John Cornyn: Russia was "unsuccessful in changing a single vote or affecting the outcome"

[Miles Archer]

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Today on the Senate floor, the #2 Republican, John Cornyn, said of Russia's election interference: "Nobody disputes the fact that they were unsuccessful in changing a single vote or affecting the outcome."

That is an absolutely false statement.

11:49 AM - 19 Jul 2018

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[malaise]

1. The more they squeal, the more they sound guilty

They stole the elections and truth will out

[NewJeffCT]

9. yes, if they're making this sort of declaration

it's almost a guarantee that it will eventually come out that votes were flipped to help Trump.

As I said many times before, just changing one vote in 100 from Clinton to either Trump, Stein or Johnson flips MI, WI and PA to Trump. (or even to blank/NA - weren't there a bunch of presidential ballots that had no vote for president in Michigan?)

If you flip 2 votes in 100 from Clinton to Trump, Stein, Johnson or blank, you also flip FL and NC to Trump.

[madaboutharry]

2. He has no way of knowing that.

Cornyn is one of the worst hacks in The Senate.

[Dave Starsky]

3. No, they just hacked the election for lulz and bragging rights.

So they can call us all "cucks" on social media. Pwned!

[Funtatlaguy]

4. Then why do the Russians do it.

Costs them a lot of money, time, and manpower.
They don’t only do it in America. They do it worldwide.
You know they have researched what results that their efforts have yielded.

[manor321]

5. Goal posts

They keep moving the goal posts. From "no interference" to "Putin didn't favor Trump" now to "well, yeah, they did it but the votes weren't affected".

[NewJeffCT]

10. yep - what's next

"only a few votes were changed?"

Then, "Well, the vote hacking flipped MI, WI, PA, FL and NC to Trump, but it's too late to do anything now."

Then, "Well, calling for a new election isn't in the Constitution, it's not fair to Trump."

[ck4829]

14. And can see it here too

"OK maybe they changed a few votes, maybe they had some influence... but they didn't swing the election."

[LuckyCharms]

6. Hey Cornyn, it is a little difficult to quantify the effect of a mass

propaganda campaign.

I personally know a person who is not politically savvy in the least, and unfortunately, she did not make her mind up until she got into the voting booth.

She ended up voting for Trump because Hillary "yanks babies out of their mothers at 9 months".

I know another woman that did not vote for Hillary because she "has Parkinson's".

So Cornyn, kindly shut your Republican piehole.

[PJMcK]

15. You're too polite

Hey, Cornyn!

Either you're ignorant of the actual facts or you're a fucking liar.

Either way, shut up!

[tavernier]

7. So the conclusion of this statement is

That there is no harm in letting them do it again.

[Achilleaze]

8. Another day, another pack of republican lies (R)

sad and sick

[PJMcK]

16. In a sick way, it's funny, isn't it?

The Evangelical Republicans want to make U.S. laws based on the Ten Commandments. Yet they and their politicians never follow them.

[duforsure]

11. Liar Cronyn

Does now know that, its putins propaganda , and he and Cruz needs to be voted out of office in shame for what they're allowing putin and trump to do to this country , and the American people. As long as their in office Putins winning.

[oberliner]

12. New poll: 34 percent 'less likely' to vote for Clinton after new email revelations (Oct 30, 2016)

A poll released Sunday shows more than 30 percent of likely voters say they are less inclined to support Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton after revelations Friday about the FBI reviewing newly-discovered emails potentially related to Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.

The ABC/Washington Post tracking poll was conducted from Tuesday to Friday, which means the survey’s 1,781 respondents could only be asked on the final day about the revelations regarding the new emails.

Still, the poll found 34 percent of the respondents were “less likely” to vote for Clinton and that she now leads Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump by just a single percentage point, 46-to-45 percent, in a four-way White House race, with Election Day on Nov. 8.

Doesn't that show that voters were impacted?

[mythology]

19. That wasn't about the Russian efforts

That was about Clinton having a personal email server. If she had followed State Department protocol, the State Department Inspector General wouldn't have announced she had a personal server and thus no potential Comey announcement. I work with personal information and anybody at my company would be fired for using a personal email address to send work email.

Yes Russia no doubt helped use the server as a weapon, but the root cause of the problem was its existence at all.

[oberliner]

22. Right

Hard to keep track of which emails are being referenced sometimes - but you are correct. My apologies.

[DemocraticSocialist8]

13. Does anyone outside of their base believe a thing they say anymore?

Well, I know there are some leftists, liberals, and progressives who still believe Trump was democratically-elected. I have MAJOR doubts about that and always have. The more that comes out, the more I believe 2016 was stolen.

[AlexSFCA]

18. this only propagates RW talking point

that the left still can’t get over trump winning over Hillary. We need to focus on interference and ongoing efforts. If Mueller finds evidence that voting machines were affected then we can say that but now it is not helpful to our cause.

[dalton99a]

17. R stands for Russia.

[Cracklin Charlie]

20. Weak tea, Senator.

Why would they spend hundreds of millions to lose an election?

Makes no sense.

[Wounded Bear]

21. The real question should be "How many votes did they prevent?"

[Garrett78]

23. Even if no votes were flipped, Cornyn is dead wrong.

Russia's social media campaign was intense, and Russia wouldn't bother if it wasn't impactful.

[spanone]

24. Liar.

johnny, you have no fucking way in the world to know that....so meanwhile, you lie.