I confess, every election these pictures and stories nourish, enliven and inspire me. Thank you all for sharing them.
TPM Reader BW: “My wife and our two sons here in Madison, Wisconsin. We could have voted early, but we’re Native Americans, and we want to show our two boys how important it is for everyone in Indian Country to vote in each and every election. It’s now another one of our family traditions.”
The Judge who held a hearing this morning about Trump’s Nevada lawsuit did not seem very impressed. And it turns out that the lawyers who brought the suit on Trump’s behalf are a construction and commercial insurance lawyer and construction and family law attorney. In other words, not election lawyers.
TPM Reader PH was waiting in line at her precinct in Manhattan when all of a sudden the Secret Service and the Trump family shows up.
I was standing in line inside PS 59 in midtown and security told all of us to stand against wall. In walks Ivanka, her husband, Melania and Donald. One guy on line yelled “You’ll never win!”
The Trump campaign is suing the registrar of Clark County, Nevada, for doing something the law expressly requires – leaving voting stations open to allow everyone to vote who was in line when the voting station closed.
I’m curious on this whether they have an actual election lawyer filing this suit or whether it’s one of Trump’s goofball lawyers. It seems dead on arrival.
Update: This challenge seems so flatly contradicted by state law that it seems pretty clear that this isn’t a serious legal challenge but an effort to undermine the eventual result.
TPM Reader EL: “Here are my voting pix: I was very excited to vote for Barack Obama in 2008, but this election feels different for me. For the first time in my 42 years of voting, I cast my ballot from someone who understands my life’s experiences. I wore white to honor the suffragettes who fought for the vote. I wore a pantsuit in honor of Hillary and I wore a Nasty Woman t-shirt because I am one!”
From TPM Reader JN …
I felt the need to share this because it completely moved me. We are very careful to not talk politics with our kids, not the least because the parents in our home school group are very conservative. But they’re old enough – 10 and almost 9 – that they are going to be aware. When my son woke up this morning he said he was worried about the election. My wife asked why and he said he really wanted to see the first woman president. He also said that Donald Trump doesn’t like foreigners and wants to build a wall and that’s bad because his sister is Chinese (she’s adopted). Hearing this made me cry – so proud of him and will be so disappointed in this nation if it breaks his heart. This isn’t BS – he came up with this on his own and unsolicited. Love him.
We’re already getting flooded with your election day photos. That’s perfect. Keep them coming. Here’s a bit more detail about what to do.
This is totally illegal. But it is perhaps the Trumpian vote buying scheme that could possibly be imagine. A Trump supporter is offering 50% stud fees to “breed with my 2 stallions” in exchange for voting for Trump.
For those of us … well, nevermind. Click the title of this post to see the legible full size version so you can read the text.
Today is the day.
I’ll share some thoughts on the election in a bit. But I wanted to start with some more personal or rather organizational ones.
I was thinking this evening that for all Donald Trump has tried to soil us, none of it can take away from me my love for the pageantry of democracy, my love of this country. He hasn’t been able to break us. I’m sitting here watching Springsteen sing in Philly, immense crowds behind him. This is a Democratic celebration, just one slice of America, not the whole thing. But something is different about this moment. This is not a normal election. I’ve thought more and more about this as a year of transgression. So many lines crossed, promises broken, so many things we never thought we’d see have happened. But here we are, bruised and transgressed. But still here and unbowed.