Trumpers are *still* scheming to overturn the 2020 election
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In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has once again become focused on elections. Not next year’s midterms, necessarily. Instead, he’s begun touting new “evidence” of fraud in the 2020 election.
“It was a rigged election,” Trump said on December 9. “It’s gonna come out over the next couple months too, loud and clear. Because we have all the information.”
On December 14, Trump again mentioned the supposedly forthcoming evidence.
“The election was rigged in 2020 — we have all the information, all the stuff and you’ll see it coming out,” Trump said. “It’s coming out in truckloads.”
Where will these “truckloads” of evidence come from? In one word: Georgia.
Trump has never strayed far from his lies about the 2020 election, mentioning them frequently over the years. But his recent statements — combined with developments in Georgia over the last several months — allude to something more concrete than his usual meandering rants.
Election deniers in Georgia and their allies at the Justice Department believe that ballots and other documents from the 2020 election, currently held in a Fulton County warehouse and the subject of several ongoing lawsuits, contain proof of a sprawling conspiracy of a stolen election. Earlier this month, the Justice Department sued to gain access to the materials, which would ostensibly have to be delivered to Washington DC for inspection by the truckload.
Fulton County — home to Atlanta and the state’s largest Black and Democratic voting bloc — has long been the focus of election deniers in Georgia and elsewhere, and became the focal point of Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election here when he asked Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” the 11,781 votes Trump needed to win the Peach State.
Having lost dozens of court cases in other states in his attempt to overturn the election, Georgia is all that Trump has left in his desperate attempt to prove the impossible.
But Trump’s comments and accompanying lawsuits aren’t simply about proving non-existent fraud in 2020; they’re part of an actual sprawling plan to sow doubt in future elections — specifically, any important elections that Republicans lose.
Currently lying at the epicenter of these efforts is
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