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@#20 ... says he has called Starmer to congratulate him ...
I've congratulated Starmer on winning election - Sunak
www.bbc.com
Wow, you mean, he didn't hold a rally to encourage his supporters to storm Parliament to over turn the election results?
@#155 ... Everyone with a room temperature IQ or higher knows Trump TOLD Spicer to make that claim. ...
Donald Trump Rally Crowd Size Claims Have One Major Problem (June 2024)
www.newsweek.com
... Donald Trump's claim about the crowd size at his Las Vegas rally has one major problem"the venue doesn't accommodate the number of people he touted were there. ...
Fact check: Trump falsely claims police turned away thousands' from Manhattan courthouse and that supporters can't get near' (April 2024)
... Former President Donald Trump is a famed exaggerator of the size of his crowds. For years, he has lied about how many supporters attended his presidential inauguration and numerous campaign rallies.[emphasis mine]
Now he's pushing a wildly inaccurate claim about how many supporters have attempted to show up at his first criminal trial -- and he's making additional false claims about security measures around the Manhattan courthouse, which he is baselessly blaming for keeping these supposed supporters away.
After The New York Times published a story that said Trump was unhappy with the meager crowd he saw when he arrived at the courthouse for opening statements on Monday, Trump posted on social media on Tuesday to deny the story, denigrate a Times reporter and make this claim: "Thousands of people were turned away from the Courthouse in Lower Manhattan by steel stanchions and police, literally blocks from the tiny side door from where I enter and leave. It is an armed camp to keep people away." ...
Trump inauguration crowd photos were edited after he intervened (2018)
www.theguardian.com
Etc., etc., etc., etc.
Yeah, fmr Pres Trump seems to have an issue about crowd sizes.
@#96 ... Because Oregon ...
Not just Oregon.
Securing Utah's Elections
vote.utah.gov
... Elections in Utah are transparent and secure. In the links below, you will find how these four topics come together create a complete picture of election security. Learn what safeguards are already in place in areas like voter registration, voting equipment, ballot processing, and individual voter responsibilities. ...
Table 18: States With Mostly-Mail Elections
www.ncsl.org
...In mostly-mail elections, all registered voters are sent a ballot in the mail. The voter marks the ballot, puts it in a secrecy envelope or sleeve and then into a separate mailing envelope, signs an affidavit on the exterior of the mailing envelope and returns the package via mail or by dropping it off.
Ballots are mailed out well ahead of Election Day, and thus voters have an "election period," not just a single day, to vote. Mostly-mail elections can be thought of as absentee voting for everyone. This system is also referred to as "vote by mail."
Eight states"California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Washington and the District of Columbia -- allow all elections to be conducted entirely by mail. ...
OK, so what is your concern with mail-in ballots again?
And, maybe, you may want to talk with the election officials of the states noted above regarding that opinion.
Please let us all know how that conversation turns out.
thx.
Spicergate, explained: the controversy about Trump's press secretary and crowd size (2017)
www.vox.com
... "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period. Both in person and around the globe."
The new White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, introduced himself to the American people this weekend with these words " words that came after a series of tendentious factual claims about attendance at President Donald Trump's inauguration and that made a remarkable contrast with readily available photographic evidence.
Spicer's statement made for a jarring introduction to the new Trump administration, and he came in for a good deal of condemnation from reporters and mockery from observers of all political stripes. A hashtag called #SeanSpicerFacts, in which pictures of Spicer at the briefing were posted alongside humorous false claims, trended on Twitter.
Two days later, when he was pushed at Monday's first full press briefing, Spicer said he was "not" saying Trump had the largest in-person inaugural crowd.
Indeed, he argued that he had never made such a claim, saying that he was only referring to the combined in-person, TV, and streaming global audience as the largest.
This claim about the total audience was also quite questionable, and as the Weekly Standard's Michael Warren archly observed, "Why it took Spicer two days to make this clarification wasn't clear." But the shift seemed sufficient to satisfy many reporters, many of whom publicly praised Spicer's performance Monday.
At its heart, this squabble about crowd size may not seem particularly consequential.
But this dust-up has broader implications for how the new Trump administration is shaping up -- in how it will deal with the press, in whether it can be trusted to provide basic factual information, and in just how hard the press corps is going to push back. ...
Now, on to France on Sunday.
We've been there': French Resistance fighters speak out against rule by the far right
www.france24.com
... In the run-up to the second round of legislative elections in France, former members of the resistance to Nazi rule are voicing their concerns over the possibility of a far-right government taking power. They urge the French people not to forget the legacy, spirit and values of the French Resistance during the Second World War. ...
UK election: Keir Starmer's Labour set for landslide victory
www.dw.com
... What you need to know
- - - Exit poll puts the Labour Party on 410 seats with a 170-seat majority, their best result since 1997
- - - Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer set to become next UK Prime Minister
- - - Current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party predicted to win just 131 seats in worst performance ever
- - - British voters said their main concerns were the economy and cost of living
- - - The Liberal Democrats are set to make huge gains
- - - Nigel Farage's Reform UK have been projected to win 13 seats
@#159 ... This is no different from you -------- continually saying that we can't believe our lying eyes on Biden's broken brain. Sorry --------, no matter how many times you repeat a lie does not make it true. ...
A false equivalence. But that seems to be all your current alias has got.
Aside from the ad hominem attack that seems to be common with your current alias' comments, fmr Pres Trump has been shown and documented to be concerned and lying about crowd sizes. Please see my #157 for a primer.
Your current alias continues to grasp at straws.
But keep up at it.
It is some of the most humorous things I've seen in a while.