Category: Elections

Old: “Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

New: “Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows the midterm elections are in November, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

Any threat to politician’s cushy seats on the .gov gravy train is always cause for them ‘rethink their position’.

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We should remember that lease auctions are only the first steps in the process. Next comes permits and mountains of paperwork and red tape. And, oil and gas drillers have to decide if it is prudent to pursue drilling during the Biden administration, given its hostile attitude to fossil fuels. At times like this, with energy prices skyrocketing, and the Biden administration going hat in hand to nefarious actors to beg for oil, it certainly is in our national interest to go back to what works and reestablish our energy independence.

Biden administration resumes plans for oil and gas drilling on federal land.

The Biden administration is finally moving forward with re-starting the leasing of federal land for oil and gas drilling. The Interior Department made the announcement after a federal appeals court ruled in favor of the administration last week. The “social cost of carbon” value is factored in measuring the cost of climate change in the drilling process. The court ruled that the administration can use a higher calculation value of per ton of greenhouse gases emitted in the federal decision–making process.

When Joe Biden ran for president, he promised to stop federal drilling auctions, but that effort has caused Republican-led states to file court challenges. Since he took office in January 2021, Biden’s administration has provided a string of stops and starts to the federal oil and gas leasing program. Biden wants a return to the Obama-era value of $50 per ton of greenhouse gases emitted, while Republicans prefer the calculation used during the previous administration of $10 per ton.

The Interior Department said there would be a delay in upcoming federal oil and gas lease sales last month because a Louisiana federal judge blocked the administration from using its much higher social cost of carbon value when it factors in the risks of climate change in decision-making on permits, investments, and regulatory issues. That changed last week when a federal appeals court ruled in favor of the administration. It issued a temporary permit to use $50 per ton of greenhouse gases emitted. The Biden administration is being allowed to refigure the metric of calculating the alleged cost to society from greenhouse gas emissions, at least temporarily.

“With this ruling, the Department continues its planning for responsible oil and gas development on America’s public lands and waters,” Interior Department spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz said in an email. “Calculating the social cost of greenhouse gas emissions provides important information that has been part of the foundation of the work the Interior Department has undertaken over the past year.”

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Trump Offers a Proposal to Destroy the Deep State

Virtually all Americans believed, until the inauguration of Donald Trump as president on January 20, 2017, that when someone became president, he could begin to implement his agenda. Certainly Old Joe Biden’s handlers have done so with a vengeance since they took over; but when Trump became president, he immediately began to encounter resistance from entrenched members of the government bureaucracy who refused to do as he ordered. Some worked actively against Trump, while the establishment media assured us that these self-appointed “deep state” saboteurs were the courageous guardians of “our democracy.” At his South Carolina rally Saturday night, Trump continued to tease a 2024 run and made a new promise about how he would break the power of the unelected “deep state.”

“We will pass critical reforms,” Trump said, “making every executive branch employee fireable by the president of the United States. The deep state must and will be brought to heel.”

It’s a commonsensical solution, as Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance pointed out. “Everyone is losing their mind about this, but I’ve been calling for it at every town hall I do. Either the president controls the executive branch or he doesn’t. If he doesn’t, we don’t live in a Republic, we live in a civil service driven oligarchy.”

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He’s a political liability now that the goobermint reaction to the bug has become a political liability

Where’s Fauci?

Where is Dr. Fauci? After two years of leadoff hitting on Meet the Press, the guy has seemingly disappeared.

There had been a growing list of theories on Fauci’s whereabouts, including the Wuhan lab where COVID probably originated. Naturally, everyone wants to know where he has been. And luckily, SubStack writer Jordan Schachtel found the answer.

It turns out that Fauci vanished soon after a polling article warned Democrats that Americans are fed up with COVID hysteria and it might cost them the 2022 midterms.

Here’s the memo.  [you can click on each page to see a bigger version]

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San Francisco recalls 3 members of city’s school board.

Three members of San Francisco’s school board were ousted Tuesday in the wake of widespread backlash over the slow reopening of schools shut down by COVID-19 and a controversial plan to rename dozens of school sites.

School board president Gabriela López, vice president Faauuga Moliga and commissioner Alison Collins were all stripped of their positions during a special election, according to tallies by the San Francisco Department of Elections.

