Why MSM Expects Election Results To Be Delayed; Will We Have To Wait For Pennsylvania Till Saturday?

Hello you freedom-loving people, a black swan appeared recently and results in Pennsylvania could be delayed. The mainstream media is taking a different tact this time, but non-citizens still can't vote in Iowa. Okay, let's get into it. TGI Friday's is a popular casual dining chain. On Saturday, the restaurant chain announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy making it the latest U.S. restaurant chain to fall on hard times following in the footsteps of the well-known seafood chain Red Lobster. One of the reasons for the bankruptcy petition was the financial difficulties faced by the company as a result of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Founded in 1965 in Manhattan, TGI Friday's is a singles hangout and one of the first major chains to promote the happy hour concept. The menu features a variety of American-style entrees including chicken wings, potato skins and hamburgers. TGI Friday's has never fully recovered from the pandemic, coupled with inflationary pressures on middle-class customers, the nearly 60-year-old restaurant chain was in financial trouble to compete with its rivals, especially Applebee's and Chili's. TGI Friday's had also changed its menu adding sushi, updating its cocktail menu and overhauling its appetizer selection. But in January, TGI Friday's abruptly closed dozens of restaurants across the United States. Last week it closed another 50 restaurants. The bankruptcy filing affects 39 restaurants owned by TGI Friday's parent company, TGI Friday's Incorporated. The other more than 160 restaurants in the United States and internationally are owned by another entity, TGI Friday's Franchiser. These restaurants will remain open for business. The mainstream media often plays a crucial role in U.S. elections. Americans rely on these private news outlets to call each state's race based on proprietary polling data and the election night's vote count. But this year, individual media outlets are saying that they may want to be more careful before jumping to conclusions. One of the reasons they are giving is because trust in the mainstream media has fallen to a new low. Since 1848, the Associated Press has been responsible for tabulating and announcing the results of U.S. elections. Anna Johnson, the Washington Bureau Chief for the media outlet, said that the agency is prepared for misinformation around our race calls, which sounds quite concerning. She also said a decade ago, or maybe more, when the Associated Press made a race call, it was just accepted that that was the race call. And there weren't a lot of questions about it. To meet this challenge, the Associated Press plans to do a lot more explanatory work. But what's there to explain if they're just reporting the numbers? The U.S. election counting process may be complex, since the procedures and technology vary from state to state and even from county to county within the same state. But haven't we advanced and gotten better at this over the years? David Scott, a senior editor at the Associated Press who oversees the election night team, said the agency won't declare any candidate the winner until it's completely confident in the results. He told the National Public Radio that if we have to wait for all of the ballots to be counted again this year, then everyone will just have to wait, especially if the race is very close. We may even have to wait until the election authority officially certifies the vote. In the last election, Fox News was the first media outlet to declare Joe Biden as the winner of Arizona. The move drew criticism from many reasonable people who were watching the event closely. Aaron Mishkin, who runs Fox News' decision desk, said that Fox has taken steps this year to make sure that its anchors aren't caught off guard on election night by the decision desk's announcement of the results. This is quite concerning also. Why would they be caught off guard? He recalled from 2020 by saying, One of the on-air people was talking and saying, Wait a sec, did we just call Arizona or something? We've taken steps to make sure that sort of thing doesn't happen. Mishkin predicts that the results won't be announced until the morning of Saturday, November 9th. He said, When you look at the map of the country, it's hard to see either of these candidates getting 270 electoral votes without Pennsylvania. Rick Klein, ABC's political director, said that a close race could extend that timing. He said, If the margin is a few thousand votes, it's going to take a long time to find out who won. Pennsylvania is expected to be a key competitive state in this year's presidential election. It's being reported that their unique election laws make this a state where the results will come in a little later. First, there is the issue of vote counting. There is no early voting in Pennsylvania, only time-consuming on-demand mail-in ballots. And mail-in ballots are not processed before Election Day. As a result of this provision, after the polls close on Election Day, many swing states will quickly report all the results, while Pennsylvania will have to count the ballots continuously and struggle to catch up. Second, Pennsylvania's ballot correction policy is also controversial. Counties have the discretion to allow voters to fix minor errors on mail-in ballots, such as signature problems, leading to inconsistent fixing policies across the state. Most other states, however, have uniform ballot amendment policies. Additionally, there is the potential for legal challenges after the counting of votes is complete. Pennsylvania law allows residents to file multiple challenges and delay certification of results, including recounts, appeals and lawsuits. And of course, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court has tightened the conditions for recounts requiring petitioners to provide evidence of fraud or error. The state court also shortened the appeal deadline in order to meet the December 11 federal deadline for certification. Still, many people expect that the results of this most critical swing state may not be revealed on Election Day. In the final stages of a campaign, every day counts. While few voters change their minds in the final stages of an election, anything that happens in the last few days can change the outcome. VP Harris and President Trump are travelling across the country canvassing in the states that matter the most. They are trying to get their message to voters in a clear and concise way. Meanwhile, both sides devoted significant resources to increasing turnout for early voting. On the Democratic side, heavyweights are out in full force to help First Lady Jill Biden campaign in Georgia and Hillary Clinton's stump for Harris in Tampa, Florida. The Obamas and President Clinton have also come out to support Harris, as well as a host of Hollywood celebrities who are also Harris supporters. It's been reported that Harris' approval ratings were beginning to show an upward trend, but no one could have imagined that at this crucial time, an internet celebrity squirrel would accidentally trigger an unprecedented public opinion storm, completely stealing the limelight from the two presidential candidates. The squirrel, named Peanut, was adopted by New York