Elections
Voter Suppression Fest 2020 Kicks Off In Georgia
This is (but shouldn’t be) America.
October 13, 2020 12:32 PM
Early in-person voting started in Georgia Monday, and what we witnessed was hardly democracy in action. People were waiting in lines that snaked around city blocks for almost 10 hours. That's a de facto poll tax and outright disenfranchisement for people with disabilities and parents of small children. It's inexcusable, but that didn't stop officials from trying. God bless.
From CNN:
"Georgia is seeing record turnout for early voting because of excitement and enthusiasm of the upcoming election," said Walter Jones, a spokesperson for the Georgia Secretary of State's office. "Long lines are to be expected — voters need to be aware of all of their options including three weeks of early voting, no-excuse absentee and in-person voting day of the election."
See? Long lines are to be expected, so sit down and shut up. Well, you can't actually sit. You'll have to stand for hours on end, but your tired dogs are no excuse for bellyaching. This is America, where our regularly scheduled elections remain a constant source of surprise.
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Ever since Chief Justice John Roberts declared racism a passing fad and
<a href="https://www.wonkette.com/chief-justice-roberts-helped-hang-the-whites-only-sign-on-voting-booths-across-the-nation" target="_blank">gutted the Voting Rights Act,</a> Republican-led states have shut down polling places, which is where people go to vote. Those 1,200 polling places in the South weren't old Blockbuster Videos. We still have elections. Nothing changed. Those states didn't shift to mail-in voting. In Georgia, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-locations/southern-u-s-states-have-closed-1200-polling-places-in-recent-years-rights-group-idUSKCN1VV09J" target="_blank">there are now seven counties that have just one polling place.</a> That is deliberate suppression.
</p><p>Check out Houston, Texas's one ballot dropoff location for 4.7 million people today:</p><p>
Officials also can't pretend they were caught flat-footed by a surge in early in-person voting because of the pandemic. Even before COVID-19 struck, Georgia was reducing the number of polling locations since the 2016 election. This was despite an actual increase in the number of registered voters.
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From a
<a href="https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/verify/verify-three-central-georgia-counties-one-less-polling-location-election-day/93-48ad0ae7-0a76-46f4-92db-850d5451c0af" target="_blank">13WMAZ special report:</a>
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<em>In the last four years, the number of registered voters in Bibb County jumped from about 79,000 to 105,000.
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<em>As the number of voters increased, the county decreased its polling places by one, going from 32 in 2016 down to 31.</em>
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</blockquote><p>The government isn't randomly screwing up. As conservative Never Trumper David Frum noted on Twitter, America is proving exceptional at suppressing the vote.</p><div id="135f8" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="98d210a12e45bc6c3b459efaae3c6bea"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1315813973703487490" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">It's not easy to design a voting system that creates 11 hour lines. Nobody else in the developed world has managed… https://t.co/m2IBLFMA7N</div> — David Frum (@David Frum)<a href="https://twitter.com/davidfrum/statuses/1315813973703487490">1602549472.0</a></blockquote></div><p>This is the year 2020, which we know because we're all miserable. There's no longer any justification for these long-ass lines. I live in Oregon, which has had a vote-by-mail system since 1998. A ballot arrives at my house. I fill it out for candidates who'll fuck the police at varying levels. It's simple and efficient. I also don't have to take a day off from work and risk exposing myself to COVID-19 in order to exercise my constitutional rights. </p><p>Washington, Colorado, Utah, and Hawaii have also conducted elections by mail without major incident. Donald Trump hates mail-in voting and baselessly claims that the system has “tremendous potential for fraud." (It doesn't.) He <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/trump-let-minorities-eat-coronavirus-if-they-want-to-vote-so-bad" target="_blank">also argues</a> that “for whatever reason," voting by mail “doesn't work out well for Republicans." He doesn't even bother hiding his true concern. </p><p>If Georgians could vote as easily as people in Oregon and Washington, it's possible that Republicans might suffer at the ballot box, but that doesn't make vote-by-mail a fraudulent system. This is a common complaint from conservatives, who oppose statehood for DC and Puerto Rico primarily because they believe <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/tom-cotton-presents-86-ways-to-say-dc-has-too-many-black-people-to-be-a-state" target="_blank">it would benefit Democrats.</a></p><div id="ea6f2" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="c6876a1d15de2644c30d9aaf1640657f"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1315716720284381186" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">This is the voter. Her name is Viola Hardy. She got in line at 6:20am. She was still in line to vote at 11:15am. https://t.co/dbcHcIRrf8</div> — Andy Pierrotti (@Andy Pierrotti)<a href="https://twitter.com/AndyPierrotti/statuses/1315716720284381186">1602526285.