https://triblive.com/opinion/paul-kengor-why-pennsylvania-isnt-over/

CNN and Fox tripped over themselves to be first to claim presidential victory for Joe Biden. Fox put itself in a bind by prematurely declaring Arizona for Biden on election night. As I write, the vote difference in Arizona has shrunk to 12,000, which is closer than Pennsylvania (nearly 54,000) and Wisconsin (20,000) and even Georgia (14,000). Georgia has ordered a statewide recount for the presidential vote. The Trump campaign may ultimately win Arizona. How about Pennsylvania?

Though increasingly unlikely, Pennsylvania isn’t out of the realm of President Trump’s possibilities. That’s true not merely because of legal challenges but because, indeed, all votes have not been counted, including a significant block of ballots tilting Trump.

Here are key things to watch.

First, there are the Trump legal challenges. These include challenging the original effort by four Pennsylvania Supreme Court judges to rewrite state election law, namely extending the receipt of mail-in ballots after the Nov. 3 deadline.

Moreover, the Trump campaign has filed an 86-page lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Directed at Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar, defendants include the boards of elections in Allegheny, Centre, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Northampton and Philadelphia counties. It alleges that “Allegheny and Philadelphia Counties alone received and processed 682,479 mail-in and absentee ballots without review by the political parties and candidates.

And then there are the cases of voter fraud being compiled. Erie County is receiving national attention because of a sworn affidavit by postal worker Richard Hopkins, who said that Postmaster Rob Weisenbach directed him and co-workers to hand over ballots received after Election Day, which he then back-dated.

Perhaps more significant than legal challenges is the situation with provisional ballots. A provisional ballot includes, for instance, a person registered to vote at one precinct but who voted at a different precinct and thus had had to fill out a provisional ballot. There are roughly 100,000 of these, each evaluated by a board of three individuals. Not until last weekend did the tabulation begin. With about 30,000 counted as of Thursday, they skew to Trump by 54%.

In other words, this isn’t over. Buckle up, Pennsylvania.

https://www.aei.org/op-eds/like-fannie-mae-and-asbestos-youll-love-joe-bidens-revolving-door-chief-of-staff-ron-klain/

November 12, 2020

Joe Biden’s White House chief of staff will be a revolving-door lobbyist for bailout barons, fraudster drug companies, and major health insurers, all while Biden claims to be taking Washington back from the special interests.

Ron Klain served in the Clinton and Obama administrations, and in between, he was a lobbyist for K Street firm O’Melveny & Myers. His clients included Fannie Mae, the government-backed housing-bubble inflator that failed and required a taxpayer bailout. Klain lobbied for Fannie Mae from 2002 through 2005, the period when Fannie Mae successfully fought off stricter oversight from lawmakers concerned about taxpayer exposure.

In the Bush years, half the purpose of Fannie Mae seemed to be enriching politically connected Democrats, and Klain didn’t miss out. Using an implicit taxpayer bailout, the company bought up a trillion dollars worth of subprime mortgages and fought off regulation through a well-funded, well-connected network of revolving-door consultants and lobbyists like Klain. But Fannie Mae wasn’t Klain’s only lobbying client.

Klain was also a lobbyist for ImClone, a pharmaceutical company that would be investigated by Congress for fraud. ImClone’s founder and CEO, Sam Waksal, would be convicted for fraud.

Klain also lobbied on behalf of the Coalition for Asbestos Resolution, described by liberal critics as a “front group” for the GAF corporation, a roofing-materials manufacturer.