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​The Left’s Civility Claptrap
George Neumayr, The American Spectator
The de-Christianization of the country, which Biden has championed, also makes any new era of civility impossible. Biden has no kinder, gentler view of America; his vision is rooted in the nihilism of Planned Parenthood and Black Lives Matter. He ran with a San Francisco radical whose idea of charity is to spring rioters chanting for the death of cops from jail. Biden seeks not unity but submission, not civility but unchallenged power. The “grim era of demonization” will not close but enter a new and even uglier chapter.

The Realignment Is Real
Jonathon Van Maren, The American Conservative
The 2016 election upended conventional wisdoms and inaugurated political chaos, with Donald Trump at the center of the maelstrom. Democrats have been desperately hoping—even assuming—that Trump was a one-off detour on the long march towards Progress (a goal that is forever just beyond the horizon.) Instead, the 2020 election results prove that the conservatives who gathered last year are not delusional—they’re on to something. Demography is not destiny. A new fusion of economic populism and social conservatism just might be.

Libertarian Ideas Are Great, Voting Libertarian Self-Defeating
Roger L. Simon, The Epoch Times
The more libertarian ideas are debated within the GOP, the more that party’s candidates will have to respond to them and, potentially, espouse them. They will have real world implications. When you waste them on something as inconsequential as a fringe and almost entirely ignored Libertarian Party, particularly in something so hotly contested as a presidential election, you vitiate them and are ultimately self-defeating, not to mention, as we have seen, sabotaging the only viable candidate who best carries your ideas.

Go On the Offensive In Georgia
Kurt Schlichter, Townhall
The Senate is the Big Enchilada after the presidency. There’s no reason to half-step. We need an aggressive, pre-election legal offensive to ensure that this nonsense does not happen again. So, what can you do? If you’re a lawyer, you go down there and do lawyer stuff. You might see me there. If you are a regular citizen, you can volunteer to help turn out voters before and then to stand in the counting rooms at 3 a.m. watching. If you are out of state, you can call voters, or you can give money. You need to do something.

Will Trump Ride Off Into the Sunset?
Victor Davis Hanson, PJ Media
In 2016 the peasants sought outside deliverance and so it came — orange skin, dyed hair, Queens accent and all. The more Trump beat back Mueller’s dream team, impeachment efforts, the more his beneficiaries worried about his tweets, his bluster and his self-absorption, and the more the public could afford to listen to charges of Trump excess. Often, Hollywood epics and even some Sophoclean tragedies have a sequel. And perhaps Donald Trump will too, even if he is forced to ride off into the 2021 sunset — at least for now.

Democratic blacklists and other odious hypocrisies
Editors, Washington Examiner
It was already evident last week that Democrats’ expected gains had failed to materialize in the Senate. But, stunningly, not a single Republican House incumbent who voted against Trump’s impeachment was defeated in the election. Democrats appear on pace to lose a dozen House seats on net, with their only three pickups coming due to court-ordered redistricting in North Carolina and a retirement in Georgia. Republicans also gained ground in state legislatures. Angry voters found a way to express it while rewarding Republicans.

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Don't Give an Inch
Rachel Bovard, The American Mind
The militant Left that has lied to America countless times cannot be trusted suddenly to tell the truth about what’s happening. Open the count, line up observers, ensure every vote cast is a legal one. If there are discrepancies, they must be explained rather than dismissed. Our self-government requires consensus. That consensus is fragile. Without trust at its foundation, it will shatter. The 71 million people who cast a vote for President Donald Trump deserve this transparency as much as every other American voter.

I Won Again!
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., The American Spectator
Whom have we elected as president? Democrat Joe Biden a proven plagiarist, a law school cheat, and a candidate who ran on his spotless character in a race to the White House in which a business partner to his son charged the son and the father with grave acts of corruption. What can we say of this electoral farce? Well, the best that I can say is that in 2020 I called the election right once again. There was no Democratic wave, and a week after the election it appears the most corrupt candidate in memory is ahead.

Was Pfizer’s Vaccine News Slow-Walked Until After the Election?
Julie Kelly, American Greatness
It’s hard to believe that Pfizer wasn’t in talks with the Joe Biden 2020 campaign. And it’s worth noting that Big Pharma donors favored Biden over Trump during the 2020 election cycle. Joe Biden and the media have exploited coronavirus relentlessly for political purposes. Collaborating with Big Pharma to slow-walk good news about a vaccine until after Election Day is another example of their shamelessness. Half of America doesn’t trust this potential president, his people, or the news media—and this is exactly why.