Furious parents launched the recall effort in January 2021 after arguing the school board was pushing progressive politics instead of acting in the best interests of children amid the pandemic.

“The city of San Francisco has risen up and said this is not acceptable to put our kids last,” said Siva Raj, a father of two who helped launch the recall effort.

“Talk is not going to educate our children, it’s action. It’s not about symbolic action, it’s not about changing the name on a school, it is about helping kids inside the school building read and learn math.”

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The Supreme Court Drops the Hammer on Democrat Redistricting Games and Sets up a Coming Death Blow

After several days of bad news on the redistricting front, including a bad decision in North Carolina for the GOP-drawn map there, a big win has been delivered to Republicans. The US Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 to halt a lower court order in Alabama that it must redraw its previously passed Congressional map.

That means a 6-1 Republican to Democrat map will now go into effect in 2022, and given the makeup of the Supreme Court, there’s no reason to believe it gets struck down at any point past that.

As one of my RedState colleagues previously speculated, challenging the Alabama map on the grounds of the Voting Rights Act was a total miscalculation for Democrats. They were always an underdog in stopping the GOP map in Alabama, but worse for them, the court has also granted cert to the case, with a full decision likely to come in 2023. That decision is unlikely to be kind to those who want to keep weaponizing the VRA to produce Democrat-stacked maps while not allowing Republicans to gerrymander.

What that means is that not only did Democrats lose in this specific instance, but they could lose a lot more, all across the country in regards to their use of racial quotas for congressional districts once a final decision is delivered.

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Black Voters Sue NYC Over Noncitizen Voting, Claim it Violates Civil Rights Law

A group of Black New Yorkers sued the Big Apple’s Board of Elections, claiming that the new law allowing noncitizens to cast ballots in local elections violates federal civil rights law because the New York City Council passed the law in order to strengthen the voting power of certain racial groups, diluting the votes of other groups.

“They explicitly used race as a factor of demarking the voter groups that they wanted to give this privilege to and that is a direct violation of the 15th Amendment,” former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, a member of the board of directors at the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), which filed the lawsuit, told Fox News……………

“Gerrymandering” is only a threat to the nation, democracy; Truth, Justice and the American Way™ when Republicans do it

New York demoncraps Are Gerrymandering GOP Districts Out of Existence.

New York State has 19 Democrat seats in the House of Representatives and eight Republican seats. But if a new gerrymandered map proposed by Democratic state legislators is implemented, Democrats would likely get 22 seats compared to Republicans only getting four. The state lost one seat because of population decline.

But wait! Democrats oppose gerrymandering, right?

Pffft… they only oppose gerrymandering when they’re not the ones doing it. Especially since this map could help protect Democrats from losing their majority in the House in November.

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Court Finds Pennsylvania Mail-in Voting Law Unconstitutional

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania on Friday found the state’s mail-in voting law unconstitutional.

The lawsuit was filed by Doug McLinko, vice chairman of the Bradford County Board of Commissioners in Pennsylvania. His argument was that he was unable to perform his duties as commissioner and certify the 2020 election because Pennsylvania’s 2019 election reform law is unconstitutional.

McLinko describes the Trump-Biden election after this law as a “mess” and told Just the News, “Our votes were just thrown away.”

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He called the NRA terrorists. Now he’s running for Congress to “restore civility”

Andy Parker has experienced one of the worst things that can ever happen to a parent; the murder of their child. Parker’s daughter Alison was killed along with her co-worker Adam Ward in August of 2016 as they were conducting a live television interview at Smith Mountain Lake in central Virginia. Their killer was a former colleague at the Roanoke television station where Parker and Ward worked who’d been fired two years earlier after complains that he had been making co-workers feel threatened and uncomfortable.

In the aftermath of his daughter’s death, Andy Parker became a vocal proponent of gun control and an outspoken critic of anyone who dared to disagree with his ideas. In fact, in 2016 Parker even called me a terrorist during an interview with CNN in reaction to my comments on NRA News about a Democratic pro-gun control publicity stunt on the floor of the House of Representatives.

“The real terrorists are the folks at the NRA. Those are the terrorists. And unfortunately, you have politicians that are complicit — they’ve pledged allegiance to the NRA versus the United States of America and the safety of its citizens,” Parker said to CNN.