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Voters appeared undaunted by the lines, but that isn't a “hooray for democracy" moment. The voters were predominately Black and consumed with a passion to free themselves of Trump. At the main Cobb County early polling location in Marietta, voter Viola Hardy joined the line at 6:20 a.m. and was still waiting five hours later. She wasn't going anywhere.<br></p><blockquote><strong>HARDY:</strong> I think people are really ready to vote, and it doesn't matter how long it takes. We are standing in line to vote. That's the most important part. We're voting like our life depends on it.</blockquote><p>We don't know how Hardy voted Monday. She might believe Trump's claim that he's done more for us Black folks than even Abraham Lincoln and she's just eager to show her appreciation, but for some reason, I doubt it. There was no crazy in her eyes, just determination.</p><p>There are Viola Hardys across the nation who understand what's at stake, and they're coming for you, Trump.</p><p>[<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/politics/georgia-early-voting-lines-election-2020/index.html" target="_blank">CNN</a>]<br></p><p>
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Congress
Michigan GOP Senate Candidate Had So Much Fun Losing In 2018, He’s Back For More!
John James hates politics. Probably because he’s so bad at it.
October 12, 2020 02:32 PM
Getting the Senate out of Mitch McConnell's creepy hands is just about as important as evicting Donald Trump from the White House. A key race is in Michigan, where Republican John James hopes to unseat Democratic incumbent Gary Peters. (Peters shared his story of his and his wife's experience with abortion with Elle today and you should read it.) The candidates are projected to spend a combined $100 million in the Senate race, a state record that the Detroit Metro-Times claims “dwarfs the $93.4 million spent on the 2018 governor's race between Gretchen Whitmer and Bill Schuette." (The Metro-Times is generous in its use of the word “dwarfs" here.)
James is trailing Peters by five points according to the Real Clear Politics average, which is an improvement over his almost seven-point loss to Debbie Stabenow in 2018. That's nothing to write home about, though, unless the subject of the letter is “I'm losing another Senate race."
During the 2018 election, James, a former fighter pilot, described himself as a “conservative warrior," someone who "hated politics but loves this country." That would make him a bad fit for a career in, you know, politics. He might as well just stick to complaining about “do-nothing politicians" at his local bar.
James is Black, but he has no problem showing up at Trump's hate rallies. Low marginal tax rates are just that important to him. During a conference call with Black leaders in Michigan, James insisted Trump doesn't need “less Black folks around him. He needs more." This implies Trump would become less racist if there were more Black Republicans in his orbit, but he'd just wind up requesting a more elaborate musical number.
<div id="ab7b7" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="86c4bcbb9470ab54e2477770d8e665b9"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1314392688549138435" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@chipfranklin Based on this, Michigan should NEVER elect someone who aligns themselves with Trump.
Like John James. https://t.co/GSVvTqB1k4</div> — Republicans For Biden (RFB) (@Republicans For Biden (RFB))<a href="https://twitter.com/ForRfb/statuses/1314392688549138435">1602210611.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Trump can also barely keep track of the few Black Republicans there are now. During his September 10 rally at the MBS International Airport in Freeland, Trump thought James was running for <em>governor</em>, but James won't have the chance to lose to Whitmer until 2022. <br></p><p>
The following are <a href="https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-freeland-mi-campaign-rally-speech-transcript-september-10" target="_blank">actual words Trump said</a> while trying to sell Michigan voters on James:
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Hello, John James. I see you handsome guy. John James, get out and vote for John. I'm going to introduce you in a second John James. What a job you've done. I have to tell you, he took, I saw this group of people that were running, all nice people, three very rich people and one guy that was John James and I saw them all. Right? I saw them all and I said, "Wait."
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With the wonderful invention of TiVo, one of the greats, you can play it back. I said, "Who was that?" He said, "I don't know, sir." I said, "Play it back." I said, "That man is going to be a star." It was John James. That was in the Republican primary. After learning about him with his incredible career and helicopter, and he's a great, and actually a great flyer I heard the other day, a great one, a really good one as opposed to those that aren't so good, but his incredible background and education at West Point and all of the things he did. I said, "This guy" and I endorsed him and he went like a rocket ship. Frankly, if he had a little more support, he would have won the last time. This time, I hear you're even, and maybe even ahead, and we're going to win with John James. He's a great guy, but I'm going to introduce him in a second.
