UK Column News - Friday, 11th November 2022 21:48 - US midterms: Embarrassing aftermath

 

UK Column News - Friday, 11th November 2022 21:48 - US midterms: Embarrassing aftermath

21:48 Senate elections: Most results now in

Predicted red wave (swing to Republicans) turned out to be a red ripple

Slow-walking the vote count in western swing states of Nevada (likely to go to Republicans) and Arizona (possibly to go to Democrats)

Runoff due on 6 December in Georgia

Massive implications for US foreign and domestic policy

House elections: results of 26 Congressional district seats still outstanding, from Maine and western states

Bad news for Democrats: Biden more likely to be hobbled in second half of his term

Gubernatorial elections: again, Arizona and Nevada yet to declare, along with Alaska

Arizona has a Democrat-run voting system that means it now has Election Week or even Election Month, no longer Election Day

Chaos with vote-counting machines — curiously, mostly in Republican-dominated precincts (constituencies)

The Federalist: Arizona's elections are an international embarrassment

Oddly enough, the state election commissioner’s name is Bill Gates

“Election deniers” vindicated by the Arizona débâcle

 

28:55 Clip: Kari Lake (neck-and-neck Republican candidate for Arizona governorship) tells Newsmax's John Bachman Now that walk-in votes by the distrustful, last to be counted, are likely to be heavily in her favour: “We can’t have Arizona constantly holding up the [national] election results”

Truckloads of ballots still arriving at Arizona count centres; not known how many valid ballots are still waiting to be counted; huge scope for fraud

Arizona scrapped requirement to vote in local precincts in favour of unwieldy centralised voting hubs “because of Covid”

Ohio: huge swing to Republicans with election of a new breed of young intellectuals typified by J.D. Vance