And thats what they did. I dont know what Panetta would say. Antonin Scalia. The non-profit ministry offers a beautiful home-cooked meal Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. And I think youll see more and more Republicans like me that will say we need to quit driving the mistrust in our elections., A Stop The Steal sign hangs inside of the U.S. Capitol Building after the Jan. 6 insurrection. He sat in what again and officially was his congressional office and leaned back in a big leather chair. Brian Kemp. Legal Statement. But at the same time, Fox also has to keep its programming palatable to enough Americans to justify the advertising and affiliate fees that make it the key driver in an enterprise worth some $20 billion. Partisan representatives should be concerned with achieving one of three goals: a) preserving a margin of victory, b) identifying election night mistakes which will turn a narrow loss into a win, or c) creating doubt as to the outcome sufficient to require a new election. And while it was Democrats who penned the Primer, it was arguably Republicans in 2000 who paid just as much or even more heed to the lessons gleaned from Indiana 8. Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare for POLITICO; Photos by AP, Getty Images, iStock. They wanted to weep. It was pretty clear they were gonna count, Halloran said, until their guy won., Republican members wore buttons that said "Thou Shalt Not Steal" after McCloskey had finally been declared the victor in April, shown above in the bottom left among a collection of buttons from the 1984 and 1986 Indiana 8 campaigns. Indiana's 8th District ran from the largely liberal university town of Bloomington shown above circa 1987 to the north to the union-heavy, medium-sized industrial city of Evansville in the south with more reliably conservative terrain of small towns and silos in between. Although he's right that most polls show a majority of GOP voters agree the election was stolen, fewer than a third of independents agree and only a sliver of Democrats do. The district had a reputation inside Indiana long before 1984. Roger Stone claims he helped organize the so-called Brooks Brothers Riot in which staffers for multiple Republican lawmakers went to Florida and, along with local GOP activists, demanded that the State Supreme Court-ordered recount be stopped. Starting in March, lurching into April, the auditors fanned out across the district. Then the recount confirmed it. The committee played video from an interview with . ", "We had an election that was stolen from us," Trump said from the White House. If we dont solve the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020, Republicans will not be voting in 22 or 24, Trump said in an emailed statement Wednesday. This development drew from some of the Republicans in the room a murmur of boos and discontent. Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-Ind.) Some thoughtful men felt that perhaps the greatest peril that the Republic had encountered was not that of the Civil War but that within a hundred days, people would be cutting each others throats., Of Senator Banning of Ohio, My colleague, Monroe wrote, declared in a speech, that, if the Republicans should attempt to carry out their theory of the election, and if a part of the army with eighty rounds of ammunition, and the navy, should be ordered to support them, then the people would put them all down.. Lead Stories reached out to Central City News for comment and we will update this story when we receive their reply. Apr 20, 2021, 04:48 PM EDT. The overall total in. speaks at the Republican election night party at The Foundry in Evansville, Ind. They had not been counted. Recently, Gableman has tried to downplay his past comments. Fox News has been a cesspool of electoral disinformation, which explains why so many of its viewers believe total fabrications about voter fraud and election integrity. ", The president's tweet comes shortly after he posted a video message to Twitter, addressing supporters, saying: "I know your pain, I know your hurt. A psychological line, said Sandstrom. Why are egg prices still so hard to crack? By Mack Green . There was not one House Republican who didnt feel that this was stolen, Dave Hoppe, who was Kemps chief of staff, told me. Trumps involvement could change that, said Trey Grayson, a Republican and former secretary of state in Kentucky. Trump won 57 percent of the vote in the state in 2016, and again in 2020, and the political shifts in the 8th district are representative of a big reason why. That judge? Newt went from, he explained, being kind of the bomb-throwing back bencher who was going to remain on the fringe of Republican politics and his ideas kept moving him steadily toward the majoritarian position in the House Republican conference. Fox would spend four years riling up viewers, have at least succeeded in worrying Fox employees, unhinged conspiracy theories