Live from Jerusalem bus station bathrooms: Netanyahu’s election day on Facebook

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Live from Jerusalem bus station bathrooms: Netanyahu’s election day on Facebook
Times of Israel, Sep 17, 2019

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Since then, throughout the latest election campaign, Netanyahu has appeared in almost daily Facebook Live broadcasts, singing his own praises and those of the Likud party, while attacking his political rivals and media outlets for their allegedly negative coverage of him.

On Tuesday, election day round two, Netanyahu took his Facebook Live game to new levels, posting videos almost every hour in which he increasingly frantically called on the public to stop enjoying the national day off and get to the polling station to vote for him — or else.

The issuing of dire warnings about purportedly low rates of voter turnout among supporters — known as a “gevalt campaign” — has become a fixture of parties’ campaigns in recent elections.

Netanyahu’s first Facebook Live video Tuesday, which came from outside the polling station where he and his wife, Sara, had just voted, started with a fairly standard call for his supporters to make sure they used the day to vote for him. “I will tell you a secret — I voted Mahal,” he said in the three-minute video of the mem het lamed letters used to represent Likud on ballot slips.

“And I am here to tell you that you need to too. Go and vote and put Mahal in the ballot box. Only Mahal,” he repeated before namechecking the US president as he issued his first warning of the day.

Then, back in his residence in Jerusalem, Netanyahu made his first real plea for help in a nine-minute video that opened with an account of the “many hard real battles” he has faced in his life, including during his military service in the elite Sayeret Matkal unit.

The next video, this time 10 minutes long, appears to catch the prime minister at his desk in the middle of a deeply important conversation about how not only was his Likud losing but how the Arab parties and the left were surging.

“We have to get them out,” he says into the phone before pausing for the supposed response from the other end of the line. “No, no, it’s not looking good. We have to get them out.”

After one more public visit, this time to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda Market, filled with the same warnings, Netanyahu settled down to what appeared to be a final series of “emergency broadcasts” on his Facebook page to end off the day.

“This is not a trick,” Netanyahu said of his assertion that Likud voters aren’t going to the polls.

“Believe me,” he implored of the public.


More:  https://www.timesofisrael.com/live-from-jerusalem-bus-station-bathrooms-netanyahus-election-day-on-facebook/

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Doesn't look good for Bibi

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Name and face recognition is usually an asset.

Unlless, you have been there so long, sometimes, people just want a change. That blue and white party did not do too well in the Spring elections, this would be a big turnaround.

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Lahav Harkov
@LahavHarkov
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Updated Channel 13 exit poll

Blue and White 32
Likud 30
**Joint List 15**
Shas 9
Yisrael Beytenu 8
UTJ 8
Yamina 6
Democratic Union 6
Labor-Gesher 6

Center-Left 59 (with Joint List)
Right 53

https://twitter.com/LahavHarkov/status/1174079697224970242

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Netanyahu rival: No need to wait for official results

Netanyahu rival: No need to wait for official results
by Joel Gehrke
 | September 17, 2019 06:58 PM


A rival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling for Israeli officials to form a unity government, kicking off a negotiation that threatens to end the longest-serving prime minister’s career.

“We are in an emergency situation,” former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, one of the main figures in a three-party rivalry, said after polls closed in Israel on Tuesday. “I would even recommend, this evening, to the president of Israel — who is now the key figure — not to wait even until we actually see all the final results, not even to wait for those official results to be published.”

more
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/netanyahu-rival-no-need-to-wait-for-official-results

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Benjamin Netanyahu vows to build a new government
Netanyahu spoke half an hour after Blue and White leader Benny Gantz vowed to do the same.
By Gil Hoffman    September 18, 2019 03:41


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the post-election rally on September 18, 2019.. (photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised that he would build the next government in a speech to his supporters at Expo Tel Aviv, after 3am early Wednesday.

Netanyahu spoke half an hour after Blue and White leader Benny Gantz vowed to do the same. Amid chants of “no to a unity government,” the prime minister said all of the Likud’s current coalition partners want to build a coalition.

“All of the Likud's partners want to move forward together to build a strong government and not permit a dangerous anti-Zionist government,” Netanyahu told the crowd.

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-Elections/Benjamin-Netanyahu-vows-to-build-a-new-government-602058

It's 4:08 in the morning there.

So, I don't think this clarifies much...

We have only the exit polls where people are claiming Netanyahu lost but even those exit polls are close.

Per exit polls:

[Right_in_Virginia]

Name and face recognition is usually an asset.

Unlless, you have been there so long, sometimes, people just want a change. That blue and white party did not do too well in the Spring elections, this would be a big turnaround.

Actually the blue and white party did well in April ... so well that for one moment in Israeli history all thought Gantz had won.  B&W tied with Likud .. Rivlin gave Netanyahu the shot at forming a government, he couldn't so he disbanded the government and here we are.

Almost a repeat outcome.  It will be interesting, if the exit polls are at all reliable, to see what Rivlin does this time.

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Netanyahu and rival's parties tied, partial election results show
https://thehill.com/policy/international/middle-east-north-africa/461884-netanyahu-and-rivals-parties-tied-partial