Good point, I guess not no.
If it wasn't an insurrection, what was it?
Have a word with yourself!
I anticipate an answer that a Trump cultist would give. Like Brexit it will be based on emotional conviction rather than evidence.
Well he certainly didn't pocket as much money from foreign states as he'd've liked to have done, so there's that too.
Don't know why I asked really, the poster has a track record of flawed logic and thinking and has shown a lack of ability to judge sources and information with his 'I don't trust main stream media' nonsense.
- which is the scary part for me. If it was all over politics, and ideas and visions, doing the best for the country, then all well and good. Someone I read said the R party is now a 'movement', not a party.
Oh FFS. You can see his post on Truth Social if you have the inclination. You are in a cult.
I don't really understand their election cycles and caucuses etc, but wasn't the Iowa vote the same as asking a load of Brighton fans in, say, Peacehaven, to vote for who they want as their manager next season? Chances are it'd be RdZ.
Not at all - The press will always call a mathematical result when they know it before all votes are in - they do with a general election too and they will do it with the Primaries. They aren’t declaring Trump to be Republican Presidential Candidate, the caucuses didn’t do that, just that Trump got the most votes in Iowa and therefore he gets the most delegates for Iowa at the Republican Party Convention in July 2024. The nominee for each Presidential Candidate will be voted on at the republican and democrat Conventions by all the delegates voted in from 48 States’ Primaries or caucuses .
I honestly don't have a clue what led you to post all that, because it's got nothing to do with the point I was trying to make
Sorry - I didn’t read back on what you were responding to - the last posts I had read about declaring too early were all about declaring the Iowa caucus results too early (relating to the press) and someone quoted you also referring to the Iowa caucuses not the General Election. Miscommunication?I honestly don't have a clue what led you to post all that, because it's got nothing to do with the point I was trying to make
I was referring to the fact that people seem to be declaring Trump the next president. When, just this afternoon, I saw two polls that put Biden ahead.
Loads of people - on here and elsewhere - seem to think it's a dead cert because of the result in Iowa.
I still don't understand - (and I know I could go to Wikipedia but it sounds like you could explain it better) -
Yeah some real Chicken Licken "sky is falling!" stuff on here. He's still got to get a constitutionally changing decision from the Supreme Court to even be allowed on the ballot in the first place. Then despite the American right wing media crowing about poll numbers and "red waves".....Where it really matters at the ballot box....Reps just keep on losing to Dems. DeSantis' old seat in Florida just flipped blue which is a major coup for Florida Democrats. Although this story got lost among all the "Trump wins in Trumpland!" headlines about what was always gonna be a foregone conclusion. Nikki Haley's New Hampshire numbers have got him worried to the point where he's having meltdowns on Truth Social and using racial slurs. Although I still think he'll win there.
Fair enough - I must have missed those posts or at least skimmed over them not taking them too seriously since there is an air of unrealistic fatalism about that pov.
2000 mules is a work of pure fiction that has been totally debunkrd and repudiated except in the minds of Trumpian cult members.
I'm sure if the Democrats had agreed to an independent investigation it would of put my mind to rest, although yours is already settled regardless. I seem to remember the UK had an independent investigation into postal vote fraud. Did that traumatise you?
And people mock FPTP.......<sigh>It is complicated but as brief as I can:
1. Caucuses - are meetings organised throughout the State by the political parties in some States instead of State-run Primaries - there are only 5 States which have caucuses. (See ‘Caucus States 2024’ link) The others have State wide elections in March in which anyone registered to vote, can vote. The purpose of caucuses and Primaries are to decide how many delegates each candidate gets to attend the party Convention - each delegate represents a vote at the Convention - anyone can attend a caucus but only if they are registered party members - they just turn up and basically go and stand near their candidates in a large room - after speeches there is a show of hands. The Democratic caucuses will be all mail in ballots not votes cast at the caucuses. We have no equivalent unless you count hustings which have no vote but where the candidates address voters/make speeches.
2. Each State has a proportionate number of available delegates/voters allowed to attend the Convention - Iowa has 40 - out of that number Trump won a majority (20?) —all those Iowa delegates then attend the Party Convention locked into their candidate. The Presidential Candidate is the one that has won the most delegates from all caucuses and Primaries combined. At the Republican party Convention for example, a Candidate needs to have at least 1,215 votes ( a majority of the votes out of a total of 2,400 delegate votes) to be nominated as the Presidential Candidate
3. The nominee is the Candidate that has won the most delegate votes from the primaries and caucuses (so it is more often than not just a formality), however, if no one candidate has won such a majority, the votes are all disregarded and the Convention votes from scratch. The ‘nominee’ is who the Convention decides will represent each party in the General Election as the Presidential candidate and race to the White House. As it stands currently, Biden and Trump are looking likely to be the nominees for Presidential Candidates based on opinion polls and the lead they have over other candidates. The Republicans have 6 candidates, the Democrats 3. (Biden, Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson - plenty of info on Wiki about the latter two).
What is a caucus? How Nevada's two days of voting are different
Nevada will hold both a Republican primary and caucuses in 2024. Here's what will be different about the two days of voting and how the caucuses work.www.cbsnews.com
It probably makes little difference but just to clarify, it is the other way round. The implementation of decisions to remove Trump from the ballots in those lower court cases, eg in Colorado and Maine, were suspended by the respective judges once the Supreme Court accepted Trump’s appeal. If SCOTUS rules in favour of Trump’s Appeal, he stays on the ballots, if he loses the Appeal, any votes cast for him in those States before the oral arguments on Feb 8 in any Primaries postal ballots will be discounted. Trump’s Lawyers aren’t asking for a change in the Constitution but for an interpretation of it ie whether what Trump did on 6th Jan amounts to ‘insurrection’ for the purposes of the 14th Amendment and whether section 3 (banning any officer from future public office who is guilty of such) applies to Trump since the Presidency falls outside the scope of S3 - not something SCOTUS has ruled on before since no POTUS has ever engaged in insurrection.
