America’s Democrat Party is so corrupt and power-hungry that they don’t care about openly breaking laws, especially when it comes to elections. It appears possible that Democrats in Milwaukee County stole the Wisconsin U.S. Senate election from Republican candidate Eric Hovde in the early morning hours of Nov. 6 with a massive mail-in ballot dump in favor of Democrat incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin. Now, another incumbent Democrat senator, Bob Casey Jr., of Pennsylvania, is in the midst of trying to sway that state’s U.S. Senate election, through a recount, away from Republican candidate, Dave McCormick, who is already declared the winner. Wisconsin U.S. Senate Election — Hovde (R) vs. Baldwin (D) From around 11:00 p.m. on election night to around 4:00 a.m. on Nov. 6, Republican candidate Eric Hovde had a consistent lead of roughly 50,000 votes over incumbent Democrat Sen. Tammy Baldwin and appeared destined for an election victory. In fact, Hovde said he started receiving congratulatory calls for his election victory at around 1:00 a.m. on Nov. 6. But the ballot count took a sudden, dramatic turn in Baldwin’s favor when Milwaukee County reported an additional 108,000 ballots at 4:00 am on Nov. 6 — 90 percent of which were for Baldwin. This is from a county in which Trump won 43 percent of the vote this year and increased his vote total by 3,500 over his 2020 numbers, according to the New York Times. This immediately gave Baldwin a lead that would ultimately result in her winning by an official margin of 28,958 votes (1,672,550 to 1,643,592 or 49.4 percent to 48.5 percent). Aside from the statistical improbability of Baldwin receiving 90 percent of the 108,000 additional ballots added at 4:00 a.m. on Nov. 6, there is potential evidence of outright election fraud in Milwaukee County with 25 of the county’s wards reporting votes exceeding 100 percent of the number of registered voters in those wards — one ward even reported a vote total that exceeded 200 percent of the number of its registered voters. Yes, Wisconsin has same-day voter registration, but it is hard to accept that any election ward would see just as many unregistered people show up to register and vote on Election Day as had previously been registered before Election Day. Eric Hovde expressed his concern with the irregularities of this election in a statement he posted on ‘X’ on Nov. 12. Hovde mentioned considering pursuing a recount — allowed by Wisconsin election law when the margin of victory is less than 1 percent. However, such a recount effort would have to be funded by Hovde. This likely led to Hovde formally conceding the election to Baldwin on Nov. 18. In his concession statement, Hovde remarked, “Without a detailed review of all the ballots and their legitimacy, which will be difficult to obtain in the courts, a request for a recount would serve no purpose because you will just be recounting the same ballots regardless of their integrity.” In addition to possible evidence of election fraud in Milwaukee County, the Democrats also applied their customary dirty tricks by funding a phony Trump-favored candidate, Thomas Leager, under a phony new Trump-favored party, the America First Party, to take away potential votes from Hovde. Leager ended up with 28,717 votes, just shy of Baldwin’s 28,958 vote margin over Hovde. Pennsylvania U.S. Senate Election — McCormick (R) vs. Casey (D) Republican candidate Dave McCormick was declared the winner in the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race by the Associated Press on Nov. 7 (less than 48 hours after the polls closed), with an approximate 31,000-vote lead over incumbent Democrat Sen. Bob Casey Jr., with 99 percent of precincts reporting. On Nov. 13, the Pennsylvania Department of State announced a legally mandated recount based on the 29,338-vote lead favoring McCormick and all precincts reporting — a 0.43 percent margin of victory. Pennsylvania state election law requires a state-funded recount be undertaken when a margin of election victory is less than 0.5 percent. Casey will eventually have to accept defeat, but Elias will likely remain the break-the-glass option for Democratic campaigns. With the prospect of a vote recount, Casey engaged infamous Democrat legal thug, Mark Elias of Trump–Russia collusion hoax notoriety, to oversee the recount effort on Casey’s behalf. With Elias involved, the Democrats are literally trying to steal the already-called election from McCormick by counting provisional ballots that the state Supreme Court ruled invalid. Now that the recount has started, Democrat officials in certain Democrat-controlled counties are brazenly violating Pennsylvania election law by counting invalid provisional ballots. In particular, Democrat officials in Philadelphia and surrounding Bucks, Centre, and Montgomery counties are both openly violating state election law as well as a court order from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court stating that mail-in ballots without legally required signatures or dates not be counted in official results. “I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country,” said Democrat Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia on Nov. 14 as she and other Democrats voted to reject a GOP-led challenge to ballots that failed to meet the state’s legal requirements. However, the state’s Supreme Court ruled before the election that mail-in ballots lacking legally required signatures or dates should not be included in official results, which supports Republican ballot challenges during the current recount. This is especially noteworthy considering the state’s Supreme Court has a 5-2 Democrat majority. It is notable too that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered again, late on Nov. 18, that the state’s counties not count mail-in ballots that lack a correct handwritten date on the return envelope. To his credit, Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro belatedly chimed in on Nov. 19 to side with the Republicans and urged county election boards to respect the decision by the state Supreme Court. This latest court order should ensure that McCormick retains his previously declared election victory. According to comments made by RNC Chairman Michael Whatley on Kudlow on Fox Business Network late on Nov. 18, only about 20,000 votes remain to be counted. Despite the efforts of Elias and particular Democrat county officials, it appears an impossibility that the recount could result in Casey overcoming McCormick’s lead. The recount is legally required to be completed by Nov. 26 and officially reported by the Pennsylvania Department of State on Nov. 27. George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley authored an especially scathing opinion piece in the New York Post on Nov. 12 about the Democrats’ long-time favored “lawfare” attorney, Mark Elias, and his efforts to steal the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate election on behalf of the incumbent Democrat. Turley wrote: Despite