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‘Get ready’: Trump says helium volition ‘very probably’ tally again for president successful 2024
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Florida’s Republican politician Ron DeSantis has cruised into a 2nd word contempt an ominous pre-election menace from Donald Trump, according to projections by The Associated Press.
Mr Trump had warned that Mr DeSantis “could wounded himself precise badly” if helium attempts to tally for president successful 2024, arsenic galore radical person speculated that helium might.
Some governmental operatives and experts spot Mr DeSantis, who has achieved nationalist fame by inflaming civilization wars implicit contention and sex successful Florida’s schools, arsenic a younger, slicker, little gaffe-prone mentation of Mr Trump.
Nevertheless, Mr Trump told reporters connected Tuesday that helium had voted for Mr DeSantis
Meanwhile, the erstwhile president himself wasted nary clip successful pushing baseless claims of elector fraud and calling for his followers to protestation earlier the midterm polls person adjacent closed.
Follow on beneath for unrecorded updates.
No congratulations for Ron DeSantis yet
It has present been astir 90 minutes since AP called Florida’s governorship for Ron DeSantis, and truthful acold we person seen nary connection of congratulations from Donald J Trump.
Mr Trump’s relationship connected Truth Social remained soundless arsenic of 9:31pm EST, whereas AP called the contention astatine 8:03pm. Perhaps he’s busy?
Io Dodds9 November 2022 02:31
How Trump’s misleading assertion astir Detroit voting glitches spread
It's not conscionable Trump who is hawking misleading claims astir voting glitches successful Detroit.
Kristina Karamo, a Republican who is moving to beryllium Michigan's caput of state, picked up connected reports that immoderate Detroit voters were told they had already formed their ballots arsenic grounds supporting her caller suit alleging corruption successful the city's counting process.
Ms Karamo’s tweet, based connected a study from section writer Charlie Langton, neglected to notation that these voters were not prevented from casting their ballots, and that predetermination officials had promised to marque definite specified votes were counted.
Hours later, the metropolis said it had traced the problems to a "harmless information error" successful a strategy designed to forestall treble voting.
That did not forestall Ms Karamo's claims from spreading acold crossed the pro-Trump societal media universe, acknowledgment mostly to Mr Trump and his outrider Dinesh D'Souza.
According to the Election Integrity Partnership, a conjugation of disinformation researchers, the assertion has dispersed not lone successful English but successful French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Mandarin.
Ms Karamo's suit was dismissed connected Monday by a Michigan judge, who said she had "failed dramatically" to enactment her arguments with "any shred of evidence".
Io Dodds9 November 2022 02:24
Opinion: Trump rounds disconnected the midterms with lies and self-obsession
Writing for The Independent’s Voices section, Andrew Buncombe takes a look astatine the characteristically lurid mode Donald Trump has closed retired the midterms campaign:
If the erstwhile president was dilatory to get backmost connected the predetermination trail, helium has much than made up for it since, appearing endlessly implicit the past 18 months, relentless with his mendacious claims of ballot rigging and victimhood.
On Monday night, helium returned to Ohio for a final, eve-of-election rally that dragged connected for 2 hours.
And conscionable arsenic astatine the lawsuit successful the summertime of 2021, the code helium delivered connected Monday was filled with lies, insults, and an obsession with himself that appears to person nary limit.
Read the afloat portion below:
Megan Sheets9 November 2022 02:00
Read much connected DeSantis
Here’s my workfellow Alex Woodward with the afloat communicative connected Ron DeSantis and his ascendancy successful Florida.
Io Dodds9 November 2022 01:33
DeSantis wins Florida contempt Trump threat
The Associated Press has called the Florida governor’s race for Republican firebrand Ron DeSantis, contempt an ominous menace from Donald Trump.
Mr DeSantis is estimated to person cruised to triumph implicit Demorat Charlie Crist, securing a 2nd word and bolstering his power and popularity among the Republican base.
The triumph tin lone summation speculation that helium could situation Mr Trump for the 2024 statesmanlike nomination, fixed his occurrence successful making himself a nationalist figurehead for America’s civilization wars implicit contention and sex successful schools.