Democrats want it all now
Byron York, Washington Examiner
Some Democrats not only want President Trump to leave office, they want him to do so, and be replaced by Democrat Joe Biden, immediately. Other than the basic civics of presidential terms and succession, it seems to be that the people who have been driven 'round the bend by the Trump presidency are still 'round the bend, even as the process to formalize a successor is under way. Then the question is: Will they suddenly become rational actors once January 20, 2021 arrives? Or have they permanently lost their senses?

Unhinged Democrats take aim at Republican voters
Tammy Bruce, Washington Times
As Joe Biden's supporters imagine they have a mandate to continue their obscene cancel-culture and Stalinistic purges, they should take notice of what else happened during this election — Democrats were rejected at every level of government. The down-ballot mini-Red Wave was a statement rejecting socialism and the extremism controlling the Democratic party. If the Democrats continue to indulge their soul-rotting hatred of half the country, the 2022 midterms will remind them again, in a much more significant way.

CNN'S Preposterous Call for Unity
Tim Graham, CNS News
Media outlets like CNN should expect hostility toward the call for unity, because hyperbolic abuse has come out of the network for years. There will be no unity, because there is not one ounce of regret from CNN. You cannot spend four years with people such as Don Lemon denouncing Trump fans as "people who will lie, steal and cheat, lie to their own mother, lie to themselves" and expect unity. CNN's own continued abuse in between the "unity" commercials should underline why their Xeroxed Biden message is preposterous.

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Why Trump Shouldn’t Concede
David Catron, The American Spectator
The Constitution provides no authority whereby a court may override the manner in which a state legislature chooses its electors. The Elections and Electors Clause is the primary cause of action in the lawsuit just filed by the Trump campaign against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Trump will win this lawsuit and most of the others his campaign has filed because the states involved circumvented the Constitution. Trump would be crazy to concede the election. If only legal votes are counted, he will be reelected.

In the Fight
Kurt Schlichter, Townhall
Reject the gaslighting. This election was not normal. It was not regular. It was not worthy of your blind deference. Is it some sort of coincidence that all the problems arose in big urban centers in swing states run exclusively by Democrats? That they flooded the electorate with uncontrolled ballots? That they just stopped counting on election night, often with President Trump ahead? That they just kept counting until Biden was allegedly ahead? Win or lose we have to fight it or this planned chaos will become the norm.

Bret Baier Deletes Tweet That Exposed Exploding Backlash Against Fox News
John Nolte, Breitbart
More proof that Fox News is in real trouble. The backlash is so fierce, so grassroots, so overwhelming, Baier is forced to wishcast it all away with the cowardly deletion of a tweet — as though that somehow means it didn’t happen. Fox’s ratings will likely remain high until the presidential election is resolved, but I am truly interested to see what happens after… Fox News has lost its base of support, and when you lose your base of support, you are in very serious trouble. Ask the NFL, the NBA, ESPN, Megyn Kelly. 

Will Georgia Halt the Radicals' Revolution?
Patrick J. Buchanan, Creators
The stakes in Georgia senate races are second only to the presidency. Minutes after Biden declared victory last week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, exulted, "Now we take Georgia, and then we change the world." Schumer was referring to the two Senate races that will be decided Jan. 5, both runoffs where none of the four candidates got the Georgia-required 50.0% of the vote on Nov. 3. all that is needed to block this rising radical revolution is for the GOP to win one of the two Senate seats at issue Jan. 5.

An Election Day Bridge Too Far
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
After being lectured by Clintonites, by the media, and by big tech for years that voting was likely to be suspect, the Left did all it could by lawsuits and radical changes to voting statues to ensure that the count would be, well, suspect by its own prior standards. The realization that a transparent Election Day vote is a distant memory is what enrages Barack Obama’s clingers, Joe Biden’s dregs, chumps and ugly folk, and Hillary Clinton’s deplorables and irredeemables—-the final injury after a host of insults.

Biden and Dems' version of 'healing and unity' means bowing to their policies
Cal Thomas, Washington Times
The mystery is why so many Americans vote for Republicans in one election and Democrats the next. Too many it seems vote mainly on personality and superficialities, not substantive policies. It was the media’s job to dig under the superficial and reveal the true Joe Biden (and Kamala Harris, who could likely become president sooner than later). They failed, becoming an extension of the Democratic Party and anti-Trumpers. If Mr. Biden’s policies fail, don’t expect Democrats to admit it; they will blame Republicans.

