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McSally vs. Sinema vs. Election Officials: Saturday Edition
Another batch of votes came in for the Arizona US Senate race, and Kyrsten Sinema has again extended her lead over Martha McSally. Sinema now leads by 29,832 votes, or 1.41%. At the end of Thursday’s count, she led by about 20,000 votes, or 1.01%.
Based on where and when tomorrow’s votes were cast, McSally’s numbers should improve (at least according to her camp). However, she’s running out of room to maneuver. As it stands, McSally must win 55% of the remaining ~264,000 ballots to win.
With hundreds of thousands of votes yet to be counted, we’ll need to wait a few days to determine the winner. And then, the recount. And the legal battles.
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Vote-by-mail essentially is fraud just like motor voter and several other Leftist voting schemes just to make the voter rolls inexact, confusing, and fraudulent. A person should have an excuse to be gone on election day. Why do you think that the Democrat states of Washington, Colorado, and Oregon require vote-by-mail? Washington and Oregon last elected new Republican governors when Jimmy Carter was president! Colorado is just as crazy too now. Maybe these three states require it as the ballots are printed on hemp or something.
I don’t mind early voting as much as long as they don’t push the early voting period past the two week or one month mark. At least you know or have a high level of confidence that the actual person (or his identical twin) voted with early voting.
And who is that?
Oh my goodness! How long would it be until there were leaks as to how many votes Candidate X had over Candidate Y?
I would not object to the hiring of substantially more people to do the laborious cross-checks. Or to limit mail-in ballots without a doctor’s note.
Trump is clearly a racialist, and, at best is incredibly insensitive. Please see the Central Park 5, Birtherism, Rapists from Mexico, a Mexican Judge, not denouncing David Duke before the southern primaries, and Charlottsvile. Once, an innocent mistake. Twice, suspicious. But 6 times? No. Trump is a racialist which I thought that we had driven out many years ago.
I am fine with greatly limiting “Vote by mail.” My only point is that there is not a scintilla of evidence of fraud in Arizona.
The Mexican judge is the only one of those that bothers me, but I have to admit I forget the David Duke thing.
And Coulter is pretty persuasive about the Central Park 5, but I’m not going to get into a big argument about it.
Trump has never had to speak off-the-cuff under “civic pressure” or whatever you want to call it as a political executive. This is one of the reasons I was against him. He’s doing okay.
They’re going to keep shoving identity politics, critical theory, and cultural Marxism down our throats if someone doesn’t do something. That is just a fact.
Socialism for the win!
If you check out a guy on Twitter, called “Rational Walk” right now, he has a great explanation of what a scam the ACA is. It’s clearly designed to force single-payer. It’s over.
Again, how did AZ descend to a place where one as outside the mainstream as Sinema has been could be victorious?
The funny thing about the Mexican judge comments was I knew why Trump was wrong but didn’t understand why Progressives thought it was a bad thing to say. In identity politics everything, including the personal, is political and your gender, race, ethnicity should determine how you make political decisions. If Progressives are right about that, Trump was right to be concerned about how a Hispanic judge would rule in a case involving him. Trump’s worst moments are when he is closest to Progressive thinking about group categories. It’s also why white nationalists and social justice warriors are cut from the same cloth; they just differ on who should be on top.
In part, because once elected to Congress she moderated her positions (at least as much as a Democrat can ever moderate) and ran a very centrist-sounding Senate campaign focused on health care (specifically pre-existing conditions) and with little to none of outright partisan attacks. In contrast the Democrats gubernatorial candidate ran on a full throated progressive platform including raising taxes and single payer health care and he lost in a landslide.
Plus, we’re all on meth.
Gary Robbins embraces Rick Wilson (“ETTD”), who tweets out erotic fan fiction about Ivanka Trump.
I hope there’s a price to be paid.
C’mon, Gary, make up your mind. First you regret your vote for McSally, then you regret your regret, and now you’re back to slandering her again. Your views seem to change from hour to hour.
I give this 1 million “likes”.
David Horowitz and Angelo Codevilla are right about everything.
Gumby Mark,
Thanks for the learned reply, and I can grasp that Sinema had a record of moderation to recruit, but given how much exposure given to her past actions and positions held about foreign policy and the military, I’d expect even the meth lab bloc to rally to the former A-10 pilot.
“Mexican” is a nationality, not a race. I think you have an appreciation for accurate language, so go for accurate. As for the anachronistic “racialist”, is it really clear?
Sons of Martha.
I get what you mean. I can provide what a possible explanation, but still don’t understand how this could happen.
McSally has also been criticized here on Ricochet by some of my fellow local methheads for not fully embracing Trump.
That goes without saying.
They use it Europe, I think, but it’s not a great word for here.
It takes a hell of a lot of government to “manage” illegal immigrants. They clearly suck the life out of some areas. I rarely have a problem with how Trump talks about this stuff.
Tom Cotton has a great tweet this morning about illegal immigration. It’s pretty interesting to see the reactions from the anti-Trump republicans.
Michele Malkin 5 minutes.
Why tolerate this crap?
Anti-Trump GOPs are attacking Tom Cotton for this
We do not seat the new Congress until January. We used to have elections take days or weeks because of poor lines of communication. We then got spoiled with apparently instant results. So long as there is an orderly, regulated process, all is well.
It is important to NOT tally before the election is complete, because otherwise you have information that can be used to influence the next wave of votes inside the same election. People might give up, or might switch from their sincere support for a third party candidate to one who is their second choice, but can win with a few extra votes.
However, there is the whole other matter of the potential for fraud with people filling in groups of ballots and getting them signed by eligible voters, who are not fully aware — the old folks’ homes.
Sinema has voted as a moderate in Congress, after her radical days in her youth. Also, McSally openly embraced Trump who is toxic in the suburbs, which has the bulk of Arizona voters.
I regretted my vote for McSally for less than 24 hours. I am not slandering McSally, but am pointing out that she openly embraced Trump.
Well, if you have reputable, law-abiding vote-counting officials who don’t release vote totals until the polls close, you won’t have to worry about that, will you?
They will not do so publicly, but rumors will swirl.
Well, apparently the candidates who distanced themselves from Trump got wiped out. Apparently, these suburban folks are now democrats like you. People who have a monomaniacal obsessive hatred of Trump and have decided to write off all republicans until we get back to losing politely, like Jeff Flake and John McCain.
Combine how Gary thinks and his analysis with what Bill Cunningham said last night
There is no way in hell the GOP has been conservative in aggregate since Bush 41 or whatever. Conservatism doesn’t work. The system has changed too much.
Trump doest new things really well, like fight the media, and letting people feel okay about recognizing cultural Marxism for what it is. But the fact is, everyone wants socialism or crony capitalism in the final analysis.
We are a banana republic. The left keeps the ground it takes. Lois Lerner is not in jail.
Listen to the Cunningham monologue. Everyone wants socialism, and corruption is impossible to fight.
You are just plain stupid if you don’t try to steal as much as you can via government.
Look at how Joe Scarborough has changed. He did it because of the money. All of the media is like that. They make money by being pro-statist. The End.
How do you turn this ship around?
We are doomed.