Tony D'Amato
It's all about the inches
Ppl talk about the black vote, every election cycle more mexicans, dominicans and ricans are getting their white cuban on more and more
2024 United States Presidential Election Megathread
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1/11
@Andie00471
The Washington Post: We are the worst newspaper in the Country!
The Washington Times: Hold our beer!
2/11
@MiaMichaels77
“Star studded,” what stars? Hulk Hogan? A racist comedian no one ever heard of before.
3/11
@Andie00471
The guy who couldn't tear his t shirt lol!
4/11
@Sean05Evans
Some chucklephuck drops one of those trash rags on my driveway every moring in the wee hours. Has been doing it for a year. Cannot get them to stop so I put a bin out at the curb with a sign to drop the Times in here. Seems to work and the truck gets it on Mondays.
5/11
@Andie00471
That's crazy!
6/11
@MTPenna
The Moonie paper?
7/11
@Andie00471
That’s the one!
8/11
@AaronJFritsch
Who the fukk still buys physical news papers?
9/11
@Andie00471
Apparently a lot of people bc i think that was the last one!
10/11
@SafeH2o4Schools
Shame on them.
11/11
@susteacher
Well, it is The Washinton Times.
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@Andie00471
The Washington Post: We are the worst newspaper in the Country!
The Washington Times: Hold our beer!
2/11
@MiaMichaels77
“Star studded,” what stars? Hulk Hogan? A racist comedian no one ever heard of before.
3/11
@Andie00471
The guy who couldn't tear his t shirt lol!
4/11
@Sean05Evans
Some chucklephuck drops one of those trash rags on my driveway every moring in the wee hours. Has been doing it for a year. Cannot get them to stop so I put a bin out at the curb with a sign to drop the Times in here. Seems to work and the truck gets it on Mondays.
5/11
@Andie00471
That's crazy!
6/11
@MTPenna
The Moonie paper?
7/11
@Andie00471
That’s the one!
8/11
@AaronJFritsch
Who the fukk still buys physical news papers?
9/11
@Andie00471
Apparently a lot of people bc i think that was the last one!
10/11
@SafeH2o4Schools
Shame on them.
11/11
@susteacher
Well, it is The Washinton Times.
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Trump Sets Off Election Plot Alarm by Boasting About ‘Little Secret’ With House Speaker
Trump Sets Off Election Plot Alarm by Boasting About ‘Little Secret’ With House Speaker
Donald Trump claims that he and House Speaker Mike Johnson are hiding a “little secret” that is going to have a “big impact” in the election. The former president told supporters at his MAGA rally at Madison Square Garden: “I think with our little secret we are gonna do really well with the...
Donald Trump claims that he and House Speaker Mike Johnson are hiding a “little secret” that is going to have a “big impact” in the election.
The former president told supporters at his MAGA rally at Madison Square Garden: “I think with our little secret we are gonna do really well with the House.”
Trump said he will only reveal the secret “when the race is over” but his cloak-and-dagger act had Washington guessing over what the GOP presidential nominee and the Republican House Speaker are cooking up between them.
D.C.’s home of morning gossip—the Politico Playbook email—speculated that it might have been a nod to stitching up the election via an antiquated procedure in Congress: “he made some potentially more sinister comments that could be a reference to the House settling a contested election”
In this scenario, Trump and Johnson could be laying the ground for a possible contingent election should the presidential race end up too close to call. That would allow Trump to lose the electoral vote and the popular vote and still legally end up back in the White House.
If neither candidate reaches the 270 votes required to take the Electoral College, the outcome could be decided on Capitol Hill. In a contingent election, each state delegation in the House of Representatives gets a single vote for president and each state delegation in the Senate gets a vote for vice president, irrespective of the size of the states. For example, California with its 52 House representatives gets the same say as Vermont, which has one.
As things stand, more states lean Republican than Democratic.
In her ‘Letters from an American’ newsletter published after Trump discussed his secret pact with Johnson in front of a packed Madison Square Garden, Boston College history professor Heather Cox Richardson, wrote: “It seems possible—probable, even—that Trump was alluding to putting in play the plan his people tried in 2020. That plan was to create enough chaos over the certification of electoral votes in the states to throw the election into the House of Representatives. There, each state delegation gets a single vote, so if the Republicans have control of more states than the Democrats, Trump could pull out a victory even if he had dramatically lost the popular vote.\\
“Since he has made virtually no effort to win votes in 2024, this seems his likely plan.
“But to do that, he needs at least a plausibly close election, or at least to convince his supporters that the election has been stolen from him,” she added.
Others saw Trump’s remark as a clue that he isn’t confident of winning the election fair and square–and that he might be plotting to “override” the Electoral College.
Speaker Johnson didn’t mention the secret in his speech at the MSG rally, but he seemed confident of the eventual outcome. “I am convinced that in nine days, we are going to grow the House majority, we’re going to take back the Senate and send Donald Trump back to the White House,” he said.
Jesus H. Christ
I died for your sins
Imagine getting offended over facts. Not talking points or political ideas. Facts!
Creh definitely went home and beat up his wife later that day.
Has Trump put out his plan for black men?
1/12
@AndrewLSeidel
I *think* this was to Mike Johnson and, if so, he's signaling that Republicans will try to do the thing that keeps me up at night: screw around with the Electoral College votes so that the House itself votes on the president instead. Each state gets one vote. Trump wins with 26.