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The NeverTrump Never Again
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
The NeverTrump Trumpers feel they are under no compulsion to defend the agenda’s author. Perhaps bad men can do a few good things, but they cannot do a lot of good things. And Trump did a lot more good for the country than had prior supposedly good presidents. In the end, most Trumpers appreciated that Trump took risks to enact a populist agenda that could save conservatism from its theorists and unite the formerly suspicious of different backgrounds and races, in a common belief in an America worth conserving.

Crucial Provisional Ballots: Why Pennsylvania (and This Election) Isn’t Over
Paul Kengor, The American Spectator
Which other crucial battleground states have provisional ballots yet to be counted? Do they exist in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, or in Michigan and Wisconsin? Is this being considered? Is the Trump campaign aware of it? These provisional ballots state by state will favor Trump because they are mainly Election Day ballots, and Trump won most of these states’ votes on Election Day. In a presidential race this razor-thin, these provisional ballots could be a game-changer, and not just in Pennsylvania.

Media ‘Calling’ Elections in a Democracy Is Post-Modern Fascism
Roger L. Simon, The Epoch Times
Media calling elections is akin to their outrageous polls we have witnessed that also operated as psy-ops designed to depress the vote and financial contributions to the GOP candidate. That the supposedly more conservative Fox News participates was illustrated not only by their extremely inaccurate polling in 2016 and 2020 but by their “calling” Arizona, which now looks virtually a toss up, for Biden very early election evening while declining to call Florida for Trump, which was close to a romp for the president.

Don’t Believe the Hype: GOP Favored in Georgia Runoffs
John Fund, National Review
Georgia is more competitive than it has been due to demographic changes and a drop-off in suburban women supporting Republicans. But it is easy to exaggerate the change. A tough two months of runoff campaigning lie ahead. But the likely outcome in Georgia is that the incoming Biden administration will take office with no mandate and seeing its candidates repudiated in Georgia just before the president takes office on January 20. Even Chuck Schumer would recognize that’s not a platform from which to “change America.”

Unity with Trump supporters? OK, prove you mean it, Joe!
Michael Goodwin, New York Post
Biden should not scoff at the lawsuits and challenges in the most contested states. Giving legitimacy to those disputes would be unusual, but we live in unusual and dangerous times. If Biden were to shut his eyes and pretend that all Americans fully accept the outcome as untainted, he would be making a colossal mistake that could haunt him should he be formally declared the winner. If he trusts the results are honest and accurate, he must do what he urged others to do — be patient and calm “until every vote is counted.”

Trump accuses Democrats of cheating? What goes around comes around.
Byron York, Washington Examiner
the cheating allegation had gone on and on — from mid-2016 until mid-2019. It was started and perpetuated by Democrats who sought to accuse Trump of cheating in the 2016 election. Some cling to it even today. In any event, it deeply, and unfairly, scarred the Trump presidency. Now, some Democrats say it is time to "heal." And President-elect Joe Biden asks that the accused and those who targeted them "give each other a chance" in the new Democratic administration. Surely no one will be surprised if that doesn't happen.

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The Voters Versus the Vote Counters
David Catron, The American Spectator
Trump can’t win without Pennsylvania, so the court will be forced to decide another case like Bush v. Gore. The republic won’t survive a political environment in which state courts arrogate prerogatives constitutionally reserved to the legislatures, election officials ignore the law governing mail-in ballots, and large numbers of votes mysteriously appear in one candidate’s totals in the dark of the night. It will eventually come down to the voters versus the vote counters. Our liberty depends on the victory of the former.

Trumpism Lives On!
Patrick J. Buchanan, American Conservative
Bottom line: Joe Biden is not going to be the "transformational" president of his imagining. Nor is he going to be the "most progressive president since Roosevelt" as some Democrats have been promising. And the reasons are obvious. FDR had massive Dem majorities in both Houses of Congress throughout the 1930s. In 1936, he carried 46 of 48 states. Biden has no such mandate and no such power base, and he lacks the natural gifts of FDR. Sorry, but there is no new "Era of Good Feelings" in store for America. To the contrary.

Sleepy Campaign Strategy Mystery Solved
Roger Kimball, American Greatness
Biden didn’t really campaign because he—or at least his handlers—knew the fix was in. They knew that compliant polls would cook the numbers to show that Biden was 10, 15, or even 17 points ahead nationally and in all the battleground states. The psychological, which means the political effect of that, was to insinuate an element of unreality into the whole campaign and to present the public, and the pundits who were there to spoonfeed them, with a false narrative about the performance and prospects of the two candidates.