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Yeah, Biden's the senile one.</p><p>
If James is hoping to catch a ride on Trump's coattails, he's out of luck. The president narrowly won Michigan in 2016 with his unofficial second running mate Jill Stein. However, he's <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/mi/michigan_trump_vs_biden-6761.html" target="_blank">down an average seven points</a> in the state against Joe Biden. Put in perspective: Biden's current lead in Michigan is greater than Trump's in <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/south-carolina/" target="_blank">South Carolina</a> and <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/texas/" target="_blank">Texas.</a> Trump's <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/loser-trump-giving-up-on-michigan-because-hes-a-loser" target="_blank">campaign had bailed </a>on Michigan in the summer, but President Pandemic is now returning to <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/rightwing-reactions-militia-plot-to-kidnap-gretchen-whitmer" target="_blank">Big Gretch's</a> airwaves, where he's not welcome.
</p><p>James hasn't yet tried to make a play for Biden voters in the event Trump loses the state. North Carolina GOP Senator Thom Tillis has already cut bait on the COVID-spreader-in-chief, arguing that reelecting him and preserving the GOP Senate majority would provide <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/09/cunningham-scandal-rocks-battle-for-senate-428091" target="_blank">"the best check on a Biden presidency."</a></p><p>But a Republican-controlled Senate won't provide a check, only obstruction. That wasn't fun during the Obama administration when there wasn't a pandemic. Now people are facing bankruptcy from failing businesses or eviction because they can't pay rent. Americans need a Senate leadership that will work with Biden, not one that will make sure he fails over our dead bodies.</p><p>Now's the worst time to vote for a Republican Senate candidate, and that includes “conservative warrior" John James.</p><p>Donate to the Senate Democratic fund <a href="https://www.dscc.org" target="_blank">here.</a></p><p>
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Voters Prefer Presidents Who Don’t Get Captured By Coronavirus
Make it hurt, Joe!
October 07, 2020 09:37 AM
It's been 84 years since the first and merciful-God-willing last presidential debate. Donald Trump was an absolute asshole, constantly interrupting and talking over Joe Biden and moderator Chris Wallace. This was apparently a performance worthy of The Bell Curve Hall of Fame, because conservative deep thinker Andrew Sullivan was scared ... while simultaneously wowed by President Ubermensch.
Polls taken after the debate showed that voters weren't as impressed as Sullivan was by Trump's bullying and senseless cruelty. They almost all believed Biden won the debate.
However, some feared Trump might turn things around after his COVID-19 diagnosis. He'd gain the sympathy vote! Biden pulled his negative ads, while Trump's campaign refused because no one who works for the president has a shred of human decency. This would surely hurt Uncle Joe's momentum.
Despite all the doom and gloom, this isn't Biden's first rodeo or even a rodeo at all. It's a presidential election that Biden's winning, and don't lecture me about how the polls don't matter and we need to act like we're 16 points behind. Sure, if we don't vote, then Biden doesn't win. I get it. Your graduate-level political science degrees really paid off. But it's Donald Trump who needs the motivational speeches, and I'm about to do the exact opposite.
