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Kid Berwyn

(14,642 posts)
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 03:13 PM Sep 2021

GOP Sends Out Fake Pence Email Calling 2020 Election 'Contested Takeover,' Then Apologizes

Source: Newsweek

The National Republican Senate Committee (NRSC) sent out a fundraising email calling the 2020 election a "contested takeover," which it signed with former Vice President Mike Pence's name—but he didn't approve the message.

Pence refused to cave to former President Donald Trump's pressure to not formally certify the official election results on January 6, the day the U.S. Capitol was assaulted. The former vice president went on to attend President Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20. In June, Pence said he was "proud" to have certified the official election results early on the morning of January 7.

But on Thursday the NRSC, which works to elect Republicans to the Senate, sent out an email in which Pence appeared to be suggesting that he did not believe the 2020 election results were valid. "Since their contested takeover, the Biden-Harris administration has unleashed a tidal wave of Left-wing policies that threaten to wipe out the progress we made for a safer, more prosperous, more secure America," the email said. Punchbowl News first reported on the email.

The email message was a clear departure from Pence's previous position on the 2020 election. An NRSC spokesperson later admitted that the former vice president had not approved the email and apologized.

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Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/gop-sends-out-fake-pence-email-calling-2020-election-contested-takeover-then-apologizes-1627851



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GOP Sends Out Fake Pence Email Calling 2020 Election 'Contested Takeover,' Then Apologizes (Original Post) Kid Berwyn Sep 2021 OP
Next they'll be sending out ones signed by God and Jaysus Christ. They won't have a chance to demand NBachers Sep 2021 #1
It's like they're planning an America where is no reason... Kid Berwyn Sep 2021 #5
Apology not accepted, lying idiots all. Dakota Flint Sep 2021 #2
The Big Liars Kid Berwyn Sep 2021 #6
The bigger story here: National Republican official body is endorsing THE BIG LIE Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2021 #3
Rewriting History 1984 Style Kid Berwyn Sep 2021 #10
History is a set of lies, agreed upon. twodogsbarking Sep 2021 #20
Do the irrational jurors supporting the GQP even recognize a judge's command to Backseat Driver Sep 2021 #4
PSY Ops Kid Berwyn Sep 2021 #14
Surrrreeeee it was an accident. Btw I have a bridge for sale in San Francisco overlooking the Bay. cstanleytech Sep 2021 #7
My ultra GOP boss said often: Easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission LakeArenal Sep 2021 #8
Would he forgive if an employee spent boss' money for personal benefit? keithbvadu2 Sep 2021 #11
Hell no. He wanted admiration for being a job creator. LakeArenal Sep 2021 #15
If there ever was a "cuck" in politics its Pence LiberalLovinLug Sep 2021 #9
But they love and respect him... "Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence!" they cry. keithbvadu2 Sep 2021 #12
I consider this to be a criminal action!! h2ebits Sep 2021 #13
"We are sorry that we are lying dogs" DemocraticPatriot Sep 2021 #16
They also expect that a number of the rubes will spread pjpossum Sep 2021 #17
GOPhuck Yourselves Phil the Kilibuster Sep 2021 #18
The G.O.P.'s formal lies - are disgusting Champp Sep 2021 #19
The truth no longer matters in America. The Jungle 1 Sep 2021 #21
Sue the bastards, Mike. Nt raccoon Sep 2021 #22
Yeah, well that Citrus Lobby is a real pip! griloco Sep 2021 #23
The NRSC lying? Permanut Sep 2021 #24
K&R ck4829 Sep 2021 #25

NBachers

(16,998 posts)
1. Next they'll be sending out ones signed by God and Jaysus Christ. They won't have a chance to demand
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 03:19 PM
Sep 2021

a retraction.

Kid Berwyn

(14,642 posts)
5. It's like they're planning an America where is no reason...
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 03:41 PM
Sep 2021

Or resistance or Democrats or Democracy.

Kid Berwyn

(14,642 posts)
6. The Big Liars
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 03:51 PM
Sep 2021

Thanks to the Roberts Court ruling, “money equals speech,” their false message has stayed at the forefront of the national awareness.

