Mike Lindell turns his 'stolen election' fantasies on new target: DeSantis

[Celerity]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/21/lindell-desantis-miami-dade-win/

https://archive.ph/5LhoH



For the past few years, Republicans have largely stood by as various figures have sought to raise their profiles in the conservative movement by advancing baseless allegations of voter fraud — from Trump-aligned lawyers such as L. Lin Wood, Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani to MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.

An apparent obstacle to the party taking action: Such figures were saying much the same thing as Donald Trump (and some were directly working for him, to advance his stolen-election cause in public and in court). So the GOP simply offered its own watered-down reasons for questioning the 2020 results, while sidestepping the actual claims made by Trump and these emerging thought leaders.

Now one of them has trained his “stolen election” claims on a new target — and a Republican, at that: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. On his show Tuesday, Lindell indicated that he’s going to turn his crack team of voter-fraud investigators on DeSantis’s win in the 2022 midterms. The purported reason? The margin of victory was just too big — particularly in Miami-Dade County. (The unstated but more likely reason? DeSantis is a growing threat to Trump.)

Lindell previewed his case on air after initially pausing while he got some advice from his lawyer about what he was about to say. (Lindell is being sued over his false claims about voting machines in the 2020 election.) He went on to repeatedly reference “Dade County” even though it has been called Miami-Dade County since 1997. “I don’t believe it,” Lindell said, of DeSantis’s win there. “So it’s just going to show everybody — just like we always tell you about Democrats where they stole their elections … I’m going to find out if Dade County — what happened there.”

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eating their own!

[Raven123]

1. Works for me

[live love laugh]

2. Me too

[DFW]

3. Like Gilbert & Sullivan in the Mikado: My Pillow, My Pillow, My Pillow

[grumpyduck]

4. Good grief, at this rate Biden's going to need

to open up the government's strategic reserve of popcorn.

[Initech]

5. I got to wonder how people like DeSantis, Boebert, and Greene keep getting elected.