Odds and ends on a November day in the middle of a pandemic
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The President has his priorities
Trump appears to be skipping a side-event at the G20 virtual summit focused on pandemic preparedness. The President has just arrived at his golf course in Virginia. https://t.co/4045RD0SQj pic.twitter.com/YBlNpZIW40
— CNN . . .
Just in from NBC News: "GOP senators inch toward acceptance of Trump defeat”
Not all of them, however
From the NBC article:
President Donald Trump's refusal to concede electoral defeat has Republican Senate allies slowly inching toward acceptance that Joe Biden will be the next president.
These lawmakers are vacillating between loyalty to a president with the power to turn GOP voters against them and their duty . . .
Posted in: shelley moore capitotrump presidency
WV Republicans rally round Trump’s efforts to steal the election
The WV GOP, AG Morrisey and Governor Justice do their part as Capito and McKinley remain silent
From the West Virginia Republican Party
This fight is not over. President Trump will continue to fight for us, and we will continue to fight for him. The American people are entitled to an honest election. We must ensure every legal vote must be counted. We must investigate any allegations of fraud. pic.twitter.com/DrAcKkZu9e
— WVGOP . . .
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You won your election, Senator. Why don’t you speak up?
One of the concerns raised during Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court was the possibility that President Trump was packing the court as an insurance policy in case he lost the general election. Here is an Associated Press report on September 30:
President Donald Trump’s stark expectation that the Supreme . . .
Sorry, Wheeling Intelligencer, just because you did not consider it a contest doesn’t mean that it wasn’t one
Today’s morning “newspaper” has no results from the West Virginia senatorial race
The TV networks called the race early and it was not very close. (As of 11 AM today, the AP had Republican Shelley Moore Capito easily winning with most of the ballots counted.) Still, that is no reason not to provide results. Of course, that would have meant that they would need to print Paula Jean Searengin’s name – something that the . . .
Letting Capito slide, Part #295
Again, Kercheval does his part on WV MetroNews
Hoppy Kercheval on WV MetroNews is probably the state’s best interviewer of politicians. He asks good questions and then usually follows them up with even better questions. Our local congressional representative, David McKinley, for instance, loves to appear in local media because he . . .
“We owe no allegiance to any faction, special interest, political party or individual politician.”
Yeah, right. A look at our local papers’ coverage of the 2020 West Virginia senate race
Regular readers of Ogden’s Wheeling “newspapers” see them a couple of times a year (especially on the Intelligencer’s or News-Register’s anniversary): self-congratulatory editorials telling readers how “fair and balanced” they are. The News-Register quote in my title is from 2017 but readers can find similar sentiments every year – here’s a . . .
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