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Yang with direct criticism to the whole primary debate complex:
"We’re up here with makeup on our faces, and our rehearsed attack lines, playing roles in this reality TV show. It’s one reason we elected a reality TV star as our president."
Scoop: Dominion Voting Systems has sued Rudy Giuliani for his false claims over the election.
Seeking $1.3 billion.
NYT story: nytimes.com/2021/01/25/us/…
Just in: Texas Supreme Court denies a Republican-backed petition seeking to toss out more than 100,000 votes in Harris County cast in drive-thru lanes. Opinion, without comment, is here: txcourts.gov/supreme/orders…
I share this picture every year: this was our high school, 20 years ago today, where the glass windows to the admin offices were our only way to know whose parents were safe, whose had called in, and the agonizing absence of those who hadn't yet been heard from:
Trump, on Hannity to talk Harris, is talking windmills: "If you see a windmill and you hear a windmill, your home goes down by half, or less than half. It kills all the birds."
New: The swift embrace of false allegations of cheating in the California recall reflects a growing instinct on the right to argue that any lost election, or any ongoing race that might result in defeat, must be marred by fraud.
BREAKING: Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio announces that voting be extended until June 2nd, that no in-person voting occur tomorrow.
"It is clear that tomorrows in person voting does not conform and cannot conform with these CDC guidelines. We cannot conduct this election tomorrow."