The Disastrous 2020 Election Will Never Be Resolved
Roger L. Simon, The Epoch Times
No one will ever really know what happened. Once they get through with the referrals that will doubtless include the Banana Republic-style actions of election officials and workers in Philadelphia, Detroit and elsewhere who, despite court orders, prevented Republican poll watchers from doing their jobs, moving vote scanners to avoid supervision as if they were those proverbial goal posts, there should, if we lived in a just world, be enough to keep the dockets full of cases to be prosecuted until election 2024 and beyond.

2020’s Biggest Election Losers
Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal
This election’s clearest losers were Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, the public faces of the unhinged left. Will Democrats learn? Assuming the GOP keeps the Senate, we will continue with divided government. Americans sent a message on Tuesday that they are done with the hoopla and want to see Washington address the real problems of the day, of which there are plenty. America remains a center-right country, and there is great political upside for politicians who govern in a center-right fashion. And real losses for those who don’t.

The Absolute Failure of Pollsters
Tim Graham, CNS News
Everyone — including conservatives who don't trust the media — makes political and journalistic decisions based on these badly concocted polls. The media pollsters assume the American electorate is always more liberal than it actually is. They have spent five years churning out surveys suggesting Donald Trump was unelectable. Being wrong in 2016 never slowed them down. Does anyone expect the major-media polling "experts" to assemble for an autopsy to evaluate how wrong they are, and how untrustworthy they have become?

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The Disinformationists
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
There are lots of reasons to worry that something is terribly wrong. If Biden wins, we should assume that in late January 2021 these same forces will regroup to frame a new post-election narrative. Expect our Big Brothers to say the COVID-19 pandemic is mutating into little more than a bad flu. The “Biden vaccine” and miraculous “Biden recovery” will have ended the need for Trump-era lockdowns. And the rioting, looting and arson? They will all have miraculously disappeared because disuniter and divider Trump is now gone.

A House Divided Along New Lines
Melissa Mackenzie, The American Spectator
Divided and frustrated, citizens are realigning not along race or gender lines, but along philosophical ones. The West has gone through a period of self-flagellation and looks to America to set the tone. The Left sees no redemption for America or the West’s sins except through a diminishment, a redistribution, a shame. Trump and his followers see no redemption for the world without God and America, warts and all. These are starkly different visions for America, and America is having a difficult time deciding which way to go.

Election night showed why Trump voters don’t trust the media
Michael Goodwin, New York Post
The media demonized the president for five years and encouraged his impeachment. Their coverage of his supporters ranges from shock to contempt, as if their backing of the president makes them idiots unfit for America. Which, of course, is exactly why Trump was elected in the first place and got more than 68 million votes Tuesday, or five million more than in 2016. Whatever the final score, it’s already a given that the 2020 campaign has deepened the chasms tearing our country apart. In that sense, the future is spoken for.

Voters just denied the Left a mandate
Editors, Washington Examiner
The most likely outcome is that Biden will win with razor-thin margins in a few states; that Democrats will lose seats in the House; and that Republicans will maintain control of the Senate. In the worst case for Democrats, Trump could ride a narrow path to victory. At best for Democrats, they will have a 50-50 Senate and centrists will be the tie-breaking votes. This is not the position from which to nuke the filibuster, pack the courts, ban fracking, dramatically expand Obamacare, implement the Green New Deal, and so on.

Hope in the 'Great Blue Wave' of 2020
Charles Hurt, Washington Times
Defying media predictions, the “Blue Puddle” makes clear that voters are not desperate to see Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia added as states so that Democrats would get four more senators. What still remains unclear is whether anybody in the media will learn any lessons out of this election that they failed to learn in 2016. As for the tens of millions of dollars poured into South Carolina and Kentucky? Thank you for wasting all your money in a couple of great American states. It will be a Merry Christmas indeed.

The Other Winners and Losers
Kurt Schlichter, Townhall
It’s not only the politicians who won or lost – there are plenty of other winners and losers to go around. Let’s praise and mock them respectively. LOSER: The Pollsters. WINNER: The Republican Party’s Populist Wing. LOSER: Fox News. WINNER: Alternative Conservative Media. LOSER: Never Trumpers. They imagined that after the GOP collapsed in ruins because of their mean tweets and unseen ads, we would come to them to help rebuild the party as…what? A second, even less masculine Democrat Party? They are nothing. Ahoy, losers.

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Trump's track to victory — plus Democratic dreams die on Capitol Hill
Byron York, Washington Examiner
There will be no packing the Supreme Court. No making Washington DC or Puerto Rico a state. No getting rid of the Senate filibuster. But still there is the presidential race. Donald Trump might lose. Or it might take an unexpected course. For example, if he wins Georgia and North Carolina, and then wins Pennsylvania, there is a possibility that Nevada might put him over the top. It's impossible to say now. But this has not turned out to be the glorious Democratic triumph that some Democrats and their allies in the media wanted.

