Ex-Clinton Aide Details the ‘Stealthy Road’ To a Trump Victory That’s Being Overlooked

/0 Comments/in , , /by

. . .When former aides to Bill Clinton are saying there’s a chance, it’s not tinfoil hat stuff, which is how the liberal media has treated this. Graham Allison, who served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans under that administration, recently wrote in The National Interest about one path that’s being ignored. He called it a “stealthy road,” and one that’s being overlooked. We have to go back to the 1876 election. Allison noted that state legislatures have the authority to declare that the popular vote was corrupted, thereby, permitting them to send a competing set of electors. I’ll let him explain the rest [emphasis mine]:

I believe the current consensus is missing the fact that Trump has a second, viable stealthy road to victory. I’m reluctantly betting that the debate about who won will continue until at least January 6 when slates of electoral college members are opened in Washington, and most likely beyond that as whatever is decided then is appealed by the loser to the Supreme Court. My conclusion reflects the analysis of my colleague in the Applied History Network at the Belfer Center which is below.

As he notes, this stealthy road follows in the footsteps of a number of previous contested American elections, especially the 1876 election that pitted Tilden v. Hayes. Then as now, each state must decide on a group of electors to meet with a joint session of Congress on January 6 where the winner of the presidential election is declared. The normal practice in a state where Biden won the popular-vote total would be for state election officials to certify the results and send a slate of electors to Congress. But state legislatures have the constitutional authority to conclude that the popular vote has been corrupted and thus send a competing slate of electors on behalf of their state. The 12th Amendment to the Constitution specifies that the “President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.” That means that in the case of disputes about competing electoral slates, the President of the Senate—Vice President Pence—would appear to have the ultimate authority to decide which to accept and which to reject. Pence would choose Trump. Democrats would appeal to the Supreme Court.

Alternatively, if at that point, no candidate has the required 270 electoral votes, the 12th Amendment stipulates, “the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote.” [GOP has the majority there]

(Read more from “Ex-Clinton Aide Details the ‘Stealthy Road’ To a Trump Victory That’s Being Overlooked” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE

Pollster: It’s Curious How Biden Underperformed Hillary Clinton in Every City…Except These Four.

/1 Comment/in , , /by

. . .Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was blunter last Sunday, when he said, “I think he would have to do a lot to convince Republicans that this is anything except a left-wing power grab, financed by people like George Soros, deeply laid in at the local level, and, frankly, I think that it is a corrupt, stolen election.” He was commenting on Biden’s call for unity. Yet, he also gave a hat-tip to someone we have written about here: Democracy Institute’s Patrick Basham.

“We believe these people are thieves, we believe the big city machines are corrupt,” the former House Speaker said. “Interestingly Patrick Basham, who’s the most accurate pollster, he’s British, wrote in a British newspaper…that this clearly was a stolen election, that it is impossible to imagine that Biden outran Obama in some of these states.” . . .

“If you count the ballot fraud, most pollsters clearly failed. If you don’t include the fraudulent ballots, most pollsters failed on a spectacular scale,” wrote Basham. Yet, here’s where things get fishy in the 2020 race which he mentions at the end of his column. He cites Richard Baris of Big Data Poll who noted something funny about Biden’s numbers in the cities, how it lagged behind Clinton’s numbers, but shot off to the moon in these four cities. Just take a look at the states in which these cities are located as well:

How curious that, as Baris notes, “Trump won the largest non-white vote share for a Republican presidential candidate in 60 years. Biden underperformed Hillary Clinton in every major metro area around the country, save for Milwaukee, Detroit, Atlanta and Philadelphia.”

Robert Barnes, the foremost election analyst, observes in these “big cities in swing states run by Democrats…the vote even exceeded the number of registered voters.”

(Read more from “Pollster: It’s Curious How Biden Underperformed Hillary Clinton in Every City…Except These Four.” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE

Plaintiffs Drop Federal Lawsuit That Sought To Toss Some 800,000 Ballots

/0 Comments/in , /by

A federal lawsuit filed in Wisconsin that called into question the integrity of this year’s election has been dropped as the Trump campaign and other parties continue to pursue legal action in several other states.

The three plaintiffs, all Wisconsin voters, voluntarily withdrew the lawsuit on Monday. The legal action had been filed on Thursday in the United States District Court in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and argued that the absentee voting process in three counties, including the state’s two largest, included “illegal votes” that should invalidate the presidential election results. If the lawsuit had been successful, it would have delivered the Badger State’s 10 Electoral College votes to President Trump instead of President-elect Joe Biden, who won the state by about 20,000 votes.

