President Donald Trump is not taking his potentially impending exit from the White House very well. Joe Biden has taken the lead in vote tallies out of Georgia and Pennsylvania — and Trump is freaking out and continuing to delusionally claim that the process has been rigged against him. His claims are fictional — there is no Democratic conspiracy to steal the election from him via including invalid votes or via any other means. Claiming otherwise is on par with claiming that a secret contingent of Martians has infiltrated the United States. It’s just nonsense. Nevertheless — on Friday, Trump posted a string of tweets quoting Ken Starr, who investigated Bill Clinton and then served as a Trump lawyer during Trump’s impeachment proceedings.
In the lengthy diatribe against democracy that Trump quoted, Starr claimed, in part, that “Pennsylvania has conducted itself in a horrible lawless way, and hopefully this will be corrected at the Supreme Court of the United States.” In fact: no they haven’t. There is no evidence of some kind of rampant lawlessness during the ballot-counting process in the state of Pennsylvania. The Trump campaign has fought against Pennsylvania authorities in court and gotten slightly increased access for their ballot-counting observers, but they have proven no actual fraud in the state. None. Nada. Zilch. They’re jumping around and shouting as loud as they can in the apparent hope that people just take their word for it.
In a follow-up tweet, Trump claimed that “With the attack by the Radical Left Dems on the Republican Senate, the Presidency becomes even more important!”
With the attack by the Radical Left Dems on the Republican Senate, the Presidency becomes even more important!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2020
What is he talking about? Republicans have a seemingly better chance of holding onto the Senate than he does of holding onto the White House — although Republicans could still lose in that contest too. Georgia — which Biden led in as of the time of Trump’s tweet about the Senate — has two Senate run-off elections slated for January. If Democrats win both of the seats, then they win the Senate as long as Biden is in the White House, because the (Democratic) vice president would break ties, and two Democratic Georgia victories would likely leave the Senate 50-50. Trump sounds petrified of the Democratic agenda that could get underway at that point.
Mark Kelly's projected victory means that Democrats now control 48 seats in the Senate and Republicans control 48. North Carolina and Alaska have yet to be called. The other two seats are headed to run-offs in Georgia.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 6, 2020
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