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Even though the election is still not technically over, the fallout is already underway. The Republican party is re-grouping amidst a silent Donald Trump, while the Democrats are trying to decide where to start with their long liberal wish list. In the meantime millions of Americans are stuck in the middle, and don't feel any sense of victory. So does that leave an opening for another group to fill the void? Like say, 'The Tea Party'? Well, former Texas State congressman Matt Rinaldi told KTRH, the Tea Party never left!

"It's the conservative faction of the Republican party". "Republicans are split, just like the Democrats are and I think policy matters and that group is going to be very strong within the party moving forward".

And with Joe Biden on the brink, Rinaldi expects Republicans as well as those who identify as members of the Tea Party to be extremely motivated. "When the opposing party is in charge, bold policy ideas in the opposing party are always heard more loudly". "So I think in a mid-term election, conservatives will make huge gains". We shall see.

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STUART Called to action by the local Tea Party and the Martin County Republican Party over a war that needs to be fought for President Donald Trump, dozens of people took to the Roosevelt Bridge for a stop the steal protest aimed at the results of last weeks presidential election.

Election officials in the contested states that voted for Joe Biden have denied any widespread voter fraud, some residents have continued to question the integrity of the results.

They're concerned the media and Democrats are telling them what is correct, and not waiting for the courts to rule on a blitz of lawsuits the Trump campaign has filed.

Community members with Trump flags flying make their way into the Indian River County Fairgrounds on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, for rally where Donald J. Trump Jr. will be the main speaker.(Photo: PATRICK DOVE/TCPALM)

Until the litigation is completed and the election is certified, Americans absolutely should continue to peacefully rally to support their candidate that freedom of speech is as essential to our Democracy as free and fair elections and candidates who are in close races should do everything they can to ensure the result is accurate, which is why I am also continuing to support President Trump's efforts to ensure all legal votes are counted, U.S. Rep. Brian Mast said in a statement Friday.

Mast, a co-chair of Trumps Florida reelection campaign, has said he will await the outcome of all legal challenges before acknowledging there is a winner.

Friday's rally,posted on the Martin County Republican Party's Facebook page, called for patriots to come out to the bridge because, We are at war and we must continue to fight for President Trump.

The event generally was peaceful, featuring waving Trump and American flags and holding signs of Stop the Steal.

Mast said he hopes when the election is completed that there will be unity.

Cindy Lucas, coordinator of the Martin Tea Party 9/12 Committee, a grassroots Tea Party group that has been around for a dozen years, said she also plans to accept the ruling of the courts.

Of course we have to accept it, Lucas said. I mean, Im not going to go to war and have a street war. Absolutely not. But lets turn this around. If we find out theres all this voter fraud and Trump ends up still being the president, will the left still do the same? Or are we going to see riots on the street? You tell me.

Joshua Solomon is a politics reporter covering the Treasure Coast.You can reach him at 772-692-8935 or joshua.solomon@tcpalm.com.

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Just before the election, I argued that third parties were unlikely to play a major role this year. The deck was seemingly stacked against them an unpopular incumbent president and expected high turnout would make it harder for them to be competitive and garner votes from Americans displeased with both major parties.

It turns out that I was half-right, and half-wrong.

Its true that third-party votes declined from 2016 to 2020, as people who may have voted for a third-party candidate in 2016 decided to vote for either Joe Biden or Donald Trump.

But it turned out that in a race that hinged on relatively small margins between Biden and Trump, one third-party candidate Libertarian Party nominee Jo Jorgensen may have helped turn the tide toward Biden in several states. She didnt generate massive numbers, but she didnt have to. Her votes were close enough to the margin to suggest that some voters who may have leaned toward Trump (or perhaps simply not voted for president at all) voted for her.

Many libertarians think this bodes well for the future. As Libertarian Party national chair Joe Bishop-Henchman told me, America didnt want Trump anymore but didnt want Bidens policies.

More people voted for Joe Biden than for any presidential candidate in American history. This gain happened not simply by generating votes from Democrats (or moderate or former Republicans), but from independents and the estimated 5 million voters who favored a third-party candidate in 2016.

