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Nevilledog

(51,548 posts)
Fri May 17, 2024, 02:52 AM May 17

Republicans are already trying to undermine the 2024 election [View all]

https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/4665353-republicans-2024-election-noncitizen-voter-fraud-disinformation/

If your coup does not succeed, try, try again.

Former President Trump and his allies — including the Speaker of the House and members of Congress — are already laying their foundation to claim the 2024 election was stolen. Their claim would be laughable, ignorable even, if Donald Trump had not previously used the same lie to incite a violent attack by an armed mob on the U.S. Capitol only three years ago.

Unfortunately, this history is repeating itself in real time.

We are watching the same cast of characters performing from the same script. In 2020, MAGA extremists made false claims that the election was fraudulent and stolen, a carefully crafted narrative that many of our House Majority colleagues participated in. Speaker Mike Johnson even tried to disenfranchise millions of Americans by leading an amicus brief to overturn the free, fair and secure 2020 election.

Now, the former president and his allies in the House are doubling down on their efforts to undermine the sanctity of our elections, with the false claim that millions of noncitizens are voting in our federal elections.

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