Donald Trump's Hostage Politics - WSJ Editorial
(This is the WSJ, so the point is to complain about Democratic policies that need to be stopped. Still, satisfying reading).
When Democrats complain that Donald Trump is plotting to suppress votes, they have a pointbut fortunately for them, the votes he is plotting to suppress are those of his own supporters.
That was evident in January this year in the two Georgia Senate runoffs. Turnout in Republican strongholds fell because Mr. Trump told his voters the election in November had been stolen and the states GOP officials were corrupt. Democrats narrowly won both seats in the conservative state, handing the party unified control of Congress and paving the way for an ideologically unleashed Biden Administration.
Now the former President is threatening aloud that he might repeat this act of electoral sabotage in the next national elections. If we dont solve the Presidential Election Fraud of 2020 (which we have thoroughly and conclusively documented), Mr. Trump said in a statement Wednesday, Republicans will not be voting in 22 or 24. It is the single most important thing for Republicans to do.
Whats notable isnt that Mr. Trump continues to deny his election defeat and push for increasingly futile audits that will go nowhere. Mr. Trump will never admit he lost. Democrats have already used Mr. Trumps election denial against the GOP to great effect in their California gubernatorial recall rout and are now wielding it in what has become a tight Virginia Governors race.
Mr. Trumps escalation is that he is now explicitly tying Republican acceptance of his election fantasy to a threat of electing Democrats as retribution. The message to Republicans is that if they dont loudly pretend that he won the last election, Mr. Trump will make sure the GOP loses the next one, too.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-hostage-politics-republicans-2020-election-11634249842 (subscription)
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Merlot
(9,696 posts)Oh, horrors!
question everything
(47,535 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)do they ever complain about the repukes being absolute COWARDS for kissing Trump's corrupt ass???
question everything
(47,535 posts)Trump Loses Arizona--Again - WSJ Editorial
Former President Trump claims Arizonas ballot audit found massive fraud, yet the new recount says he actually lost the state by 360 more votes than originally reported. He is now demanding an audit of the 2020 election in . . . Texas, which he won by nearly six points. When are Republicans going to quit playing this game?
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The GOP should quit chasing him down rabbit holes. Mr. Trump lost last year by 74 electoral votes, so even flipping Arizona would have left him two states short. He cant admit to his fans that he lost, since it would undermine his rally attendance, fundraising and teasers about 2024. Perhaps Mr. Trump cant even admit to himself that he lost, and in his final days hell be raging on the heath about ballot dumps.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)but I wish they would call them what they are: COWARDS
they make it sound like it's simply a losing election strategy
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)When I first read that Trump said, we will not vote until the fraud is "fixed." I thought, ok..so he means, for as long as possible, no one else can be an elected Republican president but me. lol
I would love to be a fly on the wall in Mitch McConnell's office.