Trump campaign pulls Michigan lawsuit after Wayne County certifies votes

DETROIT (FOX 2) - The Trump campaign has withdrawn its lawsuit in Michigan after saying that it had achieved its goal to make sure every vote was counted.

In a statement by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, the campaign said it was pulling the lawsuit.

“This morning we are withdrawing our lawsuit in Michigan as a direct result of achieving the relief we sought: to stop the election in Wayne County from being prematurely certified before residents can be assured that every legal vote has been counted and every illegal vote has not been counted," Giuliani said.

Which lawsuit Giuliani is referring to is not entirely clear but multiple lawsuits have been filed by the campaign.

Trump and his lawyers filed a federal lawsuit on Nov. 11 in Michigan against Wayne County and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, claiming irregularities, incompetence, and unlawful vote counting. Trump wanted the state to hold off on certifying the election until it was verified that the votes were cast legally.


https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/trump-campaign-pulls-michigan-lawsuit-after-wayne-county-certifies-votes

Analysis shows surge in Asian, Hispanic voters helped Biden capture Georgia

A surge in voter participation among younger, more diverse voters helped fuel President-elect Joe Biden’s slim victory in Georgia, according to an analysis by the Democratic firm TargetSmart, as the increase in the share of white turnout lagged behind.

The analysis found Asian-American turnout nearly doubled when compared to the 2016 election, while Hispanic voter participation soared by 72%. Turnout among black voters increased by about 20% while white turnout grew by 16%.

Overall, the proportion of white voters who cast ballots in Georgia decreased for the third consecutive race, down from roughly 66% in 2016 to 63% this year. (Other analyses showed white voter share in 2016 was slightly lower.) Black voters made up roughly 29% of the vote, according to the review.

Turnout among voters under the age of 30 also increased sharply, growing from 14.4% of ballots cast to 16.2%, the analysis show. The biggest drop in electorate share came from middle-aged voters, one of President Donald Trump’s more reliable voting blocs.




https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/analysis-shows-surge-in-asian-hispanic-voters-helped-biden-capture-georgia/ASCD5ECBQZA4HP7GZ5QUF4H2PA/

Michigan GOP canvassers under pressure to ignore votes, help Trump

LANSING — After losing in Wayne County, Republican activists are mounting a last-ditch effort to prop up President Donald Trump by urging GOP members on the Board of State Canvassers to refuse certification of the Michigan vote.

They have the full-throated support of the president, who continues to make unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud in a state where he unofficially lost to Democrat Joe Biden by roughly 146,000 votes.

"The Great State of Michigan, with votes being far greater than the number of people who voted, cannot certify the election," Trump wrote Wednesday in an erroneous tweet, equating fraud with likely clerical errors that caused poll book discrepancies in several precincts. "A Republican WIN!"

Trump actually suffered a significant setback Tuesday night when Republicans on the Wayne County Board of State Canvassers broke a deadlock and certified the local results, joining all 82 other Michigan counties in doing so.

The GOP canvassers had initially refused to certify the county election, an unprecedented step they said was warranted because several Detroit precincts were “out of balance,” meaning that the numbers of voters who signed into polling places did not match the number of ballots there.


https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-gop-canvassers-under-pressure-ignore-votes-help-trump

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Rev. Wendell Anthony smacks down Wayne County Republicans for refusing to certify election election

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Pennsylvania Republican launches a furor with one weird tweet

On Tuesday afternoon, Pennsylvania politician Dean Browning — a white, heterosexual, self-described “proud pro-life & pro-2A Christian conservative” — tweeted, “I’m a black gay guy and I can personally say that Obama did nothing for me, my life only changed a little bit and it was for the worse.”

The tweet continued: “Everything is so much better under Trump though. I feel respected — which I never do when democrats are involved.”

Browning, who is a former commissioner in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, sent this tweet in response to one of his earlier posts, in which he said, “What Trump built in 4 years, Biden will destroy in 4 months.”

Twitter users leapt on Browning’s bizarre response, many speculating that it was obvious that he had forgotten to log into his “sock puppet” account. A sock puppet account is an online identity used for purposes of deception by concealing its owner’s real identity. In this case, it seemed Browning had exposed an account on which he masquerades as a gay Black Trump supporter.





https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/weird-tweet-pennsylvania-republican-launches-a-furor/

DeSantis pushes for open theft of 2020 presidential election

Gov. Ron DeSantis is endorsing President Donald Trump’s fight to hold onto his job, floating the idea that GOP-controlled legislatures in battleground states won by Democratic nominee Joe Biden could appoint Trump electors and override the popular vote.

DeSantis, one of Trump’s close Republican allies, declared Thursday on Laura Ingraham’s show on Fox News he would stand with Trump as the president’s re-election chances dimmed. He urged viewers to donate to Trump’s legal fund and suggested people living in battleground states with GOP legislatures, specifically Michigan and Pennsylvania, contact their state lawmakers who could provide “remedies.”

“Under Article II of the Constitution, presidential electors are done by the legislatures and the schemes they create and the framework,” DeSantis said. “If there’s departure from that, if they’re not following law, if they’re ignoring the law, then they can provide remedies as well, so I would exhaust every option to make sure we have a fair count.”

GOP leaders in Pennsylvania have rejected that idea.
“The Pennsylvania General Assembly does not have and will not have a hand in choosing the state’s presidential electors or in deciding the outcome of the presidential election," Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman and House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff wrote in an Oct. 19 column.




https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/elections/fl-ne-florida-gop-reaction-20201106-pjqk73ln3jcojggkp2rhezz7ay-story.html

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