All legally cast votes need to be counted before victory is proclaimed.

Nov. 6, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging former Vice President Joe Biden not to declare victory while many states remain too close to call:

“It would be irresponsible for Joe Biden to declare victory when all the legal votes have not yet been counted. In Pennsylvania, it is unclear who will end up with the most votes given the Trump-trending results on provisional ballots. In Georgia, the margin of difference between the two candidates is about 0.01 percent and needs to be evaluated through a mandatory recount. In Arizona, which Fox News prematurely called for Joe Biden, there are strong reasons to believe that ballots being counted will provide sufficient votes for Donald Trump to win the state. And lastly, Trump leads in North Carolina, and those precious late arriving votes Democrats love so much have not yet been counted. Joe Biden needs to exercise the same patience he urged for President Trump not to create false expectations for the outcome, risking violence in the streets by Biden supporters should the outcome be overturned when all the legally cast votes are counted.

“This doesn’t even include Michigan Republican Party Chair Laura Cox stating that a vote-counting software glitch in a program used by 47 counties in Michigan may have produced thousands of votes for Biden that should have been credited to Trump. As President Trump would say: Go slow, Joe, go slow.”

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Fairfax, Va. – With the country on course to see the highest voter turnout in more than a century, Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued the following statement.

“The American people came out in mass to show their support for the country they love. While the results remain to be fully decided, the voter turnout is clearly an affirmation of President Trump’s leadership.”

Oct. 29, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement reacting to the latest Gross Domestic Product numbers that showed a massive 33.1 percent, inflation-adjusted, annualized boom in the third quarter, an all-time high:

“The record increase in annualized Gross Domestic Product shows conclusively that President Trump deserves full credit for the economic rebound with more than 14 million jobs already recovered. His willingness to accept responsibility for the forced economic downturn in the second quarter, and determination to make certain that as many people as possible were not permanently hurt due to the Covid response, has resulted in all-time high growth in the third quarter. While many politicians were cowering, afraid to make a mistake, President Trump boldly led America through a national emergency, approaching the problem as a businessman who’s had to make payrolls, and made certain that assistance went directly to those who were most adversely impacted, including small businesses, with an eye towards the V-shaped recovery he is now delivering.

“While the third quarter was fantastic, it is imperative that America not make the mistake of engaging in policies which increase taxes and regulations, and once again lock down our businesses, effectively strangling the recovery before it goes into full bloom. The choice for the future is stark: Trump’s hope and opportunity against Biden’s dark winter of despair. No choice has ever been as important in our lifetimes.”

Attachments:

“Great Again: Trump economy grows record 33.1 percent in third quarter amid rapid recovery,” By Robert Romano, Oct. 29, 2020 at http://dailytorch.com/2020/10/great-again-trump-economy-grows-record-33-1-percent-in-third-quarter-amid-rapid-recovery/

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Fairfax, Va– Today Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia thanking him for recognizing the plight of the oppressed Uyghur Muslims in China on International Religious Freedom Day. Manning also urged further action by the Trump administration to ensure that U.S. investors are not unwittingly funding Chinese human rights abuses.

“The Labor Department has a fiduciary responsibility to end all private retirement investments in dangerous Chinese investments by amending the current pending “Financial Factors in Selecting Plan Investments” regulation  to disqualify all companies that do not adhere to the transparency requirements of Dodd-Frank and Sarbannes-Oxley, and to divest the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation from China as well,” wrote Manning. “Chinese assets and other risky non-transparent assets that enslave our fellow man have no place in America’s retirement portfolios.”

Scalia noted in his statement to the press that “many people around the world do not enjoy the freedom to practice their faith, but instead face persecution for their religious beliefs. We particularly recognize the Uyghur Muslims and other religious and ethnic minorities in China who have been forced into state-sponsored labor and re-education camps by the Chinese Communist Party.”

The growing push to divest U.S. retirement accounts from non-transparent, child and slave-owning Chinese companies gained momentum last week when  Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) sent a letter to the Department of Labor requesting the federal government block human rights-abusing companies from American investment eligibility.

“Based on the ongoing threat investments in these companies pose to American retirement security, I ask you to consider expanding existing regulations on fiduciary duties under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to include a prohibition on investment in certain types of Chinese investment vehicles by private retirement plans subject to ERISA,” Loeffler wrote.

“Loeffler’s support is a game-changer because of her background in the financial sector and Wall Street,” added Manning. “She brings tremendous credibility to this issue and I hope other national leaders will take notice and join us in the calls to divest from China.”

Last month, the Department of Labor took steps to combat these exploitive labor practices by releasing its biennial list of goods produced under conditions of forced labor. China topped the list at 17 goods – four more than any other country. The list and the Department’s “Comply Chain” and “Sweat & Toil” smartphone apps, help governments, companies, and consumers fight back against abusive labor practices and, by doing so, protect individuals impressed into forced and child labor because of their religious beliefs.

In August, a top State Department official warned college and university governing boards served notice that the value of Chinese stocks and bonds are likely to be decline as a result of U.S. government action and that they should, therefore, divest from China.

In May, the Department of Labor halted all investing of federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) assets in Chinese companies. The TSP is a retirement savings and investment plan for federal employees and members of the uniformed services.

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Oct. 27, 2020, Fairfax, VA – Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning issued the following statement in reaction to the latest revelations of Joe and Hunter Biden’s self-dealing and corruption:

“The Tucker Carlson interview with former Hunter Biden partner Tony Bobulinski is a credible full-blown indictment of Joe Biden. The former vice president illegally cashed in on his elected office. Equipped with emails, texts, recordings and other records, Bobulinski’s accusations are damning beyond belief of the elder Biden, who was known as the ‘Big Guy’.

“It is almost criminal that around 40 percent of Americans have already cast their ballots without the benefit of information that disqualifies Joe Biden from serving in the office of the president, and most assuredly guarantees a bi-partisan impeachment unless he resigns.”

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Where’s Joe?

Oct. 26, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting the Biden campaign for refusing to campaign:

“It is unprecedented in modern campaign history for a major party presidential candidate to effectively disappear from the campaign trail in the week leading to the election. While Joe Biden’s past campaign events with people in crop circle like containment for fear of catching any enthusiasm has been weird, the idea that Biden’s basement is the place where voters can be found is outright offensive. It’s clear that Joe Biden is afraid of a virus that the rest of us have to learn to live with and adapt to and afraid of explaining the large amount of evidence that indicts his family as being engaged in blatant pay-for-play while he was Vice President with China, a Ukrainian natural gas company and a former mayor of Moscow’s widow, among others. America wants a President who will fight to get the job, and if Joe Biden won’t ask for your vote now, why would he pay attention to you after the election?”

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Oct. 23, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting former Vice President Joe Biden for allegedly taking a 10 percent stake in a Chinese hedge fund deal via his son, Hunter Biden’s business dealings:

“Former Hunter Biden business partner’s statements that Joe Biden knew and profited off of his son’s foreign business deals corroborates the emails that were released to the New York Post showing the Bidens selling the VP office. Joe Biden is a crook. ‘The Big Guy,’ as he was known, allegedly received 10 percent of the multimillion dollar Chinese hedge fund deal, which gives almost total and indisputable creedance to the concern that the former Vice President is fully and completely compromised by the oppressive Communist Chinese regime. We challenge the formerly legitimate press corps of the United States to give this as much attention as they did as the fake news Russiagate.”

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