Ken Block

The blatantly political redistricting effort in Texas is launching similar efforts in California and New York. In all cases, partisan lawmakers are corrupting our elections to create a partisan advantage in upcoming elections. THIS IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF RIGGING OUR ELECTIONS!!!

Trump abused so-called RINOs and cast them out of his orbit in 2020. As a result, RINOs did not vote for Trump in 2020. More than 100k RINOs were in GA in 2020. Trump lost GA by about 12k. Same in PA, MI, AZ, and WI. Trump's pollster confirmed this. The reason for his loss is simple.

As Trump floats special prosecutor on 2020, he should be careful what he wishes for The president has already initiated investigations into his failed 2020 candidacy. Now he wants a special counsel to tell him what he wants to hear.

Here we go again. The 2020 election was not stolen. I have the receipts. The 2024 election was not stolen. I'm working on the proof now.

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Someone needs to tell Elon that Twitter is down.

No explanation needed.

This is a notable statement from RFK Jr, and one that makes me happy. Children should not be coming down with, and dying from, illnesses all but eradicated in the 1950s. The science shows that vaccines are safe, effective, and protect your children from some awful diseases.

My neighbor, Doug Lane, lost his wife, Christine, and son, Spencer, in the DC plane crash last month.

Doug sat with NBC News reporter Emilie Ikeda. The interview will air this morning at 7:40 a.m. Eastern on the Today Show and in a larger format tonight at 7:00 p.m. on the NBC program News Now.

GoLocalProv | News | Why Bother? - Ken Block This past week, the Rhode Island legislature held an oversight committee hearing regarding the Washington Bridge disaster. Surprising no one, the hearing did not provide answers to the questions most ...

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Is anyone with me? Please read my opinion piece in today's GoLocalProv and answer my question at the end. See first comment.

Apple just released an "urgent" security update for your iPhone, iPad, and other iDevices. Don't delay updating your gear.

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Here is how the Congressional Research Service describes how tariffs work.

Importers pay tariffs at US ports of entry - these are US businesses. The US Customs and Border Protection agency collects this tax. The source country has nothing to do with this process.

Full link in the first comment.

How similar was the 2024 election compared to 2020? Check out this chart, which shows the total votes cast in 2020 and 2024 in the swing states. All that nonsense about 15 million missing votes the day after the election was just noise.

My interview with @kenblockri.bsky.social — he was hired by Trump’s 2020 campaign to look for voter fraud. Now that FBI nom Kash Patel has called to investigate the 2020 election again, Block says the GOP has the opportunity to make meaningful bipartisan change in our electoral system. Will they?

Combined, these two vote swings eliminate Biden’s 2020 margin of victory and set up Harris’ loss. 13/13

Libertarian voters tend to lean conservative and Greens liberal. If we assume those voters were at least open to supporting a major party candidate, 195,000 Libertarian votes went Trump’s way in 2024, and 112,000 Green votes came out of Harris’ 2024 results... 12/

The Greens took more than 112,000 swing state presidential votes in 2024 than they did in 2020.

The bottom line: 11/

While Trump figured out how to peel Libertarian support away from their presidential candidate, the Democrats tried to assassinate the Greens. It is easy to see how this strategy would fail to draw Green supporters to Harris in 2024. 10/

The Greens were on just one swing state ballot in 2020 but made the ballot in five swing states in 2024. The Democrats tried hard to keep the Greens off the ballot in 2024 but lost several lawsuits. 9/

The difference between the Senate and presidential vote counts is very likely explained by Libertarians voting for Trump as President while casting a vote for the Libertarian Senate candidate. 8/

In MI, NV, PA, and WI, the 2024 ballot had Chase Oliver as the Libertarian presidential candidate and another Libertarian running for a US Senate seat. In each state, the Libertarian Senate candidate received many times the vote total of the Libertarian presidential candidate. 7/

That promise (plus getting RFK’s support) led to an astonishing result. 2024 Libertarian Presidential candidate Chase Oliver received more than 195,000 FEWER swing state votes than Jo Jorgensen did in 2020. Those votes very likely went to Trump. 6/

I saw a Libertarian presidential candidate as an issue that would likely doom Trump’s 2024 campaign. He wrangled an invitation to the Libertarians’ 2024 convention and got roundly booed. However, he promised the Libertarians that he would eliminate the Department of Education if elected. 5/

In 2020, Libertarian presidential candidate Jo Jorgensen took more votes than Trump lost to Biden in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin. In GA and AZ, Jorgensen took nearly 5 times as many votes as Trump’s margin of loss. She took as many votes as Trump lost to Biden in Pennsylvania. 4/

The data in this analysis came from each swing state’s official election results website, except for 2024 Wisconsin data. All 2024 data in this analysis was pre-election certification, meaning the numbers can differ slightly from the certified results. 3/

If we treat the six swing states as one big state, Biden won that made-up state by 312,074 votes over Trump. In 2024, Trump won that imaginary state by an almost 580,000-vote margin over Harris. 2/

How Trump won

Two clear data trends can be seen when comparing the 2020 swing state election results to the 2024 results. These trends explain half of the vote swing that enabled Trump’s 2024 win. 1/

Elections should about electing the best candidate, not a contest to see who can collect the most ballots. 6/6

I do believe that "ballot harvesting" is wrong. Half the states in the country, including several red states, allow unrestricted ballot harvesting. Congress should pass a bill allowing only caregivers or family members to deliver live ballots—and only in small quantities. 5/

Tens of millions of Americans believed the falsehoods this film presented. I can't tell you how often I have had to answer questions about this. 4/