11/13/20: The coronavirus refuses to go
away. The same can be said of Donald J. Trump. He’s telling anyone who will
listen that he won a second term with a bazillion votes to spare.
In Arizona, an attempt by the Trump legal team to block the counting of votes in Maricopa County, was withdrawn. As Axios explained, Kory Langhofer, a Trump campaign attorney, admitted in court today, that the campaign was not alleging any kind of widespread voter fraud.
Trump’s lawyers instead “claimed that poll workers had
submitted ballots with errors and did not give voters the opportunity to
correct them.”
Since the number of ballots involved was less than 200, and many
of those who were complaining probably failed to understand the vote “curing”
process, the futility of pursuing the lawsuit apparently dawned on even Trump’s
lawyers. Joe Biden led in Arizona by more than 11,000 votes.
Picking up a few here would do zero good.
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Maricopa County, Arizona. |
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If Trump won’t go away, Senator-elect Tommy Tuberville, from Alabama, is just arriving. The new man in town offers up a few thoughts about his coming role in Washington D.C. “Our government wasn’t set up for one group to have all three branches of government — wasn’t set up that way,” Mr. Tuberville said. “You know, the House, the Senate, and the executive.”
In fact, the former football coach explained that voters had elected him to fight the spread of “socialism,” just as his father (he said), had fought to stop “socialism” during World War II. “I tell people, my dad fought 76 years ago in Europe to free Europe of socialism,” he explained to reporters.
Which means he needed to talk to his dad more when he was growing up. The U.S. fought to stop Fascists in Europe, starting in 1941, and to defeat Japanese aggression in the Pacific.
He also claimed that Al Gore was the “president-elect” during the month-long battle to decide the final vote in Florida in 2000. Neither Gore, nor George W. Bush, who was ultimately declared victor, was “president-elect” during that period. (That mistake, at least, was more understandable.)
Perhaps for obvious reasons, Tuberville had kept a low profile, rarely talking to reporters during the campaign, relying on his fame as a successful college football coach at Auburn to win votes.
As for the three branches, they are:
Executive: the president and the machinery of the various cabinet departments, tasked with carrying out the laws.
Legislative: both the House and Senate, which make the laws.
Judicial: charged with interpreting the law, and
ensuring that legal disputes are settled fairly.
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