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November 6, 2020

Idiots who contribute to trump's legal defense fund are also paying off campaign debt

Given the fact that trump blew through $1 billion dollars in his campaign, I wonder who would be stupid enough to contribute this fund

https://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/1324825242716446725

November 6, 2020

As COVID-19 surges, conservatives are paying a deadly price for listening to Trump and Fox News

trump is killing off his supporters https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/6/1993375/-As-COVID-19-surges-conservatives-are-paying-a-deadly-price-for-listening-to-Trump-and-Fox-News

On Wednesday, the total number of new cases of COVID-19 in the United States exceeded 100,000 for the first time. Which was a shocking total … until Thursday, when the total passed 120,000 cases. With that number, even the seven-day moving average of new cases is now over 100,000. This isn’t a “spike,” or a “surge”—it’s a tsunami.

But even though the flood of new cases is sweeping across the whole nation, driving up hospitalizations and bringing more than 1,000 deaths a day, it’s not sinking everyone equally. Because even a cursory review of the information shows that both the counties where the coronavirus is spreading most rapidly and the counties where there are more cases by population are counties that voted for Donald Trump. And a new study makes it clear that this isn’t coincidental. It’s also not a matter of some factor that lies outside of human control. The reason that red states and Trump-supporting counties are getting COVID-19 at a higher rate is specifically because they are populated by Trump supporters. And it’s killing them.

As the Associated Press reports, the data available from Johns Hopkins, WorldOMeters, and other tracking sites makes it clear that the highest level of COVID-19 is not where a casual observer might expect. The worst locations aren’t in high-density cities, or in areas where there’s a high level of travel. They are small, rural counties. In fact, most of them are rural counties in rural states like Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

And 93% of the counties with the worst rates of coronavirus infection voted for Donald Trump. In fact, they voted overwhelmingly for Trump. And the worse the infection, the more dire the local situation, the more likely they were to vote for Trump.
November 6, 2020

There are 23,000 young voters in Georgia who just became eligible to vote who need to be registered

We need to get these young people to the polls
https://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/1324725277595901953

In Georgia, about 23,000 young people were not old enough to vote in the super-close general election this year, but will be eligible to vote in the runoff election for U.S. Senate in January 2021 -- if they register to vote by December 7, 2020. At least one, and possibly two, Senate seats will be decided in that election. Control of the U.S. Senate could hang in the balance.

With a record turnout by young people in the general election, now is the time for all high school seniors and recent graduates to register to vote if they will be 18 by the runoff election on January 5, 2021.

Young people are allowed to pre-register to vote in Georgia if they are 17-1/2, and those who are pre-registered are eligible to vote as soon as they turn 18. In this case, the next election for many of these young people will be the January U.S. Senate runoff.

Don’t let confusing language in the Georgia election code or the Georgia constitution fool you into thinking that young people cannot vote in the runoff if they were not already 18 and registered in time for the general election.
November 3, 2020

11/3 Daily Dose of Joe

Good morning and Happy Election Day! We hope you've enjoyed receiving these updates each morning. Thank you for your incredible support of this campaign.

Happy Election Day! We are encouraging everyone who has not voted yet to go to IWillVote.com to find polling information or nearest ballot drop box location to make their voice heard in this election. The American people will be heard if we show up and vote!

Jill and Joe Biden will travel to key battleground states to get out the vote. In the morning, Vice President Biden will travel to Scranton, Pennsylvania. In the afternoon, Vice President Biden will travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the evening, Vice President Biden will address the nation on Election Night in Wilmington, Delaware and be joined by Dr. Biden, Senator Kamala Harris, and Doug Emhoff.

In the morning, Dr. Biden will attend a get out the vote event in St. Petersburg, Florida, which will be open press. In the afternoon, Dr. Biden will attend a canvass kickoff in Tampa, Florida. After, Dr. Biden will visit a polling site in Cary, North Carolina.

In the afternoon, Senator Harris will travel to Detroit, Michigan.

Doug Emhoff will mark Election Day by traveling to Columbus to encourage Ohioans to make their voices heard by casting their ballots for the Biden-Harris ticket.

Yesterday, the campaign hosted a briefing to outline what to expect on Election night and the enthusiasm we’re seeing across the country as President Trump tries to create chaos in our electoral process. You can watch the full briefing HERE.

Yesterday, Kamala Harris penned an op-ed in Essence on the power of Black women and the Biden-Harris plan to defeat COVID-19 and build America back better.

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