The Endless Election of 2020, So Far
Roger L. Simon, The Epoch Times
Whatever happened, the closeness of the election already led to one conclusion. Donald Trump had changed the GOP in an extraordinary way that was, in the short run at least, irreversible. The Democrats and the Republicans had switched roles. The Republicans had become the party of the working class. The Democrats were now the party of elites and quasi socialists who rely on identity politics for victory. Democrats may have problems ahead because Hispanics in particular and blacks were starting to leave the fold after decades.

What We Have Learned So Far
George Neumayr, The American Spectator
If Biden manages to back into the presidency, it will be due in no small part to America’s monstrously manipulative media and Big Tech tyranny, which has treated every moment of Trump’s presidency as a national emergency. Even in the early hours of Wednesday, this behemoth was still at it, censoring tweets. Biden, if he wins, will have been carried into the White House not by the people but by a press that operated as a shameless opposition party to the president. It wasn’t a fair fight, and yet Trump could still win it.

Will the Plywood Party win?
Roger Kimball, The Spectator
Just as we have been warned to cover our faces against the insidious threat of the virus, so we have been warned to cover the faces of our stores against the insidious threat of unhappy voters. I don’t think most people have yet taken on board how odd this election is. The Dems like the word ‘democracy’. But what they seem to mean by it is ‘We get to run things.’ It follows that a democratic election is one that they win. An ‘assault on democracy’ is what they call it when the other guy wins. Nice work if you can get it.

Biden's War Against the South
Stephen Moore, CNS News
The cost to Southern states is more than $1.5 trillion over 10 years. It's an enormous tax on red-state America. The purpose is to handicap states such as Texas and Florida so they grow slower and blue states catch up. Meanwhile, about 3 million people have left New York, California, and Illinois over the past decade. Residents of Southern states should rise up in protest against policies that will make the South look like New Jersey and Rhode Island. This makes as much sense as trying to make Hong Kong look like bankrupt Venezuela.

Do leftist Democrats really think life would be more pleasant without cops around?
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., The Washington Times
The Democratic candidates feel the police are the cause of urban unrest. Already the City Council of Philadelphia has denied them the use of tear gas. Last week, 58 police officers in that city were injured and one had her leg broken when a peaceful protestor ran over her in his pickup truck. During last week’s riot 442 incidents of looting were reported and rioters used explosives to break into 22 automated-teller machines. I wonder if Kamala and the Biden 13 sent any donations to the Philadelphia cop with the broken leg.

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Can a Disintegrating America Come Together?
Patrick J. Buchanan, CNS News
Can this nation come together again? And if it cannot — a real possibility — what form will America take as it disintegrates? Today, we are divided over ideology, morality, culture, race and history. We are divided over whether America is the great nation we were raised to revere and love or a nation born in great sins and crimes — such as the near annihilation of indigenous peoples and their cultures and the enslavement of Black peoples from Africa. How many yet see America as "a city upon a hill, a light unto the nations"?

Sorry, America. Reconciliation Is a Long Way Off After the Election
Roger L. Simon, The Epoch Times
Normally optimistic, I'm pessimistic now. It will be a long time before there will be “bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover” for the U.S.—or for the UK for that matter. Neither side is prepared to accept defeat and reconcile. to return to the halcyon days of that democratic republic of people caring about each other described eloquently so long ago by Alexis de Tocqueville? Are there enough people who even care? For those who do, three words of advice: Reform our schools. That’s the most important thing and where you start.

The Democrats’ Grand Delusion
Julie Kelly, American Greatness
Democrats, in reality, are the party of grand delusion. No tale is too wild, no anonymous accusation is too far-fetched to warrant a modicum of healthy skepticism. QAnon has nothing on these political automatons; programmed daily with party-approved talking points, rank-and-file Democrats dutifully recite the conspiracy du jour with just the right amount of humanlike fear and fury. Joe Biden is wrong, as usual. Democrats do not choose truth over lies or fact over fiction. To the contrary, Democrats are the masters of delusion.

Massive voter turnout shows that American democracy is strong
Editors, Washington Examiner
2020's enormous turnout indicates a vibrant democracy, not the hollowed-out shell that you would expect if you've been listening to Chicken Little. This should not be a surprise, given the importance of the election. But it stands in sharp contrast to the past four years of breathless coverage warning that Trump’s election was a threat to the future of American democracy. It's not much of a surprise, unless, like much of the media and establishment class, you've been spending the last four years in a constant unnecessary panic.