Parker made these comments in response to a NRA radio host, Cam Edwards, who criticized the democratic lawmakers and the leader of the sit-in, Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), who were holding a sit in on the House floor.

“So in order to push legislation that the sponsors say would not have prevented the attacks in Orlando, Florida, they’re also going to flout the House rules. Kind of like, you know, criminals and terrorists flout the rules that we have in place right now and will continue to do so,” Edwards said.

Honestly, I didn’t take Parker’s insult personally at the time and I feel the same way today. Alison Parker and Adam Ward’s deaths were senseless and tragic, and while I will never agree with him that more gun control laws will lead to a safer society, he’s certainly entitled to his own opinion and activism. That doesn’t mean, however, that I want him representing me in Congress.

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If the GOP is serious about winning in 2024 — especially after they make the gains everyone thinks they will in the 2022 midterms — they need to get in front of the shenanigans the left has planned instead of playing catch-up as they have so often in the past

The GOP Needs to Anticipate Leftist Threats to the Electoral College in Coming Years

It should have been obvious during the few moments of lucidity from Joe Biden’s weird ranting lately: the electoral college is in the Democrats’ crosshairs now that the GOP has taken election integrity more seriously and the Dem administration that was supposed to save the country from Trump has turned out to be such a massive failure. Democrat future presidential wins look as likely as Democrat midterms wins.

So how can we tell Democrats will again turn to the unpopular tactic of attacking the electoral college out of desperation? Because Biden himself told us recently.

From the New York Post, and quoting that same speech:

President Biden vowed Tuesday night that Democrats would make gains in next year’s midterm elections, a result that would defy the political odds as the White House grapples with a series of crises.

“We have to keep making the case,” Biden said at a holiday party attended by 400 Democratic National Committee officials and donors in Washington. “And if we do, I believe we’re going to win.

“Let me say this again for the press: We’re going to win in 2022.”

Moments earlier, the president had told Republicans eyeing a return to the majority in the House and Senate next year: “Get ready, pal. You’re going in for a problem.”

Many have pointed out the gut-churning comparison to something Joseph Stalin, bloody Soviet dictator who oversaw the deaths of millions and cared not a whit for Democracy, said about votes and vote counters..

“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how,” Stalin reportedly told his former secretary Boris Bazhanov in 1923.

That’s a point well taken. But he’s also referring to who counts the votes as it relates to the electoral college, as these two academics note in a piece at The Hill.

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With no apologies to Mr. Simon.

Flip Flopping Away
Flip Flopping Awa-aaeeay
The farther from being elected
The more you’re Flip Flopping away.

Eric Greitens Thinks New MO Gun Law Should Be Revisited

Former MO Governor and US Senate candidate Eric Greitens talks to Austin Petersen and John Marsh about why he’s sympathetic to calls from Missouri police to revisit a new gun law. SAPA, the Second Amendment Preservation Act, prevents Missouri law enforcement from enforcing federal gun laws that conflict with Missouri state law. Republican law enforcement officers in Missouri and current Governor Parson have been calling for revisiting the controversial bill which was passed into law in 2020.

Greitens says he supports Missouri gun law after blowback

Days after blasting a new state law designed to invalidate certain federal gun laws, former Gov. Eric Greitens changed his tune, voicing support for the Second Amendment Preservation Act.

Oon Saturday, Greitens tweeted: “I 100% support the Second Amendment Preservation Act. Do-nothing establishment RINO’s and lobbyists will never truly stand up for the Second Amendment to protect your gun rights. Don’t be fooled.”

Why the shift in tone?

[I’d say it’s the realization that he opened his yap and offended a large part of his base that got him elected to be Goobernor, but that’s just me. ]

On Thursday, two days after Greitens’ comments were posted, Aaron Dorr, a pro-firearms activist with the Missouri Firearms Coalition, posted a 17-minute video excoriating the ex-governor for his comments.

Oops!

Supposing, of course, that the prognosticaations of a massive demoncrap loss actually occur…..

What Will A Post-2022 Congress Be Able To Do?

