Trump's election lies are an attempted coup. Biden and other Democrats should say so.

As part of the unprecedented attempt to keep Trump in office despite his election loss, Republicans have focused on Michigan, where the party is seeking a delay in the certification of the vote results and to throw out votes from Detroit, which is overwhelmingly Black.

A group of Michigan Republicans met with Trump at the White House last week in what was widely viewed as an attempt by Trump to personally pressure the lawmakers to block President-elect Biden from being awarded the state’s 16 electoral votes.

“This is an attempt to disenfranchise the African American vote and to give the election to Trump,” says Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit branch of the NAACP. “If we were in a different country, this would be called a coup, a political coup.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/11/23/michigan_election_results
 
Biden Transition Team said:
As part of the unprecedented attempt to keep Trump in office despite his election loss, Republicans have focused on Michigan, where the party is seeking a delay in the certification of the vote results and to throw out votes from Detroit, which is overwhelmingly Black.

A group of Michigan Republicans met with Trump at the White House last week in what was widely viewed as an attempt by Trump to personally pressure the lawmakers to block President-elect Biden from being awarded the state’s 16 electoral votes.

“This is an attempt to disenfranchise the African American vote and to give the election to Trump,” says Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the Detroit branch of the NAACP. “If we were in a different country, this would be called a coup, a political coup.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/11/23/michigan_election_results
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It’s all over except the bleeding out


The Republican Party has committed suicide
 
CFM said:
Why would anyone complain about a truthful statement, whore? Seems you and Horizontal Harris has something in common.
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And this stupid assed racist just keeps stabbing the Republican Party


It’s dead already


The blood just keeps pouring from the wounds by gravity
 
evince said:
And this stupid assed racist just keeps stabbing the Republican Party


It’s dead already


The blood just keeps pouring from the wounds by gravity
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Telling the truth is never deadly. Perhaps your problem is you can't accept the truth.
 
Biden Transition Team said:
Donald Trump is not trying to simply undermine President-elect Joe Biden's presidency, nor is he primarily trying to position himself for a 2024 presidential run, as many have suggested.

No, Trump's No. 1 goal is to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

It's time for President-elect Biden and other Democratic leaders to describe his actions in the most forceful and universally understandable language possible.

And that means, in this case, calling them part of an attempted coup to illegally overthrow the Biden presidency.

Experts warn that Trump's actions are a threat to our democracy.

Italy's Benito Mussolini and Nazi Germany's Hitler amassed power through bullying.

These types of leaders treat silence or muted responses as a sign of weakness, emboldening them to push further with their authoritarian goals.

Democrats have to ask themselves how they want history to view them: as those who fought ferociously against Trump's efforts to undermine our election or as those who unintentionally appeased him with their silence, allowing him to decimate our democracy.

Democrats cannot hope that simply ignoring Trump will persuade him to give up.

His brazen attempts to defraud the American public now include pressuring local GOP elected officials to join his plot.

Even assuming Trump does vacate the White House on Jan. 20, these types of attacks could have long-term consequences, especially without clear, forceful push-back.

Countless authoritarian regimes began as democracies.

Attempts to remain in power against the will of the people are not business as usual in America — they are more akin to something seen in banana republics.

A Reuters poll released Wednesday found that only 73 percent of Americans said Biden won the election, while 52 percent of Republicans say Trump "rightfully won."

This is incredibly disturbing, and probably unprecedented.

Team Biden must also repeatedly highlight Trump's lack of credible evidence of voter fraud.

Common sense tells us that if the assertions by Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani of a "national conspiracy" to rig the election were true, the Trump effort would have more to show for it.

It has been nearly three weeks since Election Day.

Instead, Trump's lawyers lashed out at reporters when pressed for details or data.

In fact, Giuliani essentially admitted Tuesday in federal court in Pennsylvania that there is no voter fraud, stating, "This is not a fraud case."

On Saturday night, a federal judge dismissed the Trump campaign's lawsuit in Pennsylvania, calling it a "strained legal argument without merit."

The same thing happened in Arizona, where Trump's lawyer conceded to the judge that Trump was not alleging voter fraud.

The actions of the Trump campaign in November could be considered part of a criminal conspiracy to deprive the voters of their rights.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opini...empted-coup-biden-other-democrats-ncna1248573
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Not going to happpen. The Democratic Party is controlled by centrists who have no appetite for fighting for anything. History will judge them as incredibly weak The only attempt to fight back comes from progressive .. of course as they’ve stood up for black voters and all voters in Detroit and all urban cities in court by defining the Trump tactic of trying to throw out millions of valid ballots that overwhelmingly went against Trump.

Shouldn’t dems be fighting FOR the people who support them?
 
Biden Transition Team said:
Donald Trump is not trying to simply undermine President-elect Joe Biden's presidency, nor is he primarily trying to position himself for a 2024 presidential run, as many have suggested.

No, Trump's No. 1 goal is to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

It's time for President-elect Biden and other Democratic leaders to describe his actions in the most forceful and universally understandable language possible.

And that means, in this case, calling them part of an attempted coup to illegally overthrow the Biden presidency.

Experts warn that Trump's actions are a threat to our democracy.

Italy's Benito Mussolini and Nazi Germany's Hitler amassed power through bullying.

These types of leaders treat silence or muted responses as a sign of weakness, emboldening them to push further with their authoritarian goals.

Democrats have to ask themselves how they want history to view them: as those who fought ferociously against Trump's efforts to undermine our election or as those who unintentionally appeased him with their silence, allowing him to decimate our democracy.

Democrats cannot hope that simply ignoring Trump will persuade him to give up.

