Democratic House seats remain empty in protest as Republican House members stand as they are sworn in at the beginning of the first day of the 2025 Legislature at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Jan. 14, 2025. (Renée Jones Schneider/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
After the 2024 state elections the race there was tied 67-67. But one of the Democrats was removed because of election fraud(didn’t live in district). So the Republicans took control of the House and the Democrats boycotted.
House GOP Leader Lisa Demuth, of Cold Spring, will be the chamber’s speaker through 2026 under the deal reached by the two caucuses, according to multiple sources briefed on the agreement. Demuth, who is Black, will be the first person of color to become speaker of the Minnesota House.
Republicans will chair all House committees for the next month while they hold a 67-66 advantage. A March 11 special election for a safely blue Roseville-area seat, called by Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday, is expected to bring the chamber to a tie. Once the House is evenly divided, Democrats and Republicans will co-chair the committees.
When it comes down to who can and cannot vote the states are not the best when it comes down to who’s eligible to vote. Especially states like California who send out ballots to everyone who’s listed.
I think DOGE would have authority since we have states running Federal Elections. This way the dead and illegals would be removed.
Why Conservatives and the majority of Americans are on the 80% of all issues.
This morning I heard the perfect breakdown of what’s called 80 20. Take all the issues of today and what’s President Trump is doing is supported by the 80.
Democrat politicians supporting Illegals, Transgender, Wasteful Spending, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and finally old men and women being guided by the 20 and 30 something crowd.
The 2024 elections gave President Trump a mandate. He was open about what he was going to do and he was also open about Musk. The President said a sledge hammer would be used to fix things. Promises made, Promises kept.
NEW: @ScottJenningsKY gives CNN panel a reality check on what Americans really think of Elon Musk’s DOGE.
“The American people elected Donald Trump because they thought he was going to be a sledgehammer against this government and against the out-of-control bureaucracy,”… pic.twitter.com/p4fyGpiI3o
Breitbart is reporting that in a recent poll Ramaswamy leads with 57 percent of the vote, behind him is Buckeye State Attorney General Dave Yost at 26 percent, and in third place at six percent is Ohio treasurer Robert Sprague. Ten percent remain undecided.
What’s interesting is that he hasn’t even officially declared his candidacy. A small poll but still is worth looking at.
In his post, Joe Hoft stated: “We don’t know if there is a legitimate reason for the worker’s actions.”
The answer is “Yes.” This video shows an Orange County election worker scanning a batch of ballots three times, but only saving the batch once.
This is shown at the 1:25 mark of the video Mr. Hoft posted when following her third scan of the batch of ballots, a batch report printed from the printer at the end of the table, which she then attached to the top of the batch of ballots. This batch report did not print the first two times she scanned the batch of ballots, meaning she did not save those scans.
She likely scanned the batch of ballots twice and then cleaned the scanner before scanning the batch of ballots a third time because during the first two scans some of the ballots were rejected by the scanner. Given the large number of vote-by-mail ballots we must scan during an election, we must regularly clean the scanners.
We complete quality checks and audits to ensure ballots are only counted once and accurately, including:
Other Orange County election workers later quality checked the batch of ballots in this video two additional times, making sure the ballots in the batch match the information printed on the report. We do not upload any batch of ballots into the tally until these two reviews are completed.
Before I certified the results of the election, we audited the results of each of the 171 contests on the ballot. The audit was conducted by randomly selecting one percent of the precincts in the county (23) and then selecting additional precincts (62) until every contest was included. Then four-person audit teams hand counted every ballot in those selected precincts. Our audit teams hand counted about 40,000 ballots for this election. These hand-counted results were compared to the voting system tally, finding that the results of each contest was correct. You can review information about these audits on our website at ocvote.gov/audit.
What happens when a Conservative is leading in the polls for President? Romania cancels the elections.
Far left Romania took a page from the US Progressives one step further. A Conservative looked to be a victor in the second round of voting. Romania’s top court cancelled the elections.
Claims of Russian interference. Sound familiar? Well the people took to the streets.
Hundreds of thousands of Romanians furious with the current government for the cancellation of the presidential election marched today through the capital Bucharest to demand that the vote should proceed and that outgoing – and by now illegitimate – President Klaus Iohannis should resign. Reuters reported:
Yes Virginia, Americans cared about the economy, inflation, not J6.
Americans looked at J6 and saw what I saw. Much to do about nothing. J6 was about a protest that thanks a city that refused Trumps help, let a protest get out of hand.
