{"id":13631,"date":"2020-11-10T19:28:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T02:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13631"},"modified":"2020-11-11T18:10:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T01:10:51","slug":"trumps-desperate-attempt-to-steal-the-election-continues-bradcast-11102020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13631","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Desperate Attempt to Steal the Election Continues: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 11\/10\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_TrumpRain_111020.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">The unfortunately necessary debunkery of Donald Trump and his GOP&#8217;s various embarrassingly desperate efforts to steal the election from Joe Biden continues on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, even as the U.S. Secretary of State manages to shock with an extraordinarily offense comment and Republicans are now turning on their own in Georgia to appease the soon-to-be-former President. [<i>Audio link to show is posted below this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Among the too-many stories covered on today&#8217;s show&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Even Fox &#8216;News&#8217; is beginning to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/fox-news-host-neil-cavuto-cuts-off-kayleigh-mcenany-for-spreading-election-lies\">refuse to air<\/a> the White House&#8217;s &#8220;voter fraud&#8221; BS. It&#8217;s not the first time Fox has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/that-is-a-lie-fox-news-anchor-dismantles-a-series-of-trump-conspiracy-theories-about-election-cheating\/\">refused to play along<\/a> with GOP &#8220;voter fraud&#8221; lies since Election Day;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mitch McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2020-11-09\/mitch-mcconnell-says-trump-has-every-right-not-to-concede-until-election-is-certified\">supports Trump&#8217;s right<\/a> to legal challenges in the election (and so do we, as we explain);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Sec. of State Mike Pompeo makes a wildly unfunny, <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/pompeo-attacks-integrity-of-election-calls-for-second-trump-administration\">dangerous and un-American &#8220;joke&#8221;<\/a> from the lectern at the Dept. of State about a &#8220;smooth transition to a second Trump Administration&#8221;;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Corporate media continue to do a rather competent job of quickly debunking the endless and so-far  evidence-free claims being made by duped Trump supporters and shameless Trump attorneys in court regarding &#8220;voter fraud&#8221;. CNN&#8217;s Donie O&#8217;Sullivan deserves special credit for one of his reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/business\/2020\/11\/08\/trump-election-protest-stop-the-steal.cnn-business\">taking on Trump supporters directly<\/a> at a &#8220;Stop the Steal&#8221; rally in <b>Pennsylvania<\/b>, with facts to debunk their false conspiracies regarding &#8220;Trump ballots being burned in bags&#8221; (they weren&#8217;t), vote totals being inflated overnight for Joe Biden (they weren&#8217;t), and much more;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Separately, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/11\/09\/politics\/trump-tweets-swing-state-fraud-fact-check\/index.html\">CNN also debunks<\/a> Trump&#8217;s latest Twitter tantrums regarding his evidence-free claims of fraud in Pennsylvania (no, GOP observers were NOT prevented from watching the ballot count), <b>Nevada<\/b> (no, 3,000 voters did NOT vote unlawfully from other states), <b>Georgia<\/b> (no, Trump did not &#8220;win on Election Night&#8221;) and <b>Wisconsin<\/b> (no, Trump&#8217;s campaign is not &#8220;looking very good&#8221; in the state they appear to have lost by more than 20,000 votes);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Team Trump files yet <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/trumps-az-election-fraud-lawsuit-fixates-on-grand-total-of-180-votes-according-to-attorney\">another embarrassingly lame lawsuit<\/a> in <b>Arizona<\/b>, falsely charging that 180 voters (out of 155,860) who cast Election Day ballots in Maricopa County (Phoenix) improperly had their ballots rejected as overvotes;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/10\/us\/politics\/cal-cunningham-concedes-to-senator-thom-tillis-in-north-carolina.html?action=click&#038;module=ELEX_results&#038;pgtype=Interactive&#038;region=ReporterUpdates\">Cal Cunningham concedes<\/a> his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/03\/us\/elections\/results-north-carolina-senate.html\">U.S. Senate race in North Carolina<\/a> to the very unpopular