Senior Republican demonised by Trump reveals what's behind GOP election suppression laws: 'They got

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

scared’

A senior Georgia Republican and former target of Donald Trump has delivered a damning analysis of the party’s attempts at restricting voting access, which he says was because GOP leaders “got scared” by defeat in 2020.

Geoff Duncan, the Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia, claimed in a book published on Tuesday that Republicans were restricting turnout — and particularly in big swing states such as Florida, Georgia and Texas — because they feared losing in future.

The remarks, which were reported by The Washington Post on Wednesday, were published on the same day that Texas’s Republican governor Gregg Abbott signed a bill into law that restricts voting access, and according to campaigners, will disproportionately target Democratic voters.

Mr Duncan wrote in his book, called GOP 2.0: “Unfortunately, many held to the theory that if more people vote, Republicans will lose, because they got scared, GOP leaders became too focused on making voting more difficult.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senior-republican-demonised-by-trump-reveals-whats-behind-gop-election-suppression-laws-they-got-scared/ar-AAOgDE2

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. In related news, water is wet (nt)

[JohnSJ]

7. Lol, no kidding

[Bristlecone]

11. No kidding.

[hurple]

2. DUH!

[marybourg]

3. Shocking!

What a brave whistle-blower!

[Lovie777]

4. DUH . ..

[Midnight Writer]

5. OMG! It is so simple! How could we all have missed it?

[Baked Potato]

6. Sounds like he is scared, too, thus the expose of the ongoing clusterfuck.

I’m not sure if he’s doing an autopsy, or giving a class on how to pivot back to Raygun/Bush/Rove days.

By Duncan saying T***p “missed a layup,” he makes it clear in his thinking that T***p simply blew an easy win.

He failed to remember that T***p missed every shot he took, and Duncan and his colleagues kept him in the game for 4 awful years.

[C_U_L8R]

8. They can't stop demographics or democracy

But they are trying their hardest. Such rotten fools.

[tinrobot]

9. And the more they suppress, the fewer people will want to vote for them.

Which means they'll have to keep doubling down.

Eventually, it will collapse.

[Evolve Dammit]

10. Here's hoping they tank in my lifetime. Like seriously destruct and become irrelevent.

[monkeyman1]

13. well , with trump's help rite now ,their completely toxic & killing them off nicely !

[Grins]

12. Duncan: Republicans will "wake up...realize they were hoodwinked"

No. They won’t. They will double-down like they always have.

Did he not read the GOP’s 2012 election autopsy?
Did he not see the GOP’s “rank-and-file” willingly and purposefully IGNORE it?
Because it didn’t fit with their long-established hate?
Because if they didn’t “the base” would abandon them for someone even worse?
Did he not see moderate Republicans get primaried - and lose?
Because they were not sufficiently rabidly Reich?
C’mon.

Full snip:
Duncan said he’s “playing the long game” and predicts rank-and-file Republicans will “wake up, one-by-one,” as they realize they were hoodwinked.

[spanone]

14. Did this 'senior georgia republican' just figure this out?

fucking stupid

[Boomerproud]

15. Unless he quits the party he can stuff it.

Words mean nothing.

[cstanleytech]

16. No shit!!! Would not be an issue had the Republican SCOTUS justices given their full support to

things like gerrymandering and the new Jim Crow 2.0 laws.

[DFW]

17. We always knew that. They always knew that.

The only thing that’s new is that one of them publicly admits it.