“The president-elect will be the president-elect when the electors vote for him.”
Those are the words of Republican Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri, refusing to acknowledge that Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
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He gave the comments to CNN’s Dana Bash, who despite doing her best at staying neutral, clearly looked disappointed. She’s not alone.
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Politico made a curious comparison, however, to a 2016 statement Blunt released the day after the election in which he congratulated Donald Trump on beating Hillary Clinton, calling Trump the “president-elect.”
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CNN's Dana Bash presses GOP Sen. Roy Blunt on whether he considers Joe Biden president-elect.
"We are certainly moving forward as if that’s what’s going to happen on Jan. 20," Blunt says. "The president-elect will be the president-elect when the electors vote for him" #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/AA3uzQ9TSb
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 29, 2020
Prax07
Republicans should change the name of their party to The Ostrich Party. All they do is bury their heads in the sand and deny reality. It’s sad and pathetic.
Goforit
I don’t think that it is the sand where they have their heads buried. Their heads are so far up looser Trump’s a$$ that they will never get rid of the orange stain.
Roy Ajax
Trump was the President-elect when Sen Blunt called him that on November 9, 2016 because Hillary had seceded. Trump is not seceding and is challenging the results, so it’s fair to say that Biden is actually not the President-elect until Trump loses his challenges.
Liquid Silver
That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.
I’d explain, but it’s a waste of time and resources.
Roy Ajax
@Liquid Silver
If i’m wrong, then explain it to me. I can back my comment with some facts, if you have any, let me know.
DarkZephyr
ROFL “seceded”.
Roy Ajax
Yes, I used the wrong word. I do realize the difference and it was a mistake. My argument is still the same. Trump doesn’t have to concede, and his team does not have to accept Biden as the President-elect until after Trump loses his challenges.
charlietex
Sorry Roy. The current president conceding is not what makes the next president the president-elect. Trump has said he never plans on conceding. Does this make Biden never the president? Hardly.
The fact is that this politics pure and simple. Republicans and Fox do one thing when it suits them and another when it does not.
Fortunately no state has yet taken Trump’s bait or you would say an uprising in the streets over an actual stolen election.
Kangol2
Roy, whether Drumpf concedes or not, he’s lost the 2020 election.
He’s done. Kaput. It’s over. He lost the Electoral College by a “landslide,” as he called his total (306) which Biden matched this year, and he’s losing the popular vote by roughly 6.2 million votes and counting.
It’s the biggest defeat of a sitting incumbent since FDR ousted Herbert Hoover, another inept Republican who presided over an economic collapse.
Don the Con’s con game has finally failed him. Blunt knows it. He’s afraid of the Con supporters, though. He shouldn’t be, though; Missouri would still send him back to the Senate even if he dragged Don the Con out by his ankles, which someone may have to do if he doesn’t vacate the premises come January 20, 2021.
Roy Ajax
Charlie & Kangol
I never said that Trump has to concede, I said Hillary conceded the day after the election so it wasn’t a stretch to call Trump the President-elect. The fact that Trump is fighting it means that the President-elect is still in question and it has to go through the proper investigations. So, Sen Blunt’s comments are actually fairly accurate. I mean he did say “We are certainly moving forward as if that’s what’s going to happen on Jan. 20.” Will Trump win? As it stand at this point, probably not. But to say a Senator is being unreasonable because the process has not finished is just wrong.
Cam
Sweetie, if you’re going to pretend you aren’t a Russian troll, you may want to learn English a bit better.
chris_clb614
Conceded
Roy Ajax
Yes. Thanks for the correction.
TedV
Here’s a “fact”: nobody has ever “seceded.” The word is “conceded.” Given that you don’t even know something that basic, I’m going to skip your “facts.”
Here’s a fact for you, Jethro: Biden is indeed the President-elect, and has been since November 7th.
lessthan
WTF is wrong with you people? Roy is unfortunately correct! The whole point of the electoral college is to overthrow the popular vote in “times of need.” Pennsylvania and Georgia don’t even have penalties for faithless electors, so…
missvamp
don’t feed the trolls.
cuteguy
These are Chump’s puppets who do his bidding. The Dems have to get tougher and more aggressive in their pursuits otherwise they will continue to look like a weak party. Moscow Mitch is an a$$hole but look how he completely made the Supreme Court conservative. The Dems have to get more aggressive and pack the court or we are all screwed
Kieran
At least if Biden wins the rigged election we’ll hopefully be spared another 4 years of non-stop homophobic jokes about Trump being gay with Putin.
Kangol2
Kieran and others use terms like “rigged.” Girl, please! Take the insane crap back to Breitbart. The only “rigging” in this election was by Don the Con, TrumptyDumpty, and he STILL FAILED to steal the election!
Joe Biden won the 2020 Presidential Election. There is no “if”. He won. Don the Con lost.
1. Donny did zilch about foreign interference (by Russia, etc.), despite warnings from his own FBI and intelligence services, all run by people he appointed.
2. He installed his puppet at the United States Postal Service to slow down the mail because of mail-in ballots.
3. He and the GOP waged numerous legal battles to stop states from making mail-in voting safer and more efficient. a legal battle to keep states from implementing measures that make mail-in voting more efficient.
4. He regularly impugned voting and tried to force in-person voting during one of the worst pandemics in US history.
5. He actively supported voter suppression efforts all over the country for four years, including in 2020.
6. And his own appointed federal judges have tossed out his ridiculous “rigged vote” lawsuits because *there is no proof whatsoever of election fraud* to change the election!
DON THE CON LOST by, in his own words, a “landslide” in the Electoral College and 6+ million popular votes and counting. I know you worship him like your buddy Rick Grenell does, but seriously, drop that absurd, inane “rigged” garbage unless you’re talking about the failed rigger himself, Don the Con. He lost his mind and dignity years ago and he lost the 2020 Presidential election on November 3, 2020!
Openminded
It’s sad how only the losing side claims “rigged election”. The Dems claimed Trump won by rigging the election with Russian assistance, now Reps claim Biden rigged the vote with fraudulent mail in ballots. IF Trump won thru outside assistance, what makes you think he wouldn’t have used that same assistance to guarantee a win this time? Likewise, there is some questionable cases of mail in ballot fraud but no Dem wants to acknowledge that fact. What happened to someone being able to man up and acknowledge they got beat? The really sad truth is that we have been electing presidents by only a slim margin of majority for way too many years. This is the true sign of just how divided this country is. When basically half the country hates the sitting president, you can’t expect much progress for any of us.
Dinodogstar
…………………………… Uh, yeah, from St. Louis here, so let me tell ya’all: ……………………………………………………… Ole’ Roy Boy is the poster-child In Missouri against hillbilly In-breeding, is considered ” handsome ” cuz’ he dune got almost half of his original teeth, owns the perty-est hooded-white robe in these here parts, and don’t let that bargain-bin drag-king topper fool ya, when he was the Hair Club President at Missouri’s Trump University Beauty School campus.
Dinodogstar
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