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 Mike Miller: ... DeSantis also tore into those in the media who continue to complain about  those who continue to complain about  the 2020 election results. “They talked about complaining about 2020? They never accepted Donald Trump. They created and manufactured a conspiracy theory to try to drive him out office and to kneecap him and his presidency and we know it was false. We know that there was no truth to it.” Toss in stage 4 TDS-riddled House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and it was clear from the outset that these people were  never  going to give Trump a break, much less a win, even if it meant spending some of their own political capital, which they did — behaving like sore-ass losers in the process — hell yes, they did. DeSantis almost demanded an apology from the lapdog media, knowing full well an apology will never come, thus providing the Florida governor license to keep the Democrat sock puppets on full blast: “Have any of them actually apologized? Heck, ...

 Andrea Widburg: Two massive Twitter threads contend that serious computer fraud two years ago in Texas, which turned strong red districts blue, was essentially a trial run for what's been playing out across America in this election.  This post summarizes the core claims in those threads, along with interlineations of information I found. One Twitter thread comes from  Roscoe B. Davis , the other from  Bad Kitty . Scytl  is a Barcelona-based company that provides electronic voting systems worldwide, many of which have proven vulnerable to electronic manipulation.  Scytl has (or had)  Soros and Democrat party connections .  Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital has invested $40 million in Scytl. In 2012, Scytl acquired all the assets of SOE Software, which was then America's largest voting machine and software vendor.  Scytl also acquired the trade name "Clarity Elections" and rebranded its American operations as...

 Jon Hall: One of the worst set of choices the American electorate ever made was the 2018 midterm elections that gave the U.S. House of Representatives to the Democrats. Those decisions gave us “the Squad,” led by socialist Sandy O, a.k.a. AOC. In promoting their harmful un-American ideas, such as the Green New Deal, a ban on fracking, reparations for slavery, forgiving college debt, open borders, and tons of “free stuff,” the Squad was able to enlist veteran Democrats like Sen. Ed Markey in their cause. To satisfy fringe elements in their benighted base, House Democrats launched the insane impeachment of the president, and just as the coronavirus began infecting the nation. At the center of all the idiocy and dysfunction is the person whom the obedient new Democrat majority saw fit to make Speaker of the House: Nancy Pelosi. During the 2018 campaigns, Americans were warned about the folly of giving the House back to Democrats. They were reminded that the first trillion-dollar defi...

NY Times: Democrats Gained These Voters in 2018, and Biden Needs to Keep Them Now An authoritative new study on 2018 midterm voters shows how despite his strong position, Joe Biden is lagging behind the rates at which some key demographics broke for the Democrats two years ago. I question his strong position.  It is clear that Trump has made inroads with blacks and Hispanics in recent polling and I suspect that Biden is losing some of the voters who fell for their Russian collusion hoax spin in 2018.  Now that it is seen as a complete fraud by most sane people there is good reason to reject the party that perpetrated it.

NY Times: Democrats Warn of Possible Foreign Disinformation Plot Targeting Congress Democrats demanded an F.B.I. briefing. They were concerned about a potential Russian-linked effort to interfere in the election by using a Senate panel to advance smears against Joe Biden, officials said. Democrats used the Russian collusion hoax in a disinformation campaign to get an illegitimate House victory in 2018 and they appear to be back with the same scam.  They are using the same media which has never apologized for its part in perpetrating the Russian collusion hoax.  They have become like the parable of the boy who hollered wolf.  You can't believe it at this point.

Texas Public Policy: Texas, the second-biggest Electoral College prize after California, may be a hard-fought political battleground this year. After Sen. Ted Cruz’ closer-than-expected 2.6 percent 2018 reelection victory over then-Congressman Beto O’Rourke, Democrats across the nation have been proclaiming Texas is theirs for the taking. Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has pledged to spend $1 billion to defeat President Donald Trump, regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination for president. Texas could be in play. And if Texas goes blue, Trump’s path to victory narrows to a sliver. Millions of Bloomberg’s wealth have already gone to hire staffers in Texas and some of those staffers will be sorely tested to push Texas’ election laws to the breaking point. And past voting trends suggest that as much as 1.3 percent of the vote could be illegally cast, much of it with a push from aggressive campaigns. And while most Texas-based political analysts believe Trump...

Elizabeth Vaughn: ... By the time the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation had been handed off to Special Counsel Robert Mueller in May 2017, the FBI knew, without a doubt that the dossier was a collection of lies. It’s hard to imagine the FBI kept that information from Mueller’s team. Even if, for whatever unfathomable reason they had, it wouldn’t have taken long for the Mueller team to learn for themselves. Mueller chose not to renew the warrant to spy on Carter Page after June, so they had to have known by then the information was false. Given this knowledge, the Wall Street Journal editorial staff ask an obvious question? Why did the special counsel not tell America that Christopher Steele’s information was false? The editors write: Rather than take a hard look at it, Team Mueller made a deliberate choice to tiptoe around it. In his opening statement to Congress when he testified this July, Mr. Mueller declared he would not address “matters related to the so-called Stee...

