The Festering Splinter of Electoral Fraud By Charles Taylor (Florida)
While mainstream sites dismiss any claims of 2020 US electoral fraud as mere conspiracy, 61 percent of Republican voters, 13 percent of Democrats and 29 percent of voters not affiliated with either major party, believe that Joe Biden cheated to defeat Donald Trump. This alone shows that the US is a torn country.
“A majority of Republicans and 13% of Democrats still believe that President Joe Biden cheated to beat former President Donald Trump.
In a slight decline since June, when 41% of likely voters said they did not believe Biden won fairly, 34% now told Rasmussen Reports that Biden did not win “fairly.”
“However, 61% of Republican voters still think Biden didn’t win the presidential election fairly, an opinion shared by 13% of Democrats and 29% of voters not affiliated with either major party,” said the pollster’s new analysis out Friday.
The survey mostly focused on election integrity, and it found continued strong national support for voters showing identification. By a margin of 75%-19%, they back photo ID.
And voters remain on high alert for cheating and election integrity measures, said the pollster.
“Concerns about election integrity remain high, with 83% of voters saying it is ‘Very Important’ to prevent cheating in elections, up from 79% in June,” said Rasmussen.”
And, how “torn” could it get?
“MSNBC network national affairs analyst John Heilemann said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that there were “30 million people right now who are ready to take up arms” for former President Donald Trump.
Anchor Chuck Todd said, “I want to read what Bart Gellman wrote in the cover story for The Atlantic. Some might say it is hyperbolic, but John Heilemann, I’m curious if you think it is? The headline is Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun. ‘Trump and his party convinced a dauntingly large number of Americans, that the essential workings of democracy are corrupt, that the made-up claims of fraud are true, that only cheating can thwart their victory at their polls, that tyranny usurped their government and that violence is a legitimate response.’ Hyperbolic or fact?”
Heilemann said, “Fact, I think. The strength of that Gellman piece is it lays out this extraordinary reality that there is this research that shows something like 8% and maybe as many as 12% that say Joe Biden was illegitimate and violence is an appropriate tool to removing him and restoring Donald Trump. That’s between 20 and 30 million people. That’s a mass movement in America in favor of political violence, which is a new thing. We’ve been political violence before, lynching many things over the course of time that African-Americans have suffered, but this is 30 million people right now who are ready to take up arms.”
He added, “You put that together with what the president, the former president, and his allies are doing in the political realm, statehouses, state legislatures and the party apparatus to be able to engineer a situation where they are in a stronger position to pull off a coup in 2024 than they were 2020. That’s not hyperbolic at all. Those are all facts.”
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