One thing Second Amendment supporters need to have in mind is what they should push for after the 2022 elections. Now, there is a lot of time between now and 2022, but based on what happened in Virginia and some other trends, it is shaping up to go very nicely for those who support the Second Amendment.

But what is to be done with what could be a pro-Second Amendment majority in the House and Senate? While Joe Biden will still have a veto pen, it doesn’t mean that Second Amendment supporters will be without options.

One could say that there is a Second Amendment supportive majority in the United States, given that all 50 Republicans and Joe Manchin, Angus King, and Jon Tester have made pro-Second Amendment votes at times. However, currently, the Senate Majority Leader is Chuck Schumer, and Schumer is making Second Amendment supporters miss having Mitch McConnell in that position.

So, what changes when Congressional leadership is pro-Second Amendment. The biggest changes will be in oversight and spending. Here, they can help prevent things like Operation Chokepoint and also put the halt to funding for anti-Second Amendment propaganda from the Centers for Disease Control. In addition, Congressional oversight could also be a way to shine the light on corporate gun control and put the heat on the CEOs.

The other thing they will do is block a lot of anti-Second Amendment legislation via a numbers game and control of the committees in the House and Senate. Now, given pro-Second Amendment legislation will not be signed into law by Biden and getting the veto-proof majorities will be highly unlikely, but just blocking anti-Second Amendment legislation at the federal level will protect our rights, especially in a post-NYSRPA v. Bruen world.

It won’t just be anti-Second Amendment legislation that will be killed if Second Amendment supporters take control of Congress. Various other attacks on our rights will also be halted, like the For the People Act and other campaign finance “reform” schemes. That will allow Second Amendment supporters to make their case to the American people, and when we are able to make that case, we win the arguments.

For the potential gains in the 2022 midterms to happen, though, Second Amendment supporters will have a lot of work to do. They need to defeat anti-Second Amendment extremists at the federal, state, and local levels via the ballot box.

Observation O’ The Day

After thinking on it awhile, and remembering my own sortie into the life of election politics, this dawned on me.
Bleat Zero O’Rourke may actually not care if he runs a campaign so tone-deaf many people can’t think of a way he could actually win election for  Texas Governor.

Well, maybe he doesn’t care.

Maybe, he’s running so he can use up donations to this and to his previous campaigns that he’s accumulated and can’t legally touch to live on, as in travel around the state and generally have a good time on someone else’s dime instead of spending his own money.
Both federal and most state finance laws ban spending those funds on anything except actual campaign expenses, but does allow just about anything that’s even barely connected to count.

Just a thought.

Yeah, that ‘12,000 votes have been found‘ balloon didn’t fly.

‘All votes have been counted’: Steve Sweeney concedes loss in New Jersey Senate race
The longest-serving Senate president in the state’s history, Sweeney lost reelection to a political newcomer with a shoestring campaign.

New Jersey Democratic Senate President Steve Sweeney on Wednesday conceded his loss in last week’s election, an upset that sent shock waves through the state’s political world, but said he would remain a player in Garden State politics.

“I will be speaking from a different podium, but I promise you: I will be just as loud and just as forceful a voice for change,” he told reporters at the Statehouse in Trenton.

Sweeney also congratulated his opponent, Edward Durr Jr., a previously unknown South Jersey Republican who has never served in elected office. Durr’s victory over Sweeney, the longest-serving Senate president in the state’s history and the second-most powerful elected official in Trenton, was an unexpected and major blow to South Jersey’s Democratic establishment.

“All votes have been fairly counted, and I, of course, accept the results,” Sweeney said.

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County Sheriff in Wisconsin Reveals Evidence of Felony Election Law Violations

The sheriff of Racine County in Wisconsin, Christopher Schmaling, presented evidence Thursday of felony election law violations in the county during the 2020 election.

Schmaling came out swinging against members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, by whom he said “election statute was in fact not just broken, but shattered.”

The sheriff’s office received a complaint from a relative of a nursing home resident who died in October 2020. Despite suffering from severe cognitive decline prior to her passing, though, she still somehow managed to cast a vote via absentee ballot in the 2020 presidential election, according to state records.

The nursing home resident lived at the Ridgewood Care Facility. Following a complaint by the deceased resident’s daughter, who found it suspicious that her mother was able to vote given her condition at the time, Racine County Sgt. Michael Luell launched an investigation.