Investors Business Daily: Trump Is Right — Millions Of Illegals Probably Did Vote In 2016 In California, they were probably harvesting votes of illegals to steal House seats in 2018.

Washington Post: Democratic candidates veer left, ditching successful midterm strategy Embracing liberal positions on immigration, health care, taxes and abortion, the Democratic presidential field has abandoned the strategy that propelled the party to a landslide victory in the 2018 midterms. Taking away Americans healthcare insurance and replacing it with the functional equivalent of the VA is extremism that should not be rewarded.  At the same time promising free healthcare for illegals is also a loser.  BTW, 2018 was not a landslide.  Democrats picked up several seats in close races with what looks like a fraudulent "vote harvesting" scheme, especially in Southern California.  While some candidates ran as moderates they have backed the liberal extremists on key votes making them vulnerable for having practiced the politics of fraud.

Rick Moran: Why didn't DoJ prosecute FL election official for destroying ballots in 2016? DWS's opponent in the primary challenged the results but the notorious Brenda Snipes is alleged to have illegally destroyed all of the paper ballots. ... Big League Politics reported, "On May 11, 2018, the Florida Circuit Court granted Plaintiff Canova summary judgment, and found that Snipes had violated numerous state and federal statutes, including laws punishable as felonies with up to five years in prison. The Court’s ruling made clear that Snipes’ destruction of ballots was illegal on several separate counts.” It doesn't matter if the destruction of the ballots were intentional or not. But both the county and the feds refused to prosecute. Why? Assistant United States Attorney for the US Attorney's Office is none other than Debbie Wasserman-Schultz's brother , Steven. And Canova found out from the local district attorney, who was considering prosecuting Snipe...

Alex Boedigheimer: ... Poor email deliverability doesn’t just suppress a candidate’s message, it decreases the engagement of campaign supporters. That means fewer donations, fewer volunteers, and fewer advocates. If Republicans underperform in email deliverability, they face a disadvantage on Election Day. So we decided to test the rumors. Our team created email addresses with different email providers and signed up for the email lists of around fifty different candidates, committees, and political nonprofits. In the month leading up to the election, we tracked how many emails were sent from each entity, and what percentage of those emails made it into our inbox. To keep it consistent, we opened every email, every day – regardless of where it was placed.* *Read the fine print Republicans Were Sent to Spam Far More Often Than Democrats The results were striking, across every email provider. Yahoo AOL Gmail To put these numbers in perspective, let’s examine two cl...

Legal Insurrection: The influx of blue state refugees fleeing to Texas has many concerned that the reliably red Lone Star State might be purpling. Apple’s announcement of an upcoming Austin campus only added fuel to the worry fire. According to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Texas grew by 1,000 people per day this last year. Massive growth, even if half were babies. As LI readers have pointed out repeatedly, most, not all, but most people who move to states with greater economic opportunity are the kinds of people who will contribute to the state’s success, not leach off of it. Texas Governor Greg Abbott agrees. ... November election exit polls published by CNN support Abbott’s contention, though it would be nice to have better data on those recently moving to Texas. From those polls : ... The Governor ran against a rather lackluster Demcorat opponent who also did not have the resources that Beto O'Rourke had in his campaign against Senator Ted Cruz....

Daily Caller: A super PAC that spent millions attacking Republican Sen. Ted Cruz during the midterm election was revealed Thursday to be funded almost entirely by Washington, D.C., Democrats. The Texas Forever PAC, which spent $2.3 million on last-minute anti-Cruz attack ads, was funded by the Senate Majority PAC except for $10,000, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings in December. The Senate Majority PAC has strong ties to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and fundraises to help Democrats win control of the Senate. Texas Forever was created less than a month before the November election and after the last deadline to report donors prior to Election Day. Because it launched so close to the election, Texas Forever was able to sidestep revealing where the funds came from until a month after voting concluded, a strategy that has been more frequently utilized with super PACs this election cycle, reported Politico . The Super PAC’s goal was to help Cruz’s Democratic...

Monica Showalter: Once again, this happened : TJ Cox defeated three-term Republican Rep. David Valadao on Wednesday, giving Democrats a gain of seven House seats in California and 40 nationwide – the party's strongest midterm showing since the Watergate era in the mid-1970s. Cox clinched his victory more than three weeks after election day, when updated results from Fresno and Kings counties pushed his lead over Valadao to 529 votes. The contest was the country's last remaining undecided congressional contest. Cox, 55, trailed the GOP lawmaker by nearly 4,400 votes on election night but steadily gained ground as mail-in and other ballots tipped his way. That follows the obvious funny stuff that went with the sudden surge of "found" ballots that got Republican congressional candidate Young Kim displaced from her congressional victory to Democratic Party machine pol Gil Cisneros. Both Kim and Valadao were terrific Republicans who had big leads on election ...

