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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.”


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: deepstate; fakenews; gopestablishment; jimrutenberg; nickcorasaniti; uniparty
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
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

So, these NYT clowns can factually state that no attempts by Dims are being carried out, anywhere within the fifty states, to illegally increase Biden's vote count, or to suppress Trump votes? Yeah, right. Pathetic beyond words.

21 posted on 07/13/2024 2:36:36 PM PDT by Will88 ((The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.))
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To: Gene Eric

That’s pretty much what specious means. I am just trying to expand my vocabulary. :)


22 posted on 07/13/2024 2:36:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You’ve been here long enough, ignore them. I like to read the enemy propaganda and appreciate you posting them.


23 posted on 07/13/2024 2:37:44 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Don’t fret E. Most people don’t want to know what is coming.


24 posted on 07/13/2024 2:41:04 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s not a news source. Period.


25 posted on 07/13/2024 2:43:42 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“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.”
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Then if it isn’t already being rigged, then the NY Slimes shouldn’t have any difficulty in using all of its power and influence to help get the DAVE Act passed, just to eliminate doubts about potential cheating.

Oh, they oppose the SAVE Act? Yeah, thought so.


26 posted on 07/13/2024 2:44:04 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." - The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: jdsteel
Anyone with any training in stats or maths can see that in 2020 there were SO MANY unexplained anomalies in the election returns that it defies credulity.

Here's just one: Biden, an inarticulate and cranky old man of no accomplishment, hid in his basement for months and won more votes than either Obama or President Trump in previous elections; furthermore unlike Biden, both Obama and Trump were and remain immensely popular.

27 posted on 07/13/2024 2:46:15 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Unbowed by Jan. 6 Charges” is essentially “our political terror campaign didn’t work.” You may proceed from there.


28 posted on 07/13/2024 2:49:53 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Responsibility2nd

Does anyone trust The Times?


29 posted on 07/13/2024 2:51:55 PM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They already brought in 20 million illegals who have already voted the second they crossed the border, got news for ya they already cheated


30 posted on 07/13/2024 2:53:49 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Please ignore all of the criticism, and keep posting whatever you like. No one has to read your posts or click through to the subject article if they don’t want to do so.


31 posted on 07/13/2024 2:59:24 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." - The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The NY Times doesn't like contested elections. Lawfare is their remedy.

Doesn't get more iron fisted tyrannical than that.

32 posted on 07/13/2024 3:00:04 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Ancesthntr

Thanks.


33 posted on 07/13/2024 3:03:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Or...The Democrat party (NY TIMES is just its mouthpiece) is a specious political organization. Every word it says or prints is either a lie or projection.


34 posted on 07/13/2024 3:05:20 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Climate cultists think we should go back to the goo"d times when people starved)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
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.

Yo, New York Times. That is not a bad thing.

35 posted on 07/13/2024 3:07:23 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Fair and honest elections are a treat to the democracy. /s


36 posted on 07/13/2024 3:09:06 PM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Keep posting NYT. I prefer to know what my opponents are thinking. We are all free to give the source the credit , or lack thereof, which it is due. After all, it’s a free republic.


37 posted on 07/13/2024 3:09:35 PM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Responsibility2nd; E. Pluribus Unum

No, you’re wrong! I’ve been here since the beginning of Free Republic.

One of our main purposes—and has ALWAYS been so—is to watch the DNCMedia and take on their biased stories.

We’re not just an echo chamber of pro-trump news. We’ve got to post what the Left is saying. That is the intelligence we need to gather and dispute it so our side is prepared for their nonsense.


38 posted on 07/13/2024 3:11:00 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Fury

Do you always interject your unwanted opinions into an ongoing conversation over several threads?

You clearly don’t know the backstory here between me and E. So butt out.


39 posted on 07/13/2024 3:14:48 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: Alas Babylon!

See post 39. I have no problem with posting Slimes disinformation.

My snarking at E. is just a continuation of back and forth over several threads. Has nothing to do with this thread.

In any event - I’m done.


40 posted on 07/13/2024 3:24:22 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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