Originally published at: All The Places Election Deniers Could Be in Charge of Elections After the Midterms - TPM – Talking Points Memo
In an increasingly ominous trend, there are currently hundreds of election deniers on the ballot for the 2026 midterm elections. And although history has shown election denialism is not a winning campaign strategy, it continues to be a powerful force in the right-wing movement, from President Donald Trump on down. According to the nonpartisan non-profit…
Has there been a single person convicted of trying to rig an election in favor of a Democrat in the Trump era? Not talking about some random person who tried to vote illegally or in the wrong polling place, but someone on the Tina Peters scale of trying to overturn an election.
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No. But since election denial is not a fact but a strategy it does not matter.
A good example of this is President Barack Obama and birtherism. 99% of the assh*les who pushed this nonsense about President Obama not being born in the United States knew it was bullsh$t.
But because it was the 21st century the racist frackers could not use the “N” word to say why he was not fit to be the Chief Executive of their imagined White Christian America.
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MAGA issues are tactics, maybe soon policy and law.
Taking MAGA at face value, as political arguments made in good faith, is a suckers game.
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The 2020 elections were rigged but 2024 elections weren’t?
These effing people..