While President-elect Donald Trump is busy installing a new administration, Democratic super-lawyer Marc Elias is quietly trying to overturn a key Republican victory in the U.S. Senate race.
Pennsylvania Republican Dave McCormick has already declared victory over Democratic incumbent Bob Casey, but there are still tens of thousands of unprocessed “provisional” ballots that could be misused, the Associated Press reported. There is.
In the latest episode of drill down Podcaster Peter Schweitzer discusses how Elias, whom Schweitzer calls a “master of political black magic,” is pushing for a recount in Pennsylvania as a major goal to keep the Senate seat in Democratic hands. Tell us what you are trying to cause. The validity of the 87,000 provisional ballots in question is questionable. McCormick has a 40,000-vote lead, with only about 30,000 of the provisional votes cast from Casey's home state.
“That's one of the reasons the Associated Press covered this issue,” Schweitzer said. “But what Marc Elias is trying to do is be a shopping jury, and he's trying to find a way to cause a forced recount.”
“This is exactly what he did in the Minnesota Senate race,” Schweitzer recalled. Republican Norm Coleman appeared to have won the close 2008 Senate race, but the award ultimately went to Democrat Al Franken after Marc Elias took the job. “He got a judge to allow more than 1,000 ballots that had previously been thrown out because they contained anything related to felons. That's why Al Franken is in the Senate in the first place because of illegal voting. Many people believe that he should not have been seated in the seat. [Elias] I'm working in Pennsylvania. ”
“Drill Down” co-host Eric Eggers asks about Trump, who carries Pennsylvania, a state that was thoroughly contested by the campaigns of Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. “I think he had a great message that resonated with people…The message and the focus on the issues were really important. The concerns that Kamala Harris was trying to get people to about Donald Trump ended up being… “It became an abstraction, a fiction, for most voters,” Schweitzer said.
But Elias' strategy could work either way, Eggers did his research. He credited Trump's important victory in Pennsylvania in part to the efforts of Elon Musk, noting that Musk himself learned a trick or two from Marc Elias. There is. “Here's a guy who can catch a goddamn rocket with chopsticks. He can figure out a way to get people to the ballot box in a really big way,” Eggers points out. “Mask was outside doing something.
“But all of the reasons why they (Musk's team) were allowed to do this, why they were allowed to essentially coordinate this America PAC with the Trump campaign, are all clear to Mark -It's for Elias.'' That's what's interesting about this. Credit to Ken Vogel. new york times who pointed this out. If you go to Marc Elias's website, he brags In March of this year, Texas Majority PAC, Elias PAC, was formed in 2018 to use paid recruiters to extract votes.
Musk basically reused Elias' playbook and did the same thing.
Schweitzer agrees. “Certainly, the get-out-the-vote efforts have made a big difference in Pennsylvania. A criticism of Marc Elias is that he is very aggressive and at times reckless. It creates a judgment or a precedent that people can use to bring him down. And that's kind of what happened here.”
It's also a repeating pattern. In California, Schweizer noted that Gov. Gavin Newsom has created his own California-focused PAC, which he is currently reconfiguring as a national anti-Trump committee.
Speaking of California, more than a week after the election, six U.S. House races in the Golden State still hadn't been finalized. If the current rankings of all these races are maintained; Republicans will control the House by a very narrow margin with a three-seat majority.which is one less than the current margin.
“One of the reasons why all of these voting races seem to be extended in states like California is because California has the most liberal voting integrity law in the nation. Ballot collection is It’s legal,” Schweitzer said. “Gavin Newsom signs law banning voter ID requirements in any community in California.”
Mr. Schweitzer is 13th Only 61.6 percent of the votes were counted in the Congressional district. a whole week After the election. Some other unannounced races in the state aren't much better. california 21cent Only the district reports 66 percent, with several other races barely in the 70 percent range. It's located in a state known as the “Technology Capital of the Earth.”
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