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The head 'Tonight Show' writer leaves job after 7 months, vows never to do a Trump sketch 'ever again'
Jason Guerrasio
The head writer of "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" has left the show after only seven months.
Becky
Drysdale wrote in a private Facebook post, obtained by the Chicago
Sun-Times, that she didn't want to do jokes involving President Donald
Trump ever again.
Drysdale said that the exit was a
mutual decision between her and the show and that "doing material about
Trump, has led to divided creative teams, anxiety, tears and pain."
Insider contacted "The Tonight Show" for comment but didn't immediately hear back.
The
head writer of NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon," Becky
Drysdale, has said she is leaving the late-night show because she is fed
up with doing material involving President Donald Trump.
The exit
by Drysdale — a veteran comedian who has written for "Key & Peele"
and even starred in "Arrested Development" — was revealed in a private
Facebook post she wrote, which was obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
"I
am making the decision for myself to never work on, write, or be
involved with, another Trump sketch ever again," Drysdale wrote,
according to the Sun-Times.
"I have landed in several jobs and
situations over the last few years, not just 'The Tonight Show,' where
the project of making fun of Trump, or doing material about Trump, has
led to divided creative teams, anxiety, tears and pain. I can't decide
the outcome of this election, but I can make the choice for myself, to
vote him out of my creative life."
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Drysdale,
who joined "The Tonight Show" in April when Fallon was recording the
show from home, said in her Facebook post that the decision to exit the
show was mutual.
"They made it clear that I was not a good fit for
the show and I did not disagree," Drysdale wrote. "I wish it had gone
differently and I had been able to be what they needed but that is not
how it shook out."
Critics
of Trump have criticized NBC for the way it's covered Trump in the past
— all the way back when he was running for office four years ago and
was invited to be a host on "Saturday Night Live."
Fallon also
caught heat back in 2016 when he had Trump on the show and did a
generally lighthearted interview with the candidate. The interview today
is best known for the moment Fallon tussled Trump's hair.
Since
then Fallon has been more critical of the president, but Drysdale
clearly believes Fallon's show wasn't a good fit for the way she wants
to do comedy.
"I believe that comedy is a powerful tool," she
wrote in her Facebook post. "I believe that it can handle anything, no
matter how unfunny. I don't believe that making fun of this man, doing
impressions of him, or making him silly, is a good use of that power. It
only adds to his."
Insider contacted to NBC for comment but hasn't heard back ye
USPS finds 1,700 ballots in Pennsylvania mail facilities after sweep
The
U.S. Postal Service said about 1,700 ballots had been identified in
Pennsylvania at processing facilities during two sweeps Thursday and
were being delivered to election officials.
Pennsylvania Democrats Accused of Violating Election Rules, Offering Ballot Info to Party Operatives
Ryan Mills
Pennsylvania’s
Democratic election leaders violated state code on Monday when they
authorized county election officials to provide information about
rejected mail ballots to political party operatives, according to a Republican lawsuit filed in state court and obtained by National Review.
The lawsuit cites an email sent to county election directors at 8:38 p.m. on Monday by Jonathan Marks, Pennsylvania’s deputy elections secretary.
In
the email, Marks wrote that “county boards of elections should provide
information to party and candidate representatives during the
pre-canvass that identifies the voters whose ballots have been rejected”
so they could be offered a provisional ballot.
Democrats have
been winning mail-in voting handily in Pennsylvania and mail votes are
key to Joe Biden’s chances of overtaking President Donald Trump’s
dwindling lead in the state.
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Republicans
argue the direction from Marks violates the state’s election code,
which states “no person observing, attending or participating in a
pre-canvass meeting may disclose the results of any portion of any
pre-canvass meeting prior to the close of polls.”
In the lawsuit,
filed Tuesday against Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar in part by two
Republican state house candidates, the Republicans note that Pennsylvania’s supreme court stated last month
that “unlike in-person voters, mail-in or absentee voters are not
provided any opportunity to cure perceived defects (to their ballot) in a
timely manner.”
But the Republicans argue that the opportunity to
cure perceived defects for ballots that overwhelmingly support
Democrats is exactly what Boockvar and Marks were allowing. Attempts to
reach Boockvar and Marks for comment on Thursday were unsuccessful.
