{"id":13626,"date":"2020-11-06T18:40:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T01:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13626"},"modified":"2020-11-07T00:07:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T07:07:14","slug":"snap-out-of-it-biden-won-start-acting-like-it-media-and-democrats-bradcast-1162020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13626","title":{"rendered":"Snap Out of It! BIDEN WON! Start Acting Like It, Media and Democrats!: ‘BradCast’ 11\/6\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>: SLAP-SLAP<\/em>! Wake up, people! Joe Biden is the next President of the United States! [Audio link to today’s show follows below.<\/i>]\n

But first, in not wholly unrelated news: Ya know that widespread systemic election fraud that Donald Trump has been lying about by falsely accusing Democrats<\/i> of stealing the election from him by “casting votes after Election Day”? They aren’t. But, as it turns out, we now have hard evidence that the Trump Campaign and Republican Party actually are<\/i> doing exactly<\/i> that! Or, at least trying<\/i> to do so in Pennsylvania. We’ve got both the audio and email evidence to prove it today, via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/i><\/a>. <\/p>\n

Beyond that: Hey, Media! Hey, Democrats! Wake up! Yes, Joe Biden should have already<\/i> been declared the winner of Tuesday election<\/a>!!! By the standards the corporate media usually<\/i> apply to such things, the state of Pennsylvania<\/b> should already<\/i> have been called by the media, as of Friday morning, for Biden (if not sooner), based on the unofficial vote counts there, where the former Veep has now surpassed Trump<\/a> and continues to increase his totals over the soon-to-be-former President at this point. Biden continues to do so today at a similar rate to that which we’ve seen in the Keystone State since the day after Election Day.<\/p>\n

With Pennsylvania’s 20 electors, that means — very conservatively speaking, even without the other currently uncalled states where Biden is also leading, including Nevada<\/b>, Arizona<\/b> and Georgia<\/b> (where Biden also<\/i> overtook Trump<\/a> in the vote count on Friday morning) — the former Vice President now has 273 electoral college votes under his belt. Only 270 are needed to win the Presidency.<\/p>\n

In any<\/i> other Presidential election in any<\/i> other year, all of the media would already<\/i> have banner graphics up describing Joe Biden as the “PRESIDENT-ELECT” and characterizing him as the 46th President of the United States! We know why Fox “News” is not doing so (thanks to CNN’s Brian Stelter<\/a>), and while there may be (weak, pathetic) reasons for the media to pull their punches (because they are cowards who kowtow to fear of Republicans), what is the Democratic Party’s excuse at the point?!<\/p>\n

Hell, Donald Trump and the Minority Leader of the U.S. House, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, have already declared<\/a> that Trump<\/i> “won”, even though he absolutely hasn’t! Meanwhile, all available evidence shows beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Biden actually has<\/i> won. Dems should be dancing in the streets at this point, but they aren’t. Lord knows, had the tables been turned, they would have conceded as of Friday morning.<\/p>\n

(Note: As an election integrity advocate, I have historically objected to the media or <\/i>any candidate declaring victory — or even conceding a loss — before all votes are counted and, where possible, votes counts are verified as accurate. But, the cowardly double-standard being displayed by the media in this case and the political malpractice being exercised by Dems right now is a separate matter.<\/i>)<\/p>\n

So, what’s actually going on here and why? Well, for answers on that we turn first to a few words of wisdom from Josh Marshall<\/a> at TPM and, for many more such words, to our guest today, HEATHER DIGBY PARTON<\/b> of Salon<\/a> and Digby’s Hullabaloo<\/a>, who — at least since the day Trump descended that escalator at Trump Tower to call Mexicans rapists and announce his candidacy for President — we have been checking in with at landmark moments during his Presidency. Today, as Trump should<\/i> be declared a loser<\/i> by everyone<\/i>, is certainly such a moment.<\/p>\n

Is it still PTSD from 2016 that is keeping Democrats in their stupor today? Is it because Trump has some completely unknown, but super-genius scheme to overturn the Electoral College somehow? Or is it because, no matter the results of the Presidential race, Dems appear to have under-performed expectations when it comes to both U.S. Senate and House races this year? <\/p>\n

Beyond all of that, we also discuss with Digby what all Democrats should<\/i> be spending their time working on and discussing right now, including how Dems and Joe Biden will have to figure out how to govern even if they are unable to win a still-possible longshot bid<\/a> to pick up enough Senate seats to win back a majority there. And how best to begin processing whatever lessons, so far, can be gleaned from what happened on Tuesday and from the last four years of the Trump Era.<\/p>\n

Lots to talk about today! But, hey people! You WON! Start acting like it! Cause you know Republicans certainly would be in the exact same scenario and, in fact, they LOST, but are still<\/i> acting like they won anyway! Snap out of it, people!!!<\/p>\n

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* * *<\/b><\/center>UPDATE<\/b><\/i>: Just posting tonight’s show, I’m happy to see that at least a few<\/i> media outlets called the race for Biden earlier today, including Vox<\/a> and Business Insider<\/a>, if not AP and the other big media outlets. As former Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer apparently pointed out<\/a> earlier today on Twitter: “Every single person that works at the networks and the AP knows that Joe Biden has won the election. Their reticence is creating a vacuum that Trump is filling with dangerous misinformation.” And election forecaster Nate Silver offered a similar sentiment<\/a>: “I don’t know, but it sure seems to me like not calling the race when the outcome is obvious in states like PA and NV gives the president more time to spout misinformation.”<\/p>\n

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