Saturday, October 31, 2020

10-31: The scary day approaches: rumblings of violence, Trump may declare victory or keep campaigning, massive gun-buying

Current and former Trump administration officials are worried about what might happen on Nov. 4.
Officials say Trump will claim some kind of “victory” on November 4th even if the vote tallies show him behind
—NYT (Opinion; Ron Suskind) 


 ✅Trump may just keep campaigning after Election Day -- Trump campaign surrogates have been told to keep their Novembers clear for potential campaign events, even if the election results are still unknown. Meridith McGraw and Gabby Orr Politico -- 10/31/20 

A spike in gun sales, bellicose chatter online, and surveys showing increased tolerance for violence have some analysts worried. 
—WashPo 

 ✅Counties, cops making sure you’re safe at the polls -- Attorney General Xavier Becerra sent a bulletin to law enforcement officials Thursday reminding them that voter intimidation and election interference is against the law. He laid out rules about what poll watchers can and can’t do. Lewis Griswold CalMatters -- 10/31/20 
—Voice of OC 
    "With terms like “contested election” and “will there be a civil war” growing in recent days and weeks as Google search trends, religious leaders like Rev. Samuel Pullen of the Community Congregational United Church of Christ in Los Alamitos said it will fall on all faith figures, including himself, to be community bastions of civility and nonviolence."


 ✅An East Bay professor is teaching the theory that race influences intelligence. Students and faculty want him out -- An economics professor at one of California’s most diverse public universities has for years taught a fringe theory that race influences intelligence, claiming that certain Black and Hispanic ethnic groups are less intelligent on average than white Europeans and Northeast Asians. Jason Fagone in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 10/31/20 

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