David Corn: Here We Go: Trump Has Started Accusing the Dems of Stealing the 2020 Election

[babylonsister]

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Here We Go: Trump Has Started Accusing the Dems of Stealing the 2020 Election
And his campaign is shamelessly fundraising off this lie.
David Corn
Washington, DC, Bureau ChiefBio | Follow


In the middle of a horrific crisis claiming the lives of thousands of Americans a day, President Donald Trump decided it was a fine time to undermine democracy.

Last week, as the coronavirus continued to burn through the United States, Trump’s campaign sent out an email from him soliciting contributions for his reelection effort and made a dangerous accusation: the 2020 election cannot be trusted. The first line of the email—which likely was sent to hundreds of thousands, if not more, people on Republican and conservative email lists—reads, “It’s no secret that the Democrats are trying to steal the Election out from under me.” The letter asserts that Democrats have “been plotting against me from the very beginning” and are deploying “fraud” to “rig the game” because “they know they can’t beat me at the ballot box.”

Less than seven months from Election Day, Trump was trying to undermine the process and cast doubt on its legitimacy. Without spelling out the matter at hand, he was responding to recent calls for an expansion in voting-by-mail as a way to hold elections safely during a pandemic. His letter referred to possible “chaos” from “ballot harvesting”—a term for volunteers or political operatives collecting absentee or mail-in ballots. But there has been no proof that such activity leads to significant fraud. Seventeen states already have some form of mail-in elections, and many others allow for absentee voting through the mail. (Remember, Trump falsely insisted after the 2016 election that there had been “millions” of fraudulent votes cast against him.)

So as the country struggles with how to hold elections during a pandemic—look at the mess that occurred recently in Wisconsin when Republicans successfully fought to hold an election that the governor wanted to postpone—Trump is telling his supporters that he (and they) are victims of a dark plot to rig the election. This echoes his demagogic rhetoric from the 2016 campaign trail. He repeatedly insisted then that he could only lose due to shenanigans, contending that rampant fraud was being mounted to swipe that election from him. He devised a nonsensical paradigm: if he won, the election was honest; if he lost, the election was crooked.

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/04/donald-trump-has-already-begun-accusing-the-dems-of-stealing-the-2020-election/?fbclid=IwAR0v1CelxLVlIXPheWSrCqIDQBIeMJuGNNOdcr__33JhrW009ZaWQB9klHs

[cayugafalls]

1. There it is. They will not accept a loss.

He has to be stopped.

[3catwoman3]

2. Projecting yet again.

“It’s a rigged system, folks, it’s a rigged system.”

And we know who it was rigged for.

[procon]

3. What's to steal? Has he seen his poll numbers...

This is Trump's last ditch effort to save face as it starts to sink in that he is shushing down the fast slope to Loserville.

Next up:

Trump blames billions of illegal aliens for voting against him.