John James


Odds are that the vast majority of people in the US have no idea who John James is. For the uninformed he is a West Point graduate, an Iraq War veteran, a businessman, and a loser in the recent Senate race in Michigan. His opponent, Gary Peters (D), got 49.9% of the vote, and won the Michigan Senate race by 9335 votes.

Other notes of interest about John James. He was born in Southfield, Michigan which is in Oakland County and abuts on the border of Wayne County (Detroit). In other words he is a local guy, and furthermore John James is black.

Statewide Mr. Peters got 49.9% of the vote and beat John James by 92,635 votes.

In both Wayne County (Detroit) and Oakland County, Joe Biden got about 4000 more votes than John James. This is somewhat surprising to me as I would have expected John James to have done better both in predominately black Detroit and in his home county. In Wayne County (Detroit) Gary Peters won by 322,221 votes, getting almost 70% of the vote. Hmmm!

As you recall there was a lot of “funny stuff” that happened in Detroit on election night. Biden’s lead grew immensely once absentee and mail-in ballots were counted. According to unofficial election results, Biden pulled in 415,465 absentee votes in Wayne County. Trump had just 130,880. Factoring in just Election Day voting at polling locations, Trump lost by just about 40,000 votes.

Wayne County wasn’t the only state that saw absentee ballots go in Biden’s favor quite heavily, but it was one that caught a lot of attention after ballot challengers outside the TCF Center in Detroit where ballots were being counted.

Now the votes for the presidential election are done! Even if Michigan’s vote presidential vote tally were to have been reversed because of skulduggery ( a nice word for fraud), Biden would have still won the necessary electoral votes to have been elected.

However, what about John James?

Remember if John James actually won the Senate would be 51-49 in favor of the Republicans. How different would that be!

I think that John James got the shaft, and as a consequence the country is getting the shaft.


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