2020 Election and the Secret Ballot
David Catron, The American Spectator
Americans take for granted that, when we step into the voting booth to vote, the choices we make will remain secret unless we voluntarily reveal them. By definition mail-in ballots are filled out far beyond the supervision of election officials. Moreover, studies confirm that at least a third are done in the presence of other individuals unknown. Consequently, at the very least, social coercion rears its ugly head yet again. The only way to protect the secret ballot is in-person voting at properly supervised polling places.

Twitter is losing users, just as censorship fatigue hits hard
Cheryl K. Chumley, Washington Times
Either Twitter has been busily booting even more conservatives that make the news, or users are abandoning the platform at a high rate. Smart money is on option two. Minus the hard left, Americans by and large cherish their freedom of speech. And they don’t take kindly to rich, elitist tech giants going to Congress and lying their butts off, pretending as if they don’t censor. The “who, me?” line gets old, but quick. If Twitter’s losing its users, that means one thing and one thing for sure: Free speech is seeing a resurgence.

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Donald Trump, Counterrevolutionary
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
What tools did Donald Trump have to wage these many counterrevolutions? The media? America’s Fortune 400? Academia? In fact, none of them. All had joined or enabled the revolution. Against all that money and clout, the counterrevolutionary Trump had only one asset, the proverbial people. He had solely the under-polled and the written-off. They came out to his rallies in the tens of thousands, deluded the pollsters, and told the media less than nothing, but voted and will vote in waves to save America from what it was becoming.

If We Reach Election Overtime and Confusion on Tuesday, Here’s Why
John Fund, National Review
There’s a real chance the race could still be close in the Electoral College. That could mean that various scenarios are possible in which a winner isn’t clearly known for a while. We used to know by the morning after Election Day what the basic contours of any results were. Now Election Day appears to be simply a starting-off point of controversy for any race close enough to be litigated and recounted. Sadly, we have managed to politicize just about everything in our society — from how to fight a pandemic to how to count ballots.

Forget the Polls — Trump Is Still Winning
Robert Stacy McCain, The American Spectator
A narrow Trump win is entirely feasible, even if pollsters tell us it’s a long shot. Conservatives should be cheerful, knowing that liberals are living through a nightmare of anxiety over their fears that somehow Trump will beat the odds to win again. Back-to-back miracle victories may seem too much to ask for, but plenty of prayers are being offered for divine intervention, and who knows? We’ll soon see. In the meantime, just tune out the bad news and ignore the polls. As I keep telling friends: Keep calm and vote Donald Trump.

Yes, there is a hidden Trump vote
Byron York, Washington Examiner
There have been four years of anti-Trump media coverage. The anger that some voters feel when the name Trump is mentioned has only grown. It is not a surprise to hear so many Pennsylvanians say they know someone who plans to vote for Trump but doesn't want to talk about it. It is not a surprise to hear that some centrist Democratic officials, dismayed at their party's turn left, plan to vote for Trump, too. In this nation of the secret ballot, there are plenty of reasons some people don't announce their vote, perhaps more than ever in 2020.

A Momentous Choice Faces Us Today as in 1776
Roger Kimball, American Greatness
In 1776, the choices made by George Washington and other American patriots put the colonists on the road to victory. It was a long and difficult road, but the rewards—beginning with weighty perquisites of self-government—were rich. America faces a kindred choice on Tuesday on Election Day. You may or may not approve of Donald Trump’s style. But the substance of his leadership has yielded the most astonishingly successful first term in decades, maybe ever. What happens in this election will make an outsized difference in the world.

It’s Too Late for a Late Hit
Kurt Schlichter, Townhall
This election result is baked in. Everyone knows Donald Trump, and they either love him or hate him. Everyone knows Biden, and they either tolerate him because they hate Trump, or prefer Trump because either they are conserva-woke or because the thought of voting for that desiccated old crustacean is too much to bear. The late hit won’t amount to much because America has decided. It’s all about putting the ballots in the box now (and watching them being counted). So, get out there and vote, and get other patriots out there too.            

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America itself is on the ballot
Charles Hurt, Washington Times
Mr. Trump is a constant presence on the campaign trail, blazingly open and always eager to share his every opinion. Sometimes to his detriment. Mr. Biden, meanwhile, is literally hiding from voters, hoping to burn out the clock until Election Day. It appears that Mr. Biden is so mentally enfeebled that his campaign handlers hope Mr. Trump’s name alone — and the voter exhaustion that comes with it — will be enough to get Mr. Biden elected. But it is not just Mr. Trump on the ballot. It is the Constitution and America as we know it.

