Election 2020 Archives

39% of Those Polled Are Stupid Heads

January 8, 2024 Buck Banks

39%

A new CBS News poll finds 39% of respondents do not consider President Biden to be the legitimate winner of the 2020 presidential election.

Most Iowa Caucus Voters Think Trump Won in 2020

August 22, 2023 Buck Banks

51%

A majority of voters likely to attend the Iowa Republican caucuses believe that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election over Joe Biden, a new Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows. Asked whether “you believe or not believe Donald Trump’s claims he won the 2020 presidential election,” 51% of likely Republican caucusgoers say they believe them, 41% do not and 8% are unsure.

Kemp Gives Veiled Dig at Trump

April 17, 2023 Buck Banks

“Not a single swing voter in a single swing state will vote for our nominee if they choose to talk about the 2020 election being stolen.”

— “Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Saturday urged his fellow Republicans to move on from the 2020 presidential election, offering a thinly veiled dig at former President Donald Trump and his continued election grievances,” CNN reports.

Almost 300 GOP Nominees Are 2020 Election Deniers

October 6, 2022 Buck Banks

299

“A majority of Republican nominees on the ballot this November for the House, Senate and key statewide offices — 299 in all — have denied or questioned the outcome of the last presidential election,” the Washington Post reports.

Trump Tells the Truth!

April 6, 2022 Buck Banks

For the GOP, twice-impeached Trump is still the boss,
They’ll follow him anywhere, no matter the cost.
But is Trump beginning to deny
The truth of the Big Lie?
After all, he told the Guardian he didn’t win, which implied he lost.

Abandoned and Banned

September 24, 2021 Buck Banks

He once was THE guy to schmooze,
Back before the Trump election ruse.
“America’s Mayor” after 9/11 —
He was in reputation heaven,
But now Rudi Giuliani’s been banned from Fox News.

Family of Welshers

February 1, 2021 Buck Banks

Now Eric Trump is a feisty and loyal young pup,
In the electoral college betting pool, he ante’d up.
Eric bet that his Daddy
Would get a cool 320,
We don’t know what he lost, but we’d bet he didn’t pay up.

Sidney Powell Sued for $1.3 Billion

January 8, 2021 Buck Banks

$1.3 billion

Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit against lawyer Sidney Powell, demanding more than $1.3 billion in damages for havoc it says Powell has caused by spreading “wild” and “demonstrably false” allegations, including that Dominion played a central role in a fantastical scheme to steal the 2020 election from President Trump, the Washington Post reports.

Pence on the Fence

January 5, 2021 Buck Banks

Presiding when Congress certifies electors,
Mike Pence will be “Democracy’s Protector.”
If he delivers for Trump,
He’ll get over the hump,
If not, he’ll be proclaimed a Trump defector.

Business Leaders Call on Congress to Certify Election

January 5, 2021 Buck Banks

200

Almost 200 of the country’s top business leaders urged Congress to certify the electoral results for President-elect Joe Biden in a letter Monday, arguing that “attempts to thwart or delay this process run counter to the essential tenets of our democracy,” the Washington Post reports.

39%

A new CBS News poll finds 39% of respondents do not consider President Biden to be the legitimate winner of the 2020 presidential election.

51%

“Not a single swing voter in a single swing state will vote for our nominee if they choose to talk about the 2020 election being stolen.”

— “Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Saturday urged his fellow Republicans to move on from the 2020 presidential election, offering a thinly veiled dig at former President Donald Trump and his continued election grievances,” CNN reports.

299

“A majority of Republican nominees on the ballot this November for the House, Senate and key statewide offices — 299 in all — have denied or questioned the outcome of the last presidential election,” the Washington Post reports.

$1.3 billion

200

Almost 200 of the country’s top business leaders urged Congress to certify the electoral results for President-elect Joe Biden in a letter Monday, arguing that “attempts to thwart or delay this process run counter to the essential tenets of our democracy,” the Washington Post reports.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If it is true, it will be a disgrace, because it makes the poor wretches who have nothing to pay the unpaid bill. It won’t do. This is not the way to solve things.”

— Pope Francis criticized President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport immigrants as a “disgrace,” CNN reports.

“Welcome home.”

— President Biden, quoted by ABC News, greeting President-elect Donald Trump at the White House.

“After forty-three years of faithful service in uniform to our Nation, protecting and defending the Constitution, I do not wish to spend whatever remaining time the Lord grants me fighting those who unjustly might seek retribution for perceived slights.”

— Retired Army Gen. Mark Milley said he was “deeply grateful” to receive a preemptive pardon from outgoing President Joe Biden Monday, USA Today reports.

“You have a two-seat majority, and you shot one of your members.”

— A House Republican lawmaker, quoted by Politico, on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) ousting House Intelligence Chair Mike Turner (R-OH) and making him “an enemy.”

“It’s weird to find solace in the Civil War, or the Great Depression, or the beginning of World War Two, but my whole optimistic temperament depends on saying that we will get through it and emerge stronger.”

— Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, in an interview with the Financial Times.

Numerati

$15 trillion

$25 billion

$26 billion

“The Biden administration has distributed at least $26 billion of dollars in financing to clean-energy companies in its final days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office,” Bloomberg reports.

$31 million

The U.S. government clawed back more than $31 million in federal payments that improperly went to dead people, a recovery that one official said Wednesday was “just the tip of the iceberg,” the AP reports.

19%

A new AP-NORC poll finds just 19% of Americans approve of Pete Hegseth being nominated as the secretary of defense.