At
least eight counties refused to accept Marks’ suggestion that they make
voters aware of rejected ballots because doing so violates the state’s
election code, according to the lawsuit.
The Monday night email is
just one of several pieces of guidance by Democratic election leaders
that Republicans say have been inconsistent and confusing.
Lawrence
Tabas, the chairman of the Pennsylvania GOP, said high-ranking state
Democrats are using their positions to stack the deck against
Republicans and President Donald Trump.
“They constantly are
changing the rules,” he said. “They have been applying different
standards, issuing guidances as they go, changing the rules as they go,
and making it difficult for us to be able to establish that there is one
clear, uniform standard of how to do this throughout the whole
commonwealth. That’s what we want.”
Pennsylvania Republican
leaders also have complained about inconsistent guidance to county
election directors about segregating and processing mail ballots that
arrive after Election Day.
Republicans are challenging a Pennsylvania supreme court ruling that allows for all mail-in ballots that arrive by 5 p.m. on Friday to be counted.
Just last year, the Pennsylvania legislature extended the deadline for mail-in ballots to be received from 5 p.m. on the Friday before Election Day to 8 p.m.
on Election Day, the time that polls close for in-person voting. The
state supreme court’s elected Democratic majority then further extended
the deadline to the Friday after Election Day, a change the legislature
had refused to make.
In the case of a dispute about when exactly a
ballot was postmarked, or if it wasn’t postmarked at all, the state
supreme court ruled that election officials are required to assume it
was sent in by Election Day rather than rejecting it, as done under
existing state law.
In early October, the U.S. Supreme Court
deadlocked on the case, but left open the possibility that the Court
could reconsider it.
Pennsylvania officials have urged county
election directors to keep late-arriving ballots segregated, but
Republicans have said the instructions have been confusing.
State
Senate majority leader Jake Corman said at a Wednesday press conference
that he believed the State Department has been “weaponized” and
influenced by partisan efforts to sway the vote, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
“All we want to do is have confidence in the result,” Corman said, according to the Post-Gazette.
“We’ll have winners and we’ll have losers, but it seems to be the
mission of the Democratic Party to cause confusion in this race.”
Boockvar responded that the state’s guidance has been clear.
“They
don’t like the late counting of ballots because they don’t like
anything that allows more eligible voters to be enfranchised,” she told
the paper.
Tabas worries that without clear guidance about how to
process late-arriving ballots, they could be co-mingled with ballots
received by Election Day. That could be a problem if the Supreme Court
rules that only ballots received by Election Day should count in the
final tally.
“There was no clear indication as to how, during that
processing, they could remain segregated so we could identify later
which ones came in late and are included in the total or not,” he said.
Winning
Pennsylvania is key for Trump to have any chance of holding the
presidency. He was ahead by about a half-million votes Wednesday, but
Biden has cut into his lead as more absentee ballots are counted.
Trump’s lead was down to about 100,000 votes on Thursday afternoon.
Tabas
said it’s not clear how many outstanding ballots have yet to be
canvassed and counted, and it’s not clear how many ballots actually did
arrive after Election Day.
He said he remains optimistic about
Trump’s chances in the Keystone State, even though many elections
experts are projecting that Biden will ultimately pull ahead.
Tabas
said Trump “has done very well throughout the state, and part of our
confidence and hope and optimism is, our statewide candidates are doing
very well.”
“We’ve had greater turnout than expected in our
strongholds on Election Day,” he said. “We’ve exceeded our expectations,
in some cases very dramatically. Right now we are just waiting to see
what is left to be counted and that the rules are being applied equally
and uniformly.”
In addition to the lawsuit over ballot counting
and the lawsuit over alleged violations of the state’s election code,
the Trump campaign also has said it filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania
because its poll watchers have not been actually able to observe ballot
counting.
During a press conference Wednesday in Philadelphia,
Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, said poll observers are being
kept so far back that they are “never able to see the ballot itself,
never able to see if it was properly postmarked, properly addressed,
properly signed on the outside, all of the things that often lead to the
disqualification of ballots, or make it very easy to dump 50,000
totally fraudulent ballots because they’re not observed.”
“Not a
single Republican has been able to look at any one of these mail-in
ballots,” Giuliani said. “They could be from Mars as far as we’re
concerned, or they could be from the Democratic National Committee. Joe
Biden could have voted 50 times as far as we know, or 5,000 times.”