the Pennsylvania race being called by the AP almost a week ago, Elias is working with Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) to try to change that outcome. It is not surprising that Casey was left with Elias. For many, Elias is a notorious figure who captures the hypocrisy of the “save democracy” crowd. Elias is an attorney who has been sanctioned in court and denounced by critics as a Democratic “dirty trickster” and even an “election denier.” Despite his checkered history … Democratic campaigns fund Elias and his various profitable enterprises to push undemocratic causes…. Trump won Pennsylvania’s presidential election, and Dave McCormick received tens of thousands more votes. With 99 percent of the votes counted, even Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) relented in allowing McCormick to attend the orientation for new senators…. Casey will eventually have to accept defeat, but Elias will likely remain the break-the-glass option for Democratic campaigns when other lawyers have lost their appetite for challenging election results. Turley is correct that Casey will ultimately have to concede the election to McCormick.  That should happen on Nov. 26, just in time for Thanksgiving. Steve Dewey is a retired federal financial regulator and founder of GeoFinancial Trends, LLC (www.geofinancialtrends.org) and writes on Substack (stevedewey.substack.com).  He can be reached at steve@geofinancialtrends.org   READ MORE from Steve Dewey: Expert Michael Waller: America’s Intel Agencies Are Compromised Scholar: Kamala Harris Borrows From Karl Marx   The post Mail-in Ballots Wreak Havoc in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania Senate Races appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

Those weekend getaways to the countryside are a good reminder of how pleasant it is to shower with hot water, without intervals of ice-cold water, and no lizards on the ceiling. Perhaps we don’t value the comforts of the big city enough. True, the countryside provides a soothing silence in the evenings but, in return, the water doesn’t leave an aftertaste of chlorine and, in general, it appears obvious that everything could do with a good vacuuming. Especially those dusty roads that leave your car looking like a croquette. And of course, there is plenty of lettuce to be found too. I recently discovered something incredible — in places like this, food grows directly in the ground, without plastic wrapping. If a health inspector were to show up here, they would close the plot for lack of hygiene. I came to the country to spend a few hours forgetting about politicians and was greeted with the usual hostility. No hot water, cold worthy of a forensic laboratory, and the wet chimney laughing at my matches. While battling these hardships for yet another year — at least for the moment — I am inclined to answer the question that readers always ask me if we meet on the street: “How do you manage to light the fireplace in your country house in winter”? Making a fire is much easier when you’re trying to do something else. For example, smoking while sitting on a haystack, fixing a short circuit, or throwing butane bottles down an elevator shaft. On the other hand, it becomes a chore when you’re trying to set the fireplace on fire. Flames are fickle. But almost everything in a country house answers to strange whims. I’ve been wrestling with the heater for two hours, unjamming rusty locks, killing poisonous spiders, and giving a heart massage to a mouse lying in cardiac arrest on the living room couch. There’s also a drooling cat by the window, contemplating the scene. And, if my eyes do not deceive me, I have some goats crammed in the front door, nibbling on the grass sprouting between the wood planks. If the thing has horns and talks like Ayatollah Khamenei, it’s a goat. You know you’ve lost control of your cottage when you can’t tell it apart from the rest of nature without the help of a weed-whacker. As a journalist, I experience a particular Freudian pleasure in lighting fireplaces with tons of paper balls made from newspapers. I often use my own articles, which, by the way, burn great. The Good Fireman’s Handbook says that for a real fire to be produced, a combustible substance, a combustion agent, and an activation agent must interact. The price of fuel is always too expensive, so you can substitute it perfectly well with wood. I don’t know what the combustion agent is. Try throwing some hamburgers wrapped in silver foil into the chimney. As for the activation agent, it is usually the fire itself. Hence the old firemen’s manual falls into a philosophical dilemma at this point — does it take fire to make fire? I’m very much in favor of making firewood from a fallen tree. Otherwise, I’d have to go out to the garden and take an axe to the lemon tree and I’m not sure I could set fire to that, with the sap still flowing through its veins, or whatever it is that flows through the tree that Biden runs soymilk through. For a good chimney fire, the ideal is to combine small chipped pieces of kindling with thicker logs. You can use any of Paul Krugman’s fat books as a model for the log size. The rustics say that pine cones help to light a fire. No one has proven it scientifically. It doesn’t matter. I always throw a bunch of them into the fireplace because it amuses me to see how they explode and how the embers jump onto my shirt. And my tailor is delighted with the results of my “city-slicker visiting the country” hobbies. Now they sell fire pistons in the Chinese bazaar (whose clientele is limited to terrorists and chimney lighters). With them, everything burns so easily that you can do without the rest. I don’t use them because I enjoy burning my fingers as I pinch each match trying to get a couple of wet sticks to ignite. I hear on the radio that Biden has decided to set fire to everything in Ukraine and, frankly, I’m thinking of asking him to send one of those cucumbers up my chimney to speed up the process. All these discomforts I type out here, on the edge of the night, are nothing compared to the dawn in a few hours when the awakening sun fills everything with light, and the little birds replace the Twitter (aka X) chirping to wake me up. Seriously, there are real birds here. The kind that chirp, chirp, and can’t be retweeted. No one can find me here, except the surrounding neighbors who are delighted not to find me, and the sheep, who speak a more elaborate language than most politicians. Here we are only interested in what is important: the cheese, the steaks, and the wine. And don’t let the fireplace go out, for God’s sake, or instead of a column I’ll have to send The American Spectator a cold obituary. Mine. READ MORE from Itxu Díaz: Make Government Small Again Ten Priorities for Trump’s New Administration A Long Letter of Condolence to All the Losers The post Escaping Politics to the Serene Countryside … It’s Too Cold appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

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