Luell found that in 2020 there had been an unusual surge in voting activity at the care facility. Luell reported back that eight out of 42 families of residents at Ridgewood said their loved ones did not possess the cognitive ability to vote, despite having done so.

The county investigation pertained exclusively to the Ridgewood Care Facility, but Sheriff Schmaling said he expects that his presentation of the results of the investigation will lead to others who experienced something similar across the state coming forward.

Toward the end of the presentation, Schmaling called on the Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul to launch an immediate investigation into the incident.

The chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, Paul Farrow released a statement following Schmaling’s presentation. “Anyone who cares at all about election integrity owes the Racine County Sheriff’s Department a debt of gratitude for their work today,” he said. “It is horrific that WEC’s choice to violate state laws may have led to bad actors taking advantage of vulnerable citizens in nursing homes. It’s time for Democrats, the Department of Justice, and the mainstream media to take election integrity concerns seriously.”

Toxic: Sheriff’s Candidate Shies Away From Everytown Support

Not long ago, my colleague Tom Knighton noted that the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety was spending several hundred thousand dollars in support of a sheriff’s candidate in Erie County, Pennsylvania.

That’s a staggering amount of money in a local election, and it’s not going unnoticed. In fact, as the campaign enters its last week, the donation has become one of the primary topics of conversation. After all, a New York billionaire like Michael Bloomberg and his pet gun control group taking an interest in a local race in northwestern Pennsylvania is unusual. And judging from the response that the local paper got from Democrat Chris Campanelli about Everytown’s intervention in the race, voters can’t be too happy about Bloomberg’s independent expenditures in support of his campaign.

Democratic nominee Campanelli, 62, told the Erie Times-News that he had “no involvement” with the Bloomberg group.

“I solicited nothing from them,” he said. “I never actually heard of them. And to be honest with you, how can I control how somebody spends their money? It’s not up to me.”

You’ve never heard of Everytown for Gun Safety? Methinks the sheriff’s candidate protests a little too much. It’s worth noting, though, that while Campanelli says he has no idea who Everytown is, he didn’t denounce the group’s massive spending on negative ads targeting his opponent, Republican Brian Shank.

The group has aired ads that highlight allegations of misconduct that Shank faced as a corrections officer for the State Corrections Institute of Cambridge Springs, a minimum-security prison for females, before his retirement in 2014.

In an earlier interview with the Erie Times-News, Shank said, “We all have things in our past where we’ve not made great judgment calls in our life. And, you know, we move on, we learn from them.”

Hey, you know who else has been accused of inappropriate conduct while on the job? That’s right. The man paying for those ads attacking Shank.

Several lawsuits have been filed over the years alleging that women were discriminated against at Bloomberg’s business-information company, including a case brought by a federal agency and one filed by a former employee, who blamed Bloomberg for creating a culture of sexual harassment and degradation.

The most high-profile case was from a former saleswoman. She sued Bloomberg personally as well as his company, alleging workplace discrimination. She alleged Bloomberg told her to “kill it” when he learned she was pregnant. Bloomberg has denied her allegation under oath, and he reached a confidential settlement with the saleswoman.

The Washington Post interviewed a former Bloomberg employee, David Zielenziger, who said he witnessed the conversation with the saleswoman. Zielenziger, who said he had not previously spoken publicly about the matter, said Bloomberg’s behavior toward the woman was “outrageous. I understood why she took offense.”

Ads attacking the character of candidates are nothing new, and Shank himself seems to have acknowledged at least some inappropriate behavior while he was serving as a corrections officer, so I wouldn’t necessarily call that ad out of line (though the old adage about glass houses and throwing stones comes to mind). However, that’s not the only ad running. I’m not sure if this one is more out of line or counterproductive for Bloomberg.

The ads also take aim at Shank for being among a small group of people who received a citation from the city of Erie for carrying a gun at a rally in Perry Square in June 2013 in violation of a city ordinance that prohibited firearms and other weapons in public parks.

A state appellate court struck down the city’s ban, which had been in place since at least 1976, forcing it to drop the charges against Shank and seven others, all of whom held a concealed-carry license at the time.

