US President Joe Biden has said he is not confident there will be a peaceful transition of power if Donald Trump loses the presidential election in November.
"[Trump] means what he says, we don’t take him seriously. He means it, all this stuff about ‘if we lose it will be a bloodbath’.”
Mr Trump’s comment that it would “be a bloodbath for the country” if he loses the election, made as he was talking about the auto industry in March, triggered a wave of criticism.
The Trump campaign, however, said the comment was specifically about the auto industry and had been deliberately taken out of context. It sent a fundraising email which said Trump’s political opponents and others had been “viciously” misquoting him.
If Harris wins, a lot of places where Trump “should have” won are going to falsely claim fraud and refuse to certify their votes, leading to another Jan 6.
The damage Trump and his ilk have done to this country by undermining the public trust in some of the best run elections in the world is incalculable. It will be decades if ever before that damage is undone.
Yep. Guaranteed they’ve already figured out the specific people they need to put pressure on when the time comes.
Here in Georgia, I’ve got a front-row seat:
(12 days ago) American Oversight Files Emergency Motion to Prevent Illegal Georgia State Election Board Rules From Taking Effect
(yesterday) New Georgia rules let local boards withhold election certification
(Reminder: Georgia is the state that not only went blue in 2020, but also saved the Democratic majority in the Senate.)
What. The. Fuck.
So they just don’t certify results they don’t like.
This smells like corruption.
“The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!”
Tap for spoiler
In other words, yes, the corruption smells like itself.
That isn’t even the only ratfucking tactic in play, BTW. They’ve also streamlined the process for challenging voter eligibility, such that even out-of-state right-wing traitors can try to disenfranchise an unlimited number of GA voters (especially “urban” ones). And that’s on top of the usual shortening early voting, limiting polling places, etc.
Frankly, at this point I think it’s even odds Georgia’s popular vote doesn’t get counted, unless non-traitors wake up to the danger and start a massive poll-watching (etc.) effort.