His brazen attempts to defraud the American public now include pressuring local GOP elected officials to join his plot.

Even assuming Trump does vacate the White House on Jan. 20, these types of attacks could have long-term consequences, especially without clear, forceful push-back.

Countless authoritarian regimes began as democracies.

Attempts to remain in power against the will of the people are not business as usual in America — they are more akin to something seen in banana republics.

A Reuters poll released Wednesday found that only 73 percent of Americans said Biden won the election, while 52 percent of Republicans say Trump "rightfully won."

This is incredibly disturbing, and probably unprecedented.

Team Biden must also repeatedly highlight Trump's lack of credible evidence of voter fraud.

Common sense tells us that if the assertions by Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani of a "national conspiracy" to rig the election were true, the Trump effort would have more to show for it.

It has been nearly three weeks since Election Day.

Instead, Trump's lawyers lashed out at reporters when pressed for details or data.

In fact, Giuliani essentially admitted Tuesday in federal court in Pennsylvania that there is no voter fraud, stating, "This is not a fraud case."

On Saturday night, a federal judge dismissed the Trump campaign's lawsuit in Pennsylvania, calling it a "strained legal argument without merit."

The same thing happened in Arizona, where Trump's lawyer conceded to the judge that Trump was not alleging voter fraud.

The actions of the Trump campaign in November could be considered part of a criminal conspiracy to deprive the voters of their rights.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opini...empted-coup-biden-other-democrats-ncna1248573
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Mussolini also used the courts as Donald does. When you have unlimited money, you can bury your opposition in courts that will take up their lives and fortunes. Trump loses one, and out spits another one. It obviously is not about winning.
 
Biden Transition Team said:
Donald Trump is not trying to simply undermine President-elect Joe Biden's presidency, nor is he primarily trying to position himself for a 2024 presidential run, as many have suggested.

No, Trump's No. 1 goal is to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

It's time for President-elect Biden and other Democratic leaders to describe his actions in the most forceful and universally understandable language possible.

And that means, in this case, calling them part of an attempted coup to illegally overthrow the Biden presidency.

Experts warn that Trump's actions are a threat to our democracy.

Italy's Benito Mussolini and Nazi Germany's Hitler amassed power through bullying.

These types of leaders treat silence or muted responses as a sign of weakness, emboldening them to push further with their authoritarian goals.

Democrats have to ask themselves how they want history to view them: as those who fought ferociously against Trump's efforts to undermine our election or as those who unintentionally appeased him with their silence, allowing him to decimate our democracy.

Democrats cannot hope that simply ignoring Trump will persuade him to give up.

His brazen attempts to defraud the American public now include pressuring local GOP elected officials to join his plot.

Even assuming Trump does vacate the White House on Jan. 20, these types of attacks could have long-term consequences, especially without clear, forceful push-back.

Countless authoritarian regimes began as democracies.

Attempts to remain in power against the will of the people are not business as usual in America — they are more akin to something seen in banana republics.

A Reuters poll released Wednesday found that only 73 percent of Americans said Biden won the election, while 52 percent of Republicans say Trump "rightfully won."

This is incredibly disturbing, and probably unprecedented.

Team Biden must also repeatedly highlight Trump's lack of credible evidence of voter fraud.

Common sense tells us that if the assertions by Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani of a "national conspiracy" to rig the election were true, the Trump effort would have more to show for it.

It has been nearly three weeks since Election Day.

Instead, Trump's lawyers lashed out at reporters when pressed for details or data.

In fact, Giuliani essentially admitted Tuesday in federal court in Pennsylvania that there is no voter fraud, stating, "This is not a fraud case."

On Saturday night, a federal judge dismissed the Trump campaign's lawsuit in Pennsylvania, calling it a "strained legal argument without merit."

The same thing happened in Arizona, where Trump's lawyer conceded to the judge that Trump was not alleging voter fraud.

The actions of the Trump campaign in November could be considered part of a criminal conspiracy to deprive the voters of their rights.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opini...empted-coup-biden-other-democrats-ncna1248573
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Mussolini also used the courts as Donald does. When you have unlimited money, you can bury your opposition in courts that will take up their lives and fortunes. Trump loses one and out spits another one. It obviously is not about winning.
 
blackascoal said:
Not going to happpen. The Democratic Party is controlled by centrists who have no appetite for fighting for anything. History will judge them as incredibly weak The only attempt to fight back comes from progressive .. of course as they’ve stood up for black voters and all voters in Detroit and all urban cities in court by defining the Trump tactic of trying to throw out millions of valid ballots that overwhelmingly went against Trump.

Shouldn’t dems be fighting FOR the people who support them?
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We are fighting for a better, fairer, and brighter future for every American: rolling up our sleeves, empowering grassroots voters, and organizing everywhere to take our country back.

Democrats believe in bringing the American people together, not stoking division and distrust.

Trump has denigrated virtually every segment of American society—and in so doing, he has insulted the very idea of America itself. Healing the soul of America means facing up to the deepest inequities in our society, from structural racism to misogyny to discrimination against people with disabilities, and enacting ambitious measures to fix them.

Democrats are committed to ending discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, language, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or immigration status.

We will appoint U.S. Supreme Court justices and federal judges who look like America, are committed to the rule of law, will uphold individual civil rights and civil liberties as essential components of a free and democratic society, and will respect and enforce foundational precedents, including Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade.

Democrats are committed to restoring the full power of the Voting Rights Act and ensuring everyone can access the ballot box.

We will enforce and strengthen the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, and will end racial and religious profiling in law enforcement.


https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/healing-the-soul-of-america/
 
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