2020 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE: “Previously undisclosed emails provide an inside look at the increasingly desperate and often slapdash efforts by advisers to President Donald J. Trump to reverse his [2020] election defeat in the weeks before the Jan. 6 attack, including acknowledgments that a key element of their plan was of dubious legality and lived up […]
Category: Electoral College
7/21/2022
ELECTORAL COLLEGE/MIKE PENCE: “Mike Pence told me, and everybody else, there was nothing he could do about the Electoral Vote Count—it was etched in stone. But if so, how come the Democrats and RINOs are working so hard to make sure there is nothing a VP can do. This was a major event, because everybody […]
6/6/2022
2020 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/GEORGIA/TRUMP CAMPAIGN: “The Trump campaign directed a group of Georgia Republicans to meet in secret and obscure their objectives in an email obtained by federal prosecutors as part of their recent investigation into Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the [2020] election in several swing states… The Georgia email has not been disclosed publicly […]
2/4/2022
2020 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/MIKE PENCE/MITCH MCCONNELL: “Just saw Mike Pence’s statement on the fact that he had no right to do anything with respect to the Electoral Vote Count, other than being an automatic conveyor belt for the Old Crow Mitch McConnell to get Biden elected President as quickly as possible. Well, the Vice President’s position is […]
2/9/2021
2020 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/FBI: “An ABC News investigation into the nearly 200 accused rioters facing federal charges for their alleged involvement at the Capitol — based on court filings, military records, interviews, and available news reports– found that at least fifteen individuals who stormed the building have since said that they acted based on Trump’s encouragement, […]
1/7/2021
2020 ELECTION/CONGRESS/ELECTORAL COLLEGE: “President Trump acknowledged the end of his term in the Oval Office early Thursday morning [Jan. 7, 2021] and said just minutes after Congress formally certified the Electoral College votes in favor of President-elect Joe Biden that there would be an ‘orderly transition of power’ on Jan. 20… Trump, who has not […]
1/7/2021
2020 ELECTION/CONGRESS/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/JOE BIDEN: “After an extraordinary act of violence from a riotous mob on Wednesday afternoon forced U.S. legislators to evacuate the Capitol during the counting of the Electoral College votes in the presidential election, Congress voted in the early morning hours of Thursday to certify the results showing President-elect Joe Biden defeated President […]
1/6/2021
2020 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/GOP: “Republican lawmakers are pressing the Trump loyalists in their party to abandon their objections to President-elect Joe Biden’s win as lawmakers huddle in an undisclosed location Wednesday afternoon to wait out the siege of the Capitol… The protest of the electoral college results, which began as an organized exercise in the Capitol […]
1/6/2021
ELECTORAL COLLEGE/JOE BIDEN: “The certification of the Electoral College votes is supposed to be a sacred ritual in which we affirm the majesty of American democracy. Today is a reminder, a painful one, that democracy is fragile. To preserve it requires people of good will, leaders with the courage to stand up, who are devoted […]
1/6/2021
2020 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/MIKE PENCE: “Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday [Jan. 6, 2021] refused President Donald Trump’s demand that he try to block confirmation by Congress of Joe Biden’s election as the next president of the United States. Pence said in a letter that he did not believe, as Trump has claimed, that a vice […]
1/6/2021
2020 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/PROTESTS: “Thousands of supporters of President Trump amassed in Washington, D.C., to reject the results of the Nov. 3 election, cheering as Trump himself addressed the crowd and urged them to protest what he falsely claims was a rigged election before marching to the Capitol and pushing past security barriers there. The House […]
1/5/2021
2020 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/MIKE PENCE: “Over the past several weeks, Trump has become intensely interested in Pence’s ceremonial role during the certification of the Electoral College. He has raised the matter repeatedly with his vice president and has been ‘confused’ as to why Pence can’t overturn the results of the election on January 6, sources told […]
1/5/2021
2020 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/MIKE PENCE: “Vice President Mike Pence told President Trump on Tuesday [Jan. 5, 2021] that he did not believe he had the power to block congressional certification of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in the presidential election despite Mr. Trump’s baseless insistence that he did, people briefed on the conversation said. ‘The Vice […]
12/30/2020
2020 ELECTION/CONGRESS/ELECTORAL COLLEGE: “Josh Hawley became the first senator on Wednesday [Dec. 30, 2020] to take up President Trump’s demand that lawmakers challenge the results of the 2020 election, saying he would object to Congress’s certification of the Electoral College results on Jan. 6. The move by Mr. Hawley, Republican of Missouri, is unlikely to […]
12/18/2020
2020 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE: “President Donald Trump applauded reports Thursday [Dec. 17, 2020] that Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, could team up with an Alabama congressman in an extremely unlikely, last-ditch effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. In a series of tweets on Thursday, Trump called Tuberville a ‘hero’ and ‘a man of courage.’… […]
12/15/2020
2020 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/PRESS SECRETARY: [Reporter: “Kayleigh, now that the Electoral College has voted, does the President acknowledge that Joe Biden is the President-Elect?”] “The President is still involved in ongoing litigation related to the election. Yesterday’s vote was one step in the constitutional process. So I will leave that to him and refer you to […]
