New trouble for Trump and the GOP in Arizona
For all the bluster about people “voting illegally,” whenever there’s an instance of actual voter fraud like the kind Republicans love complaining about, it’s nearly always a Republican who does it. The endgame here is that the GOP only supports the right of its own people to vote, and the people who don’t benefit from their policies are ultimately a threat to them retaining power.
It’s why they keep coming up with ridiculous stories about hordes of foreign migrants coming to a district to vote, or people being bussed from one district to another, rather than ever talk about the occasional Trump voter caught voting twice in Iowa.
While the Trump campaign still clings to the 2020 election lies, and are consequently making Republican candidates have to give a straight answer on whether or not they believe that the last election was somehow stolen from Donald Trump, the campaign just got a whole new problem. The RNC, co-chaired by Trump’s daughter-in-law, hired an election integrity lawyer who just got arraigned on criminal charges in Arizona related to the fake elector scheme.
It’s pretty much impossible now to avoid it, particularly in a state that’s not only pivotal to the outcome of 2024, but also where the two Republican candidates at the top of the ballot are election deniers. The outcome of an election four years ago just got pushed to the center as we see what happens with developments in the state.
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James Sullivan is the assistant editor of Brain World Magazine and an advocate of science-based policy making