So Brian Shank and several others challenged an illegal local gun control ordinance that was later thrown out by the Pennsylvania courts as a clear violation of the state’s firearm preemption laws, and that’s supposed to be a bad thing? Oh, I understand why Michael Bloomberg believes that it was awful for Shanks to do something like that, but I doubt many voters are going to see it the same way. I don’t know about you, but I’d feel a lot better about voting for a sheriff who was willing to challenge the constitutionality of bad laws instead of just blindly enforcing them.

Campanelli, for his part, has mouthed the same type of platitudes we’ve heard from pro-gun control Democrats for decades; he’s a gun owner, and a hunter, and he’s not “here to take people’s guns,” though he’s willing to accept the help of people who want to do exactly that. He might not have asked for them, but he certainly hasn’t criticized the ads paid for by Michael Bloomberg and Everytown for Gun Safety, any more than he’s criticized the anti-gun and anti-Second Amendment views they hold.

Senator Richard Shelby is retiring, so it’s a wide open race.

‘Black Hawk Down’ POW Mike Durant enters Alabama’s 2022 U.S. Senate race

Mike Durant, famously known for his heroics in the 1993 “Black Hawk Down” incident, has formally declared his candidacy to seek to Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate.

In announcing his bid for the U.S. Senate, Durant lambasted President Joe Biden over what he sees as the administration’s failures.

“The career politicians have ruined this country, and their leader Joe Biden is pushing us to the brink,” said Durant. “Between ridiculous vaccine mandates, trillions in spending, and constant assaults on innocent life and the 2nd Amendment, it’s clear that we need to mobilize people from outside of politics to step forward and serve.”

The End Game of the Election Audits.

Readers have noticed my silence on the election audits in Arizona and elsewhere. The election was stolen and cannot be undone.
But that does not mean the audits are useless. Far from it, dear friends.

There is no way Democrats won the election fair and square. The math shows this was impossible. We went a century with presidential election turnout topping 60% only one time — 61% in 1964 — and suddenly there was a surge to 67%?
That was up from 56% in 2016.

Democrats used the pandemic to ignore election laws and mail-in unverified ballots that may have been Xerox-ed. The rules of election security were abandoned.

And Republicans allowed this to happen because they wanted to be rid of Donald John Trump and the whole business of making America great again. Republicans want nice safe jobs where they go along with Democrat lawlessness to get along.
The audits are not going to overturn the 2020 election. We all know this.

But this is not about 2020. It is about 2024. Donald Trump wants to become the first presidential loser to come back and win since Richard Nixon, who lost to JFK in 1960 and was elected president in 1968.

Grover Cleveland and Andrew Jackson also pulled this off. Jackson got screwed out of the 1824 election by a very deft John Quincy Adams who was able to convince Congress to give him the win after Jackson fell short of a majority in the Electoral College.

Donald Trump is a very stable genius. He was 14 when Nixon lost and 22 when Nixon won. He has observed how Gore handled his close loss. (Gore sold out and made a pile pushing the snake oil of global warming.) And he has watched Hillary blame everyone but herself for the most expensive loss in presidential election history.

President Trump is not taking up painting. He is leading the campaign to Take Back America From the Traitors.

He has not conceded the election because he wants to remind Americans of what they had. In the alternative universe of a second term, there is no border crisis because Mexico continues to guard our border while we build the wall.

In the alternative universe of a second term, the Taliban is irrelevant because the duly elected government in Afghanistan is fully in charge. Maybe we have a small contingent of soldiers like in South Korea, but whatever arms we brought in are arms we took home.

In the alternative universe of a second term, the economy is booming and inflation remains dead. We are headed back to 3.5% unemployment and any infrastructure deal involves actual physical structures.

Donald Trump is now the president in waiting. The UnTrump Presidency is failing, and that lends credence to the argument that Democrats and RINOs stole 2020.

We cannot undo the past, but we can look to the future.

The election audits give us hope and keep us together.

Ignore the MSM: Here’s What the 2020 Maricopa County Election Audit Actually Says.

A draft copy of the 2020 Maricopa County election audit has been leaked to KJZZ, a Phoenix-based radio station.

The validity of the draft report they obtained was confirmed by audit spokesman Randy Pullen, who said, “It’s not the final report, but it’s close.”

The media is already spinning the findings of the audit.

“The partisan review of Maricopa County’s 2.1 million ballots cast in the 2020 election found a vote count nearly identical to what the county had previously reported,” CNN reported. Like other liberal outlets, CNN focused on the results of the hand-recount part of the audit. As we know, hand recounts may account for slight discrepancies in counting but do not address irregularities or potentially illegally cast ballots.

So, let’s look into what the audit actually says.

“What has been found is both encouraging and alarming,” the report summary reads. “On the positive side there were no substantial differences between the hand count of the ballots provided and the official canvass results for the County.”

The summary continues:

However, while it is encouraging for voters, it does not allay all of the concerns:

  • None of the various systems related to elections had numbers that would balance and agree with each other. In some cases, these differences were significant.
  • There appears to be many ballots cast from individuals who had moved prior to the election.
  • Files were missing from the Election Management System (EMS) Server.
  • Ballot images on the EMS were corrupt or missing.
  • Logs appeared to be intentionally rolled over, and all the data in the database related to the 2020 General Election had been fully cleared.
  • On the ballot side, batches were not always clearly delineated, duplicated ballots were missing the required serial numbers, originals were duplicated more than once, and the Auditors were never provided Chain‐of‐ Custody documentation for the ballots for the time‐period prior to the ballot’s movement into the Auditors’ care. This all increased the complexity and difficulty in properly auditing the results; and added ambiguity into the final conclusions.

The audit team faults Maricopa County officials for not cooperating with the audit, which would have resolved many of these obstacles. “By the County withholding subpoena items, their unwillingness to answer questions as is normal between auditor and auditee, and in some cases actively interfering with audit research, the County prevented a complete audit,” the summary explains. “This did not stop the primary goal of offering recommendations for legislative reform to the Arizona Senate, but it did leave many questions open as to the way and manner that the 2020 General Election was conducted. As a result, while many areas of concern were specifically identified, our full audit results validating the 2020 General Election are necessarily inconclusive.”

While the media is claiming that the audit report confirms Biden’s victory, it does not. “There are sufficient discrepancies among the different systems that, in conjunction with some of our findings, suggest that the delta between the Presidential candidates is very close to the potential margin‐of‐error for the election,” the audit summary explains.

Here is a table showing the discrepancies and other issues found by the audit team and the number of ballots impacted. However, the audit team notes that no single finding would necessarily favor a single candidate. “In many cases there could be legitimate and legal votes within the Ballots Impact amount.”

Why do these matter? Because, according to the state-certified results, Joe Biden barely won the state by a 10,457-vote margin. The tiny margin of victory in the state-certified results means that these discrepancies are very troubling. There were 42,727 impacted ballots ranked as “high” or “critical” severity—that’s four times the certified margin of victory. If you include “medium” severity discrepancies, there were 53,214 impacted ballots—more than five times the certified margin of victory. Overall, there were 57,734 impacted ballots.

These findings don’t prove fraud, but certainly demonstrate the potential for fraud. And these impacted ballots have not been vetted.

So, has Joe Biden’s victory been proven? Not in the least. The truth is, we’ll never know the truth about how many ballots were impacted. Of course, the mainstream media knows this, which is why, deep down in CNN’s report about the audit, it laments that the draft report “shows that Cyber Ninjas and their subcontractors are still seeking ways to cast doubt on the election,” pointing to the thousands of ballots flagged.

The bottom line: The number of ballots impacted by discrepancies far exceeds Biden’s margin of victory in the state. Both sides of this debate will claim the report validates their position, but in truth, without proper vetting of the impacted ballots, we’ll never know if the election results were legitimate.

Even if the audit was able to investigate these ballots and determine that enough fraud occurred to alter the result, it is too late to change the election results. The audit team used their findings to make a series of election reform recommendations to improve the integrity of elections in the future.

“The Fake News is lying about the Arizona audit report!” Donald Trump said in a statement. “The leaked report conclusively shows there were enough fraudulent votes, mystery votes, and fake votes to change the outcome of the election 4 or 5 times over.”

Trump also noted that the number of potentially fraudulent votes is “many more times than the so-called margin of ‘victory,’ which was only 10,457.”