State resident Mark Longo seven years ago. He had kept Peanut as a pet. The Longos started an Instagram account just for Peanut to share videos of Peanut's daily routine. The account currently has 559,000 followers and they have over one million fans on TikTok. But earlier last week, officials from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation raided Mr. and Mrs. Longo's home and they took Peanut and a raccoon named Fred and they euthanized them. And they treated Mr. Longo like he was a criminal. We just learned that they have euthanized Peanut and the raccoon as well. I am so sorry. This is, this must be really difficult for you. It not only tears my family apart, but Peanut was the cornerstone of our nonprofit animal rescue and 10 to 12 DEC officers raided my house as if I was a drug dealer. I was sat outside my house for five hours. I had to get a police escort to my bathroom. I wasn't even allowed to feed my rescue horses breakfast or lunch. I was sitting, sat there like a criminal after they interrogated my wife to check out her immigration status, then proceeded to ask me if I had cameras in my house, then proceeded to go through every cabinet, nook and cranny of my house for a squirrel and a raccoon. They got a search warrant? They got a search warrant. Four departments and a judge signed off on a search warrant for a squirrel and a raccoon. And then they took them and killed them. Longo said that he didn't have a clue as to why the complaint was made or by whom. Why did they go through all that to get a search warrant for an animal that had been with you very safely and the world witnessed this for seven years? Why now suddenly did they show up with a search warrant and take these animals? We haven't a clue. We don't know who made the complaints. Again, Peanut was an indoor squirrel, not harming anybody. He's been with us for seven years. Not a single complaint was ever filed for this animal. We had him for seven and a half years. He became the world's most famous squirrel. We weren't hiding him by any means. He was all over TikTok. He became the first squirrel on TikTok to ever hit a million followers. He did every news station around the world. He's helped people. He's helped kids gather joy. And then we started a non-profit animal rescue called Peanut's Freedom Farm to help animals like Peanut fight a good fight when they're in a neglected case or they're sitting in a slaughter auction. And he was the cornerstone of our life and our organization. We used his platform to help raise money for the 300 animals we have at our sanctuary. New York officials certainly didn't expect the incident to cause an uproar on the internet. Elon Musk has posted several times about the incident. In one post, he said President Donald Trump will save the squirrels. Rest in peace, Peanut. Musk wrote this alongside a squirrel and a crying face emoji. Musk claimed that the government was a mindless and heartless killing machine. In a follow-up tweet, Musk posted an AI-generated image of Peanut. As the Star Wars character Obi-Wan Kenobi, Peanut is holding a lightsaber. The post says, If you strike me down, I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine. Obi, Peanut, Kenobi. Peanut's revenge sure came fast. Both the right and the left are unanimous in their condemnation. The death of Peanut has opened the eyes of more Americans to the dangers of the abuse of power by big government. Some said that their day was ruined. Others were so enraged after watching the video that they immediately went to the polls and voted for President Trump. Someone else wrote a statement that mimicked President Trump's style, denouncing the abuse of power by government law enforcement and satirizing the fact that if Peanut had identified himself as coming from Mexico illegally, then he would immediately have been given a $500 gift card and a hotel stay. Although President Trump's team denied the authenticity of the statement, the article gained viral traction on the internet due to its timely and to-the-point writing. The message of clarification was almost completely drowned out. Tons of AI images about President Trump and squirrels have hit the web, and the message that President Trump will protect your cats, dogs and squirrels has completely dominated the internet. A huge number of undecided Americans have made their decision because of this Black Swan event. Objectively speaking, Harris had absolutely nothing to do with Peanut's death. Individual state governments do have the right to make their own laws regulating environmental issues, but New York is a deep blue state and the EPA's killing of residents' pets dovetails completely and seamlessly with reports of illegal immigrants harming people's pets. The mainstream media has worked so hard to equate President Trump with Nazis, who knew that a tiny little squirrel would completely crush this offensive overnight. Maybe it was God's will. That's what the saying means, man's plan is not as good as God's. On Sunday, a federal judge ruled that Iowa election officials may continue to follow Secretary of State Paul Pate's directive to challenge the ballots of 2,176 registered voters who have been identified as possible non-citizens. On October 22, Pate instructed Iowa County auditors to challenge the ballots of voters who had previously identified themselves as non-citizens to the Iowa Department of Transportation. But then on October 30, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Iowa, filed a lawsuit on behalf of four naturalized citizens. The ACLU argued that Pate's directive to check registered voters' citizenship status violated the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. In its lawsuit, the ACLU argued that Pate's list of voters whose ballots would be challenged was based on an outdated record from the Department of Transportation. The ACLU also argued that many of those listed have already been proven to be citizens. However, on November 3, U.S. District Judge Stephen Locher declined the preliminary injunction. He cited the finding that some portion of the registered voter names on Pate's list are confirmed to be non-citizens. Locher stated in his ruling that this portion appears to be relatively small, no more than 12%, but still, the injunctive relief requested by plaintiffs effectively would force local election officials to permit those individuals to vote. If the plaintiffs' arguments prevailed, non-citizens would have been able to vote. The plaintiffs argued that Pate's directive violated the National Voter Registration Act, which requires that states complete any program for removing eligible voters within 90 days before the election. But Locher ruled that the National Voter Registration Act was not involved in this case. This was because the state had not removed any voters from the voter rolls and only required provisional ballots for those who were able to prove that they are now citizens. After the ruling, Pate hailed the court's ruling as a win for Iowa's election integrity. And that's a wrap for this episode. Thank you so much for your support of FrontPage. Please remember that every like, comment, and share helps more people to see the truth. If you haven't already, please subscribe. And if you have already subscribed, we thank you. 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