like QAnon thrive unchecked. The grisly discovery was made in the town of . No, that's not true: the headline "New York Times Election Report Reveals 104,984 Stolen Votes in Ga, 347,768 in PA" appeared in the Central City News, a small Louisiana newspaper, on November 19, 2020 (archived here) and it was based on faulty analysis of data containing rounded percentages that was used on the website of the New York Times to create graphical representations and which did not contain exact vote counts. Quiet hiring and the endless quest to coin terms about work. If you play by the rules, the Democrats change the rules so they win. The southern-Illinois-born son of a nurse and a coal miner, a former U.S. Navy reservist and a heart, lung and chest surgeon before running for Congress, Bucshon has won easily ever since he got elected in the first Obama and tea party midterms of 2010. Carrie Kahn is NPR's International Correspondent based in Mexico City, Mexico. Republicans felt like they had seen this before. On his website I couldnt even find the word Democrat. Under the 12th Amendment, as John Eastman pointed out in his 2020 memo to Trump (and echoed by Jenna Ellis and Mark Meadows), that throws the election to the House of Representatives, where each state has one single vote, that vote being decided by each states legislature back home. Or that for 187 harrowing minutes, President Trump watched the mayhem at the Citadel of Democracy before finally telling the rioters to go home, and then immediately adding We love you. That little bit of info was slipped into the seventeenth paragraph of the Times story so that it would attract as little attention as possible because the 9/11 attacks had happened just weeks earlier and journalists feared that burdening Americans with the plain truth that George W. Bush actually lost the election would further hurt a nation already in crisis. Frank McCloskey and the Democrats in Washington, the ads read, are doing more than just insulting the people of Indiana they are trying to steal an election.. We dont want anyone hurt. The rub now was the remaining 32. If youve been serving a steady diet of red meat, your customers wont suddenly accept chicken or tofu. He was captured on the store's security cameras exiting the store after making the purchase. Her email is mschenk@news-gazette.com, and you can follow her on Twitter (@schenk). A little over two years later, fanned repeatedly by Donald Trump throughout 2020, the myth of a stolen American election has shifted from a fringe idea to one being embraced by the Republican . | In commissioning its own recount handled by more than a dozen independent auditors from the General Accounting Office and overseen by House-hired supervisor James Shumway, Arizonas director of elections and a Democrat the task force established a broad, guiding principle for counting that was uncommonly permissive: Ballots that were not counted through no fault of the voters themselves were to be counted. 203 Eureka Street; Central City. Blowing up his scheme, the Supreme Court refused to intervene this time and the election went to Biden. The people have a right to be angry isnt the only line of rhetorical defense Fox has employed in the hours after the violence. And although he has not yet endorsed a candidate in Georgia, he has vowed to unseat Republican Gov. Republican members wore buttons that said THOU SHALT NOT STEAL. They stood on the steps of the Capitol and sang We Shall Overcome., This is legislative apartheid, said Rep. Michael Strang, of Colorado. 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Steve Bannon, the former Trump adviser who hosts a podcast with a large right-wing audience, has described a candidates position on the 2020 election results as a litmus test for 2022. Nearly 500 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanor offenses, and over 350 of them have been sentenced. In Arizonas race for secretary of state, Trump has endorsed Mark Finchem, a state legislator who promoted a partisan review of Maricopa Countys election results that reaffirmed Bidens victory. Democracy, Decency, and Camus. Did a Democrat leak the Biden filegate scandal to the press? Fann has claimed she doesn't believe the election was stolen yet she hired Logan, a guy who has promoted conspiracy theories, to examine Arizona's ballots. By law, none of them should have been counted a point upon which everyone agreed. Anyone who has spent any time around elections knows theres no such thing as just counting. They didnt have the votes but that didnt mean they couldnt wreak havoc. The notorious swing district of the 70s and 80s is long gone. After eight lawsuits in which judges found not one shred of evidence that Arizona's election was stolen, these Republicans now claim - surprise! The Democrats say the answers to both questions are yes.. Twitter, asked by this news organization Monday about Geller's tweet claiming the election was stolen, said it would