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Showing Original Post only (View all)Who uses the word "chicanery"? No matter.. brilliant Biden move [View all]
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-pulls-together-hundreds-lawyers-011711185.htmlReuters
Biden pulls together hundreds of lawyers as a bulwark against election trickery
Trevor Hunnicutt
July 1, 2020, 8:17 PM CDT
(Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said on Wednesday that his party has assembled a group of 600 lawyers and thousands of other people to prepare for possible "chicanery" ahead of November's election.
"We put together 600 lawyers and a group of people throughout the country who are going into every single state to try to figure out whether chicanery is likely to take place," Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, said on a video conference with donors to his campaign.
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Who uses the word "chicanery"? No matter.. brilliant Biden move [View all]
Laura PourMeADrink
Jul 2020
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Thanks Joe! One of the reasons the GOP has gotten away with removing thousands from the
napi21
Jul 2020
#1
What if my precinct has been corrupted? Remember them saying the biggest
Laura PourMeADrink
Jul 2020
#4
I've heard the word used for thugs & mobs. very fitting word for the Idiot - a MOB BOSS wanabe.
onetexan
Jul 2020
#9
I remember Old Man Bush getting into a bit of flap over his use of that term during the NAFTA talks
sandensea
Jul 2020
#25
The term 'Chicano' did in fact originate in the word chicanery - and was originally a slur
sandensea
Jul 2020
#47