This from a CNN Analysist.
“People, simply put, didn’t care as much about the attack on the Capitol,” Enten continued. “Look at this, ‘January 6th is your biggest memory of Trump’s first term.’ By the time of 2024, look at this. It was just 5%, just 5% of Americans, and among Republicans it was just 2%. So the bottom line is, fewer Americans faulted Donald Trump, thought he was greatly responsible for the January 6 attack, and more than that, when it went in the rear view mirror, far fewer folks thought that it was their number one memory.”
So Elon Musk supports a German politician who’s anti undocumented immigrants, doesn’t believe in mutilating children, and just might have morals and ethics.
Former EU censorship czar, Thierry Breton, who was accused of meddling in the U.S. presidential election by demanding Musk censor a live interview he held with Donald Trump, also alleged that it was “interference” for X boss to express support for the AfD.
However, the German government has refused to condemn Musk for his comments, with spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann saying: “We have of course taken note of this and of course freedom of expression also applies to X.”
So what happens when you register dead folks and ghosts? You still lost, but maybe now you’ll go to jail. Another case of the left caught ch
Pennsylvania officials charged Jennifer Hill on Thursday for registering dead and non-existent people to vote in Pennsylvania.
Hill, 38 of Collingdale, worked for the New Pennsylvania Project or New PA Project. She was arrested on Thursday.
According to officials Hill filed more than 300 voter registration forms using an app provided by the Pennsylvania Department of State, but 129 of those were rejected as invalid. She was also caught registering her dead father and a dead acquaintance to vote in the 2024 election.
A Georgia appeals court has disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from her election-related criminal case against President-elect Donald Trump, although the indictment still stands.
Willis’s office charged Trump and his codefendants in 2023 for what they alleged was a scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia illegally. They pleaded not guilty.
However, Willis’s case hit a snag in early 2024 after it was revealed that she had a romantic relationship with the case’s then-special prosecutor, Nathan Wade. A Fulton County judge in March ruled that Willis could remain as prosecutor if Wade resigned, which he later did.
Trump and multiple codefendants appealed the judge’s decision to the Georgia Court of Appeals, which rendered its decision on Willis Thursday morning.
“After carefully considering the trial court’s findings in its order, we conclude that it erred by failing to disqualify DA Willis and her office,” the Georgia Court of Appeals’s majority wrote in its decision.
The court added that a “remedy crafted by the trial court to prevent an ongoing appearance of impropriety did nothing to address the appearance of impropriety that existed at times when DA Willis was exercising her broad pretrial discretion about who to prosecute and what charges to bring.”
Earlier this year, Trump codefendant Michael Roman alleged in court papers that Willis and Wade were in a romantic relationship.
During a court hearing weeks later, both Wade and Willis admitted to being romantically involved, although the pair denied allegations that either of them benefited financially from the arrangement. They also disputed claims that their relationship started after Wade was hired as a special prosecutor and ended in the summer of 2023.
In rendering a decision to allow Willis to stay on the case, Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee wrote that an “odor of mendacity” persisted in light of the allegations against the district attorney and Wade.
McAfee also admonished Willis for the “unprofessional manner” in how she conducted herself during the evidentiary hearing and showed a “lapse in judgment.” He also chided her for what he described as racially charged statements she made at a church in Atlanta after Roman made the allegations against her.
However, the judge said he was not able to conclusively establish that there was a conflict of interest.
Throughout the court battle, Willis has defended her own conduct and Wade’s qualifications. During a CNN interview earlier this year, Willis said she believes the appeals court proceedings were only an attempt to slow down the case.
“I do think that there are efforts to slow down the train, but the train is coming,” Willis said at the time, adding that she does not believe her relationship with Wade impacted the case.
The case against Trump and the others, including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, had been stalled for months as the appeals court considered the Willis removal petition.
The ruling Thursday now means that the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia will have to find another prosecutor to take over the case and decide whether to pursue it, though that could be delayed if Willis appeals to higher courts.
It appears unlikely that prosecution against Trump will continue as he prepares to be president for the next four years. But 14 other defendants still face charges.
Prosecutors dropped two federal criminal cases against Trump since he won the presidency in November.
Meanwhile, a judge in New York has said he would not throw out Trump’s conviction in May on the case alleging 34 counts of falsifying business records, though the future of that case is uncertain.