It was not immediately clear why the plaintiffs dropped the litigation. When contacted by the Washington Examiner, one of the plaintiffs’ lawyers declined to comment, citing attorney-client privilege. The motion to dismiss came just before a status conference was scheduled to take place on Monday.

The lawsuit had targeted Milwaukee, Dane, and Menominee counties. Part of the lawsuit centered around “indefinitely confined voters,” who are citizens that Wisconsin law allows to vote absentee without showing photo identification. The law was designed to allow voters to self-certify as such if they are confined to their residences due to age, disability, or physical ailment. (Read more from “Plaintiffs Drop Federal Lawsuit That Sought To Toss Some 800,000 Ballots” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE

Biden Taps Reparations Advocate for Treasury Transition

/0 Comments/in , /by

A major reparations advocate has a seat on Joe Biden’s transition team.

Mehrsa Baradaran, a professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, is helping Biden prepare to “hit the ground running on Day One” as a member of his Department of the Treasury agency review team. Baradaran is an outspoken advocate of reparations for black Americans, both as a means of correcting “white supremacy” and closing the racial wealth gap.

Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) dodged questions about reparations throughout the 2020 cycle. Baradaran took note of their refusal to stake out a firm stance on the issue. “Dear Kamala, Reparations or go home,” she wrote in June 2019. “Biden just dodged that reparations question like a much nimbler and younger man,” she said in December 2019, referencing a Democratic primary debate.

In her 2017 book The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, Baradaran argues that closing the racial wealth gap requires acknowledging past wrongs and providing compensation for damages. “A reparations program could take many forms from simple cash payments or baby bonds to more complex schemes such as subsidized college tuition, basic income, housing vouchers, or subsidized mortgage credit,” she writes. Baradaran’s book inspired Netflix to donate $100 million to organizations that “support Black communities.” (Read more from “Biden Taps Reparations Advocate for Treasury Transition” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE

Trials Show Operation Warp Speed Partner Moderna’s COVID Vaccine Is 94.5% Effective

/0 Comments/in , /by

Pharmaceutical company and Operation Warp Speed partner, Moderna, said Monday its COVID-19 vaccine was found over 94.5 percent effective in a major trial, giving another glimpse of hope a week after competitor Pfizer announced its own vaccine candidate had similar levels of efficacy.

“The trial has met the statistical criteria pre-specified in the study protocol for efficacy, with a vaccine efficacy of 94.5%. This study, known as the COVE study, enrolled more than 30,000 participants in the U.S,” the company said in a statement. . .

The study was conducted in collaboration with the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institute of Health, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Both companies are now set to apply for emergency-use authorization with the Food and Drug Administration, as well as authorizations with global regulatory agencies. (Read more from “Trials Show Operation Warp Speed Partner Moderna’s COVID Vaccine Is 94.5% Effective” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE

Poll: Support for Gun Control Falls to Lowest Since 2016

/0 Comments/in , /by

A Gallup survey released Monday finds Americans’ support for stricter gun control laws has fallen back to the lower levels witnessed in 2016.

According to Gallup, support for more gun control has fallen seven percent since last year alone. Americans’ overall support for more gun control stands at 57 percent, down substantially from the 67 witnessed in 2018, and way down from the 78 percent support seen in 1990.

The demographic breakdown for Gallup’s survey shows non-gun owners are the driving force between the gun control support that exists. . .

A look at political party affiliation is just as telling. Gallup shows that 85 percent of Democrats support “more strict” gun controls while only 22 percent of Republicans do so. (Read more from “Poll: Support for Gun Control Falls to Lowest Since 2016” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE

‘Customers Are Calling Us Crying’: Scams and Soaring Prices as Californians Move Out

/0 Comments/in , /by

Record numbers of residents have been leaving California in recent years, but in 2020 the growth of remote work, the lure of cheaper housing and a summer of unprecedented wildfires has accelerated the trend. As a result, the moving business in San Francisco’s Bay Area is booming, but the surge has come with its own set of problems.

Moving trucks are hard to find, prices to get out of the Bay are being pushed sky-high, and the supply side of the market – with high starting costs and because movers are required to obtain state licenses – has been slow to respond.

The shortage has created openings for an underground moving economy complete with scammers who take advantage of desperate California escapees, left without easy options.

Moving companies across the Bay have said they were booked up months in advance through the summer. It continued through the autumn – in typical years, the industry sees a lull after kids start school. A spokesperson at Gentle Giant moving company says it performed three times the number of moves out of San Francisco in September 2020 than a year earlier.

