ABC has taken off the a previous "For Biden" State of Arizona to the "questionable" mode ....
They probably know that the networks were wrong .....
“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l
ABC has taken off the a previous "For Biden" State of Arizona to the "questionable" mode ....
They probably know that the networks were wrong .....
President Donald Trump’s campaign manager Bill Stepien says the president plans to “immediately” request a recount in the battleground state of Wisconsin, where the race remains close.
In Wisconsin, if a race is within 1 percentage point, the trailing candidate can force a recount.
Stepien says in a statement Wednesday: “The President is well within the threshold to request a recount and we will immediately do so.”
The fate of the United States presidency is hanging in the balance, with Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, battling for three familiar battleground states — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — that could prove crucial in determining who wins the White House.
In the race to the 270 electoral votes needed to win, Biden has 238 while Trump has 213.
A now-deleted page on Bush’s campaign website had said she supported BDS. If she still holds those views, it will bring the number of BDS supporters in the Democratic caucus to three.
Projections are showing that Bush will win St. Louis’ traditionally Democratic seat handily, defeating Republican Anthony Rogers. She defeated Lacy Clay, the longtime Democratic incumbent, in a primary earlier this year.
BDS was not a notable issue in the Bush-Clay race, which hinged on the divide between progressive and establishment politics. Bush is a racial justice activist who was backed by progressives including Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Clay, a more centrist Democrat who had succeeded his father in the seat, had attempted to use Bush’s BDS support against her late in the campaign, highlighting it in a mailer.
Omar was declared the victor in her Minnesota congressional district, showing her staying power despite accusations of anti-Semitism. Last year, Omar drew condemnation from both sides of the aisle for suggesting that Jews pay politicians to be pro-Israel. She apologized for the comment but has continued to be a target of criticism from Democrats.
In August, Omar fended off a well-funded primary challenger, Antone Melton-Meaux, who made attacking her Israel comments a key part of his campaign.
She and Tlaib, who is the first Palestinian-American woman in Congress, are both members of the “Squad,” a group of four progressive freshman congresswomen.
Sara Jacobs 31, ran and won in California's 53rd District that covers portions of the southern part of San Diego County.
Without knowing the results of the US presidential elections, certain conclusions can already be drawn safely. For instance, we can say with certainty that between 70 and 80% of American Jews voted for the Democrat, former Vice President Joe Biden.
On the face of things, American Jews could have been expected to vote in the same proportion, in the exact opposite direction. After all, from Britain to France to Australia, in recent decades, Jewish communities in advanced industrial democracies have moved from Left to Right.
Here we are, the morning after, and we are no closer to knowing the results of the Presidential election than we were before polls closed yesterday.
However, what we do know is that a handful of states – including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan – stopped counting mail-in ballots fairly early in the evening on Tuesday night, which is problematic because they didn’t start counting mail-in ballots until Tuesday morning. So there is a backlog of mailed-in ballots that need to be counted, yet those states decided to call it a night.
If you wanted to avoid someone challenging the credibility of an election, I am not sure you could choose a worse way to handle the situation.
Here’s how it goes down. There are going to be ten or so hours of unaccounted for activity and then the ballots start getting counted again. Then, there will be another ten or so hours of unaccounted for activity and then we should have results on Friday. Instead of working through the night, state election officials have decided to give either side the chance to call shenanigans if their side loses.
How else do you think this goes down? If Trump wins Pennsylvania, Democrats will say that someone tampered with and threw out a bunch of votes to give it to Trump. If Bins wins the state, Republicans will say someone “found” a bunch of extra Democratic ballots and magically stole the race.
This is a clear case of getting off your rear end and doing the work right now so we can have a transparent process voters can trust in. Instead, we’re getting a system run on the whims of people who decided not to work in shifts but instead just give up for the night. That is not something we need to base our democratic systems on. We should be focused on transparency and accuracy, and not practices that open our system up to accusations (at best) of nefarious practices in our electoral system.
Hopefully, this will be addressed in a proper and transparent way, but it is certainly not giving off the vibes of a fair and just process. It stinks to high heaven, and no one seems to like that smell.
Let’s translate this into plain English.
“The Biden administration will support terror against Israel. We will aid and fund Palestinian terror against Israel, and we will also assist Iran in obtaining nuclear weapons so they can intervene against Israel.”
Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris conveyed in an interview with Arab American News over the weekend that a Biden administration will restore aid to Palestinians that President Donald Trump halted due to it being used for terror purposes, The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday morning.
Harris stated via email to the Detroit-based bilingual weekly that immediate actions would be taken to restore economic assistance to the Palestinians, provide humanitarian aid to Gaza and reopen the US consulate in east Jerusalem.
A Biden administration would also make efforts to reopen the PLO office in Washington – which Trump closed – and oppose “settlement expansion,” annexation and any Israeli unilateral actions that would hinder a two-state solution.
“We are committed to a two-state solution, and we will oppose any unilateral steps that undermine that goal,” Harris wrote. “We will also oppose annexation and settlement expansion.”
Conservative firebrand and self-described 'proud Islamophobe' Laura Loomer lost her House race in Florida's 21st Congressional District early on Tuesday night.
She lost out to Democratic incumbent Rep. Lois Frankel in President Trump's home district, receiving 39 percent of the vote as of 8pm eastern, according to Associated Press tallies.
The 27-year-old was considered a long-shot for the seat in the district that includes Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate despite support from the president and other leading Republicans.
Loomer emerged as a 'Make America Great Again' internet star over the past two years but was among the few who managed to convert that online success into a primary win.
Loomer, who has been banned from most social networks as well as Uber and Lyft due to her attacks on Muslims, was joined on the campaign trail by the president's daughter-in-law Lara Trump.
She was also endorsed by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and former Trump adviser Roger Stone, helping her take in more than $2million in donations and successfully out raise Frankel.
However, she faced an uphill battle in the heavily Democratic district.
Frankel was first elected in 2012 and has cruised to re-election ever since. In the 2018 mid-term election, she didn't even face Republican opposition.
The Congresswoman thanked voters as she celebrated her landslide win on Twitter.
'Thank you so much Palm Beach County. I am grateful for your votes and support, we accomplished this together,' she wrote. 'Now let's get to work, there's a lot to do.'
Despite her slim chances, Loomer's bid had gained national attention, in part due to her anti-Muslim remarks about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).
She was banned from Facebook and Instagram in May 2019 after stating that Rep. Omar wanted 'another 9/11' and that 'Islam is a cancer.'
Loomer later used right-wing social media platforms like Parler and Gab to raise funds.
She framed her race as 'the first time in history a Republican Jewish woman goes up against a Democrat Jewish woman, so we are putting the Jews on trial in district 21'.
President Trump had congratulated her after her primary win, calling Frankel a 'Pelosi puppet'.
The Squad - four Democratic women who have been frequently targeted for criticism by President Trump and his supporters for their progressive positions - crushed their Republican opponents on Tuesday and cruised to re-election.
House Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley received a fresh, two-year mandate from their voters on Tuesday.
AOC, 31, who has emerged as the face of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, easily maintained her 14th congressional district seat.
Omar, 38, the first American of Somali origin to be elected to Congress, easily defeated well-funded GOP challenger Lacy Johnson in the district that includes Minneapolis.
Her victory in the race for the 5th congressional district was all but assured after she survived a primary challenge this summer from Antone Melton-Meaux.
Tlaib, 44, is expected to handily defeat her Republican opponent, David Dudenhoefer, for Michigan's 13th congressional district seat, which encompasses parts of Detroit.
She is the first woman of Palestinian descent to be elected to Congress.
Philadelphia has stopped counting mail-in ballots for the night — a move that could skew Tuesday night’s preliminary results in Pennsylvania toward President Trump.
Only about 76,000 of the city’s mail-in ballots have been tallied so far out of some 350,000 received, noted Holly Otterbein, who is covering the race in Pennsylvania for Politico.
“And remember, Biden supporters are disproportionately voting by mail,” she tweeted.
Otterbein was citing a tweet by Philly-based independent reporter Max Marin.
“No more mail ballot results tonight,” he tweeted at 9:30 p.m. Eastern, adding that counting would resume at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
Full unofficial results could take until Friday, election officials have said.
“If there are a significant number of mail ballots outstanding at the end of election night, the reported totals could be relatively stronger for Republicans,” tweeted the New York Times’ Patrick LaForge.