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Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that Republicans will impeach Vice President Kamala Harris if they retake the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm elections.
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I was out walking the dogs this afternoon and I stopped to take a picture of Mount Whetstone. I didn’t even know I took the picture of the avalanche until I was reviewing the pictures later at home.
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The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
What’s this?! ……
a confession….
There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain–inspired by the summer’s massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests–in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.
The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election–an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted. For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America’s institutions as they came under simultaneous attack from a remorseless pandemic and an autocratically inclined President. Though much of this activity took place on the left, it was separate from the Biden campaign and crossed ideological lines, with crucial contributions by nonpartisan and conservative actors. The scenario the shadow campaigners were desperate to stop was not a Trump victory. It was an election so calamitous that no result could be discerned at all, a failure of the central act of democratic self-governance that has been a hallmark of America since its founding.
The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
Time Magazine