Here in Wisconsin, there’s an election recount in two counties, and there are repeated Republican objections to the recount there. This is a curious turn, as Patrick Marley accurately reports that The Wisconsin voting system Donald Trump is attacking was built by Republicans: MADISON – In his move to overturn Wisconsin’s election results, President Donald Trump…
Presidential race 2020
America, Elections, History, Law, Presidential race 2020, Voting Rights
Voting by Mail
by JOHN ADAMS •
Mail-in ballots that meet eligibility and validity requirements are counted in every election. The law requires all valid votes to be counted in every election regardless of how they are cast.
Elections, Law, Presidential race 2020, Voting Rights
Count Every Vote
by JOHN ADAMS •
Elections, Presidential race 2020, Republicans, Trump, Voting Rights
GOP Election Lawyer Ben Ginsberg: My party is destroying itself on the altar of Trump
by JOHN ADAMS •
Veteran election lawyer Ben Ginsberg writes My party is destroying itself on the altar of Trump: President Trump has failed the test of leadership. His bid for reelection is foundering. And his only solution has been to launch an all-out, multimillion-dollar effort to disenfranchise voters — first by seeking to block state laws to ease…
Biden-Harris, Joe Biden, Presidential race 2020
Heartland
by JOHN ADAMS •
2020 Presidential Election, Conspiracy Theories, Disinformation, Facebook, Justice, Law, Presidential race 2020, Social Media
Meanwhile, on Facebook…
by JOHN ADAMS •
Jeremy B. Merrill and Jamiles Lartey report Trump’s Crime and Carnage Ad Blitz Is Going Unanswered on Facebook (‘The president has spent millions on misleading Facebook ads targeting undecided voters, while Joe Biden has been virtually silent’): With unprecedented protests around race and policing dominating the news all summer, it was all but certain criminal justice would emerge as a key…
Elections, Presidential race 2020, Putin, Russia
FBI Director Wray’s Testimony on Russian Attempts to Influence 2020 Election
by JOHN ADAMS •
Kamala Harris, Presidential race 2020
Sen. Harris Delivers Remarks on Trump, COVID-19, and the Economy
by JOHN ADAMS •
Biden-Harris, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Presidential race 2020
Kamala
by JOHN ADAMS •
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Presidential race 2020
Sen. Kamala D. Harris Becomes Joe Biden’s Running Mate
by JOHN ADAMS •
Difficult to overstate what a good selection Kamala Harris is – this is a choice both sound and happy. Readers know that I supported Kamala Harris’s candidacy for president. Like so many others – millions upon millions of us across this continent – I am committed to the defeat of Trump and Trumpism. Biden and…
Presidential race 2020, Trump, Unfit
Enough
by JOHN ADAMS •
Joe Biden, Presidential race 2020, Trump
Biden Wisely Adopts a Version of McKinley’s Front Porch Campaign
by JOHN ADAMS •
Michael Scherer reports that Joe Biden rises with a less-is-more campaign: Biden has made no secret of his own thinking on the matter. “The more that Donald Trump is out the worse he does. I think it is wonderful that he goes out,” Biden joked Saturday at a virtual event for Asian American and Pacific Islander…
Presidential race 2020
How a President Leads
by JOHN ADAMS •
History, Politics, Presidential race 2020, Trump
Trump Rallies on Juneteenth in Tulsa
by JOHN ADAMS •
Trump is both ignorant and slow, but his aide Stephen Miller is neither. Knowing as much about these men, one reads that the Trump campaign has picked Juneteenth for a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma: How can you further inflame racial tensions? Send the president, who has called those protesting for racial equality “thugs,” to a…