incumbent Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, in a race that Democrats should have won (and that his progressive primary opponent Erica Smith &#8212; featured as a <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13237\">guest on our show earlier this year<\/a> &#8212; arguably might have);<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Short of an unlikely shocker in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/03\/us\/elections\/results-alaska-senate.html\">still-uncalled <b>Alaska<\/b> U.S. Senate race<\/a>, the last chance for Democrats to take back majority control of the U.S. Senate will now be in Georgia&#8217;s <i>two<\/i> U.S. Senate runoff elections on January 5th. They will have to win <i>both<\/i> of them. And now, both of the state&#8217;s Republican U.S. Senators, Kelly Loeffler (who is running against <a href=\"https:\/\/warnockforgeorgia.com\/\">Rev. Raphael Warnock<\/a>) and David Perdue (who is running against <a href=\"https:\/\/electjon.com\/\">Jon Ossoff<\/a>) are sucking up to their demented sore loser President by turning on GA&#8217;s <i>Republican<\/i> Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger, hilariously &#8220;citing no evidence&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/georgias-senators-seek-secretary-of-states-resignation-over-election\/A3JUFWTWORDH7LTL2XSZ7ODWPA\/\">calling for his resignation<\/a>.\n<p>Longtime listeners of <i>The BradCast<\/i> will recognize Raffensperger as the corrupt dope who purchased the state&#8217;s new, wildly-expensive, easily-manipulated, 100% unverifiable computer touchscreen Rube Goldberg voting systems made by Dominion Voting and forced on every county in the state for first time use this year.  That, instead of a cheaper, verifiable, hand-marked paper ballot system urged by cybersecurity and voting systems experts alike.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/rumor-alert-dominion-voting-systems-fraud-claims\/\">falsely accusing<\/a> Dominion in recent days of being controlled by Democrats and responsible for &#8220;stealing&#8221; the election from Trump in <b>Michigan<\/b> and Georgia. While there is no evidence to support their claim, I have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBradBlog\/status\/1325177740190863361?s=20\">invited those Republicans<\/a> worried about Dominion to join me in my call for getting the company out of Georgia&#8217;s critical U.S. Senate runoffs altogether by turning to all hand-marked paper ballots to be publicly hand-counted in both races. The statewide election will feature just two races, with only two candidates in each, so hand-counting them on Election Night would be very simple and completely transparent.<\/p>\n<p>While my invitation to Republicans has become quite <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBradBlog\/status\/1325177740190863361?s=20\">popular on Twitter<\/a>, so far they have failed to join the effort to prevent the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBradBlog\/status\/1325525052142440448\">&#8220;Software from hell!&#8221;<\/a> that folks like Eric Trump are pretending to be the cause for his father&#8217;s humiliating re-election loss. Sad!<\/p>\n<p>While Raffensperger says he will not resign, a comment from former Republican Sec. of State turned illegitimate Governor Brian Kemp, along with an <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/11\/09\/georgia-legislature-should-convene-and-ban-mail-in-voting-for-runoff-elections\/\">article from the far-right <i>Federalist<\/i><\/a>, suggests that state Republicans may try and move to ban mail-in voting altogether for the runoffs, despite the spiking deadly pandemic and the requisite reliance on unverifiable Dominion voting systems at the polling place, in hopes of returning to their years-long glory days of GOP voter suppression in the Peach State;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13630\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> filled with (almost all) actually good news for a change, in the wake of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris&#8217; apparent election victory last week&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-PompeoUnderminesDemocracy-TrumpVoterFraudDebunkery-GOPTurnsOnGASoS_111020.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-PompeoUnderminesDemocracy-TrumpVoterFraudDebunkery-GOPTurnsOnGASoS_111020.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unfortunately necessary debunkery of Donald Trump and his GOP&#8217;s various embarrassingly desperate efforts to steal the election from Joe Biden continues on today&#8217;s BradCast, even as the U.S. Secretary of State manages to shock with an extraordinarily offense comment and Republicans are now turning on their own in Georgia to appease the soon-to-be-former President. 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