Posted on 07/15/2021 8:11:38 PM PDT by madprof98
Across the state, candidates for public office are repeating Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged and the contest was stolen from him. Many are running for local office and state legislative seats, while some are seeking the most powerful posts in the state.
The conspiracy theories are already complicating GOP primaries in Georgia, as Republicans try to fend off ascendant Democrats fresh off a string of victories in November’s presidential election and January’s U.S. Senate runoffs.
The leading candidates competing to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock have raised questions about the election results and echoed the phony narrative of widespread voting fraud in Georgia.
Even the GOP candidates who don’t promote lies about a “rigged” election have talked about restoring confidence in an electorate that’s scarred by them. Under pressure from Trump and his allies, Kemp formally launched his reelection campaign by emphasizing support for new voting restrictions.
One of his Republican rivals, party-switching ex-lawmaker Vernon Jones, has demanded reviews of the election despite no evidence of systemic irregularities — and no chance of affecting the outcome of the race.
The false narrative looms large in the Senate race, too. Herschel Walker, the former University of Georgia football great inching toward a run, has repeated Trump’s claims that the results were fraudulent, and he has shared other conspiracy theories about the vote on social media.
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They protest too much. They repeat the false claim that these are false claims, and that people are only making them because Trump told them to (whew!), because they are trying to keep themselves convinced and those few who actually believe their false claim that it’s a false claim that people are only making because Trump told them to.
If they really believed that the claim was so false, they would be happy that GOP candidates are making that claim, but they are afraid that it will give those candidates victory, so they are in a panic, clutching their garlic cloves to ward off Dracula.
More and more, the media here sounds like the media in a communist country. Not sure if this is meant to be a news story or an op-ed, but most news stories seem to sound a lot like op-ed these days.
Trump denounced Butch Miller, the only real candidate for LT. Governor and called for someone else to enter the race.
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