<p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/06/politics/cnn-poll-biden-trump-2020-election/index.html" target="_blank">CNN released a poll</a> Tuesday that was devasting for the president and a source of delight for normal people. Biden was whooping Trump 57 to 41 percent.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>Let's check out all the ways Trump's losing:</p><blockquote>Likely voters are more apt to consider Biden the candidate who would unite the country (61% Biden to 33% Trump), who is honest and trustworthy (58% Biden to 33% Trump), who cares about people like you (58% Biden to 38% Trump), who has a clear plan to solve the nation's problems (55% to 39%) and who would keep Americans safe from harm (55% to 43%).<br><br>Although this is the first national CNN survey to report results among likely voters, <strong>a comparison of results among registered voters now to those from a survey about a month ago reveals Biden has made substantial gains</strong> in support among several key voting blocs.<span></span></blockquote><p>Yes, it seems like Trump didn't win over voters with his belligerent <a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2020/10/new-project-lincoln-ad-highlights-joe" target="_blank">“Try To Make Biden Stutter"</a> strategy. His debate performance clearly hurt him.</p><blockquote>Biden has expanded his edge over Trump among women, from 57% to 37% in September to 66% to 32% now. That shift includes substantial gains for Biden among white women with college degrees and women of color. Among people of color generally, Biden's advantage has increased from 59% to 31% in September to 69% to 27% now. The former vice president has also made gains among younger voters, moderates and independents over the last month.</blockquote><p>Everyone hates Trump! It's like they met him or saw him on TV once.</p><p>President Pandemic's not doing much better in a new <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/10/06/trump-support-craters-after-contracting-coronavirus-new-fpu-herald-poll-reveals/" target="_blank">Franklin Pierce University-Boston Herald poll</a> taken after he tested positive for the coronavirus. The SOB's in free fall.</p><blockquote>In two days of polling before Trump got COVID, the president trailed Biden by just a 46%-41% margin. In the three days of polling after the coronavirus diagnosis, Biden held a 55%-34% lead. That means Biden's lead grew by a whopping 16 points from pre-COVID to post-COVID.</blockquote><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p>These polling numbers are consistent with the theory that voters don't appreciate when presidents stick their privates into light sockets. We might feel bad for you but we don't want you running shit. </p><p>The pre- and post-COVID numbers average out to a 51 to 37 percent ass whooping. Walter Mondale's laughing at Trump.</p><p>The race could still tighten or at least return to pre-Trump-has-the-rona numbers, which were still bleak for him. However, the president is too stupid to help his case. The economy was his one area of relative strength against Biden, but he's killed stimulus negotiations. Now voters will blame him when they can't make rent.</p><p>Throughout the general election, Trump's numbers have hovered in the low-to-mid 40s like summer in San Francisco. Unlike 2016, there are fewer undecided voters for James Comey to nudge in his direction, and the third party cavalry isn't coming to save Trump's sorry ass in the swing states this time. If Biden keeps solidifying his lead, Trump is going to lose early and often on November 3.</p><p>[<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/06/politics/cnn-poll-biden-trump-2020-election/index.html" target="_blank">CNN</a> /<a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/10/06/trump-support-craters-after-contracting-coronavirus-new-fpu-herald-poll-reveals/" target="_blank">Boston Herald</a>]</p><p><em>Follow Stephen Robinson on </em><em><a href="https://twitter.com/SER1897" target="_blank">Twitter.</a></em></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p><strong>Yr Wonkette is 100 percent ad free and supported entirely by reader donations. Please click the clickie, if you are able!</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Trump Won Two Online Polls, Therefore He Won The Debate, IT'S CALLED SCIENCE, ELECTION OVER!
Shut up, everybody, Trump DID TOO win!
October 02, 2020 10:20 AM
NOTE: We wrote this piece before Trump announced that he (allegedly) has COVID-19. If he really has it, thoughts and prayers. If not, then that's a mighty convoluted way to get out of debating Joe Biden again, which is what this post is about.
So on that note, travel back with us in time to yesterday afternoon, which was by our calculations 476 news cycles ago:
The saga of Donald Trump setting fire to his own dick and eating it during Tuesday night's debate continues. Bless his heart, he really thinks he won.
The first scientific poll is out, my friends. CNBC/Change Research found that Joe Biden's lead after the debate has widened to 13 points (54-41) and that approximately the same majority believes Biden won the debate. Meanwhile, only 29 percent of those surveyed — Trump's base paste-eating cult supporters — were willing to say Trump won. The rest are just holding their noses.
Oh, but you think that's a poll? The Trump campaign got polls! We'll show you how much they got polls! In just a minute!
There may have been many more developments by the time you read this — like Melania's I Really Don't Care Do U tapes about the baby jails and OH YEAH COVID — but we giggled Thursday afternoon as we watched reporters live-tweet a call with the Trump campaign, where they whined and bitched and moaned about the UNFAAAAAAAIR Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), which is nonpartisan, and which has Republican and Democratic board members. Now, clearly, Trump has decided that not only is his enemy Joe Biden and the moderator and America, but it is also the CPD, which is BIASSSSSSS against him, by wanting him to follow the rules his own campaign agreed to, and for suggesting it might give the moderators a cattle prod or mute button, in case he starts flouting the rules again.
