Donald Trump ordered the Texas Republican Governor to do one after the Arizona one proved Joe Biden won the vote in the than state ‘s Maricop[a County, and actually added several hundred more votes for Biden….
Seems the announcement of Texas 2020 election results has NOT begun….
Seems that the officials in several counties in that state know NOTHING about such actions……
A day after a press release obliquely announced that a “full forensic audit” was already underway in a handful of Texas counties, officials in many of those counties told CNN they’re still in the dark about the audit plans.
Hours after former President Donald Trump fired off a letter to GOP Texas Gov. Greg Abbott demanding an audit of the 2020 presidential election results, the Texas secretary of state’s office appeared to comply. A Thursday evening press release from the office stated that “the Secretary of State has the authority to conduct a full and comprehensive forensic audit of any election and has already begun the process in Texas’ two largest Democrat counties and two largest Republican counties — Dallas, Harris, Tarrant and Collin for the 2020 election.”
Beyond that, statewide Texas officials offered little clarity. Abbott’s office referred questions about the audit to the secretary of state’s office. The secretary of state job is currently vacant in Texas and other officials in that office did not respond to requests for comment.
Officials in Dallas, Harris and Tarrant counties said they had not yet received any requests from the secretary of state’s office for information or materials that would be relevant for a post-election audit. Collin County officials didn’t immediately respond to CNN’s inquiry….
The new Republican mantra is that all votes from urban areas are suspect.
I’ve noticed the small percentage who vote GOP in cities buy into that theory for the most part. They are basically hardened in their positions and have a dim view of their urban neighbors.
But this costs Republican votes in the suburbs.
But this is costing
Just a theory, but I suspect that Republicans are more likely to cheat in elections(such as voting twice or mailing in someone else’s ballot) than Democrats.
It seems to follow that if you don’t care about racial justice, economic justice, the environment, or whether people die from COVID-19, then why care about honesty? Furthermore, if you are told all of the time that Democrats cheat, then you might conclude you need to cheat too.
They are simply common,ordinary thieves in my view.
The moral equivalent of the shoplifter at Wal Mart.
Ronald Reagan used to lambaste the Soviet Union as the “evil empire” that abrogated to themselves the right to lie and cheat to get their way….
Welcome to your Republican Party in 2021 Ron!
Jack must know far better than I that “unreconstructed Confederates” still don’t accept the result of what they call The War of Northern Aggression.
But worse than that, Southern segregationists were able to convince the rest of the country for nearly a century that Reconstruction had been some kind of corrupt, misguided, illegitimate fraud upon innocent Southerners of all races, not least the Negro.
It can make you cringe to re-read today how honest, well-known and well-respected establishment historians such as Samuel Eliot Morison (The Oxford History of the American People), Richard D. Heffner (A Documentary History of the United States), and Arthur Schesinger, Jr (ghosting for JFK in Profiles in Courage wrote about Reconstruction in the 1950’s and early 1960’s.
The alternate (and much closer-t0-correct) history of Black Reconstruction offered by writers such W.E.B. DuBois, Herbert Aptheker and Louis Lomax was considered to be the distorted partisan fringe theory.
Also known among some more sophisticated Neo Confederates as
“The War for Southern Independence.”Such a title was often used as the moniker for collegiate courses on the Civil war in southern colleges as late as the 1990s.
The depiction of the Reconstruction era in the south by American historians was for years nothing more that a recitation of the myths perpetrated by southerners of the “lost cause” movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century period as you point out Re Morrison and Schlesinger.
The truth is that in many respects Reconstruction was a period of mildly progressive reform .In SC for example a public school system was started.Prior to that there were no schools for poor Whites and certainly not for slaves or free Blacks.
In my view,Reconstruction ended way too soon although I understand the politics of that era probably made such impossible
The myths of the Civil War era still have a ready audience among many White southerners and even many northern transplants.
Just this week the Supreme Court of S.C. affirmed that only the State Legislature has the right to order the.removal of monuments and other remembrances of the Civil War era.Republican House Speaker Jay Lucas promptly announced that no such votes would be allowed during his tenure.
Trump is now saying that the Arizona audit proves he won the election.
No surprise in his words…..
He’s been lying no stop ALL his life….
Again
The guy is in a alternate universe…
Sad part is there are millions who live there with him that vote