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8/3/20, “We’ve [at the Transition Integrity Project] learned over the last couple of months, since the Movement for Black Lives protest really took off again...that taking to the streets...is a really important part of driving change.”
[page 18, possible transition scenarios]: “Turns two and three:...The Biden Campaign encouraged Western states, particularly California but also Oregon and Washington, and collectively known as “Cascadia,” to secede from the Union unless Congressional Republicans agreed to a set of structural reforms to fix our democratic system to ensure majority rule” including eliminating the Electoral College.…
No problem! Establishment Republicans are 100% on board with that!….Calif. GOP Chair from 2013-2019, Jim Brulte, was from 2011-2013 “Promoter, National Popular Vote.”
August 3, 2020, “Preventing a Disrupted Presidential Election and Transition,” Transition Integrity Project
“Executive Summary
In June 2020 the Transition Integrity Project (TIP) convened a bipartisan group of over 100 current and former senior government and campaign leaders and other experts in a series of 2020 election crisis scenario planning exercises.
“The purpose of this report is not to frighten, but to spur all stakeholders to action. Our legal rules and political norms don’t work unless people are prepared to defend them and to speak out when others violate them.”…
page 18: Imagining an outcome where Biden would encourage Western US states to secede:
“Turns two and three:... The Biden Campaign encouraged Western states, particularly California but also Oregon and Washington, and collectively known as “Cascadia,” to secede from the Union unless Congressional Republicans agreed to a set of structural reforms to fix our democratic system to ensure majority rule. With advice from President Obama, the Biden Campaign submitted a proposal to 1) Give statehood to Washington, DC and Puerto Rico; 2) Divide California into five states to more accurately represent its population in the Senate; 3) Require Supreme Court justices to retire at 70; and 4) Eliminate the Electoral College, to ensure that the candidate who wins to the popular vote becomes President….The Trump Team’s approach in turns two and three also emphasized creating the conditions to force the Biden Campaign into taking provocative, unprecedented actions—such as supporting California’s secession or sending a second slate of electors—that played into a broader narrative of the Democrats attempting to orchestrate an illegal coup. The team also tried to position President Trump as a “unifier”—working with top CEOs, holding a unifying event at the Lincoln Memorial, offering to establish a commission to review electoral rules—and as prioritizing safety and security in the face of radical groups supporting Joe Biden and trying to destroy America. One of the most consequential moves was that Team Biden on January 6 provoked a breakdown in the joint session of Congress by getting the House of Representatives to agree to award the presidency to Biden (based on the alternative pro-Biden submissions sent by pro-Biden governors). Pence and the GOP refused to accept this, declaring instead that Trump was reelected under the Constitution because of his Electoral College victory. This partisan division remained unresolved because neither side backed down, and January 20 arrived without a single president elect entitled to be Commander-in-Chief after noon that day. It was unclear what the military would do in this situation.”…
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Added: California GOP Chair from 2013-2019, Jim Brulte, was from 2011-2013 also "Promoter, National Popular Vote.”
Open borders Republicans (which means 100% of Republicans) love National Popular Vote because it would forever marginalize annoying Republican voters. On the separate issue of Trump: “Establishment Republicans really believe that if they rid the town of President Trump, things will go back to normal. We’ve had a rain delay, that’s all.”
Nov. 8, 2020, “GOP Panting Over the Restoration for Which They Dream," American Greatness, Mark Bauerlein
“Any Republican politician who is not at the front in fighting election fraud should be understood quite well as one who never wanted President Trump to win in the first place.”
“This could turn out to be exactly what they wanted. To hold the Senate, close the gap in the House, and get rid of Donald Trump—that’s a big, big win for establishment Republicans in and out of office.
They’ve lived in Washington, D.C., for a long time. Life’s been very good to them, and so has the swamp. If you don’t live here, if you’ve never worked in an agency or met with congressional staffers or been to the dinners, it’s hard to imagine the sublime air in which these people circulate. It’s like Versailles under Le Roi Soleil, an American version of courtiers and entourages, rivalries and intrigues, who’s up and who’s down and who’s next, what is the king’s and the duke’s and the general’s pleasure. Most importantly, the whole scene is limited to insiders….
They downright loathe outsiders who try to break in and change the modes.”…
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