Silvio Canto: As you may remember, The Dallas Morning News endorsed Representative O'Rourke on the grounds that we need a change of tone in Washington. In other words, Beto would bring us together! What has Beto done to bring anyone together? The answer is nothing, as I wrote here . How can a man who voted for partial-birth abortion, to abolish ICE, and for socialized medicine bring anyone together? It sounds to me as though Beto was a party-line representative who never stood up to his leadership. On Monday, The Dallas Morning News is a bit shocked that its Beto is moving left : So we were surprised and more than a little perplexed to see that O'Rourke's first big public action following the midterm elections was to weld himself to one of the leading progressives of his party. This week, he joined with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in signing a letter aimed for the desk of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis over the issue of troops on the border. ... O'...

NY Times: New Book Gives Voice to Trump’s Claims of a Vast Conspiracy Against Him In the book “Trump’s Enemies,” by Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, President Trump repeats his unfounded assertion that President Barack Obama was complicit in spying against him. The Obama administration through its use of the FBI, DOJ, and Defense intelligence officials was actively spying on the Trump campaign.  They also used foreign assets which would be exposed if Trump declassified material on the attempts.  Why the Times would suggest that Obama was not complicit in allowing that travesty suggest a partisan bias.  The assertion that Trump's statement is unfounded is, in fact, unfounded. The Obama administration paid Halper handsomely for his efforts using a defense department funding mechanism.  The whistleblower who reported the effort was fired for disclosing it and is suing the government. The FISA warrants based on the discredited and unverified doss...

NY Times: Across South, Democrats Risk Speaking Boldly and Alienating Rural White Voters Mike Espy, the Democratic nominee in the Mississippi Senate election Tuesday, has had to choose between satisfying African-Americans and white liberals or driving away conservative-leaning voters. The conservative message has also become a problem for liberals in selling their control freak policies in the black community as the elections in Florida and Georgia have shown.  In Florida, it was the black moms who recognize school choice gives their kids the best opportunity to escape poverty.  In Georgia, it was black entrepreneurs who supported the Republican approach to growing the economy and getting out of the way of small business.  Liberalism has become a tool for stifling the economy for everyone and locking the poor into dependency.  It should be hard to sell liberalism to everyone.

David Catron: What do Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams, and Bill Nelson have in common? Each asked the voters for important positions of leadership and promptly proved themselves unworthy of those offices when the answer was “No.” It isn’t necessary, of course, to revisit Gore’s reluctant acceptance of reality or Clinton’s querulous hypocrisy. The tawdry details of those episodes are well known. But the long-term harm they wrought on the republic merits consideration. The extent of that damage was clearly demonstrated Friday, when Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams finally admitted that the laws of mathematics could not be overcome by frivolous lawsuits. The Friday non-concession speech Abrams inflicted on the citizens of Georgia was easily one of the most disgraceful political performances of the century thus far. She grudgingly acknowledged that Brian Kemp will be the Peach State’s next governor, but went on to accuse him — without evidence — of voter suppressio...

Washington Times: This is what democracy looks like. Bikers for Trump leader Chris Cox bustled through the throng of protesters at the Broward County elections office at the heart of the Florida recount fandango, drawing attention to colored zip-tie tags found on the ground near the building’s loading dock. Mr. Cox and a crowd of Republican activists are convinced that the 15 red and orange tags were cut off ballot boxes before the votes reached the election office, which could be a violation of state law, evidence of vote tampering or nothing at all. “This election is a fraud,” Mr. Cox said in a video of the scene posted on Facebook. “It’s pretty disgusting here. I’m glad that you’re not here because this isn’t anything you want to see.” In Palm Beach, state Democratic Party officials on Wednesday called another in a series of conferences to accuse Republicans of sabotaging the vote count with phony fraud allegations. ... “When will Bill Nelson concede in Florida? The char...

Betsy McCaughey: If Americans are losing confidence in elections, don’t blame Russian hackers. The damage is self-inflicted. A week after polls closed, Americans still don’t know who won major races: gubernatorial races in Florida and Georgia, a Florida Senate seat and several House contests. Candidates who conceded on election night are backtracking and demanding “every vote be counted,” as late-arriving ballots change the tallies. Blame the uncertainty on overuse of mail-in ballots and of provisional balloting by people who lacked ID, didn’t appear on registration rolls or voted outside the county where they live. These accommodations create opportunities for incompetence and trickery by election officials and turn Election Day into a teaser for the ultimate outcome, decided by lawyers and judges. Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) appeared to win the hotly contested Senate race on election night. But his lead shrank from some 56,000 votes to a mere 12,600, and he’s filing lawsuits ...