Mr Trump had ominously claimed that Mr DeSantis “could wounded himself precise badly” if helium runs, portion Mr Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba said: “Just enactment wherever you are. You are doing a large occupation successful Florida.”
Mr DeSantis present has different 4 years successful office, but of people that would not halt him from stepping down if helium thinks helium has a changeable astatine the White House.
So far, Mr Trump has not congratulated Mr DeSantis connected his victory.
Io Dodds9 November 2022 01:27
Trump lawyer tees up quality implicit midterm results
Christina Bobb, a erstwhile OAN big who serves arsenic 1 of Donald Trump’s attorneys successful the Mar-a-Lago affair, appeared connected the Trump-backing Right Side Broadcasting Network connected Monday nighttime arsenic her brag prepared for his Ohio rally – and added to the chorus of right-wing voices already spinning a communicative of Democratic electoral malfeasance if the results of the midterms bash not autumn successful Republicans’ favour by the aboriginal hours of Wednesday.
This projection for an acceptable complaint of vote-counting is wholly arbitrary, and rests connected a template conspiracy mentation that Democrats volition someway tamper with the ballot tallies aft each voting is completed – successful crook providing a premise to question the validity of each mail-in ballots, which thin to beryllium added to tallies aboriginal successful the counting process, thin to favour Democrats, and successful immoderate states tin beryllium added to the full number good aft in-person voting closes.
Megan Sheets9 November 2022 01:00
‘Save large connected My Pillow products close now!'
At this captious infinitesimal for American democracy, erstwhile Trump adjutant Sebastian Gorka is focusing connected the astir important issues.
“Save BIG connected MY PILLOW Products RIGHT NOW!” tweeted the Hungarian-American vigor big connected Tuesday night, offering followers a idiosyncratic discount codification for MyPillow.com.
The pillow and bedding supplier has go a darling of MAGA conservatives owed to its brag Mike Lindell’s outspoken enactment for Mr Trump’s conspiracy theories astir the 2020 predetermination being stolen.
Io Dodds9 November 2022 00:16
Trump shares Melania’s absorption to ‘pee tape' rumour
Trump told a midterms rally assemblage that erstwhile First Lady Melania Trump didn’t judge the salacious allegations successful the Steele dossier, the infamous and present mostly-debunked probe record from erstwhile British spy Christopher Steele astir the Trump campaign’s alleged contacts with Russia.
The research, funded by the 2016 Hillary Clinton statesmanlike run and the Democratic National Committee, claimed among different things that Mr Trump paid prostitutes successful Moscow to urinate connected a edifice furniture Barack and Michelle Obama had erstwhile used.
Mr Trump, famously germaphobic, said his woman didn’t judge the allegations.
“She said to me, ‘I cognize that’s not your thing,’” Mr Trump said. “You cognize why? Because I’m a germ freak.”
The Independent’s Josh Marcus has more:
Megan Sheets9 November 2022 00:00
Trump warns Ron DeSantis ‘if helium runs, helium could wounded himself badly’
Former president Donald Trump continued his needling of his apt 2024 rival Ron DeSantis, telling Fox News that a tally mightiness wounded the Florida governor.
Mr Trump spoke with Fox connected his airplane for an exclusive interrogation and said that helium had nary “tiff” with Mr DeSantis but said it would beryllium a “mistake” to run.
“I don’t cognize if helium is running. I deliberation if helium runs, helium could wounded himself precise badly. I truly judge helium could wounded himself badly,” Mr Trump said. “I deliberation helium would beryllium making a mistake, I deliberation the basal would not similar it — I don’t deliberation it would beryllium bully for the party.”
Eric Garcia reports.
Oliver O'Connell8 November 2022 23:40
Watch: Trumps says he’ll enactment McCarthy but apt not McConnell
Donald Trump says connected Newsmax that helium apt won’t backmost Mitch McConnell for GOP Senate person but “absolutely” volition enactment Kevin McCarthy successful the House.
Oliver O'Connell8 November 2022 23:30
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