<p>Oh, pathetic.</p><p>And on that call — we mentioned they got polls, right? THEY GOT POLLS — they bragged about the after-poll snap debates they DID win. </p><div id="69189" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="302a43c98cf10ebb446e48986d76f4cc"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1311753711857946626" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Trump campaign adviser @JasonMillerinDC is now rattling off online debate polls Trump won including "the New Jersey… https://t.co/u6vgAgciAZ</div> — Hunter Walker (@Hunter Walker)<a href="https://twitter.com/hunterw/statuses/1311753711857946626">1601581430.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, they really bragged about online polls from radio stations. </p><p>They have done this before, of course. Remember how <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/youre-not-gonna-believe-it-but-that-michael-cohen-story-about-rigging-online-polls-gets-stupider" target="_blank">Michael Cohen paid a guy</a> actual American money to rig meaningless online polls for Trump during the 2016 campaign and just before, to make it look like somebody in the entire world loved him? Cohen made clear once he got off the Trump sauce that he did all that <em>at the direction of Donald Trump</em>.</p><p>Who's rigging the New Jersey Dot Com online poll for Trump today? And what about the KISS FM one? We are just asking. Because we know online polls really hurt Trump's feelings, when they don't go his way.</p><p>The Trump campaign call got funnier, because the reporters got SAUCY:</p><div id="9faa9" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="636c0beb4302606c906819a63729916c"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1311755331261935617" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">A wonderful question from @ZekeJMiller who asked Trump camp manager Bill Stepien if he will change strategy as a "r… https://t.co/pxC5yfVdxL</div> — Hunter Walker (@Hunter Walker)<a href="https://twitter.com/hunterw/statuses/1311755331261935617">1601581816.0</a></blockquote></div><p>As they always say in politics, you don't know what really happened until you hear from the New Jersey Dot Com online poll. God bless you, Zeke Miller from the Associated Press. </p><p>LOL will they change strategy because of the <em>crucial</em> New Jersey dot com poll, we are to be laughing right now.<span></span></p><p>We should also note that just recently, Trump was bragging about <em>another</em> online poll what found that allegedly 45 percent of gay men are voting for him: </p><div id="72c03" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="0f0eadbd8e9847f88ba5ebe4dae940ba"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1307668481391890432" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Great! https://t.co/qXmO6krjYs</div> — Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump)<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/statuses/1307668481391890432">1600607435.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Oh, pathetic. Because the poll? Came from Hornet, a gay hook-up app, and it was totally an opt-in thing. Only 12 percent who replied to the poll were even American citizens. Hornet <a href="https://hornet.com/about/hornet-asked-10000-gay-men-to-weigh-in-on-the-upcoming-u-s-election-donald-trump/" target="_blank">explains</a> its poll in a blog post, noting that it featured quite a few weird results, like how of the American gay men who were on the hook-up app who said they were voting for Trump, 10 percent of THOSE said they "do not support Trump at all."</p><p>So we are just going to guess maybe this is not the most reliable poll we have ever heard of in the history of polling.</p><p>That didn't stop Tucker Carlson from blowing the poll up Trump's ass: </p><div id="de355" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="c01d4ac4a21761ea0f32f85e7ec51a52"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1306639998486278144" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">45% of gay men plan to vote for Trump? Gurl, that’s some poll smokin’. https://t.co/h97EQ8xCLR</div> — Greg Hogben (@Greg Hogben)<a href="https://twitter.com/MyDaughtersArmy/statuses/1306639998486278144">1600362226.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Oh, pathetic.</p><p>By the way, an <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/three-quarters-lgbtq-voters-back-joe-biden-glaad-poll-finds-n1241690" target="_blank">actual poll</a> by an actual pollster commissioned by GLAAD found that 75 percent of LGBTQ people are voting for Joe Biden.</p><p>But SHUT UP ABOUT IT, OK?</p><p>Trump got the Hornet poll for the guys who currently have boners and are looking to hook up, most of whom are foreign, and he's got the KISS FM poll, and the New Jersey Dot Com poll, and we might as well just call the election over and done with, because of how Trump got those polls and obviously is the winner of everything, the end.</p><p>In summary and in conclusion, before Trump announced he (allegedly) has the coronavirus, we were still wondering if there were going to be any more debates between Trump and Biden haha the end.</p><p><strong>Follow Evan Hurst on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/evanhurst" target="_blank">HERE RIGHT HERE!</a></strong></p><p><strong>Wonkette is funded by YOU! 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