What Trumpâs Attack On Arizona Voters Shows About Our Election Systems
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Maricopa County Supervisor Steve Gallardo had heard enough. More than a half-hour into the board s January 27 consideration of a forensic audit where two outside firms would assess if its voting system used in Arizona s 2020 presidential election had been infiltrated and the results altered, the former state senator said that his vote in favor of the audit was a tough pill to swallow. We had our presidential preference election, not one complaint, Gallardo said. We had our primary election in August. Not one complaint. Everyone was happy. We had our general election. No complaint, until a day or two after the general election, when some folks in our community and across this country started looking at the results.
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Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is among the many allies of Donald Trump who faced criminal charges and was granted a presidential pardon while the former president was still in the White House. Flynn s foreign interactions were a major source of controversy during the Trump years, and according to
Guardian reporter Murray Waas, Flynn was warned about accepting foreign money even before Trump was elected president in 2016. p The office of the Defense Department s inspector general, Waas reports, has uncovered evidence that Michael Flynn accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from foreign interests and governments, despite repeated warnings by the DoD and the Justice Department that his conduct might be illegal. /p
Trumpâs Own Pollster Offers Scorching Analysis Showing Why He Lost
Donald Trump s botched response to the COVID-19 pandemic fueled his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, according to an analysis of the results conducted by his own chief campaign pollster.
According to
Politico, the report was compiled by Tony Fabrizio in December after Trump lost to President Joe Biden by a margin he himself once termed a landslide.
Fabrizio examined exit polling data from five states that Biden flipped after Trump won them in 2016 (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) and five competitive states Trump held in 2020 (Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas). He determined that the coronavirus pandemic was the top issue in both state groups â more so in Flipped states â and Biden carried those voters nearly 3 to 1. In both groups, about 75 percent of voters backed public mask mandates to curb the virus spread, something Trump refused
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) claims that he was doing his duty when he objected to certified election results showing Joe Biden had been elected president, as part of an attempt to overturn the election the Republican Party lost.
Constitutional Process Suspended As Trump Stokes Capitol Insurrection Screenshot from @YourAnonCentral on Twitter
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President Donald Trump continued to attack the process of certifying Joe Biden s 2020 electoral win on Wednesday, even as mobs of his supporters violently thronged the U.S. Capitol and shut down Congress s official counting of the votes.
After Trump had held a nearby rally, the aggressive protesters began clashing with Capitol Police outside of the building where lawmakers met. They pushed through barricades, attacked law enforcement, and eventually breached the building, forcing lawmakers to suspend their proceedings. Nearby buildings were evacuated by officials.