Schon lange nichts mehr zur Wahl in den USA gepostet.
Leider scheinen sich die Befürchtungen bezüglich einer mehrstufigen Strategie seitens der GOP/Trump zu bewahrheiten, die darauf abzielt, die Verkündung von amtlichen Endergebnissen zu unterlaufen, um dann schlussendlich in den fraglichen Staaten wie Michigan das dortige GOP-kontrollierte Parlament über die Wahlmänner entscheiden zu lassen, die dann wahrscheinlich eher nicht pro Biden abstimmen sollen...
CNN meldet jedenfalls zu Michigan:
President Donald Trump has invited Republican state lawmakers from Michigan to the White House on Friday, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the President and his legal team are mounting an effort to overturn the results of the election he lost to President-elect Joe Biden.
Trump also called two Republican canvass board members from Wayne County, to Tuesday to offer his support, the person said, after they went back and forth on voting to certify the election results from the state's largest county, which includes Detroit. The board members filed affidavits Wednesday seeking to "rescind" their votes to certify the election result.
Trump extended the invitation on Thursday morning to the Michigan lawmakers by calling the state senate's Republican majority leader, the person familiar said.
Certification is usually a formality, but Trump is trying to block or delay the process in key states as part of a long-shot effort to overturn his election defeat through the Electoral College. Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani and other allies have suggested that GOP state legislatures in battleground states Biden won should try to use a delay in certification to appoint their own slate of electors and ignore the states' popular votes for Biden.
Asked about Trump's outreach to Michigan officials, Biden said Thursday it was "going to be another incident where he will go down in history as being one of the most irresponsible presidents in America history."
"It's just outrageous what he's doing," he said.
It comes as Trump's legal team's options to challenge election results in states Trump lost are rapidly evaporating and as states move to certify their election results. Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani held a 90-minute news conference Thursday where he and his team laid out dubious legal claims, aired debunked conspiracy theories and brought no specific, credible evidence of voter fraud.
[...]It's not clear what Trump's message to the Michigan GOP lawmakers will be. Both Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and House Speaker Lee Chatfield have said that they will honor their state's popular vote and not stray from the process of how electors in Michigan are selected. Biden currently has a 154,187 vote lead over Trump in the Great Lakes State.
Das Ganze hatte ja bereits ein Vorspiel: Denn es wurde ausgerechnet in Wayne County mit der tief demokratischen Stadt Detroit versucht, mit Hilfe der zwei verantwortlichen Republikaner die Zertifizierung der Wahlergebnisse zu verweigern.
In Michigan, the high-water mark for Trump’s efforts so far came Tuesday night, during an hours-long meeting of the Wayne County board of canvassers. The board’s two GOP members voted against certifying the county’s results, which overwhelmingly favored Biden. But then, after three hours of angry comments from the public, the two GOP members changed their minds and voted to certify the results.
After the meeting, Trump called one of the two GOP members, Monica Palmer. Palmer said that Trump did not pressure her to change her vote.
[...]After that, however, Palmer and the board’s other GOP member changed their minds again: On Wednesday, they signed affidavits saying they wanted to “rescind” their votes. The two said they were improperly pressured into certifying the election and accused Democrats of reneging on a promise to audit votes in Detroit.
Quelle: Washington Post
In Georgia, wo bei der kompletten Neuauszählung von Hand zwar etwa 1500 neue, d.h. nicht ausgezählte Stimmen für Trump gefunden wurden (übrigens in republikanisch kontrollierten Counties), was aber das Endergebnis pro Biden nur unwesentlich veränderte, wird jetzt der Gouverneur als letzte Bastion bearbeitet, weil dieser das zertifizierte Endergebnis noch abnicken, d.h. unterschreiben muss:
A top adviser to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) said there is “zero” chance the secretary would take a phone call from the president or his advisers. Raffensperger is expected to certify the statewide result Friday, as required by law. The certification then goes to Gov. Brian Kemp, another Republican, for his signature.
Kemp told reporters last week that he was glad Raffensperger ordered the hand-counted audit of the presidential vote. “Let’s let that happen and let the chips fall where they may,” he said.
Yet Trump has for the past several days been publicly badgering Kemp to intervene in the recount to reject ballots and “flip” the result, which currently has Biden winning by 12,284 votes. “Republicans must get tough!” Trump tweeted at Kemp on Thursday morning. Privately, Trump has told advisers he is furious with the governor for not doing more to overturn the outcome.
Quelle: Washington Post
Einige wenige Republikaner scheinen wenigstens noch Respekt vor der demokratischen Wahl zu haben, darunter natürlich Trumps Intimfeind Mitt Romney, der zu Trumps Getue Stellung bezieht - mit einer unverblümten Aussage auf Twitter, wie sie deutlicher nicht mehr sein kann:
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, a frequent Trump critic, called him out Thursday night, writing on Twitter that "it is difficult to imagine a worse, more undemocratic action by a sitting American President."
"Having failed to make even a plausible case of widespread fraud or conspiracy before any court of law, the President has now resorted to overt pressure on state and local officials to subvert the will of the people and overturn the election," Romney said.
Quelle: CNN
Wird jedenfalls ein spannender Tag heute
(Und leider auch noch die kommenden Tage bis zum 8. Dezember...)
Wenn die Unfähigkeit einen Decknamen braucht, nennt sie sich Pech.
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand -
