Amen!
There is NO reason for media people to keep at this…
The Presidential Election HAS TO BE held…
Former Vice President Joe Biden argued Monday that November’s presidential election should not be delayed, even if the coronavirus pandemic forces changes to the way voting is conducted.
“I’d much prefer to have on — you know, in-person voting, but it depends. It depends on the state of play,” Biden told NBC’s “Today” show in an interviewthat aired Tuesday. “But we cannot, we cannot delay or postpone a constitutionally required November election.”
The remarks from the likely Democratic presidential nominee represent his most firm insistence yet that the general election be administered as scheduled. The comments also come amid escalating uncertainty regarding the longevity of the ongoing public health crisis.
The disease’s rapid spread in the U.S. has already upended voting in more than a dozen states where local elections officials have delayed their primaries, prolonging Biden’s quest to seal his party’s nomination.
But voters in Wisconsin are still heading to the polls Tuesday after the state’s Supreme Court blocked Gov. Tony Evers’ last-minute executive order postponing in-person voting. The decision is certain to endanger residents seeking to exercise their constitutional right in the face of a highly infectious and deadly outbreak.
Meanwhile, congressional Democrats have pushed for greater federal funding to facilitate vote-by-mail capabilities, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) predicting last week that the country would “probably be moving to vote by mail” for the remainder of the 2020 election season….
image…Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters
In Milwaukee where the number of polling places was cut from 180 to single digits people are lining up (social distancing) many in masks.
Wisconsin Republicans are despicable for refusing to move the election, but if I were a cheesehead I’d mask up and vote today too. It’s too important to simply allow them to get another seat on the state supreme court.
This could horribly backfire on the WI GOP in November though so even if the Republicans win the SC seat–which I expect them to. How they did it could cost them the state’s electoral votes and doom Trump’s reelection.
Echo’s of ur view Scott are out there with the view that if Wiscoinsin can vote in the middle of the virus run?
WTF shouldn’t the November election be done!
True…One would think.
However, we all know the Trump Republican Party’s mendacity .
They will lie just like they’re doing now about the coronavirus, claiming that they didn’t downplay its significance when they so obviously did.
Nothing is beyond them.
If Trump does try to delay the election you can count on thecult dutifully falling into line.
It will just be Lie upon Lie.
And what would be new about that?
Trump’s Repubmican base will fall in line and defend any attempt ti delay the election.
But he needs independents again to win.
Scott,
I agree with your point that I would be out there voting, maybe not in a primary, because at this point the race is done…but come November I will be out there for sure…
Also, if they tried to hold off the election, and mind you I am not one to get out in the street and protest, but masked up and gloved up I will be out there demonstrating…because that is something I wouldn’t stand for…James you coming too?
So will I like the guys in the post….
‘Hell or High Water!’
Trumo just repeated the bullshit lie that voting by mail is “corrupt” and a “horrible thing”.
Typical Republican line.
21% of all ballots cast in 2016 were by mail.
If Trump thinks voting by mail is corrupt doesn’t that mean his victory was a fraud?
He wasn’t told THAT….
James, even if some one told him that, he would still say that…he would say..may people say voting from home was where the three million extra votes came from…the fraud in the election system…when actually I believe the three extra million that he lost by came from CA…
I don’t know where…
Don’t matter….
He won on 70,000 votes from states he’s losing to Biden right now 8 months out…
Can Biden KEEP it That way?
I’m not given to political paranoia, but I’m scared (even a bit terrified) at the path this could take, if allowed by Trump’s enablers, given the way that dictators in other places and other times have gradually taken power — because the pandemic provides a powerfully-plausible reason to fiddle with the general election, to stop Congress from ever meeting again physically (while allowing Congressional Republicans to thwart any kind of distance legislative votes), and even perhaps to control the meetings of the Courts.
It’s not beyond belief that someone somewhere might be writing out the necessary findings and executive orders right now. Already there’s been an attempt to include in one of the stimulus (CARES) bills a provision allowing the President the power to suspend habeas corpus.
My wife and I had this discussion also on this….
My view?
There WILL be a November General election…
There WAS a primary election yesterday
Absent a mass virus jump in numbers a week from now ?
One could expect the June 2nd primaries to all go ahead…
With that?
November should be a lock….
I add to that the Federal courts position on Wisconsin…Strongly backing legislative efforts to hold the election…Democratic states actually have a case on this now..
Pelosi is now gonna be under pressure to keep an eye on ass kidding Lindsey in future legislation…
As for a loser grab by Trump?
Highly unlikely ….
Why in my view?
The night of the general election ?
Joe Biden win?
Media hype to the MAX‼️
People dancing in the streets
Obama 2.0 reactions
Trump supporters looking like bench of a losing sport team at first glance
But the worst for Trump & Co?
Their phones stop ringing…
Democrats get the switch over calls
The civil servants in the department’s on Wed after the election come in with grins
The Trump political people , who had be worried before the election now have stomach aches and are looking over their shoulders as they beginning to follow orders from the WH to rush anything they can for Trump’s agenda…
That while they probably begin looking for a lawyer to cover them when the Democrats take over
The media will be assigning reporters to cover the transition teams landing across the government that Trump will no doubtly tell staff not to let in.,..
Old time Republican law makers will be in A bad place…
While their guy IS Trump?
A vote against him in the EC with mean they have to make the biggest choice of their entire life…
Save Trump or the United States of America
The courts ?
The same…
I could be wrong
But the second AP would make a Biden call
The invisible power of the American Presidency WILL begin sliding away from Donald Trump in real even visible time…
Joe Biden just as to get his votes to make the above happen
Or we’re REALLY FUCKED…..
I will make the above a post later…
Bernie Sanders has ended his Presidential bid