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Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1583556 Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it. May 3rd 2016 In his single term, Donald Trump has managed to lose not just the presidency, but also the House, and now the Senate. The final votes from Georgia aren’t in yet, but Democrats have won both senate seats there, suggesting that perhaps embracing Trump’s deranged coup attempt was not, after all, good politics. Make no mistake, the stunning double defeat was entirely about Trump. And Trump will lose again today in Congress after a debate that will be both clownish and dangerous. He will not only leave office in ignominy, but also leave behind a deeply wounded and divided GOP that has done so much to enable his mendacity and idiocy. And by idiocy, I mean this: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump If Vice President @Mike_Pence comes through for us, we will win the Presidency. Many States want to decertify the mistake they made in certifying incorrect & even fraudulent numbers in a process NOT approved by their State Legislatures (which it must be). Mike can send it back!January 6th 202146,748 Retweets183,373 Likes Let’s take a moment to ponder this final shit sandwich that Trump is offering congressional Republicans. Of all the moronic takes in a sea of insanity and stupidity, the president has settled on the most absurd. No, Mike cannot “send it back.” The vice president cannot overturn a presidential election. No rational human being thinks that he can. Even members of the Sedition Caucus are embarrassed. Manu Raju @mkraju Josh Hawley, one of the handful of Senate Republicans who plans to object to state electoral votes tomorrow, indicates he doesn’t think Pence can unilaterally throw out electoral votes — as Trump is saying. “It’s really on Congress,” he says on Fox So what can we make of Trump’s latest gibberish ? Let’s rewind the tape: Trump has tried everything he can think of to steal the election: he has lied about the process, spread baseless conspiracy theories, and bullied election officials. He tried to get the Department of Justice to find evidence of massive fraud; it wasn’t there.He tried to get the courts to overturn the results; and failed. He failed in state courts, federal courts, federal appeals courts, and in the U.S. Supreme Court. He tried to get state legislatures to nullify the popular vote; and failed. He tried to get Republicans in Congress to refuse to certify the election; and failed. He tried to get state officials to “find” him votes; and failed. So now he is embracing the Louis-Gohmert-stupid-level notion of having Pence throw out the election. By this point, even Trump must know that he is going lose. But he continues to look for scapegoats, and Mike Pence is today’s designated chump. As Tim Alberta notes this morning , “imagine doing this to the one guy who's been relentlessly loyal to you for 4 years, never undermining you, always subjugating himself to you (often in humiliating fashion). For the millionth time: Trump has no loyalty to anyone but himself.” Exit take: Josh Jordan @NumbersMuncher Donald Trump, after losing the 2020 election by over 7 million votes and 74 electoral votes, is working hard to set Mike Pence up as the *real* reason he lost the election if he refuses to try and overturn the results. It's a bold strategy, Donnie - let's see if it pays off.January 6th 20212 Retweets25 Likes We don’t know what Pence will do, and we don’t know how ugly today’s joint session of Congress will be. But we do know the outcome. After all the cynical posturing, bloviating, demagoguery, and buncombe, Joe Biden will win the Electoral College vote by a margin of 306 to 232. He will be sworn in on January 20. The Hawley/Cruz putsch attempt will be full of sound and fury, but will signify nothing. Indeed, it was losing momentum even before the Georgia defeats underlined the political toxicity of the Trumpian Lost Cause. Republican senators who have broken with the Sedition Caucus, include Mike Lee of Utah; John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer of North Dakota; Tim Scott of South Carolina; John Boozman of Arkansas, Rob Portman of Ohio, and Jim Infofe of Oklahoma. As of this morning, 25 Republican senators had come out publicly against the move to block the vote count. So far, only 13 have signed on for the attempt to object. Another 13 senators have yet to take a position.Ideally, no senator would have signed on to the absurd attack, but it seems likely now that 80 or more senators will vote against the attempt to subvert the election — a stunning bipartisan repudiation of Trump’s last stand. The House will be much messier, but there is also growing opposition to the coup there: Liz Cheney @Liz_CheneyWe have sworn an oath under God to defend the Constitution. We uphold that oath at all times, not only when it is politically convenient. Congress has no authority to overturn elections by objecting to electors. Doing so steals power from the states & violates the Constitution. January 6th 2021 thebulwark