Even at U-Haul stores – the rental truck retailer with the largest fleet across the US – trucks are in short supply. With so many trucks departing the Bay Area, the exodus has left an imbalance of returning vehicles. The shortage has sharply driven up truck prices for one-way trips out of town. (Read more from “‘Customers Are Calling Us Crying’: Scams and Soaring Prices as Californians Move Out” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE

New Pentagon Chief Makes Tremendous Announcement Regarding the Middle East

/0 Comments/in , /by

It appears that the time has finally come for the United States to end its military involvement in the Middle East and bring its troops home, according to Acting Defense Secretary Christopher C. Miller, on Saturday. The new Department of Defense chief indicated that the country would work towards fulfilling President Trump’s promise to keep the nation out of “endless wars.”

In a written statement, Miller, who was appointed after Trump fired Mark Esper, explained that the U.S. would continue its fight against radical Islamic terrorist organizations like al Qaeda and others, but that the nation would halt major military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. According to the Washington Times:

“But he also made clear that the American mission must change and that the U.S. military must adopt a more supportive role abroad. His comments strongly suggest that he and other Pentagon leaders will mount an aggressive effort over the next several months to bring the bulk of U.S. forces back from Afghanistan and other nations abroad.”

“As we prepare for the future, we remain committed to finishing the war that al Qaeda brought to our shores in 2001. This war isn’t over,” Miller wrote. “We are on the verge of defeating al Qaeda and its associates, but we must avoid our past strategic error of failing to see the fight through to the finish. Indeed, this fight has been long, our sacrifices have been enormous, and many are weary of war — I’m one of them — but this is the critical phase in which we transition our efforts from a leadership to supporting role.” (Read more from “New Pentagon Chief Makes Tremendous Announcement Regarding the Middle East” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE

GOP Governor Won’t Comply With Biden Face Mask Mandate: He ‘Doesn’t Have the Authority’

/0 Comments/in , /by

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says she won’t enforce a national face mask mandate if it is issued by President-elect Joe Biden.

“It’s a good day for freedom. Joe Biden realizes that the president doesn’t have the authority to institute a mask mandate,” Noem’s communications director Ian Fury said this week. “For that matter, neither does Gov. Noem, which is why she has provided her citizens with the full scope of the science and trusted them to make the best decisions for themselves and their loved ones.”

Since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Noem has adopted an approach that she says is focused on the Constitution and “people’s freedoms and liberties,” which has generated much criticism from many Democratic politicians and media figures.

“The facts on the ground here did not support shelter-in-place,” Noem said in April. “We just didn’t have the spread. For me, personally, I took an oath to uphold our state Constitution. I took an oath when I was in Congress to uphold the United States Constitution. So, I believe in people’s freedoms and liberties, and I always balance that with every decision that I make as governor. I get overly concerned with leaders who take too much power in a time of crisis because I think that’s how we directly lose our country someday by leaders overstepping their proper role.” (Read more from “GOP Governor Won’t Comply With Biden Face Mask Mandate: He ‘Doesn’t Have the Authority'” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE

Pompeo Begins 7-Nation Tour Amid Global Lockdowns and Trump Election Battle

/0 Comments/in , /by

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in a locked down Paris Saturday morning to start a 10-day jaunt across Europe and the Middle East that comes amid a backdrop of the Trump administration’s last-ditch legal efforts to remain in office.

The nation’s top diplomat is likely to offer private assurances to world leaders that if former vice president Joe Biden takes office, the Trump administration will assist with an orderly transition. Many of the leaders Pompeo is scheduled to meet have already congratulated Biden on his win. Pompeo’s seven-nation tour also will take him to several Middle Eastern hotspots—including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates—where Iran’s global terrorism operation is likely to be a secondary focal point with world leaders.

Pompeo raised eyebrows on Friday when he stated during a press conference at the State Department that there will be a “smooth transition to a second Trump administration.” While Pompeo, like other top administration figures, maintains that Trump won the 2020 presidential election, he clarified a day later in an interview with CBS News that an orderly transition will take place before Jan. 20 no matter who is declared the victor.

“Our adversaries should know that we’re ready, we’re continuing to work, we’ll work all the way through January. And then on January 20th, we’ll have a transition, whether it’s to a Trump administration—a second Trump administration as I spoke about today—or to an administration led by former vice president Biden,” Pompeo said. (Read more from “Pompeo Begins 7-Nation Tour Amid Global Lockdowns and Trump Election Battle” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE