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You’d think that would be obvious, but obviously not.

Theodore Dalrymple.

I would like to think that nothing human is alien to me (as the Roman playwright and former slave Terence put it), but it is not quite true. I draw the line, for example, at rap music, which always puts me in mind of experiments I witnessed during physiology classes fifty years ago, in which electrodes were placed in the amygdala of cats and stimulation of which caused a reaction of insensate and undirected rage (in the cat). To change the analogy slightly, rap music is the noise that hornets, if they could vociferate, would make when their nest was disturbed.

However, if some things human are alien to me, most are not, and talking to people who do jobs that one knows nothing of is a very good way of learning about the range of human nature.

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With the Left in control, who controls the Left?

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Antrim County, a traditionally Republican county that initially flipped blue this election flipped back to red after a manual recount of votes found thousands of votes meant for President Donald Trump accidentally went for Joe Biden. The county uses “Dominion Voting System,” which is also used in 64 counties across the state. Benson’s office said the skewed results were due to “county user error” and not the software itself.

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The lawsuit was filed by four voters on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. The litigation seeks to overturn ballots in Washtenaw, Ingham, and Wayne counties. Wayne County has already been the target of a federal lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign one week after the election.

Enough is enough: Republicans’ fealty to Trump imperils America itself (The Guardian)

Trump officials mocked Democrats in 2016 as ‘sore losers’ for not accepting election results  (CNN) That’s because they were the actual results.

Trump is replacing Mark Esper and Pentagon officials with loyalists. Here’s why. (Vox) Proglodyte psychics read Trump’s mind for you.

ELECTION UGLINESS: Journalists Celebrate Toppling ‘Dictator’ Trump

Deranged Mika: ‘Law Enforcement’ Should ‘Come After’ Trump to Stop Him From Selling Secrets

Hysterical CNN Fears ‘Dictator’ Trump Installing ‘Loyalists’

‘That’s How Sick He Is’: Joy Behar Says Trump ‘Relishes’ Leaving COVID Mess In Biden’s Lap  As if Joy Behar has any clue about what Trump thinks.

Former Reddit CEO Wants Trump SIlenced Online to Stop ‘A Coup’

Nation’s Democrats Make Fortune Selling Used ‘Not My President’ Merch To Republicans  Babylon Bee.

Condescending CNN Spews Venom at ‘Diaper Man,’ ‘Petulant’ Trump, ‘Pathetic’ Republicans

Rolls-Royce plans 16 mini-nuclear plants for UK

Nuclear vs Solar The Race For Renewable Dominance

How Molten Salt Reactors Could Lead to the Next Energy Production Boom

AFR: Ignoring Climate Activist Campaigns is No Longer an Option for Australian Business

Claim: Climate change causes landfalling hurricanes to stay stronger for longer

How Biden Can Make Climate Progress With a Divided Congress  (Wired ‘Science’)

What President-elect Biden could do for the environment in his first 100 days  (Popular ‘Science’)

Michigan attorney general: Trump’s lawsuits insinuate ‘Black people are corrupt’  Those who are Democrats certainly are.

BLM co-founder sends message to Biden: ‘We want something for our vote’ That didn’t take long.

Dallas Rapper ‘Mo3’ Dies of Structural Oppression and Gunfire, But Mainly …

Hispanics Souring on BLM?

Sports Writer Slams Group-Think: ‘Is [LeBron] More Than Black?

CBS’ ‘S.W.A.T.’ Goes BLM: ‘It’s the Cops, Y’all the Ones Killing Us’

12-Year-Old Among Victims Of Nine City Shootings In Same Night

BLM Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors Demands Biden-Harris Prioritize Their Agenda

CNN Enthralled By Obama Smearing Trump Voters as Racists ‘Spooked By a Black Man in the White House’  There have been black men in the White House since it was built. The point is that none of them pretended to be President.

COLLUSION: Gayle King, Who Vacationed With Barack Obama, to Interview Barack Obama

Meet Rachael Rollins, the Rogue Prosecutor Whose Policies Are Wreaking Havoc in Boston

Suspect Arrested, Charged Following The Murder Of Former City Commissioner And Her Husband

Target Reopens Looted Store In Minneapolis With Goal Of Being Less “Racist”

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Or, you could say that Pope Francis is a Joe Biden Catholic.

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A Pennsylvania judge sided with the Trump campaign Thursday, ruling that ballots that did not have proof of identity before November 9 would not be counted.

Under Pennsylvania state law, if a ballot is lacking proof of identification, voters have until six days after the election – November 9 – to fix it so that their ballot can be counted. Once the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that ballots could be accepted up to three days after election day, Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar issued guidance saying that a ballot lacking proof of identification could be fixed up to six days after the deadline to accept ballots, Fox News reported.

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A Pennsylvania judge ruled on Thursday that the state cannot count late ballots which required voters to provide proof of identification to ‘cure’ them by an arbitrary deadline set by the Secretary of State.

After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots could be accepted three days after Election Day, a separate issue in dispute, PA Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar submitted her own guidance that said proof of ID could be provided up to Nov 12, three days from the ballot acceptance deadline.

Severian continues his analysis.

The Sadists (see comments on the below post) have convinced themselves they’re living in a world where the KKK lurks around every corner. Whether they actually believe this is immaterial; they sure act like they do, and that’s what counts. The interesting thing, though, is that the proliferation of social media has made this a horror movie without a villain. Seriously, I ask you: Where are all these “white supremacists” to be found?

It’s not rhetorical. You know, and I know, and everyone with half a brain knows, that there are probably two or three honest-to-god White supremacist groups out there… that have about seventeen members each, nine of which are undercover Feds, and the other eight are informants. The funny thing is, every time they manage to find a real White guy killing an actual Black guy — the officers who arrested Floyd, Rittenhouse, the guys who dinged the original Jogger, George Zimmerman (“White Hispanics” count) — it soon becomes painfully apparent that the Jogger had it coming…

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I usually watch the news in the evenings. Unfortunately, the “all maps all the time” channels grow boring fast. So instead, I spent my evenings over the last week looking at barcodes. (I know, sounds equally boring. But I was fascinated!)

Barcodes are everywhere. EAN/UPC codes are on every product and package (and on every book at the library). QR codes are common for web-related content. Even my Halloween candy bars have a QR code that takes you to their nutritional breakdown. (See! Chocolate is nutritious!)

While UPC and QR codes are common, there are dozens of other types of barcodes. Visually, they all look different. (Wikipedia has a great list of the most common formats.)

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Bill Russo, a deputy communications director for the president-elect’s campaign ripped the social network in a series of Twitter posts over its failure to clamp down on users disputing the 2020 election results,” the New York Post (the Post) reported Nov. 11. Russo accused Facebook of “shredding the fabric of our democracy” in an apocalyptic thread slamming the platform for giving conservatives a voice.

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Maricopa County, Arizona GOP Chair Rae Chorenky has been forced to resign after failing to sign the Certificate of Accuracy for voting machines made by Dominion – which have come under recent scrutiny for security vulnerabilities, as well as flipped votes in Antrim County, Michigan (which was later blamed on “human error”).

Severian continues his analysis.

People who look like us, and act like us, but are not us — that’s one of the most basic fears of any society with sufficient caloric surplus to take a day off.

Ideology, then, is a caste marker. In the absence of (unenforceable, even in the Middle Ages) sumputary laws, there has to be a different, reliable way to distinguish insiders from outsiders. Hence the Leftist mania for ID badges of all kinds (except when voting, of course), rituals, public performances of all kinds. How can you tell who really loves Dear Leader, without making everyone proclaim five (or ten, or fifty) hosannas a day to him?

Scott Adams complains that most of his Dilbert cartoons during the ‘mask era’ won’t make sense in the future so he can’t re-sell them in collection books.

Anne Coulter points out a few inconvenient truths

Here are the times Democrats have conceded a presidential election with grace and dignity:

OK, now on to my column.

I hope someone is recording the media’s demands that Trump supporters ACCEPT THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTION! inasmuch as the Democrats refuse to accept the results of any presidential election they lose, unless it’s a landslide, and sometimes even then.

The Other McCain is on the case.

In addition to botching the presidential call in Arizona, Fox News was even more disastrously wrong in their congressional projections on Election Night, claiming that Democrats would “expand” Nancy Pelosi’s House majority by as many as 15 seats.

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Oh, ya think?

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Tech entrepreneur Joe Lonsdale, who co-founded software company Palantir Technologies, told “Varney & Co.” on Wednesday that he moved his venture capital firm 8VC to Texas from California because of the state’s affordability and “dynamic economy.”

Team Biden sees Trump’s post-election fight as comedy of errors (Politico) I have no doubt that they do.

GOP lawmaker on why he publicly acknowledged Biden’s victory (CNN) Buidling the New Narrative: ‘Nothing to see here, move along, move along….’

White House tells federal agencies to proceed with plans for Trump’s February budget in latest sign of election defiance (Washington Post) Defiance!

To my family who chose Trump over me: Was it worth it?  (CNN) Was your blind hostility to Trump worth it?

Chris Cuomo: Trump Is A ‘Dissident’ And ‘A Dead Man Walking’

Fake News: ABC, CNN Claim Trump Gearing Up to Leave a War for Biden  Oh, I think Biden can be depended on to create one by himself.

So Much Healing: Wash Post Equates ‘Trumpism’ to ‘White Supremacy,’ ‘Disease’

Nasty CNN Says ‘Someone Needs to FedEx’ Trump the Constitution Perhaps he could then explain it to them.

Baffled MSNBC: Wait, How Can Women Actually Support Trump?

NBC & CBS: Trump’s Concession Delay Could Cause Another 9/11!

Unhinged CBS Cites Churchill Quote on Nazis to Bash Trump on Recount

Twitter Censors Twelve Trump Posts In One Day

New Bible Features Removable Romans 13 For When You Don’t Like The President  Babylon Bee.

How ancient dust from the sea floor helps to explain climate history

New study reveals the locations at highest risk of spreading COVID-19

Mike Pence Celebrates Record COVID-19 Hospitalizations With Florida Vacation (Vanity Fair) Celebrates!

Report: Pandemic Has Forced 2.2M Women From the Workforce

It Was A Mistake To Close Schools, UK Study Concedes

Biden’s COVID-19 response plan is missing one major component

Russia Says ‘Sputnik 5’ COVID-19 Vaccine “92% Effective”, US Sees Record Jump In New Cases: Live Updates

Pfizer’s CEO Dumps 62% Of His Stock On COVID Vaccine Announcement  What does he know that you don’t? (Perhaps he suspects that a Biden/Harris administration will confiscate their intellectual property and mandate distribution of the vaccine to everybody+dog without any profit on it. That wouldn’t surprise me a bit.)

Dr. Scott Atlas Attacks Fauci, Raising Tensions Among Task Force Members

Ticketmaster To Require Negative COVID Test Or Proof Of Vaccine For Concert Goers

Cuomo Restricts Home Gatherings To 10 People As New York Records Largest One Day Increase Of COVID Cases Since April

How to prevent 120k extra US deaths over Thanksgiving  Let’s find out how many turkeys are really out there.

Mom Arrested, Daughter Hospitalized After Fight With Police Over School Mask Mandate

“Shredding The Fabric Of Our Democracy”: Biden Aide Signals Push For Greater Internet Censorship

After the Election, the Left Demands Purges

Rep. Tlaib Says She ‘Won’t Be Silent’ After Clash With Centrist Dems, As Progressives Circulate Memo Calling Them All ‘Racist’

Trump Files Emergency Injunction In Michigan Alleging Fraud; Demands Recounts Over ‘Malfunctioning’ Dominion Machines

Biden Appoints Congestifiers

Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Lawmakers Quit En Masse After Beijing Moves To Stamp Out Last Bastion Of Political Dissent

Remember When Minneapolis Defunded Its Police? They’re Regretting That Now

Tax working from home ‘to support vulnerable jobs’ – Deutsche Bank

Democrats Want You to Move to Georgia to Vote in the Senate Runoffs

‘We Need To Remember’: Sunny Hostin Doubles Down On Blacklisting Trump Allies

Deutsche Bank Proposes A 5% “Work From Home” Privilege Tax

Facebook Extends Ban on US Political Ads for Another Month  We need to get the New Narrative firmly in place, not confuse people with facts.

Statistics: Evidence of Malfeasance in Reporting of Election Totals?

McEnany Unveils 234 Pages Of Affidavits Alleging Election Irregularities In Michigan

‘We Have A List’: Pundits And Democrats Plan To Hold Trump Supporters Accountable

Biden Campaign Website Promises Internet Censorship Taskforce

Food Network Star Forced to Delete Tweets Revealing Himself as Republican

The Woke-Islamist Axis Against Free Speech

Meet Raphael Warnock

Timothy ‘Lil Tim’ Leeks, 22, Charged With Murdering Rapper King Von in Atlanta

Police Arrest Suspect In Fatal Shooting Of Man On His Birthday After Facebook Live Stream

Gender and Race Preferences in Hiring in the Age of Diversity Goals: Evidence from Silicon Valley Tech Firms

‘Anti-Racist’ Star Author Calls ‘Legal Vote’ Racist Phrase  Is there anything that isn’t a ‘racist phrase’?

Professor Declares “Legal Vote” A Racist Term Like “Handouts” & “Personal Responsibility”

17 People Were Shot In Chicago On Monday Alone  BRAAAAAAAINS!

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Liberals and Never Trump Conservatives must learn Donald Trump was a warning from the Working-Class.

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The Democrat infighting has begun. Or, perhaps, resumed in earnest, now that they think the presidential election is over. Now the various factions in the Democratic Party, who share little in ideology and often don’t even like each other, start jockeying for position over the next two to four years. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D–MI) is one of the far-leftists who is very unhappy with Joe Biden’s policies and strategies, which she views as too moderate.

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Two Republican California Assembly members, James Gallagher and Kevin Kiley, filed a lawsuit against Newsom’s executive orders for an overreach of power in June and recently received a victory in the case. “The Judge found good cause to issue a permanent injunction restraining the Governor from issuing further unconstitutional orders” tweeted Kiley the day before the election.

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Members of President-elect Joe Biden’s team are reportedly worried that his inauguration could end up looking like a massive MAGA rally.

Wouldn’t that be amusing? We’ve already seen that Trump can turn out massive crowds of people and Biden can’t. What would happen if massive numbers of people wearing MAGA hats attended the inauguration and started chanting ‘CHEATER! CHEATER! CHEATER!’ during the inaugural address, perhaps even drowning it out?

John C. Wright is unfazed.

Let not your hearts be troubled. Let us review what has been discovered the last few days of the election debacle, which shall be known to history as the Great American Gaslighting.

Trump did win in a landslide.

They are gaslighting you. You saw the size of the Trump rallies in the sunbelt and rustbelt states. You saw Biden could not fill up a school gymnasium.

As for voting irregularities, fraud, and miscounts, there is abundant evidence, shockingly so, almost as if the malefactors are rubbing our noses in it when they claiming there is no evidence.

This is gaslighting you again.

Scott Adams.

‘Californians can act like stupid fucking idiots better than any other state.’

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Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, who has previously called for budget cuts for police, utilized the emergency service Nov. 1 after her Lyft driver cancelled her ride.

Lyft driver Richmond Frost picked Hardesty up at a casino, according to KOIN. Frost kept the windows open in accordance with COVID protocols that Lyft implemented.

Frost told police that Hardesty “became irate when he refused to roll the windows up,” according to Fox News. He then pulled into a gas station and canceled the ride, asking Hardesty to leave the vehicle. However, Hardesty allegedly refused to get out of the car because “it was cold and she was a woman and alone,” per the same report.

She then called 911 and told police she would not get out in the dark, according to audio obtained by The Oregonian.

‘Rules are for thee but not for me’ is a fundamental axiom of the Crust.

ZMan looks at intelligence.

When trying to understand what has gone so terribly wrong with the Occident, observers often point to intelligence as the main driver. The populations of the West are getting dumber, so they are less capable than in the past. This is not to say there are no geniuses today or that there are fewer of them. It’s that their proportion of society is smaller than in the past. It is the smart fraction that is getting smaller. As a result, the progress of the West has slowed and may be in reverse.

High intelligence doesn’t mean that someone is a better thinker than another, but merely that he thinks faster than someone of low intelligence. Sometimes this speed differential is so great that what a low-intelligence person would have to puzzle through (and get right) appears (wrongly) to the high-intelligence person as Obvious – which is why high-intelligence people can be such dicks about stuff. ‘Why can’t you see this? It’s OBVIOUS!’ Well, no, you merely reached a wrong conclusion very rapidly.

So don’t attach too much value to a person’s intelligence. It can be a snare and a delusion (see Paul Krugman for a good example).

Now, one reason for this decline in intelligence, is the mass invasion from outside the Occident over the last fifty years. Minneapolis is now a dysfunctional city because of the importation of sub-Saharan Africans. The sorts of people who think Ilhan Omar is a great leader will struggle with modernity. The reason these people are trapped in the Neolithic age is they lack the cognitive ability to go much further. California looks like Mexico because it is now full of Mexicans.

To be fair, much of that is an additional problem of culture. People from Turd World countries are used to the kind of government that Turd World countries get. Mexicans expect America to work the way Mexico does, which is why we get narcoterrorist gangs in cities where there is a large Mexican population. Ilhan Omar is the sort of corrupt demagogic politician you would expect to see in Somalia, which is why she popped up in Minnesota.

You’re welcome.

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I have always suspected it.

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Kevin Williamson joins the chorus of cucks signing on to the New Narrative that Trump ought to just suck it up and roll over for the Deep State. There must be something in the water at National Review.

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Now, Silicon Valley is witnessing a reckoning, but it’s not the long-awaited one predicted by the New York press, or the antitrust bonanza that Washington longs for because too many people seem satisfied getting their news from Facebook. The reckoning is more of a realization that tech exceeded expectations and somehow squandered the fruit of its own garden, and that a city on a hill that could have supported so much innovation was not Florence in the Renaissance nor the Athenian Academy with MacBooks. Rather, it became a government-sponsored needle exchange, a haven for the homeless and forgotten that put government’s paralysis on display downtown on Market Street.

San Francisco had four times as many deaths from overdose this year as it did from the COVID-19 virus.

2020 is not the great reckoning predicted in the book of Revelation, despite the fires, the plagues, and the wailing on Twitter. It is the resignation and determination of Exodus, of a dogged people packing up U-Hauls and fleeing this frontier state to seek an even newer, more eternal world.

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The New York Times is apparently being dragged into 1984 by its ‘woke’ employees.

Steve Sailer.

A huge question is whether the shameful and shameless tactics deployed by the Establishment against Donald Trump in 2020—censoring online media, editorializing the news, covering up mass lawbreaking, blacklisting, threats of additional riots if Biden is not elected, and much more—will be dropped going forward as only having been justified by the once-in-a-lifetime Ends Justify the Means necessity to dump Trump.

Or will By Any Means Necessary become the new normal?

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito ordered county election boards in Pennsylvania to comply with guidance requiring them to keep ballots received after 8 p.m. Election Day “in a safe, secure, and sealed container separate from other voted ballots,” as Newsweek and other outlets reported Friday. How could Alito’s directive affect returns for the presidential election?

Additionally, The Associated Press reported that 24 Wisconsin counties had completed canvassing of election results as of Monday morning, but that “all 72 must be in before President Donald Trump could call for a recount.” How long will that take, and will other states besides Georgia recount?

John Hinderaker at PowerLine.

Yesterday the Trump campaign and two Pennsylvania residents sued Pennsylvania’s scofflaw Secretary of the Commonwealth and seven county election boards in federal court. The lawsuit is premised primarily on equal protection; it alleges that some Pennsylvania counties, which were uniformly favorable to Joe Biden, systematically violated Pennsylvania’s election laws, at times with the encouragement of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, while Republican-leaning counties followed the law. The result was systemic voter fraud that diluted the votes of Pennsylvanians in the law-abiding counties, and also the votes of those who voted in person rather than by mail.

I guess they’ve got nothing to hide … oh, wait….

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The race debate has been taken over by grifters with a vested interest in a booming equalities industry.

Steven Hayward at PowerLine.

We knew things at the New York Times were bad, but hoo-ey boy we had no idea just how bad! New York magazine is out with a deep dive into the internal Maoist struggle sessions going on inside the Times, and get a big bowl of popcorn ready for this long piece.

The piece could be called “Annals of the Liberal Self-Obsessed,” as it contains many nuggets of pure comedy gold.

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Joe Biden, the candidate preferred by Muslim terrorists.

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On Tuesday evening, the Washington Post wrote that USPS whistleblower Richard Hopkins ‘admitted to fabricating’ allegations of voter fraud, when he claimed in a Project Veritas video that he overheard a postmaster in Erie, Pennsylvania instructing postal workers to collect and backdate ballots received after election day.

Citing “people who spoke on the condition of anonymity,” the Post now says that Hopkins – a Marine combat veteran – “signed an affidavit recanting his claims.”

Hopkins, however, says he did not recant.

Takes a lotta lies to build the New Narrative.

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The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee revealed that there were up to 25,000 cases that are being looked at as Pennsylvania remains a state President Trump’s team hopes to turn its way after major media outlets called it for his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, giving him enough electoral votes to secure the presidency.

“I’ve got more information. We’re now finding potentially that 25,000 nursing home residents in different nursing homes requested mail-in ballots at the exact same time,” the South Carolina Republican said on Fox News.

“You can’t ballot harvest in Pennsylvania,” Graham added. “What are the odds that 25,000 people in different locations of the same age group requested at the same time a ballot? Somebody is up to no good in these nursing homes.”

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Elections don’t make democracies; free and fair elections do. Today, in the midst of post-election chaos, we find ourselves in a fight for the latter. In that sense, this election is about far more than Donald Trump the man, or even his policies. The question is this: either democracy survives or one political party will be allowed to bully, lie, cheat, and steal its way into power.

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The Trump campaign will file yet another election lawsuit in Michigan, communications director Tim Murtaugh announced to reporters on a Tuesday evening phone call.

The suit — which similar to prior attempts in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada — seeks to block the local secretary of state from certifying the results of the election on the grounds that Michigan ran an unconstitutional election. The suit will additionally look to grant campaign officials the opportunity to review counted ballots in Wayne County, Michigan. Trump 2020 General Counsel Matt Morgan and Counsel to the Campaign Thor Hearne also took part in the call, and like the Pennsylvania suit filed Monday, claim that poll watchers in Democrat-ran counties received “unequal treatment” compared to their counterparts in Republican-ran counties.