Trump's predicate for a rigged election is already here
A campaign to sow distrust has begun in Pennsylvania. 🐘
“Everybody here knows this is going to be a tight race until the very end.”
— Kamala Harris in Kalamazoo, Michigan last Saturday
“We're up by a lot in a lot of different places.”
— Donald Trump in New York City on Sunday
At 7:22 Wednesday morning, Donald Trump posted to Truth Social to lay a predicate for the next Big Lie.
“Pennsylvania is cheating, and getting caught, at large levels rarely seen before,” he charged. “REPORT CHEATING TO AUTHORITIES. Law Enforcement must act, NOW!”
It was a continuation of a recrimination lodged at his rally in Allentown, Pa. Tuesday night where he said, “they’ve already started cheating in Lancaster, they’ve cheated.”
What Trump was referring to was a report that election workers had flagged thousands of registration forms that might be fraudulent. A Lancaster County official said they were reviewing the paperwork in question as part of their security process and prosecutors had been notified.
The registrants in question hadn’t cast ballots. There was time to sort it out. In essence, the system had worked.
But that part would’ve been lost if you’d just had listened to Trump, a well-practiced demagogue.
“Six days out and Republicans are already laying the groundwork to say the election was stolen,” said Bradley P. Moss, a Washington attorney. “This didn’t use to be normal. We used to just have damn elections.”
Next Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning, there’s little question whether Trump will claim he won the 2024 presidential election. The only uncertainty is if it’ll be true.
A recent CNN poll found that 73% of voters say Vice President Kamala Harris would accept an election loss, whereas just 30% think Trump would concede. But perhaps even more disconcerting is
