Debra DeFranco, Janet Kira Lessin, Steve Bhaerman

Elephants in Our Rooms ~ 11/19/20 ~ Janet Kira Lessin, Dr. Sasha Alex Lessin, Debra DeFranco & Steve Bhaerman

Welcome to Elephants in Our Rooms where we discuss issues, current affairs and politics from a Democratic perspective. On this show we focus on the aftermath of the 2020 elections and Trump’s attempted coup of our American democracy. God help us.

TOPICS: 2020 Election aftermath, COVID-19 fall season surge, Trump going to prison, Trump the Psychopath, No evidence of election fraud, Trumpism, and its impact on human society, and more…

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

Fall COVID surge is killing Americans almost as quickly as the worst week of summer

Read in USA TODAY: https://apple.news/AX4Cj9CcYSBqVmOAul0a4TA

Democrats Have a Republican-Women Problem
Conservative women in America’s suburbs helped make Joe Biden president. Are they welcome in his party?

Read in The Atlantic: https://apple.news/AItT7zLmVRxCETzAfWSESMA


Trump takes Georgia GOP senators hostage. Civil war erupts

Michael Cohen: ‘I believe Trump does go to jail’

Eric Trump wants Minnesotans to get out and vote. A week after the election.

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Well, that didn’t go as planned: Observers Trump asks to scope out election fraud find no such case

The Supreme Court hears one more ‘laughably weak’ challenge to Obamacare

Trump’s nuisance lawsuits a ploy to drag this along. They’re not even contesting enough votes to win

Trump plans to haunt Republicans indefinitely from his political grave


Winning Georgia’s runoff elections will split the Senate 50-50, giving Democrats the majority with Kamala Harris breaking ties as Vice President. Donate now to Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock to finally smash Mitch McConnell’s majority.

High-ranking GA Republican: We must ‘acknowledge the voice of the people’ and ‘transition in grace’

Mike Pompeo: ‘There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration’

Republicans are recovering their voices, and speaking up to choose Trump over democracy. Again

Dear Leader Trump is cleaning house of insufficiently loyal Pentagon leaders

Get out the vote for Democrat Raphael Warnock in the U.S. Senate runoff in Georgia that will decide control of the election. Call Georgia voters from home, no matter where you live!.

Watch this heartwarming video of Kamala Harris’ ancestral village in India celebrating her win

A former writer for the National Review debunks right-wing election conspiracy theories, one by one

Time for Democrats to get vocal. Biden won, dammit, and Republicans are knifing our democracy

Want to flip a state blue? Stacey Abrams drops major key, and she would know

Sign the petition: Trump must concede immediately and Congress must ensure he steps down.

Advocates reiterate criminal investigations needed after number of children still separated rises

Election outcomes, what they mean, what comes next

The assault on the 2020 election is more dangerous than anything else Trump has done

Recounts, litigation, runoffs—it could take weeks to resolve every race. Sign up for the Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest to stay on top of them all.

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

Republican senator says ‘I will step in’ if Biden doesn’t get intel briefings by Friday

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/republican-senator-says-i-will-step-in-if-biden-doesnt-get-intel-briefings-by-friday-11605150835?mod=mw_latestnews&fbclid=IwAR0t-D5nU21garY28aoB4K8YcZY97S1akD6AYkE4H-Y4uDs_k6pHTFOUJbc

The Scariest Days Of The Trump Presidency Could Be The Final 74

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-scary-lame-duck-170558195.html

How and when will Trump leave office?

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-leave-office-111934587.html

(Reuters) – The United States has a long history of peaceful transfers of power that is likely to continue despite President Donald Trump’s attacks on the legitimacy of the election result, national security experts said.

Here is what to expect in the weeks and months to come.

DOES TRUMP FACE A DEADLINE TO LEAVE OFFICE?

Yes. The U.S. presidential election is not formally over. Electors – party loyalists who typically pledge to support the candidate who gets the most votes in their state – will convene on Dec. 14 to formally cast their votes. The newly seated Congress accepts the results from the Electoral College on Jan. 6. If Biden wins the Electoral College vote, as expected, he will be sworn in at noon on Jan. 20 — a date set in the Constitution.

CAN BIDEN TRANSITION INTO POWER OVER TRUMP’S OBJECTIONS?

Yes. Trump has only so much power to slow Biden’s transition.

A law called the Presidential Transition Act of 1963 makes career civil servants vital to the transfer of power. They face deadlines for providing data and access to incoming officials.

Under the law, the transition process will shift into high gear once a federal agency called the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), which manages federal buildings, names an apparent winner of the election. At that point, the incoming president’s team can obtain briefing books, tap into funds, and send representatives to visit government agencies.

On Sunday, experts in transitions sent a letter to the GSA’s administrator, Emily Murphy, urging her to recognize Biden as the winner.

“While there will be legal disputes requiring adjudication, the outcome is sufficiently clear that the transition process must now begin,” the letter from the Center for Presidential Transition said.

The GSA said in a statement on Saturday it “ascertains the apparent successful candidate once a winner is clear based on the process laid out in the Constitution.”

Click article link for more on this story… https://news.yahoo.com/trump-leave-office-111934587.html

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

Citing lack of evidence, courts across the country dismiss Trump’s election lawsuits

Read in The Washington Post: https://apple.news/AY9K0jBWVQhaBqaCqqDacxA

BGR: Startling discovery reveals an asymptomatic coronavirus patient was contagious for 70 days

Startling discovery reveals an asymptomatic coronavirus patient was contagious for 70 days
Researchers discovered a COVID-19 patient who shed the novel coronavirus for 70 days without showing any symptoms during the period. The patient suffered from a form of leukemia, which might explain why the immune system could not mount a proper response that would have cleared the virus. Immunosuppressed patients risk infections like COVID-19 and may…

Read in BGR: https://apple.news/A9R7-DgpeRfqRSxumVSu-Jw

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

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