Democrat Delusions About Early Voting
David Catron, The American Spectator
It’s probable that the early voting dynamics in most of the swing states are much the same as we have seen in Florida, North Carolina, and Nevada. According to an October Gallup poll, 62 percent of Democratic and 28 percent of Republican voters planned to vote early this year. If those percentages are remotely accurate, the Democrats are delusional about the effect of early voting. Election Day will produce a tsunami of Republican votes that will reelect Pres. Trump by state majorities that easily exceed the “margin of litigation.”

The Two Necessary Approaches for Ending Big Tech Dominance
Roger L. Simon, The Epoch Times
First, we should adamantly support a rewriting of 230, allowing these behemoths to be sued just as much as the rest of us residents of Grub Street. It’s possible this can be accomplished, but, unfortunately, as no doubt some of those legislators would agree, that is not going to be nearly enough. Which leads me to that second prong, to what we can and must do—the consumer approach. We can leave Google, Twitter, and Facebook, pretty much in that order. If there are enough of us, we can cut their profits and build competition.

What the Next President Faces
Patrick J. Buchanan, CNS News
Should Joe Biden and Democrats win, he would be, on Jan. 20, 2021, the oldest and most visibly enfeebled leader to win the presidency in the history of the republic, with the possible exception of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945. Biden would have to deal with an economy that, if the stock market remains a reliable lead indicator, may be tanking anew even as the COVID-19 epidemic consumes a thousand American lives daily. And foreign policy, that lost issue of the campaign of 2020, will be clamoring anew for the president's attention.

Facebook, Trump, and the fight to win Pennsylvania
Byron York, Washington Examiner
Some of the supporters most inclined to get involved in organizing for Trump (on their own, without the assistance of the campaign or party) are also the most likely to run afoul of Facebook's censorship. Talks with pro-Trump activists in this key state (Pennsylvania) show what a complicated issue social media is in today's campaigning. Yes, Facebook infuriates them and infringes on free expression. But it also allows them to organize a 2,000-car rally for Trump. And right now, with the election just days away, that is critical.

Big Tech Censorship Is Driving These Moms To Trump
Katy Faust, The Federalist
These women don’t care whether a vp candidate is female, they just want to know hydroxychloroquine’s effectiveness. And they are not outliers. They are representative of a large number of voters on this topic, according to a recent poll. Widespread censorship has awakened a political animal in a few of these moms where none previously existed. The Big Tech overlords believe it’s their job to determine what you see and as a result, how you should vote.  But contrary to what Twitter may think, Jack doesn’t know best. Mother does.           

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2020 Election Is a Choice Between Rule-Changing and Respect for Constitutional Norms
Victor Davis Hanson, PJ Media
In traditional presidential campaigns, the two major parties offer contrasting ideas and policies. The Democratic and Republican candidates barnstorm the nation to make their cases. Not this year. The 2020 election is not just about Joe Biden sitting on a perceived lead and trying to run out the clock against barnstorming incumbent President Trump. It is really a choice between changing rules when they are deemed inconvenient and respecting constitutional norms and long-held traditions that have served America well for many years.

Joe Biden, the Son of a Used-Car Salesman
George Neumayr, The American Spectator
Biden sounds much the same today as he did as a cheat in law school, combining blustery dishonesty with boasts of his honor and character. The bluster is grimly comic: the more he lies, the more he insists that the doubting “look it up.” Once they do, such as on his easily refutable claim that he never opposed fracking or his bogus insistence that Trump has never condemned white supremacists, he just renews his initial lie. He has the dogged dishonesty of a used-car salesman. The only question now is, Will America buy his clunker?

Remember the South Vietnamese on Election Day, Joe Biden Doesn't
Craig Shirley, Newsmax
No one wants to talk about Biden’s dreadful treatment of America’s allies during the Vietnam War. Americans should know that, once upon a time before the media made him into the anti-Trump and covered for him, Joe Biden helped communist thugs kill hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children in Southeast Asia — simply because the fashionable, procommunist Left in America wanted it that way. In the 1970’s when America and the South Vietnamese needed men of valor and courage, Joe Biden as AWOL. Think about that when you vote on Nov. 3.

