Television Comments: The Good Fight ; The Crown, The Queen’s Gambit.
‘Well, Mr President, the challenge that you have, is that the data you have is just wrong’ Brad Raffensberger to Trump.
This week’s American top election story, the attempt to change the vote cast in Georgia, seems to be the height of President Trump’s efforts to undermine American democracy. There are 16 days to go to the Inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, with the threats by House and Senate Republicans to contest the electoral college votes and the Senate runoffs in Georgia.
‘We are going to be inaugurated, period’. Kamala Harris to reporter asking about the possibility that the proposed actions of the House and Senate Republicans could be described as a coup.
The latter firm rejection of the Trump and supporters’ insistence that the take centre stage rather than the President and Vice -President Elect is exactly what is needed.
Katty Kay, weekly commentator on Morning Joe, MNSBC, made an observation that would also serve other professional and social commentators well. Those around Trump say that he knew he had lost the election until suggestions that it could be otherwise. The commentators on CNN and MNSBC on election night were scrupulous in explaining that early votes could not tell the whole story – that votes cast before election day would, in most cases, be counted last. They reiterated this information tirelessly, no-one could be under any misapprehension that all the mail in votes, those counted after those cast on the day, had to be counted before an assessment of the winner could be made.
Was the constant and early discussion of whether a smooth transition could be made after a Trump loss a contributor to the current state of disarray?
Kamala Harris is a strong voice for the case that the transition will take place. Others should follow her example. She and President Elect, Joe Biden, are the story. A good story.
What a fantastic day of watching MSNBC, with Steve Kornacki at the ‘big board’ as they refer to the board on which the results are recorded. Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, Nicole Wallace, Brian Williams and Lawrence O’Donnell commentating – so thoughtfully and informatively. No-one could be under any misapprehension about how the votes are counted, and the apparent discrepancies demonstrated to be none at all. Groups of votes come in from early voters, on the day voters, postal voters; from Republican oriented states and Democrat oriented states; from a range of voters with a range of voting the way they have. Again, the coverage gives any thinking person all the information they need to understand that there will be early results that do not mean this will be the final result.
James Carvill on MSNBC: I don’t know anyone with an IQ above room temperature who doesn’t think the Democrats are going to win both Senate seats.
So, here we have a projected winner in Rev. Raphael Warnock
And Jonathon Ossoff leading David Perdue – by 13000 votes as I write.
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