Though votes are still being tabulated, so far, the number of third-party votes has dropped precipitously from 2016 to 2020, from more than 5 percent to perhaps less than 2 percent. Many of those third-party voters ultimately voted for Joe Biden: As Reason Magazines Matt Welch explained, while Trumps voting percentage in states like Michigan and Arizona mirrored his 2016 performance, votes that went to third-party candidates like Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson in 2016 appear to have gone to Biden instead.

To be clear, we dont know if 2016 voters and 2020 voters are the same people third-party voters in 2016 may have stayed home in 2020, meaning that Joe Biden received a critical number of votes from first-time voters.

But in Wisconsin, where the gap between Biden and Trump stands currently at 20,557 votes, Jo Jorgensen received 38,393 votes. And in Arizona, where the gap between Biden and Trump is an even tighter 12,813 votes, Jorgensen received 50,636 votes nearly four times the margin between Biden and Trump.

Both of those states, which Trump won in 2016, went to Biden in 2020.

This is an almost exact reversal of what happened in 2016, when third-party candidates like Green Party nominee Jill Stein and then-Libertarian Party nominee Johnson received thousands more votes than the ultimate margin between Trump and then-Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton. As NBC News reported the day after the 2016 election:

In Michigan which was a must-win for Clinton, but was still too close to call as of Wednesday morning, according to NBC News projections Johnson and Stein had collectively taken a little more than 222,400 votes, or about 5 percent of the vote there. Trump, in contrast, held just over a 15,600-vote lead over Clinton.

In Florida, which was crucial to Trumps victory, Johnson, Stein and two other third-party candidates on the ballot collectively drew over 293,000 votes more than twice the 128,000-plus votes that Trump led with as of early Wednesday morning.

Several prominent Republicans, like former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, expressed irritation at the success of the Libertarian Party (and arguably, libertarianism itself) this election cycle.

And the founder of Libertarians for Trump, Loyola University economist and anarcho-capitalist Walter E. Block, wrote in the Wall Street Journal on November 8 that libertarians had spoiled the election, arguing that on the Libertarian-O-Meter, Mr. Trump scores much higher than Mr. Biden because of his judicial nominations and deregulatory policies. He concluded, Pardon me while I beat my head against the wall. How could libertarians in purple states be so stupid?

But libertarianism is not synonymous with Trumpism (or conservatism, for that matter), and Jorgensens campaign aimed to separate herself from both the Democratic and Republican party nominees, arguing for the federal decriminalization of all drugs and the defunding of the Drug Enforcement Administration, for instance, and saying that the United States should pull out of NATO and the United Nations and become one giant Switzerland.

So while some votes for Jorgensen may have come from conservatives, its also possible that Libertarian Party voters are just that: libertarians, a voting cohort that may not have voted for Trump (or even voted at all) had there been no libertarians on the ballot.

As David Boaz argued at the Cato Institute, In the end, if you ask whether Jo Jorgensens 1.8 million or so votes, or more specifically her votes in states decided by narrow margins, swung the election, the answer is no: had there been no Libertarian on the ballot, those voters would have been split among Biden, Trump, and not voting, with a tilt toward Biden (or maybe against Trump).

Joe Bishop-Henchman told me that Jorgensens campaign was aimed at protecting freedom, adding, She suggested maybe we should pay more attention to what power weve given up, rather than just who we choose to wield it. And as to the increasingly fractured relationship between libertarianism and mainline conservatism, he said, A decade ago there were still a lot of people who had dreams that the Republican Party would champion smaller government and more liberty, and the Tea Party wave used a lot of that rhetoric. Those dreams are dead now, for to be Republican now is to be pro-Trump, anti-free trade, and anti-immigrant.

And hes optimistic about the future of the libertarian movement, particularly as the country likely faces a divided government moving forward. Polling shows most Americans are with Libertarians on free trade, open immigration, criminal justice reform, fiscal responsibility, ending the drug war, and bringing the troops home, he told me. If a Democratic president and Republican Senate can come together on those things, great! If they dont and end up in gridlock, well be ready in 2022 and 2024.

