Extremely narrow wins are reasonably subject to recounts. Asking for a recount on a win by a single-digit number like that is not out of the ordinary or unreasonable.
Trump is asking for more than just recounts in elections that were won by much much larger margins.
It's apples and potatoes. — Pfhorrest
she will forgo further legal challenges in Iowa and instead appeal directly to the U.S. House for additional recount proceedings.
Ffs, if Trump lost by 6 votes in one state, instead of tens or hundreds of thousands in multiple states no-one, including me, would be complaining about Republicans taking it to the wire. Your attitude is kind of like saying if a Dem sticks a pin in a Republican, the Republican is justified in chopping up the entire Dem's family with machetes. See how crazy that is Hanny? — Baden
The rhetoric certainly isn't apples to apples. — Count Timothy von Icarus
I agree the principle of certified elections being final should hold in the Dems case too. She ought to suck it up. I don't see anything remotely like a comparable attack on Democracy though. So, my emotional disgust is mitigated in proportion. — Baden
The recount was already conducted and... confirmed. — Hanover
I accuse you of cherry picking the article, which in our present political climate I consider egregious and without plausible excuse. The issue is not the count but whether some votes that should have been and should be counted, have not been counted. I think you're too smart to miss the distinctions and differences between the two issues, but whatever your reason(s), they are on their face ignorant. Care to try to account for yourself? — tim wood
Six votes difference out of almost 400,000 cast, and, among other issues:No, the issue is whatever the challenger makes the issue — Hanover
Which seems a fair issue. A fair settlement, though perhaps not easy, is either count the votes, all of them, or a run-off election. — tim wood
Fair comment. I accept it as corrective and advisory. It points towards recount or runoff - to let the thing speak (finally and both in- and conclusively) for itself.I'm all for fairness, which is what the courts are used for, not generally this rarely used law that permits legislators to act as judges. Legislators are really good at advocating for their constituency, and asking them to put aside their biases seems an unreasonable ask even should the legislator be of pure intent. — Hanover
Sedition is a serious felony punishable by fines and up to 20 years in prison and it refers to the act of inciting revolt or violence against a lawful authority with the goal of destroying or overthrowing it.
I guess it would be politically unpalatable to charge Donald Trump with sedition in that it would utterly paralyse relations between the two sides of politics. Still think it would be justifiable. — Wayfarer
Everything Midas touched turned to gold, and what good did that do him? How much worse Trump, when everything and everyone he touches turns to....Trump has already more or less succeeded in taking the Republican party down with him. — Baden
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