The Fulcrum: Scholars unmask Trump election lawyers’ use of falsified evidence – Study finds a cottage industry of bogus claims and statistics – the post links to a working paper (Dropbox link to PDF) analyzing 38 claims of election fraud “…Regardless of the reason why, every claim we analyze fails to provide evidence of illegality or fraud.” (page 3) (via Election Law Blog)

Arizona Republic editorial: Title: “Stay in this race, Nikki Haley, and make Donald Trump set himself on fire” – offers a speech that Nikki Haley could give to really enrage Trump, best quote is this one after the suggested speech: “That should do it. That should ignite the afterburners in Trump’s ears and eye sockets.”

CNN: Jury finds Trump must pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll (Love it!) (link is to CNN live blog of coverage for 1/26/2024, includes a lot of quotes from E. Jean Carroll’s closing statements).

New York Magazine: Do You Remember the Ecstasy of Electing Joe Biden? How the coalition that defeated Donald Trump crumbled. – I don’t agree with the title of this post. I think that coalitions can be rebuilt to keep Trump out of the Oval Office, but there has been some “splintering” since January 2021.

Axios: Dems could give Haley a boost in Iowa caucuses – Some Iowa Democrats and independents are planning to crash the state’s Republican caucuses Monday night and become “Republicans for a day” to vote for Nikki Haley — but mostly, against former President Trump. I noticed this on the national news, did not know that was allowed…

CNN: Iowa entrance poll: Most GOP caucus-goers don’t accept Biden’s 2020 win, say a conviction wouldn’t make Trump unfit for office – I did not know that “entrance polls” were a thing, I thought there were only “exit polls”…