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Donald Trumps attack on the election has ignited a firestorm of fundraising by his campaign and allied groups to finance efforts to hunt out supposed fraud. On Monday, Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, asked her Twitter followers to contribute to an election integrity project run by Matt Braynard, a GOP operative who was looking for $500,000 to underwrite his endeavor. As a former data specialist on Trumps 2016 campaign, Braynard had experience in this field. But Martin didnt mention one notable project Braynard not long ago pursued: creating a literary journal that celebrated a real-life political assassin.

Braynard was the leader of the data team for Trumps 2016 campaign until leavingin March 2016. At the time, Politico reported that neither Braynard nor Corey Lewandowski, then the campaign manager, would explain the departurea move that left some campaign officials unable to access data files. (Braynard tells Mother Jones that he was laid off over a minor HR dispute with Lewandowski.) According to an online bio,Braynard had worked as a political analyst at the Republican National Committee and for GOP pollster Frank Luntz. After exiting the Trump campaign, he formed a nonprofit called Look Ahead America to increase conservative voter turnout.

That online bio also notes that Braynard is an award winning short fiction writer. In that vein, he founded a literary magazine in 2017 as part his MFA coursework at Columbia University. Called Otoya, it billed itself as a Literary Journal of the New Nationalism.

The publication, Braynard explained in a brief editors note, was named in honor of Otoya Yamaguchi. In 1960, Yamaguchi, a 17-year-old rightwing ultranationalist in Japan, brutally murdered Inejir Asanuma, a member of parliament and the chairman of the Japan Socialist Party, at a televised election debate. Yamaguchi stabbed Asanuma with a short samurai sword. The image capturing the horrific moment became one of the most famous press photos of the 20th century. After he was arrested, Yamaguchi committed suicide and became a fallen hero of the Japanese far right.

A drawing of Yamaguchi graced the cover, as Braynards note described the murderer as a nationalist hero who heroically killed a communist. He pointed out that Yamaguchi shared a birthdate with another great patriot who put bayonets through the enemies who threatened his nation, George Washington.

In an interview this week, Braynard explained his admiration for Yamaguchi. Braynard recalled visiting Cambodia, where he says he saw piles of skulls of victims who had been murdered during the bloody reign of the Khmer Rouge. I think [Yamaguchi] may have prevented the same thing from happening in his own country, Braynard says. He should be memorialized and remembered. Only one issue of Otoya was published.

Braynards voter fraud project was set up days after the 2020 election, when he established a GoFundMe page seeking half a million dollars to uncover purportedly illegitimate votes in swing states using Social Security and change-of-address databases. GoFundMe removed the page, criticizing it for attempting to spread misleading information about the election.

He relaunched at GiveSendGowhich bills itself as the #1 Free Christian Crowdfunding Sitewhere, as of Friday, he had raised more than $580,000. His fundraising page states, The funds from this campaign will be received by Matt Braynard. But it also notes, Matt Braynard will personally receive zero dollars. Braynard says that all the money he collects will be spent on his research and that he will not be pocketing any.

On his Twitter feed, Braynard provides updates on leads his team is chasing and has suggested that having met his original funding goal, he may ask for more. He tells Mother Jones he has already spent about $500,000 acquiring various databases and hiring call centers to contact people who he suspects may be connected to voting irregularities. He estimates he needs another $300,000: Every day we find more ways to spend money.

The New York Times has reported that election officials across the country say there is no evidence of significant voter fraud. Yet Braynard contends the matter remains open, as his team conducts up to six different analyses of voting in each of six swing states. Braynard claims to have found instances of people casting ballots in two different states, including 631 cases in Pennsylvaniaeven if verified, not remotely enough to change the results.

Braynard still insists this finding is significant. If there is an organized attempt at voter fraud, we will only detect a few cases, he says, adding that he hopes his research may bring enough pressure to encourage judges to order remedies including recounts or audits. He notes hes been sharing his research with Trumps legal team, and they are asking us to do more.

Braynard maintains that he didnt walk into this with any preconceived notions regarding the possibility of fraud in the election. He just wants to know, is this really a clean election? Asked if he expects his findings to be trusted, given that hes a Trump fan, he replies that anyone will be able to check his figures. He adds, And I am the biggest fan.

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