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Post by r34t on Nov 19, 2024 9:57:27 GMT
And you think that I - who was Lancaster based for a while - didn't know all this? I was using shorthand, not least because this was all a digression from the thread topic  He was educating the entire Forum. It’s not all about you. How lucky we are ….. |
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Post by sanders on Nov 19, 2024 19:51:45 GMT
Rick Scott backs Lara Trump for Senate to fill Rubio’s seat
“We need more Republicans in Washington who actually represent the Republican Party back home and will be steadfast in their commitment to fulfill the mandate from this election – to Make America Great Again.”
Not at all surprising. Lara Trump was considering running for Senate in North Carolina in 2022.
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Post by CatholicLeft on Nov 19, 2024 20:37:04 GMT
Rick Scott backs Lara Trump for Senate to fill Rubio’s seat “We need more Republicans in Washington who actually represent the Republican Party back home and will be steadfast in their commitment to fulfill the mandate from this election – to Make America Great Again.” Not at all surprising. Lara Trump was considering running for Senate in North Carolina in 2022. So, she was considering running in South Carolina, lets appoint her in Florida instead? Am I missing something here? |
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Post by sanders on Nov 19, 2024 20:41:27 GMT
Rick Scott backs Lara Trump for Senate to fill Rubio’s seat “We need more Republicans in Washington who actually represent the Republican Party back home and will be steadfast in their commitment to fulfill the mandate from this election – to Make America Great Again.” Not at all surprising. Lara Trump was considering running for Senate in North Carolina in 2022. So, she was considering running in South Carolina, let’s appoint her in Florida instead? Am I missing something here? There was talk of her running in 2022 around 2020. I don’t know how serious that was. Are we going to get the Trump dynasty like the Kennedys, Clintons, Beshears or Bushes? |
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Post by timmullen on Nov 19, 2024 20:59:30 GMT
So, she was considering running in South Carolina, let’s appoint her in Florida instead? Am I missing something here? There was talk of her running in 2022 around 2020. I don’t know how serious that was. Are we going to get the Trump dynasty like the Kennedys, Clintons, Beshears or Bushes? There’s also talk that Donald is looking at ways of scrapping the minimum age requirement for President to allow Barron to succeed him. Yes the one that graduated high school this year. |
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Post by doktorb🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Nov 19, 2024 21:08:04 GMT
The US: the President chooses which judges will allow him to commit crimes, and the Vice President who will pardon him for any wrongdoing if required. What a country.
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Post by timmullen on Nov 19, 2024 21:16:28 GMT
The US: the President chooses which judges will allow him to commit crimes, and the Vice President who will pardon him for any wrongdoing if required. What a country. A tad simplistic; Trump didn’t fare well with judges, neither did Nixon, and I doubt Pence would have been as conducive to a pardon as Ford was. |
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Post by riccimarsh on Nov 19, 2024 21:37:40 GMT
The US: the President chooses which judges will allow him to commit crimes, and the Vice President who will pardon him for any wrongdoing if required. What a country. A tad simplistic; Trump didn’t fare well with judges, neither did Nixon, and I doubt Pence would have been as conducive to a pardon as Ford was. Justices have literally given him immunity, and Judges have thrown out his classified documents case and are now about to call off sentencing for the hush money case, so he hasn’t done too badly with them. And even when he got fined $$$ for his defamation and business misconduct cases in NYC, has he actually paid a single cent yet?? |
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Post by riccimarsh on Nov 19, 2024 21:38:31 GMT
Rick Scott backs Lara Trump for Senate to fill Rubio’s seat “We need more Republicans in Washington who actually represent the Republican Party back home and will be steadfast in their commitment to fulfill the mandate from this election – to Make America Great Again.” Not at all surprising. Lara Trump was considering running for Senate in North Carolina in 2022. So, she was considering running in South Carolina, lets appoint her in Florida instead? Am I missing something here? The thing that you are missing is that normal rules and customs don’t apply to anyone with the surname Trump. |
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Post by timmullen on Nov 19, 2024 22:06:16 GMT
A tad simplistic; Trump didn’t fare well with judges, neither did Nixon, and I doubt Pence would have been as conducive to a pardon as Ford was. Justices have literally given him immunity, and Judges have thrown out his classified documents case and are now about to call off sentencing for the hush money case, so he hasn’t done too badly with them. And even when he got fined $$$ for his defamation and business misconduct cases in NYC, has he actually paid a single cent yet?? I don’t think they have thrown out the classified documents case; yes the Mickey Mouse District Judge in Florida has effectively tried to do so but she’s been overturned on three previous occasions in this case by a unanimous Circuit Court that has a majority of Republican appointees; I suspect the prosecution will be refining their appeal along the lines of Jack Smith today to keep the charges in place but comply with the SCOTUS ruling around immunity, and ultimately both cases are likely to end up being put on life support or killed by SCOTUS. No I don’t think he’s paid much of the NYC case fine simply because he’s exercising his right, and whatever our personal opinions we can’t really criticise this, to appeal both the verdict and the judgment. Presumably that still proceeds as SCOTUS were very clear that their immunity ruling applied only to Federal cases. |
