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Seven out of ten Republicans now say the presidential election was not conducted fairly. The figure, which comes from a poll by the US news site Politico, says something about Trump’s continued control over the party. Even as an exhausted president, who disabled, Trump’s words are law for millions of voters.
Seventy-eight percent of Republicans who believe irregularities have occurred direct their suspicions against voting by mail, which they believe has resulted in “widespread cheating.” A move that Trump actively encouraged during a months-long advance campaign against the reliability of the election results.
Protesters in Detroit, Michigan, celebrating Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election.
Photo: John Moore / AFP
84 percent of those who suspect cheating believe it benefited Joe Biden. However, according to a poll by the Reuters news agency, 50 percent of Republicans say that Biden won the election. Figures from Reuters and Ipsos, reported by MSNBC television channel, suggest that only three percent of Americans believe Trump won the election.
No evidence for widespread electoral fraud. The New York Times has called general elections in 50 states; the 45 generals who responded to the newspaper, both Republicans and Democrats, say the elections went well. But Trump has consistently undermined trust in the media and bureaucratic institutions. And your constituents feel smart when they question accepted truths.
Like Cindy Monoghan-Holocomb, a Trump voter I interviewed in Alabama in connection with the 2018 midterm elections.
On Facebook, Monoghan-Holocomb has congratulated Trump on winning this year’s presidential election. She leans toward her common sense. Would Trump, who drew hundreds of thousands of people to election rallies this fall, have lost to Joe Biden, a far less enthusiastic 77-year-old? Impossible.
A Trump supporter holding a “legal votes only” sign outside a polling station in Philadelphia, where votes were still being counted a week after the election.
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More and more of the Republican Party The elite layers confirm Trump’s misinformation, or at least refrain from publicly correcting the president when he spreads lies. Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, has called on local party leaders to support Trump’s allegations of voter fraud.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who was just reelected from Kentucky, claims Trump’s fears of cheating are 100 percent valid. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham says that the future of Republicans is at stake if the electoral process is not analyzed.
Attorney General William Barr has given federal prosecutors the green light to “investigate vote counting irregularities.” A violation of the practice that led to a subordinate, the head of the Department of Justice’s crimes department in relation to elections, Richard Pilger, to leave his post this week.
Attorney General William Barr has given federal prosecutors the green light to “investigate vote counting irregularities.” A crime against the practice that led a subordinate, the head of the Department of Justice’s crimes department in relation to elections, Richard Pilger, to leave his post this week.
Rupert Murdoch’s American The media, such as Fox News and the New York Post, have recognized Joe Biden as the winner of the election. But the group’s individual profiles, with a great impact on social media, have at the same time confirmed Trump’s claims. Fox Business Channel host Lou Dobbs says, “Many are trying to steal this election from President Trump. There’s no question about that.”
How effective is Trump’s disinformation campaign? Should the initiation of a coup be considered? To assimilate, say some analysts.
Biden won the election by a margin. Leaders from all corners of the world have recognized Biden as the incoming president, even friends of Trump, such as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have officially congratulated Biden on the victory. Americans have been dancing in the streets relieved by the upcoming change in the White House.
This school sees Trump’s cheating alarm as the rattle of an empty barrel. MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell suggests viewing the Trump administration as a messy rock band about to leave a hotel. Some furniture may need to be replaced on the hit. A damn life in the lobby for a while. But soon the mischief wears off and the rest of the hotel guests can breathe a sigh of relief.
“Trump / Pence OUT NOW” is written on the sign in Philadelphia.
Photo: Mark Makela / AFP
Republican profiles confirming that Trump really wants to get along with the president and his voters, benevolent observers say. Soon, Trump will be forced to face the facts and start packing. “Obviously, they think the president needs some encouragement and personal care before doing the right thing,” wrote columnist Michael Gerson in the Washington Post about these codependent Republicans.
That view, Michael Gerson objects, underestimates Trump’s danger.
The incumbent president is willing to go exactly as far as the Republican Party allows, Gerson said. It has no barriers, it has no sense of responsibility for the country. Unless the party’s elite stop the president’s dictatorial instincts, Trump will attempt to complete a coup this winter, Gerson’s reasoning concludes.
“Choose Democracy, Stop a Coup” is painted on a street in Oakland, California.
Photo: Josh Edelson
The esteemed professor of history, Author and activist Timothy Snyder is convinced of this: In twenty Twitter messages, Snyder, an expert on authoritarian regimes in Eastern Europe, writes that one should not be fooled by the amateurism of the Trump campaign.
Just because Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani calls a press conference in front of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping company instead of the Four Seasons luxury hotel in Philadelphia, when he is required to report voter fraud, does not mean that the shot fails automatically, even if the framing seems drastic.
It’s only good for Trump if people lull themselves into a false sense of security about the incompetence of the insurgents. Civil society must actively oppose the coup: “Peaceful demonstrations after elections are a necessary transition phase of authoritarian societies, as in Poland in 1989, Serbia in 1999 or Belarus today,” Timothy Snyder writes. “Dance after the wedding, not before. Take responsibility, Americans. “
A successful revolution it would require the cooperation of Republicans in state legislatures.
If state legislators refuse to certify Biden’s victory and thereby stop the nomination of electors, those who effectively elect the president, the election result could be equaled to a tie.
If state legislators refuse to certify Biden’s victory and thus stop the nomination of electors – those who effectively elect the president – the election result could be tied.
In such a scenario the House of Representatives decides the election, and prior to the election, Republicans had a majority in 26 state delegations across the country (the count is still ongoing, but the party is likely to retain the majority). That means that Republicans could nominate the president in this fall’s election, namely Trump.
Legislators at the state level assured before the elections that one no it intends to intervene in the designation of electoral votes, that is, to try to influence the outcome of subsequent elections. But during the week, pressure has mounted from central Republicans like Lindsey Graham, who according to Politico said all the tools “should be on the table.” This is like a counter-defense against the “corruption” that Democrats claim to have participated in this year’s election.
In the Wavemaster state of Pennsylvania, where Biden was declared the winner on Saturday, he summoned 20 local lawmakers to a press conference on Tuesday. The rebels – a Republican minority without the support of local party leaders – expressed “serious concern” about the future of the state and demanded an examination of the ballots.
Will the strongest Republicans incite a coup attempt? On Tuesday night, Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo, a conservative politician with presidential ambitions, was asked if he intended to contribute to a peaceful handover of government power to Joe Biden.
Pompeo responded that he was happy to contribute to a smooth transfer of power to a second Trump administration. Then he smiled at the podium and assured that the succession to the next administration would go well.
That’s all that Trump’s ministers seem willing to go for at this point. Rhetorical support may not be enough to disqualify the outcome of the 2020 elections.
But all indications from Republican leaders that the Democrats cheated boils the blood of 70 million Trump voters. A start, perhaps, in a Republican presidential campaign for 2024.
