The Attack on the Legitimacy of the 2024 Presidential Election Has Begun

[Think. Again.]

By Judd Legum, Sep 16, 2024
Source: https://popular.info/p/the-attack-on-the-legitimacy-of-the

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Trump has attacked mail-in voting for years, baselessly asserting that mail-in ballots facilitated fraud that robbed him of victory in 2020. Early this year, Trump appeared to change his tune on the practice. "ABSENTEE VOTING, EARLY VOTING, AND ELECTION DAY VOTING ARE ALL GOOD OPTIONS," Trump posted to Truth Social on April 19. "REPUBLICANS MUST MAKE A PLAN, REGISTER, AND VOTE!" That change of heart appears to be short-lived.

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Trump's efforts to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the 2024 election are nothing new. He did the same thing in advance of the 2020 election. The difference is that, this time, he has the public support of wealthy tech billionaires.

Appearing on the All In podcast, billionaire investor Peter Theil asserted that if the presidential election "is going to be close," then "I'm pretty sure [Vice President] Kamala [Harris] will win because they will cheat." Theil claimed, without any evidence, that Democrats will "steal the ballots" to assure a Harris victory.

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Although Theil was wrong, billionaire Elon Musk promoted a video of Theil's claims to his 190 million followers on X, adding the comment "Exactly." Musk's pinned post on X is a video that marries claims of fraud by mail-in voting with a white nationalist conspiracy theory. The video, which promotes the Great Replacement Theory, falsely claims that Democrats have purposely flooded the nation with undocumented immigrants and are using them to cast illegal votes by mail.

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Full article at https://popular.info/p/the-attack-on-the-legitimacy-of-the

[TwilightZone]

1. It began roughly four years ago.

If the author thinks it just began, they haven't been paying attention.

[Cosmocat]

2. He was doing this going into the 2016

Election.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. ITA

Also - I'm totally over the word 'rigged'. It's lost any impact on me.

[Think. Again.]

4. The full article addresses trump's long history of this.

[Lovie777]

5. Many GQPs like mail in ballots............................

so therefore, shithole is hurting his election campaign.

[Gary 50]

7. Funny how every instance of election fraud has been committed by Republicans but they never

stop projecting it onto Democrats. Peter Theil and Elon Musk are disgusting fascist pigs.