Robert Emmett Murphy, Jr.

  Part nineteen.       Biden’s win the year before wasn’t narrow, but it wasn’t a land-slide either, not like Obama’s 2008 win over far better Republican, Federal Senator John McCain. McCain was a Trump opponent, perhaps the most vocal within the Republican Party until his death in 2018, and Trump’s enmity towards McCain was so spitefully personal, and demonstrating he was so low of character, it is not a surprise that Biden won McCain’s home-state of Colorado, a Conservative-lean place, but also one where McCain was much-admired. What was surprising is that Biden’s win in Colorado was quite narrow, and the post-Election Stop the Steal Campaign there was among the fiercest in the nation.   That’s a key element of the Trump phenomena, his core base can’t be moved. It was often observed that if any of the last three leading Democratic Candidates for POTUS, Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Biden, or any of the other Republicans in the same time-frame, encour...

  Part eighteen.   I’ve come the conclusion that the Arizona Audit needs to be adapted into an Opera. It’s got power struggles between people with God-like delusions, pomposity, lies, betrayals, shredded alliances, threats of torture and death, Ninjas on the inside, and clowns on the outside. I can easily imagine Fann dressed as a dragon, and Richer and Gates dressed in Viking helmets and carrying broadswords. By August 2021 the count part of the Audit was over, but the fat lady still refused to sing.   August 2 nd , in Arizona, Maricopa’s Board of Supervisors Vice-Chairman Gates was clearly winning in the second round of subpoena-battles with State Senate President Fann.   Though a Judge had already ruled that the Senate had the power to subpoena Maricopa, he didn’t order the County to comply, so it fell on the Senate to enforce that subpoena. The Republicans had an only one-vote majority in the Senate, and last time State Senator Paul Boyer broking rank...