Why Hunter Biden Really Does Matter… Big Time
Roger L. Simon, The Epoch Times
Besides telling us that the man who would be president is/was an atrocious parent, if the product of his parenting is even ten percent nurture on the nature versus nurture scale, the father is heavily enmeshed with the son in countries that wish to harm us. Visitors to these communist countries are constantly in the company of interpreters or guides who were obviously intelligence agents. Surely Hunter Biden knew this, but, from his actions, didn’t much care or thought he was under some kind of protection. No one could touch him.

Don’t Get Suckered By The Establishment Psy-Op
Kurt Schlichter, Townhall
Don’t buy the lie. We win this if we just take that last step, filling out our ballots straight GOP (even if that means marking it for intermittently annoying people like Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins, and the insufferable Ben Sasse). That’s all you’ve got to do. Think about the liberal tears that will flow when the networks are forced to croak out the magical words “We project that *sniff* President Donald J. Trump has been reelected” followed by, “It appears that the GOP has kept the Senate and has won a majority in the House.”

What problems did Joe Biden solve during his decades in government?
Cal Thomas, Washington Times
The “60 Minutes” interviews of the presidential and VP candidates last Sunday were more revealing for questions not asked and for sidestepping than for what inquiring minds really want to know prior to Election Day. Ms. O’Donnell might have reminded him of Mr. Trump’s statement that he has done more in 47 months than Mr. Biden did in 47 years. What problems did Mr. Biden solve during his decades in government? Alas, the question wasn’t asked. Media credibility may be higher than that of Congress, but not enough to be encouraging.        

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Donald Trump Is Again Going to Win
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., The American Spectator
56 percent of people polled by Gallup in late September affirmed they were better off now, amid a painful pandemic, than they were four years ago before Donald Trump entered the White House. Another 56 percent of Americans said the economy was the most important issue for them in the race. And still another 56 percent of Americans said they expected a Trump victory. Forgive me for jumping to conclusions, but I too am expecting a Trump victory. Apparently I am not alone. The only thing that could overthrow my calculations is voter fraud.

‘Look out for my family’ — Hunter’s biz partner tells all on meetings with Joe Biden
Michael Goodwin, New York Post
Bobulinski exudes a sense of mission — and anger. It’s been building since he learned in September from a Senate report that Hunter Biden got $5 million in what appears to be a silent side deal from the same Chinese executives with whom he had been working. Then, when The Post published emails from the laptop Hunter left at a Delaware repair shop, Biden defenders, in and out of the media, quickly labeled it Russian disinformation. That infuriated Bobulinski further, feeling it was a smear on him and his family’s name. “How does that happen in our country?”

Promises made by Trump are promises kept, despite attempts to thwart him
Tammy Bruce, Washington Times
Trump's vision is that America is the best place on earth, that it is not only worth saving but is being saved, and still stands as the shining city on a hill. We are the hope for humanity requiring a leader who looks up to us, not down on us. Trump represents that optimistic, confident vision and knows how to make it all possible. The first time we elected him it was on a wing and a prayer that he would be able to deliver what we thought he could. I now proudly vote for him because he is, still, exactly the right man at the right time.

Trump House: Pennsylvania woman gives Trump fans sense of belonging and hope of victory
Byron York, Washington Examiner
The visitor logs are huge, hundreds of pages in big loose-leaf binders, each page filled with signatures front and back. When Leslie Rossi first created the Trump House, she had no idea it would become what one local political leader called a "mecca for the silent majority" — a destination for 1,000 visitors a day, people who want to pick up a free Trump hat, or shirt, or flag, and who want to pose in front of the 14-foot high cutout of President Trump in the front yard. A reelected Trump would owe a lot to Rossi, and to the Trump House.

The big Trump rallies you don't see
Byron York, Washington Examiner
Political strategists often refer to the ground game, the work that campaigns do to knock on doors and make personal contact with voters. Certainly the Trump campaign is doing a lot of that. But if the president wins PA, and that would mean he'd have a good chance at winning a second term, he might well owe his victory to his grassroots supporters' work on the road. Jumping in their cars and trucks and inviting others to come along has heightened the enthusiasm in oil and gas country. Look for them to keep driving all the way to Election Day.

Biden Is Wall Street’s Candidate
John Fund, National Review
Democrat Joe Biden is trying to reassure middle-class voters that he will “cut their taxes” and that his multi-trillion-dollar tax hike will hit only those with an income over $400,000 a year. But a new study reveals that the Biden-Harris plan is so top-heavy with spending that it would cost $30 trillion over the next decade. The major costs are the Biden health-care plan, which would dramatically expand government coverage. His green-energy plan has a price tag of some $2 trillion. You can’t pay for it just by taxing people you call rich.