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Nevilledog

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Sun Sep 4, 2022, 02:27 PM Sep 2022

Marc Elias: Republicans Insist Either They Win, or They Were Cheated



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Biden offered the following warning to Republicans: “History has never been kind to those who have sided with voter suppression over voters’ rights. And it will be even less kind for those who side with election subversion.” Let us hope he is correct.

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The first time the New York Times ever printed the phrase “election subversion” was in May 2020. It was in an article about how then-President Donald Trump’s allies were going to attack the investigation of Russian interference in U.S. elections. The next time the newspaper used the phrase was in the spring of 2021 to describe Georgia’s new anti-voting law, Senate Bill 202.

Since the Jan. 6 insurrection, Republicans have launched a massive election subversion effort aimed at undermining the accurate counting of ballots and certification of election results. The risk of domestic election subversion by the GOP is now a greater risk to free and fair elections than foreign interference.

It was against this backdrop that President Joe Biden gave a national prime-time address on Thursday, Sept. 1 on the growing risks the Republican Party poses to the future of democracy. The president’s central thesis was simple: The Republican Party is controlled by Trump sycophants (what Biden called “MAGA Republicans”) who are systematically undermining American democracy.

Standing before Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Biden captured the immediacy of the threat facing our country this November: “Democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election: either they win, or they were cheated.” Yet, that is exactly what Republicans say they believe. And it is what we have seen Republicans insist in nearly every close election in the last two years.

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Marc Elias: Republicans Insist Either They Win, or They Were Cheated (Original Post) Nevilledog Sep 2022 OP
K&R spanone Sep 2022 #1
Magats taking their Cue from the Cha Sep 2022 #2
I declare this meal a disaster with rampant gristle, now chow down! Brainfodder Sep 2022 #3
Conspiratorial fraud. n/t moondust Sep 2022 #4
Heads I win,... Tails you lose. magicarpet Sep 2022 #5
In dark blue calif, after Newsoms huge recall win..they were claiming fraud Demovictory9 Sep 2022 #6
K&R for visibility. crickets Sep 2022 #7
And EnergizedLib Sep 2022 #8

Brainfodder

(6,423 posts)
3. I declare this meal a disaster with rampant gristle, now chow down!
Sun Sep 4, 2022, 02:44 PM
Sep 2022

Claiming voter fraud before votes are even cast.

Democrats should mock them by claiming the same thing?

magicarpet

(13,935 posts)
5. Heads I win,... Tails you lose.
Sun Sep 4, 2022, 03:13 PM
Sep 2022

You will be shot dead - if you even show up to cast your ballot.

That is the Nazi brand of a thriving Democracy.

Demovictory9

(32,320 posts)
6. In dark blue calif, after Newsoms huge recall win..they were claiming fraud
Sun Sep 4, 2022, 03:19 PM
Sep 2022

The more sane ones in freeperville told them it was a real win

EnergizedLib

(1,886 posts)
8. And
Sun Sep 4, 2022, 05:26 PM
Sep 2022

That’s not supposed to be dangerous or divisive on their end by insinuating what we voted for is illegitimate? They gave to win or it’s rigged against them?

How’s that a unifying message?

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