Chuck Darwin‘A different level than 2020’: Trump’s plan to steal election is taking shape
Trump has repeatedly refused to commit to accepting the election results,
declining multiple times to do so during a 27 June debate.
He has suggested that Christians would “never have to vote again”if he wins.
The anti-democratic sentiment has been echoed by other prominent conservatives,
including Mike #Howell, the director of the oversight project at the #HeritageFoundation, who said earlier this year 🔸there was a “0% chance of a free and fair election”.🔸
“I’m formally accusing the Biden administration of creating the conditions that most reasonable policymakers and officials cannot in good conscience certify an election,” he said at a Heritage Foundation event this summer
The effort poses a challenge that again would test the strength of the US’s voting system and its democratic institutions.
It could probably stretch from little-known county election officials to the Congress.
In some ways, Trump’s attempt to challenge the election result in 2024 could look a lot like his effort in 2020.
💥It has begun months before election day with the seeding of doubt about the integrity of the election and could continue after.
There are two key differences.
♦️First, Trump may be better prepared.
Mitchell, a close Trump ally, has spent the last few years building up a #network of activists focused on local boards of elections.
And the Republican National Committee’s election litigation team is now being led by Christina #Bobb, an election denier
who is now facing criminal charges for her efforts to overturn the 2020 race.
💥The RNC claims it is recruiting an army of 100,000 #poll #observers who could provide significant disruption during voting and counting.
“I think we saw efforts by Republicans in 2020 that were pretty ham-handed,” said Marc #Elias, a top Democratic voting rights lawyer.
“I worry that there will be both legal and extralegal efforts by Republicans to keep ballots from being counted.”
💥But more significantly, the idea that the 2020 election was stolen has moved from the fringes to being a pillar of the Republican party.
A January poll from PRRI found that 66% of Republicans believe the 2020 election was stolen.
“The most important thing we have to do is protect the vote.
You have to keep your eyes open because these people want to cheat
and they do cheat, and, frankly, it’s the only thing they do well,”
Trump said in a prerecorded video that played all four nights during the Republican national convention in July.
The belief in stolen elections, Elias said, was “no longer the provenance of crazy people like Rudy #Giuliani, Jenna #Ellis and Sidney #Powell.
This is no longer the province of people who thought that there were bamboo filaments in paper or mythical sea creatures involved in the election with Venezuelan dictators.
“It has become now the standard position of the Republican party.”
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