Fernand Armandi on AM Joy: trust the polls - Biden is winning; don't trust election integrity

[stopbush]

He made a very good point. Ds should be very optimistic about the polls showing Biden with a huge lead, including Florida. He isn’t at all afraid that the polls are wrong or overly optimistic.

He does, however, have grave doubts about the integrity of our elections. He believes our energies need to be focussed here, because tRump and the Russians are already at work trying to steal the election.

[Gothmog]

1. Biden and the Democratic Party are gearing up to fight this

I have been involved with Lawyers for Biden since the formation of this group. We are gearing up. In Texas we are working with the Texas Democratic Party voter protection effort which will be active during the Texas primary run off. We had a training session last week

Link to tweet

Joe Biden's campaign is assembling hundreds of lawyers nationwide to monitor potential voting issues as part of its extensive voter protection efforts heading into the general election.

Speaking at a virtual fundraiser Wednesday, the presumptive Democratic nominee said his team has organized 600 lawyers and others across the country to "try to figure out why the chicanery is likely to take place." He also said they have recruited 10,000 people as volunteers.

The efforts come as Biden repeatedly has warned President Donald Trump may work to disrupt the election, and he's accused the President and Republicans of pursuing a "systemic program on vote suppression." The campaign is also bracing for how the coronavirus pandemic could impact voting in the fall, from in-person voting to mail-in ballots.

"We're continuing to fight any effort to exploit the pandemic for political purposes, support the countless state and local officials working like hell to make voting safe and accessible for citizens, especially the most vulnerable, or call out local rules that don't adequately ensure access to vote," Biden said at the fundraiser.

The campaign is working on its voter protection efforts in coordination with the Democratic National Committee, which started bulking up its voter protection infrastructure last year ahead of the primaries. Democratic officials believe early investments in the program will pay off heading into this fall's general election campaign.

[OrlandoDem2]

2. I feel like the Fl Dems told us that Gillum would beat Desantis.

[Iliyah]

3. To be honest, Gillum did . . .

but it was close, and that is how republicans in a run republican state can steal it. Same with the senate in FL. That is why Dems must come out to the polls and or mail in their ballots, although t-rump's lackey is the head of the Post office now which give me pause.

[OrlandoDem2]

4. Yes!! We must GOTV. But the FL Dems have only won 2 major statewide elections since 2004.

Nelson for Senate in 2006 and 2012.

Obama in 2008 and 2012.

That’s pathetic! I’m going to hold my party accountable whenever possible. We have been the minority party in both chambers of the legislature since 1998.

[HotTeaBag]

5. Out of curiosity, how did Gillum win and DeSantis steal it?

I'm just wondering what sort of information you have that tells you this is the case.

Gillum was a far, far more qualified candidate (and better human being), and should have won, but it's Florida so electing a Democratic Governor was a stretch from the outset.

Florida used to elect Democratic Governors pretty solidly for over 100 years (but a lot of those years were in the 'democratic' South so it was kind of like having a Republican) until 2000 when things...changed.

[Squinch]

6. These are my feelings exactly.