2018 Midterm Election Thread

Mark Harris’ son testified today. John Harris works in the US attorneys office for Eastern NC. He warned his dad about Dowless.

Good Lord. This is beyond belief.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/mark-harris-disregarded-son-warnings-hired-dowless-anyway

 

The evidence against Harris is so damning that even he is now calling for a new election.

 

Except his argument is more along the lines of "There may have been corruption in this election, but I had nothing to do with it." Harris wants to redo the general election only, while the GOP wants to redo the primary and the general election so they can get Harris off the general election ballot.

 

Yeah, obviously. He isn't going to admit to a crime.

Calling for a new election is his way of trying to avoid prison time.

 

That may actually depend on whether he was subpoenaed to testify today or not. I read an article yesterday that said the reason why Dowless won't be testifying is because NC law says that anyone subpoenaed to the election board is automatically given immunity for any crimes related to the board hearing. So if Harris was subpoenaed to testify today, he may have already avoided prison time.

 

Looks like the NC Board of Elections voted unanimously to hold a new election for NC-09.

BREAKING: the North Carolina Board of Elections just passed a unanimous motion calling for a new election in the 9th Congressional district, saying it was a tainted election involving “corruption...and...illegal activity...involving absentee ballots.”

— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) February 21, 2019

 

Democrats need to run endless campaigns and press adds showing that Republicans cheat and that they're the actual fraudsters. Yeah, that's going to win us some independent centrist voters.












OK, I just giggled at that.

 

There will be new primaries as well as a new general. I suspect Harris will not be the GOP nominee. In fact, he testified today that he has had two strokes* this year: I bet he uses that as an excuse to not even run.

*As a man of God, Harris is well aware of God’s propensity for smiting sinners.

Dude, take the hInt.

 

Trump, Cheney, Stone point to the opposite.

 

Didn't he later say something about his son being judgemental and a little arrogant? Lol. Just take your licks, dude. It's amazing your son still knows how to tell the truth growing up with you as a father. No wonder he's judgemental.

 

Marc Elias nails it in the #NC09 @MarkHarrisNC9 hearing. Harris' son says he warned Harris that Dowless' work looked illegal. Still Harris hired Dowless, but handed his mgmt and payment to @RedDomeGroup.

Elias: "Are you familiar with the legal term, 'willful blindness?'" #ncpol pic.twitter.com/HPwceY9PDl

— EQV Analytics 🇺🇦 (@AnalyticsEqv) February 20, 2019

 

This has become one of our most over used terms. People who do slimy shit need to be judged.

 

Meh. His son #bothsides'd it. ******** 'em all. He even tossed in Libertarians for good measure.

If I'm reading this right, a state court has ruled that the NC constitution amendments on voting laws and a tax cap are unconstitutional because the legislature is unconstitutional (?!?!) #ncpol pic.twitter.com/kUBUC6dKlH

— David A. Graham (@GrahamDavidA) February 22, 2019

What a state...

 

Surprising no one, Harris won’t run.

 

I thought I was in a different thread and I was very confused and surprised.

 

It would have been interesting (and depressing) to see how many people voted for him.

 

Just check how many people vote for the Repug, that will give you a very close idea.

 

Actually , it may have been better if he had run. Now the new repub is sure to win, when if Harris had run, you may have had a situation like that pedo on a horse guy in Alabama.

 

No he's not. Remember, this guy just won because he cheated. Pittenger, the ex-incumbent, at this point isn't going to run. So whichever GOPer runs will be a weaker candidate than Harris who, remember, would have lost a fair election. The whole stench of the thing is likely to help McCready and hurt the GOPer, not to mention McCready won't have a primary and the GOPer will.

Harris was fairly extremist so a new GOPer might pick up some suburban votes Harris didn't get. But this district has a few suburbs in Charlotte but is mostly the 2nd poorest region of the state, running along the SC border almost to the Atlantic.

 

Are people going to turn out for the election?

 

The NCBE issued its ruling. It was scathing, of course. More interesting is that the report gives Harris a shit-ton of sideeye. Don't be shocked if he gets indicted as the Wake County DA and the SBI (State...you can guess the rest) proceed with their investigations.

 

The author of the NC Bathroom Bill is going to run.

 

"Those bastards caught us cheating!"

NCGOP fundraising email: "We have HORRIBLE news, and we wanted you to hear it from us first: DEMOCRATS have forced a SPECIAL ELECTION" #NC09 #ncpol @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/gY44Cpt4MT

— Joe Bruno (@JoeBrunoWSOC9) March 12, 2019