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"Republican legislators across the country are preparing a slew of new voting restrictions in the wake of former President Donald Trumps defeat.
Georgia will be the focal point of the GOP push to change state election laws, after Democrats narrowly took both Senate seats there and President Joe Biden carried the state by an even smaller margin. But state Republicans in deep-red states and battlegrounds alike are citing Trumps meritless claims of voter fraud in 2020 and the declining trust in election integrity Trump helped drive as an excuse to tighten access to the polls.
Some Republican officials have been blunt about their motivations: They dont believe they can win unless the rules change. They dont have to change all of them, but theyve got to change the major parts of them so that we at least have a shot at winning, Alice OLenick, a Republican on the Gwinnett County, Ga., board of elections in suburban Atlanta, told the Gwinnett Daily Post last week. She has since resisted calls to resign."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/state-republicans-push-new-voting-restrictions-after-trump-s-loss/ar-BB1d2BXo?ocid=msedgdhp
We have to really put a lot of resources into taking back state legislatures, especially in states like Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania
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(67,109 posts)to cheat and lie!
jpak
(41,758 posts)Surprise Surprise
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(57,475 posts)Good Politico story here. And this is a big part of the broader story. Editors, I plead to you, your plan for covering the Republican Party in the next two years can't be just covering Republicans in Washington, the Trump family or the 2024 candidates.
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