Imagine a political party so deprived of imagination and hope that it decides it needs to play by different rules, gives up on developing a platform, and goes directly to trying to ensure that election results are delayed or uncertified.
This, apparently, is the Republican strategy for 2024.
Trumpists feel that elections are not in their best interest, so how better to circumvent this than mess with the results at the local level, which in turn can jeopardize county returns and statewide results. This is what they’ve spent time refining after 2020.
They needed to be proactive, so local election boards in the battleground states have been populated with Trump sympathizers and election deniers who, I guess, have been tasked with throwing a wrench in the works. This is why Trump is telling people at his rallies that it doesn’t matter if they vote in November. He’s making it sound like he’s already confident of certain outcomes. He’s saying it out loud. In a rally in Atlanta over the weekend, he mentioned three of these people by name and pointed out at least one of them. And congratulated and thanked her effusively.
So, it turns out we don’t have to imagine this—it’s already happening. They’ve had some practice in the last two election cycles. And it’s like Trump is daring us to do something about it.
He’s such a cocky bastard.
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