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Unbowed by Jan. 6 Charges, Republicans Pursue Plans to Contest a Trump Defeat
The New York Times ^ | July 13, 2024Updated 3:58 p.m. ET | Jim Rutenberg and Nick Corasaniti

Posted on 07/13/2024 2:02:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The Republican Party and its conservative allies are engaged in an unprecedented legal campaign targeting the American voting system. Their wide-ranging and methodical effort is laying the groundwork to contest an election that they argue, falsely, is already being rigged against former President Donald J. Trump.

The campaign involves a powerful network of Republican lawyers and activist groups, working loosely in concert with the Republican National Committee. Many of the key players were active in Mr. Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

But unlike the chaotic and improvised challenge four years ago, the new drive includes a systematic search for any vulnerability in the nation’s patchwork election system.

Mr. Trump’s allies have followed a two-pronged approach: restricting voting for partisan advantage ahead of Election Day and short-circuiting the process of ratifying the winner afterward, if Mr. Trump loses. The latter strategy involves an ambitious — and legally dubious — attempt to reimagine decades of settled law dictating how results are officially certified in the weeks before the transfer of power.

At the heart of the strategy is a drive to convince voters that the election is about to be stolen, even without evidence. Democrats use mail voting, drop boxes and voter registration drives to swing elections, they have argued. And Mr. Trump’s indictments and criminal conviction are a Biden administration gambit to interfere with the election, they claim.

“As things stand right now, there’s zero chance of a free and fair election,” Mike Howell, a project director at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, said at an event this week. “I’m formally accusing the Biden administration of creating the conditions that most reasonable policymakers and officials cannot in good conscience certify an election.”


(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: deepstate; fakenews; gopestablishment; jimrutenberg; nickcorasaniti; uniparty

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The Swamp does love their prior restraint... on their political enemies.


1 posted on 07/13/2024 2:02:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The New York Times is a specious news source. Every word it publishes is either a lie or projection. Article presented for entertainment purposes only.


2 posted on 07/13/2024 2:04:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Translation from NYT speak:

They have the audacity to want a fair election!!!


3 posted on 07/13/2024 2:08:30 PM PDT by jdsteel (PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You really love your New York Times, don’t ya.

Is this the 3rd or 4th time today you’ve posted Slimes Crap here.

People are watching you. (sniff)


4 posted on 07/13/2024 2:12:36 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Responsibility2nd
You really love your New York Times, don’t ya.

Hate-filled little devil, aren't ya?

If you want me to stop posting, just say so and you will never hear from me again and this place will die just a little bit faster.

5 posted on 07/13/2024 2:14:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: jdsteel

Anyone who opposes cleaning up elections automatically favors cheating. No middle ground.


6 posted on 07/13/2024 2:15:25 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"...laying the groundwork to contest an election that they argue, falsely, is already being rigged..."

"Falsely".

I used to like journalism that just told me what was happening and didn't try to tell me what it all meant.

7 posted on 07/13/2024 2:17:13 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Consent decree is history, Trumps daughter-in-law not Mitten’s niece is in charge, and she is raising an army of 100,000 election monitors who will be onsite in real-time for the first time since 1982..

It’s a new ball game.


8 posted on 07/13/2024 2:18:20 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What ARE you on about? You’ve been here since 1998 and yet you’re threatening to opus out?

Because of ME snarking at ya?

Take a break from FR FRiend. I’ve done it many times. It’ll clear your mind from silly stuff like this.

Whatever - I will now leave you alone.


9 posted on 07/13/2024 2:19:44 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: jdsteel

What’s crooked is the totally corrupted justice system which will never accept as proof of a steal the raw evidence everyone has that illegal aliens have had their names added to the voting rolls in almost every U.S. city at migrant centers by employees of NGO’s who will fill out the vote-by-mail ballots and mail them in. And that these aliens arrived on plane flights originating at the Southern border which flights were scheduled and paid for by the feds themselves with taxpayers’ dollars. That’s what all of those planeloads overnight have been about and still are. So the STEAL will look REAL when the numbers are put together. Bastards.


10 posted on 07/13/2024 2:21:02 PM PDT by 4Runner
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Helocopter list.


11 posted on 07/13/2024 2:22:40 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: 4Runner

They’re cheating right now as we chat.


12 posted on 07/13/2024 2:25:12 PM PDT by 38special (The government is ruining our country!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I don’t want you to post any more NYT articles.


13 posted on 07/13/2024 2:27:01 PM PDT by Ikeon
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wow, the Times has opened every floodgate.


14 posted on 07/13/2024 2:27:20 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: Ikeon

You know, you don’t have to click on them.


15 posted on 07/13/2024 2:29:54 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Re: 4 - good grief.

The poster is not breaking any forum rules.

Do better.


16 posted on 07/13/2024 2:31:08 PM PDT by Fury (I )
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To: Ikeon

I don’t take orders from you.

If you want me to stop posting, I will, but if I continue posting I will post anything I want and the moderator can delete it if it is inappropriate.’

What’s it like being a hate-filled little devil?


17 posted on 07/13/2024 2:31:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
dowanload
18 posted on 07/13/2024 2:32:12 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

>> The New York Times is a specious news source.

I’d go with blatantly deceitful


19 posted on 07/13/2024 2:35:37 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: Ikeon
I don’t want you to post any more NYT articles.

This NYT article I posted today got 143 comments and counting:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4250883/posts

But you think just because you don't like something, nobody else should be allowed to see it. How woke of you.

20 posted on 07/13/2024 2:35:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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