Recap of Today in Politics, 11/1/24

… A showdown is brewing in FL as DOJ informs the state that they intend to send in election monitors, with Desantis responding immediately that the federal monitors will not be allowed inside polling locations. Nothing like this has happened in America since the Civil Rights Movement in the 60s. Expect this to be litigated on an emergency basis immediately.

… Desantis’s Secretary of State Cord Byrd said that “the presence of federal law enforcement inside polling places would be counterproductive and could potentially undermine confidence in the election.” The confidence in GOP dominance everywhere in FL maybe.

… Hopefully the case will not be assigned to Aileen Cannon.

… Mike Johnson pledged to repeal the CHIPS and Science Act which has been praised and credited by REPUBLICAN elected officials all over the country for the high tech, well paying jobs it is creating while expanding the US lead in tech with competing countries that have been rapidly catching up.

… This comes one day after he was caught on a hot mic pledging to repeal Obamacare.

… MI Gov Gretchen Whitmer responded that killing the CHIPS Act would be “a complete disaster for thousands of Michigan workers relying on the jobs that this legislation provides.

… Liz Cheney called on George W. Bush today to break his silence and endorse Harris: “I can’t explain why George W. Bush hasn’t spoken out, but I think it’s time, and I wish that he would.”

… Elon Musk lost his attempt to remove the lawsuit brought by the Philly DA against him to federal court over his million dollar giveaways to voters in swing states. The court ruled: “Defendants have not identified any questions of federal law that must be resolved .. federal question jurisdiction does not turn on a plaintiff’s motivations in filing suit, it turns on whether the legal issues arising from the claims originate in federal or state law.”

… The case will now go back to state court. The hearing has been set for Monday at 10 AM back in state court.

… The US Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans attempting to prevent thousands of provisional ballots from being counted. Trump’s favorite legal analyst Jonathan Turley was critical of the decision.

… Trump went on several more unhinged, deranged rants in his appearance with Tucker Carlson last night. At one point he criticized Liz Cheney’s past foreign policy decisions and said that she should be forced to stand in front of 9 enemy soldiers with guns pointed at her face.

… Arizona AG Kris Mayes said she is investigating Trump’s comments as a possible crime: “I have already asked my criminal division chief to start looking at that statement, analyzing it for whether it qualifies as a death threat under AZ law.”

… Trump also called President Biden “a stupid bastard” and VP Harris “a sleaze bag.”

… Harris Senior Advisor Ian Sams: “Trump is talking about sending a prominent Republican to a firing squad. VP Harris is talking about sending one to her Cabinet.”

… Liz Cheney responded: “This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant.”

… Harris made a statement to the press about Trump’s remarks: “He has increased his violent rhetoric about political opponents and in great detail, suggested rifles should be trained on former representative Liz Cheney. This must be disqualifying.”

… Last June, Trump reposted a Truth Social post that said that Cheney was guilty of “treason” and called for her to be given a televised trial before a military tribunal.

… The FBI received a referral to investigate Mike Lindell’s ‘Election Crime Bureau’ after the group sent emails to elections workers asking them personal questions about their background and employment. Lindell told ABC: “I want to get rid of the electronic voting machines and you should care about it too. There’s nothing wrong with the survey.” We will see if the FBI agrees.

… Trump also claimed that he had 107,000 people at his NJ rally, 101,000 people at his PA rally, and 114,000 people at Coachella. Not even remotely close for the congenital liar.

… Senior Harris campaign officials told WaPo that their internal data shows that they are winning late deciders in battleground states by over 10 points, with most of them citing Trump’s insane and racist rally at MSG as their reason for deciding on Harris.

… Harris Senior Advisor David Plouffe: “It’s helpful, from experience (Obama 2012), to be closing a presidential campaign with late deciding voters breaking by double digits to you and the remaining undecideds looking more friendly to you than you opponent.”

… GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says that there is a coordinated campaign on right-wing social media to spread fake videos and disinformation about the election in GA and he believes that Russia is the source of it. The most egregious video was from a man who claimed he was a migrant from Haiti and voted illegally in the election for Harris.

… The Office of the Director of National Intelligence then issued a statement that the videos did, in fact, originate in Russia.

… Indicted fake elector mastermind Jeff Clark went on indicted “We Build The Wall” fraudster Steve Bannon’s podcast today and said that Democrats are going to try and steal the election through illegal mail-in ballots.

… Clark also said that elections attorney Marc Elias was somehow behind the effort with a top secret “Black Box” strategy: “I think he has some kind of plan, but I don’t know what it is yet.” Which means he has no proof of anything and is just getting MAGA worked up. Which is also the entire point of Bannon’s podcast.

… Marc Elias responded on Twitter that the “secret strategy” is that Kamala Harris is going to win the election and Trump will lie about it. Then his lawyers will file frivolous lawsuits, they will lose all of them, then Republicans will spend the next 4 year creating conspiracy theories. Sounds about right.

… Bannon then had Scott Presler on where they complained that long lines at polling places in a heavy Republican area of PA was “voter suppression,” which has been the Democratic position for years. Bannon: “How is a working class person supposed to go and wait 5+ hours to vote?”

… Stephen Miller was melting down all day on Twitter, making panicked post after panicked post. He started off in the morning ranting about media coverage of Trump’s Cheney comments, then started in about how Harris has brought biblical plagues into