The antidote: the Truth. That is why I had hoped the Congress would investigate immediately and televise the hearings. We wouldn’t be in this mess today.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,773 posts)
3. The bigger story here: National Republican official body is endorsing THE BIG LIE
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 03:31 PM
Sep 2021

To call the election "contested" at this stage and all the Republican states certified their results is to promote and roll and keep alive THE BIG LIE.

The NRSC is not the top official RepubliQon body, but it is just about the same and, further, it represents 50 RepubliQon Senators.

Kid Berwyn

(14,642 posts)
10. Rewriting History 1984 Style
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 04:28 PM
Sep 2021

Great point, Bernardo de La Paz. Official Pukedom continues the Big Lie.

They do not worry how history will judge them. As Ron Suskind reported Karl Turd Blossom Rove to have said:

“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

Backseat Driver

(4,333 posts)
4. Do the irrational jurors supporting the GQP even recognize a judge's command to
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 03:33 PM
Sep 2021

"Strike that from the record." How many times do we tend to say, "I can't unsee or unhear that" so that it now influences our cognitive decisions, even though it was not really so clearly misinformation" revealed without our personal research into its' validity.

Just wow, but, cognitively, your comment on this post is sooooo morally, ethically valid - the evils of lust and desire in the heart are so much another human problem...so just why don't women (or any human involved in a co-dependent relationship) not leave it??? Future self-benefit; inability to find support that lifts the burdens of "real life" circumstance? Fatal flaws when love overcomes rational choice? Sensual enjoyment of the "enabling." Social coercion? Is it a simple matter of "getting lucky"? When is a "fresh" start really feasible, for no one is an independent island?

Kid Berwyn

(14,642 posts)
14. PSY Ops
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 06:23 PM
Sep 2021

They are first to indoctrinate, fastest to lie, programmed to repeat, and then set to shame all who speak truth. Not only are they organized. They are well-funded.

The liars are awful — damaging Democracy to no end. Who seem the worst are the racists, who brag about the Big Lie: They are the Southern GOP swearing allegiance to the klan. Worst among such are the racists who support them in silence. They are traitors.

cstanleytech

(26,080 posts)
7. Surrrreeeee it was an accident. Btw I have a bridge for sale in San Francisco overlooking the Bay.
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 03:51 PM
Sep 2021

Anyone interested in buying it?

keithbvadu2

(36,360 posts)
11. Would he forgive if an employee spent boss' money for personal benefit?
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 05:32 PM
Sep 2021

Would he forgive if an employee spent boss' money for personal benefit?

In the spirit of Christian charity of course.

LakeArenal

(28,713 posts)
15. Hell no. He wanted admiration for being a job creator.
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 07:10 PM
Sep 2021

He fired me in the 2009 recession for “management reorganization” a month after I was given a $4000 performance and a month after I voted for Obama. At Christmas...

LiberalLovinLug

(14,153 posts)
9. If there ever was a "cuck" in politics its Pence
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 04:05 PM
Sep 2021

Allows himself to be tossed around and used by Trump and his cult for whatever they want. Or rather like a cuck who said "no" one time, and they will never forget his insubordination, despite his trying to run back to the cult for acceptance again. They just keep on using and abusing him because he's such a cuck he can't even fight back. He should change his name to "Reek".

keithbvadu2

(36,360 posts)
12. But they love and respect him... "Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence!" they cry.
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 05:35 PM
Sep 2021

But they love and respect him...

"Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence!" they cry.

DemocraticPatriot

(4,170 posts)
16. "We are sorry that we are lying dogs"
Fri Sep 10, 2021, 10:21 PM
Sep 2021

Well, this is different-- I have no recollection of the GOP ever having apologized for lying, before...


I'm sure another century will pass before it ever happens again.


 

pjpossum

(73 posts)
17. They also expect that a number of the rubes will spread
Sat Sep 11, 2021, 01:17 AM
Sep 2021

the lie that Pence believes the Big Lie. They won't believe that it was retracted.

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