[Quoted tweet]
Trump: I think with our little secret we are gonna do really well with the house, our little secret is having a big impact, he and I have a little secret, we will tell you what it is when the race is over
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1850691544472535040/vid/avc1/1280x720/kQPaJWs5PlqzhSJ4.mp4
2/12
@AndrewLSeidel
This is known as the Contingent Election of the President and was—although many people still don't fully realize it—part of the goal behind January 6th.
Was just texting with my buddies about this last week. Spoke about on a recent podcast, too.
3/12
@AndrewLSeidel
This scenario depends on a few things, but most especially on who controls the House. So if you're freaked out about this possibility, visit When We Fight, We Win
and volunteer to help elect Dems up and down the ballot.
You can help out a lot in 8 days.
4/12
@rbhubbell
You are ignoring the 12th Amendment and the Electoral Count Reform Act. Before you get to a contingent election, the NEW House is convened. Mike Johnson will not be Speaker. If some states refuse to certify, the threshold for a majority decreases. Read the ECRA
5/12
@DidesideroRenee
I don't think it's going to be as close as people are saying...she's going to win by alot.
6/12
@PCritty
How can they go through with this if the house goes D in November?
7/12
@_Chels0
Probably why he keeps saying that he already has the votes...
8/12
@KatieNiedz
Let's say Dems do take the House, what might they do to stop the changeover on the 3rd? Seems like that's the natural bottleneck - any legal/constitutional scholars know what that secret plan might be? Something SCOTUS-y?
9/12
@em_az
People presume that we are safe from this if the Democrats win the house. I’ve tried to explain, but you might want to elaborate for people that it’s not who controls the house. It’s just a state delegation count to 26. Two very different things.
So my next question is – if this is their plan, which it certainly looks like it is, which state or states do they have in the bag to not certify? Because before we give up, we have to do the new math because it’s no longer 270.
For example, let’s just say that it’s Georgia, 16 electoral votes. Now it takes 262 to win so if they screw around with Georgia, what does the new electoral map look like to get to 262? That’s the game we have to play.
But which states?
10/12
@vincentlgambino
You’re right these types of things are the plan and will be tried.
The new electoral count act makes it much harder to pull off though, doesn’t it?
11/12
@detroitwon
I thought fake electors was part of the plan of Jan 6… but now this? How is that even possible to ignore millions of votes AND the electoral college?
12/12
@mibbsg
Wouldn’t this require at least one swing state to successful NOT certify their election results? Something that Dems and election lawyers have been preparing to fight against for the last 4 years?
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@AndrewLSeidel
I *think* this was to Mike Johnson and, if so, he's signaling that Republicans will try to do the thing that keeps me up at night: screw around with the Electoral College votes so that the House itself votes on the president instead. Each state gets one vote. Trump wins with 26.
[Quoted tweet]
Trump: I think with our little secret we are gonna do really well with the house, our little secret is having a big impact, he and I have a little secret, we will tell you what it is when the race is over
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1850691544472535040/vid/avc1/1280x720/kQPaJWs5PlqzhSJ4.mp4
2/12
@AndrewLSeidel
This is known as the Contingent Election of the President and was—although many people still don't fully realize it—part of the goal behind January 6th.
Was just texting with my buddies about this last week. Spoke about on a recent podcast, too.
3/12
@AndrewLSeidel
This scenario depends on a few things, but most especially on who controls the House. So if you're freaked out about this possibility, visit When We Fight, We Win
and volunteer to help elect Dems up and down the ballot.
You can help out a lot in 8 days.
4/12
@rbhubbell
You are ignoring the 12th Amendment and the Electoral Count Reform Act. Before you get to a contingent election, the NEW House is convened. Mike Johnson will not be Speaker. If some states refuse to certify, the threshold for a majority decreases. Read the ECRA
5/12
@DidesideroRenee
I don't think it's going to be as close as people are saying...she's going to win by alot.
6/12
@PCritty
How can they go through with this if the house goes D in November?
7/12
@_Chels0
Probably why he keeps saying that he already has the votes...
8/12
@KatieNiedz
Let's say Dems do take the House, what might they do to stop the changeover on the 3rd? Seems like that's the natural bottleneck - any legal/constitutional scholars know what that secret plan might be? Something SCOTUS-y?
9/12
@em_az
People presume that we are safe from this if the Democrats win the house. I’ve tried to explain, but you might want to elaborate for people that it’s not who controls the house. It’s just a state delegation count to 26. Two very different things.
So my next question is – if this is their plan, which it certainly looks like it is, which state or states do they have in the bag to not certify? Because before we give up, we have to do the new math because it’s no longer 270.
For example, let’s just say that it’s Georgia, 16 electoral votes. Now it takes 262 to win so if they screw around with Georgia, what does the new electoral map look like to get to 262? That’s the game we have to play.
But which states?
10/12
@vincentlgambino
You’re right these types of things are the plan and will be tried.
The new electoral count act makes it much harder to pull off though, doesn’t it?
11/12
@detroitwon
I thought fake electors was part of the plan of Jan 6… but now this? How is that even possible to ignore millions of votes AND the electoral college?
12/12
@mibbsg
Wouldn’t this require at least one swing state to successful NOT certify their election results? Something that Dems and election lawyers have been preparing to fight against for the last 4 years?
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DoubleClutch
Superstar
Am I the only one who thinks this election is more about entertainment and content creation than actual politics or real life? 
ReasonableMatic
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Michelle Obama’s speech sounds good,
but Barack Obama has a great a hand in Women’s Rights even being at risk by Republicans right now.
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