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Post by eastmidlandsright on Nov 19, 2024 22:15:46 GMT
There was talk of her running in 2022 around 2020. I don’t know how serious that was. Are we going to get the Trump dynasty like the Kennedys, Clintons, Beshears or Bushes? There’s also talk that Donald is looking at ways of scrapping the minimum age requirement for President to allow Barron to succeed him. Yes the one that graduated high school this year. The silliest of silly talk. It would require a constitutional amendment which is not going to happen and SCOTUS is never going to re-interpret such a crystal clear provision. |
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Post by timmullen on Nov 19, 2024 22:22:16 GMT
There’s also talk that Donald is looking at ways of scrapping the minimum age requirement for President to allow Barron to succeed him. Yes the one that graduated high school this year. The silliest of silly talk. It would require a constitutional amendment which is not going to happen and SCOTUS is never going to re-interpret such a crystal clear provision. Agreed, exactly why I think the talk about repealing the 25th(?) Amendment allowing Trump to run again is a non starter. However it might be worth watching to see if he does venture into lower level political involvement in the next decade. |
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Post by stb12 on Nov 20, 2024 0:36:27 GMT
Chuck Schumer is trying to use the lame duck session to fill as many vacant judicial places as possible. There’s unhappiness within the Senate GOP at a few absences for these votes, including Vance and Rubio, although Vance seems to have shown up later in the day. The opportunity seems to have been missed to force the Democrats to rely on Harris being around to use her casting vote or even possibly defeating some (on one nominee Manchin voted against and Fetterman was absent) thehill.com/homenews/senate/4998960-senate-republicans-frustrated-judicial-nominees-vance/amp/ |
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Post by timmullen on Nov 20, 2024 3:25:00 GMT
Chuck Schumer is trying to use the lame duck session to fill as many vacant judicial places as possible. There’s unhappiness within the Senate GOP at a few absences for these votes, including Vance and Rubio, although Vance seems to have shown up later in the day. The opportunity seems to have been missed to force the Democrats to rely on Harris being around to use her casting vote or even possibly defeating some (on one nominee Manchin voted against and Fetterman was absent) thehill.com/homenews/senate/4998960-senate-republicans-frustrated-judicial-nominees-vance/amp/Vance tootled off again in the afternoon, they confirmed a nominee to the District Court of Connecticut 50-44, with Manchin a no and six Republicans, including Vance, missing. |
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Post by dizz on Nov 20, 2024 10:23:12 GMT
US House update. Dems now lead by 314 votes in CA 45 and the lead of the Rs is down to 227 votes in CA 13. On CA 45 every day has that swinging more to the Dems whilst with CA 13 it has been more lumpy but the move was approximately 2k yesterday and NYT suggests there are more votes to count in the bluer areas. I'd still give those seats to the Dems. Otherwise, the R lead in Alaska is down to 7,568 and 2.4% but it looks like a Dem long-shot. Overall therefore still looking like 220:215 - so an improvement of +2 for the Dems since the 2022 results. PS - I set one of my pages to the phone to CNN so that if I wake up in the middle of the night I can check for California updates - tragic I know. |
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Post by iain on Nov 20, 2024 11:37:28 GMT
US House update. Dems now lead by 314 votes in CA 45 and the lead of the Rs is down to 227 votes in CA 13. On CA 45 every day has that swinging more to the Dems whilst with CA 13 it has been more lumpy but the move was approximately 2k yesterday and NYT suggests there are more votes to count in the bluer areas. I'd still give those seats to the Dems. Otherwise, the R lead in Alaska is down to 7,568 and 2.4% but it looks like a Dem long-shot. Overall therefore still looking like 220:215 - so an improvement of +2 for the Dems since the 2022 results. PS - I set one of my pages to the phone to CNN so that if I wake up in the middle of the night I can check for California updates - tragic I know. Most of the votes left in both CA districts are now on the day provisionals, which traditionally favour Republicans, though the Ds won a batch of them in CA-45 today. I think you’d rather be the Dems there. However, whilst you’d probably narrowly rather be the Republican there at the moment, there is next to no point trying to forecast CA-13. The counting in the central valley is not at all transparent, and the district takes in portions of 5 counties, all of whom appear to be equally incompetent when it comes to counting. |
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Post by graham on Nov 20, 2024 18:26:30 GMT
Re- Pennsylvania Senate race. The Republican lead is now below 16,400 from total vote of almost 7 million. Perhaps that is stiil too much to be overturned by a recount.
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Post by uthacalthing on Nov 20, 2024 18:27:44 GMT
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Post by sanders on Nov 20, 2024 21:20:26 GMT
Re- Pennsylvania Senate race. The Republican lead is now below 16,400 from total vote of almost 7 million. Perhaps that is stiil too much to be overturned by a recount. How many votes left now? Are there still first round votes? When will the recount start? Why didn’t Casey concede the race? He must genuinely think it’s winnable? |
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Post by timmullen on Nov 20, 2024 23:56:36 GMT
For those keeping tally of the House, Ohio’s CD9 has been called for the Democrats (which I think is where Richard Allen began this thread eons ago) with Marcy Kaptur currently defeating her Republican challenger by 2382 votes.
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