Ah?
Donald Trump lost.….
The loss was legit….
A Majority of Americans KNOW THAT….
HTF can Republicans expect to win off this?
Is this gonna be Trump’s America vs The Rest of the Country?
How influential will the ‘Big Lie’ be?
Across the country, as campaigns gear up for a handful of key races this year and the pivotal 2022 midterms, Republican candidates for state and federal offices are increasingly focused on the last election — running on the falsehood spread by Trump and his allies that the 2020 race was stolen from him.
While most of these campaigns are in their early stages, the embrace of Trump’s claims is already widespread on the trail and in candidates’ messages to voters. The trend provides fresh evidence of Trump’s continued grip on the GOP, reflecting how a movement inspired by his claims and centered on overturning a democratic election has gained currency in the party since the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
Dozens of candidates promoting the baseless notion that the election was rigged are seeking powerful statewide offices — such as governor, attorney general and secretary of state, which would give them authority over the administration of elections — in several of the decisive states where Trump and his allies sought to overturn the outcome and engineer his return to the White House….
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Similarly, of the nearly 600 state lawmakers who publicly embraced Trump’s false claims, about 500 face reelection this year or next. Most of them signed legal briefs or resolutions challenging Biden’s victory. At least 16 of them attended the Jan. 6 protest in Washington.
“What’s really frightening right now is the extent of the effort to steal power over future elections,” said Jena Griswold, the Democratic secretary of state in Colorado. “That’s what we’re seeing across the nation. Literally in almost every swing state, we have someone running for secretary of state who has been fearmongering about the 2020 election or was at the insurrection. Democracy will be on the ballot in 2022.”…
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“I have real pause about the role the ‘big lie’ will play not only in campaigns next year but in challenges to a fair and accessible election,” said Allison Riggs, an election lawyer with the liberal Southern Coalition for Social Justice, referring to false claims about the 2020 election. “We expect it.”…
I think it’s a good strategy for Republicans
This is now the basis of their party existence.
Resentment,…often degenerating into hate.
Us against “ them.”
“ Them” of course being “ libruls” ( sometimes the word” communist” is used)..The words have no particular meaning when used by a Republican. It just connotes either a Democrat or even some fellow Republicans who doesn’t toe the Trumpian line.( our friend CG would likely be denounced by the term if he were to appear in S.C. at a Republican meeting and express some views that he has shared here) .Most tv news people and commentators, save those on Fox or one of those other Right Wing outlets ,are subject to the presumed epithet.
In these Covid times, scientists and doctors often find themselves denounced with the label( see particularly Dr. Fauci who has become public enemy number one among a large portion of Republican legislators and media).
Us against them,conspiracies, lies ,attempted theft( see these “ audits”) ,it’s all part of what now makes up the Republican Party.
As Nature Boy Ric Flair would say, “ You May not like it,learn to live with it,”
The Republican Party 2021
Might as well. They didn’t even have a platform in 2020, it was just “what Trump wants”.