In 1775, Paul Revere (allegedly) achieved immortal fame by shouting throughout the countryside, “The British are coming!” Now, almost 250 years later, the Related Press is issuing a warning about one thing they see as doubtlessly much more harmful. As a substitute of warning everybody about British troopers in purple coats, nonetheless, they’re sounding the alarm for the women and men in purple maga hats whom the AP places in a class of “alternative deniers”. Within the title of their article at present, they declare that these twin election deniers are “getting nearer to it [the] The GOP mainstream.” They don’t seem to be simply speaking about random voters on the road. They’re main the parade of villains with Senators J.D. Vance, Tim Scott and Marco Rubio.
Inside hours of the assault on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, then-Republican Senator from Ohio, Rob Portman, voted to just accept President Joe Biden’s victory over defeated former President Donald Trump, regardless of Trump’s false accusations that Biden had solely received attributable to fraud.
However as Trump charged towards his rematch with Biden in 2024, Portman was changed by Sen. J.D. Vance, a possible vice presidential decide who echoed Trump’s false claims of fraud and stated he would settle for the outcomes this fall solely “if it is a free and honest one.” honest elections.”
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the opposite potential VP decide, declined to object to Biden’s victory over Trump, however has been much less dedicated this 12 months. Rubio just lately stated that if “issues go unsuitable” with the November election, Republicans is not going to stand by and settle for the outcomes.
Think about the nerve these Republicans should have needed to demand “free and honest elections.” Within the AP’s view, conservatives are anticipated to “stand by and settle for the result,” even when one thing seems clearly fishy. In any case, that is America, not a 3rd world banana republic the place the ruling occasion tries to throw its political opponents in jail. (Wait…)
One has to marvel the place the AP’s fury lies with Stacey Abrams and the numerous occasions she claimed the Georgia gubernatorial election was stolen from her. And the way may they fully fail to sentence Hillary Clinton? He claimed for years that the 2016 election was rigged in opposition to him and that Donald Trump was an “illegitimate president.” Even NBC Information was compelled to confess this about him. But when anybody dares to query all of the hanky panky happening with the mountains of mail-in ballots within the 2020 election, they’re clearly Vladimir Putin’s stooges or harmful, delusional rebels.
I’ve but to see irrefutable proof that there was sufficient electoral fraud to reverse the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election, though we can’t rule it out totally. However there isn’t a doubt that there was a variety of fraud. To at the present time we do not know if Republican Claudia Tenney truly received again her seat in Congress representing New York’s twenty second Congressional District, and we’ll by no means know. A number of folks had been charged with election fraud for voting for the useless or voting or making an attempt to vote twice in the identical race. Hundreds of ballots couldn’t be verified and the race was ultimately referred to as for Tenney by a margin of 109 votes.
Is there any kind of fraud nonetheless going down? Look no additional than Bridgeport, Connecticut and its mayoral race (plural). So it might be good if the Related Press may get off its excessive horse and cease lecturing us about “alternative deniers” and the way terrible they’re. There are superb the reason why Republicans are preventing to put in election displays in each space, particularly in swing states. We all know in regards to the many circumstances of fraudulent voting in NY-22 4 years in the past as a result of we had displays verify all ballots in opposition to funeral notices and early voting rolls. If JD Vance and Marco Rubio wish to specific concern about ensuring this 12 months’s election is “free and honest,” that is their proper. Past that, it’s their obligation beneath the oath they took to uphold the Structure.