look into the matter. or redistributed. They created a feeling among their party that the system is corrupt., Gingrich, Sautter agreed, played a role that Donald Trump would reprise that of chief political demagogue. In this case, one extra vote for A in the real vote count makes it appear B lost around 4000 votes in the calculated number (while A only gains a fraction of a vote). For information about our privacy practices, please visit our website. Market data provided by Factset. And yet for the GOP Indiana 8 somehow eclipsed those indignities. "This claim of election fraud is disputed, and this Tweet cant be replied to, Retweeted, or liked due to a risk of violence," Twitters flag stated. They note, Roger Stone claims he helped organize the so-called Brooks Brothers Riot, Scalias son worked for a law firm that was defending George W. Bush, Justice Clarence Thomass wife worked on the Bush transition team. Trump claimed that the election was "stolen" in part by a voting equipment and software company, Dominion Voting Systems, he suggested is biased against him and also has "bum equipment." Facts. They ought not to be counted., Clay, the other Democrat, concurred. Although Biden got around 7 million more votes than Trump and overwhelmingly won the popular (and Electoral College) votes, Trumps raw-numbers electoral popularity actually went up at the end of the 4 years of his presidency. Trump, say the Republicans in Congress and on the Court, is to be sworn in as president a few weeks after the votes are certified on January 6th, 2024. They note: Did Governor Jeb Bush, his Secretary of State Katherine Harris, and her Director of Elections, Clayton Roberts, know they had wrongly barred 22,000 Black, Democrat voters before the elections? The meal always includes meat or seafood with two sides, homemade [], As I leave office after 30 years of public service dating back to 1992, there are many people I am proud to call friends in our city and in other governmental agencies. The Republican said yes. This place cannot operate without trusting another members word, Panetta told the New York Times. Thom Hartmann: Democrats tend to forget that Donald Trump received about 10 million more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016. Republicans on Capitol Hill aren't outright saying the 2020 election was stolen. There is no better case to demonstrate how and how not to conduct a recount, according to The Recount Primer, a seminal 1994 self-published book by a trio of recount-specialist attorneys two of whom worked on behalf of McCloskey and all of whom worked for Al Gore in Florida. Slectionnez Grer les paramtres pour grer vos prfrences. I feel personally violated. (Thomas declined to comment.). I understand, of course, the temptations on the part of members on the other side who feel keenly about this closely contested election, to speak of this resolution as an exercise by a ruthless majority of raw power, Jim Wright said. While in theory this might have sounded fair, in practice it was, of course, a different sort of subjective and opened the task force to searing criticism as it began to implement the new standard. BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) The office of Brazil's prosecutor-general has presented its first charges against some of the thousands of people who authorities say stormed government buildings in an . Theres absolutely nothing to be gained by cooperating with the Democrats at this point., In the interest of comity and good relations, it would have been far better, obviously, if McIntyre had won, Panetta said during the last House Administration Committee meeting about Indiana 8. Want to read more stories like this? On Jan. 3, 1985, House Speaker Tip ONeill (left) started to swear in the members old and new, and House Majority Leader Jim Wright (right) spoke up to stop him. Democrats threw your votes out the window, and in a naked display of power politics, they simply handed your district to their own man. Guess what happens when you tell people, over and over, that theyre being robbed? Senator. It is the single most important thing for Republicans to do.. And I don't care how it impacts me politically.. The president slammed Pence, saying he "didnt have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify.". Stay peaceful!" We got to this sad chaotic day for a reason. If you didn't make it to Saturday's. Election was stolen Dec 20, 2020 Click here to sign up to receive each day's headlines via email For the past seven or eight years, I have been a voice for conservatives, in particular. The data we found did not contain "totals for Trump and Biden, Trump's lead, and then new votes for Trump and Biden". Simcox, 77 and retired in the suburbs of Indianapolis, said McIntyre would have been the more obvious winner on Election Day but for the error in Gibson County the county with the double-counted precinct. 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