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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: bigbob
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07/13/2024 3:32:58 PM PDT
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No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
It is amazing how quickly they flipped after the backlash and the Soros edict.
You do a good job.
Don’t let the naysayers get you down.
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posted on
07/13/2024 3:33:18 PM PDT
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Freest Republican
(There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by imbeciles)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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07/13/2024 3:56:18 PM PDT
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GOP Poet
(Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
To: Responsibility2nd
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Like Democrats haven't lawyer’d up before? I mean, they are doing it now and just having their mouth-piece object to Republicans doing the same thing.
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
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07/13/2024 4:17:49 PM PDT
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Responsibility2nd
(A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
unprecedented legal campaign targeting the American voting system It's a terrible thing - only having citizens vote and only being able to vote once.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
No dumb a$$. You said if someone told you not to post anymore you would go away and fr would wither and die. You are a two faced, narcisstic loon!
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07/13/2024 5:23:11 PM PDT
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Ikeon
To: Ikeon
You are a liar. I didn’t say it to you. I didn’t say “anyone.”
Sleazy.
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07/13/2024 5:58:14 PM PDT
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E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: Ikeon
Speaking of hypocrisy.
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07/13/2024 6:13:00 PM PDT
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E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
At least they have a token white guy in the mix. Probably gay.
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07/14/2024 5:54:44 AM PDT
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Leep
(Leftardism strikes 1 in )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I’ll take “Journalistic smear pieces that were timed just terribly” for $800, Alex.
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07/14/2024 7:36:46 AM PDT
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grey_whiskers
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I don’t take orders from you. If you want me to stop posting, I will. / you said youd quit, you lying, two faced, sack of the most deplorable, despicable, oozing, rotting dung ever put into a rotting burlap bag.
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07/15/2024 2:41:41 PM PDT
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Ikeon
To: Ikeon
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07/15/2024 2:45:07 PM PDT
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E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: Ikeon; All
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07/15/2024 2:49:14 PM PDT
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E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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