknowledged Biden’s victory.      more details
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Nov 18, 2020
Tuesday on the NewsHour, social media executives face a barrage of questions on Capitol Hill. Plus: What election workers think of President Trump’s attacks on voting, the latest from the president and his allies, H.R. McMaster on U.S. troop movements, Sen. Chris Coons on the presidential transition, Wuhan a year after the novel coronavirus appeared, abuse in the Boy Scouts and healing movement.
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NASA Coverage of SpaceX Docking & Welcome Ceremony

NASA provides full coverage of SpaceX Crew Dragon docking to the International Space Station, followed by a welcoming ceremony and news conference.



Trump admits Biden 'won' election in tweet, but refuses to concede
'100 percent dead': Court ruling could torpedo some lawsuits challenging Trump's loss

Nov. 17 - A federal appeals court ruling may have torpedoed several federal lawsuits that seek to overturn President Donald Trump’s all-but-certified defeat by former Vice President Joe Biden.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Friday that Pennsylvania voters and a congressional candidate could not use certain constitutional arguments to back their claims that some voters were disadvantaged by changes to election rules spurred by the coronavirus pandemic and U.S. Postal System delays.



On Monday, Trump supporters who used similar constitutional arguments in federal lawsuits in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Wisconsin voluntarily dismissed their claims.

The dismissals came in advance of Tuesday's scheduled oral arguments in a federal lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign in Pennsylvania. On Sunday, attorneys for the campaign narrowed their legal arguments in that case to avoid running afoul of the appeals court ruling.



Although the revised complaint still argues 689,472 ballots were improperly processed and counted outside the view of Trump election watchers, it does not not seek legal relief specifically on that point.     continue to read

Counting Provisional Ballots in Schuylkill County
Election Bureau Director Albert L. Gricoski, left, opens provisional ballots alongside election bureau staff Christine Marmas, right, while poll watchers observe from behind at the Schuylkill County Election Bureau in Pottsville, Pa. on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020.
Trump Campaign Just Dropped The Biggest Request in Their Pennsylvania Lawsuit


The Trump campaign revised the lawsuit; state lawyers said the revised lawsuit contains no “plausible claim for relief on any legal theory.”

Nov. 16, HARRISBURG — President Donald Trump’s campaign is withdrawing a central request in its lawsuit seeking to stop the certification of the election results in Pennsylvania, where Democrat Joe Biden beat Trump to capture the state and help win the White House.

Ahead of a Tuesday hearing in the case, Trump’s campaign dropped its request in the lawsuit that hundreds of thousands of mail-in and absentee ballots—682,479, to be precise—be thrown out because they were processed without its representatives able to watch.

The campaign’s revised lawsuit, filed in federal court on Sunday, maintains the aim of blocking Pennsylvania from certifying a victory for Biden in the state, and it maintains its claim that Democratic voters were treated more favorably than Republican voters.     continue to read
Official Blocking Biden Transition Looking for New Job

Nov. 17 - “The top General Services Administration official who’s blocking President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team from accessing government resources ahead of his inauguration appears to be looking for a new job,” ABC News reports.
“Emily Murphy, head of the GSA, recently sent that message to an associate inquiring about employment opportunities in 2021, a move that some in Washington interpreted as at least tacitly acknowledging that the current administration soon will be gone.”     source

PBS NewsHour Weekend Full Episode November 16, 2020
Nov 17, 2020
Monday on the NewsHour, the pandemic continues to inflict suffering and sorrow across the U.S., but another drug company has encouraging data about a possible vaccine. Plus: Moderna's CEO, a personal experience with the trials, the risks of rushed vaccine development, Dr. Francis Collins, the Biden agenda, the presidential transition of power and Politics Monday with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith.
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SpaceX Crew-1 mission launch to International Space Station

NASA makes historic SpaceX Crew Dragon launch
The Crew-1 mission is the first crew rotation flight on a U.S. commercial spacecraft

Nov. 15 - NASA has made its first operational SpaceX Crew Dragon launch, marking an important milestone for the space program.


The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:27 p.m. ET Sunday.  Shortly after launch, the first-stage booster rocket separated from Crew Dragon. It touched down on a drone ship floating in the Atlantic Ocean about 10 minutes after liftoff.

The Crew Dragon spacecraft, which was named Resilience by the crew, will reach the International Space Station around 11 p.m. ET Monday.

"Resilience rises," tweeted NASA at liftoff.      continue to read



FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump sits at his desk in the Oval Office after returning from the conclusion of an event about the "Operation Warp Speed" program, the joint Defense Department and HHS initiative that has struck deals with several drugmakers in an effort to help speed up the search for effective treatments for the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, that was held in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., November 13, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Trump asserts he will soon file 'big cases' challenging 2020 election results

Nov. 16 - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump asserted on Twitter on Sunday he would soon file “big cases” challenging the 2020 election results in which Joe Biden defeated him, even after his campaign has lost numerous court battles over the results.

Trump did not specify if his campaign would file new lawsuits but said on Twitter “our big cases showing the unconstitutionality of the 2020 Election, & the outrage of things that were done to change the outcome, will soon be filed!”     source
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