12/15/2020
ELECTORAL COLLEGE/JOE BIDEN/MITCH MCCONNELL: “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell acknowledged Joe Biden as the president-elect for the first time on Tuesday [Dec. 15, 2020], more than a month after Mr. Biden won the presidential election. McConnell waited until the Electoral College formally voted to elect Mr. Biden on Monday, officially finalizing the election results… President […]
12/14/2020
2020 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/JOE BIDEN: “Good evening, my fellow Americans. Over the past few weeks, officials in each state, commonwealth, and district, without regard to party or political preference have certified their winning candidate. Today, the members of the Electoral College representing the certified winner, cast their votes for President and Vice President of the United […]
12/14/2020
2020 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/JOE BIDEN: “The Electoral College on Monday [Dec. 14, 2020] reaffirmed Joe Biden as president-elect after California’s 55 electoral votes put the Democrat over the 270 needed to win the White House… The next major step in the process of electing the president comes Jan. 6, when Vice President Mike Pence is expected […]
12/14/2020
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/ELECTORAL COLLEGE: “In the start of this [coronavirus] pandemic, this crisis, many were wondering how many Americans would actually vote at all. But those fears proved to be unfounded. We saw something very few predicted, even thought possible, the biggest voter turnout in the history of the United States of America, a number so […]
11/26/2020
2020 ELECTION/BIDEN TRANSITION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE: [Reporter: “If the electoral college does elect President-Elect Joe Biden, are you not going to leave this building?”] “Just so you — certainly, I will. Certainly, I will. And you know that. But I think that there will be a lot of things happening between now and the 20th of January. […]
11/26/2020
2020 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE: [Reporter: “Mr. President, if the electoral college votes for Joe Biden on December the 14th, will you concede to Joe Biden?”] “It’s going to be a very hard thing to concede because we know there was massive fraud.” [Reporter: “But will you?”] “As to whether or not I can get this apparatus moving […]
11/3/2020
2020 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE: “I think that we’re going to do very well… We had 306 [electoral votes] last time, it was 223 to 306. And I think we can do even better than that. And you may be seeing it. But the spirit of people and it’s turning out that the lines all over the […]
2/7/2020
ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Barack Obama launched his 2012 reelection campaign, he did it with back-to-back rallies in a pair of logical places: Virginia and Ohio. The two essential swing states, with 31 electoral votes between them, were vital to Obama’s chances of winning a second term. Ohio, a traditional Midwestern bellwether, epitomized […]
9/25/2019
2016 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE: “An investigation started, called the ‘Russian witch hunt,’ affectionately. And it was a total phony scam. It was set up by people within the government to try and stop somebody from getting elected. And after that person — namely, me — won, and convincingly won at 306 to 223 in the Electoral […]
3/20/2019
2016 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/ROBERT MUELLER: “I just won an election with 63 million votes or so. Sixty-three million. I had 206 to 223 in the Electoral College — 306 to 223. And I’m saying to myself, wait a minute, I just won one of the greatest elections of all time in the history of this country […]
3/20/2019
DEMS/ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In his latest attack on Democrats running against him in 2020, President Donald Trump is now defending the constitutional mechanism he once opposed, the very thing that got him elected in the first place. The Electoral College…In his latest attack on Democrats running against him in 2020, President Donald Trump is […]
7/16/2018
2016 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE/RUSSIA: “The whole concept of that [Russian interference in the 2016 election] came up perhaps a little bit before, but it came out as a reason why the Democrats lost an election — which, frankly, they should have been able to win, because the Electoral College is much more advantageous for Democrats, as […]
4/26/2018
ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE: “And by the way, they also like to always talk about [the] Electoral College. Well, it’s an election based on the Electoral College. I would rather have a popular election, but it’s a totally different campaign… It’s as though you’re running — if you’re a runner you’re practicing for the 100-yard dash as […]
4/26/2018
ELECTORAL COLLEGE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Thursday [4-26-18] voiced support for doing away with the Electoral College for presidential elections in favor of a popular vote because the latter would be ‘much easier to win.’ The president’s support for a popular-vote presidential election came as an aside during a freewheeling Thursday morning interview […]
4/4/2017
2016 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE: “I don’t know if you saw, but if you watch the Democrats now, the anger — the anger and hatred, and they’re trying to figure out where did all these people came that voted for Donald Trump? Remember they said — because the Electoral College is a very, very hard, they say, […]
4/4/2017
2016 ELECTION/DEMS/ELECTORAL COLLEGE: “I don’t know if you saw, but if you watch the Democrats now, the anger — the anger and hatred, and they’re trying to figure out where did all these people came that voted for Donald Trump? Remember they said — because the Electoral College is a very, very hard, they say, […]