Louisiana Voice

On election night, there’s a real possibility that the data will show Republicans leading early, before all the votes are counted. Then they can pretend something sinister is going on when the counts change in Democrats’ favor.”

—Former housing secretary Julian Castro, warning of the possibility that Trump may declare victory before all the votes are counted.

It wasn’t long ago that people were beaten and even killed to obtain the sacred power each of you have today, the power to vote. And right now, your vote is more critical than ever.”

—Actor Morgan Freeman.

Many courts are chipping away at votes that ought to be counted. It is a disgrace to the federal courts’ foundational role in ensuring democracy’s function, and a betrayal to the persons that wish to participate in it fully.”

—Federal Judge Karen Nelson Moore, in her dissent to a court ruling to uphold signature-match rules for mail ballots in Tennessee.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany erroneously claimed in September that then-Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, when she had actually attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn.

—Salon.com, in a story revealing that U.S. Sen. John Cornyn did not graduate from Oxford University in England as claimed. [Maybe each of them will hit the road after Tuesday.]

And now Trump is making his final campaign swing through the ‘battleground states,’ feeding the insatiable need of his base for more of himself. ‘Four more years’ has become ‘12 more years.’ Somehow Trump is owed more years of the presidency because ‘they’ took two or three years away from him during the Russia investigation, because ‘they’ spied on his 2016 campaign, because ‘they’ don’t deserve to win. The red-hat-wearing mobs of un-masked fans at his rallies want more of the America they think Trump is bringing back to them. It’s an America that is more white, has more guns, has more churches, more of ‘us,’ less of ‘them.’”

—Salon.com.

The suggestion that doctors—in the midst of a public health crisis—are overcounting COVID-19 patients or lying to line their pockets is a malicious, outrageous, and completely misguided charge.”

—AMA President Susan Bailey.

NOT A TRUMP QUOTE, but it should be (with apologies to Cavin & Hobbes):

“Why don’t I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but drop by and tell me how great I am? Why aren’t my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don’t my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well-being when I have problems?”