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From The Washington Post: "Republicans just gave us a terrifying preview of their 2024 strategy...reinforce the idea that every institution and practice associated with the presidential campaign must be considered corrupt and biased against Trump...especially the vote counting.
"The idea is to keep Trump’s supporters in a state of perpetual agitation and grievance, one that will build and build all the way to the counting of the votes, when it could explode if Trump is not immediately declared the winner.
"Don’t forget that in state after state this year, Republicans are running election fantasists to administer voting at the state and local level. Some of them are absolutely unhinged, such as [Secretary of State candidate] Mark Finchem in Arizona, a QAnon-spouting conspiracist and self-proclaimed member of the far-right Oath Keepers who could well be in charge of elections in that vital swing state in 2024."
The Washington Post column shows how this scenario could play out in real life in 2024:
"On every day of the campaign, Trump, the RNC and all their allies will be clamoring like 5-year-olds: 'No fair! No fair!'
"After a campaign of non-stop complaining about how Trump and all his supporters are victims of a rigged process, the votes come in, and it looks like Biden has won again. Trump's angry supporters erupt into the streets, convinced that the election is being stolen. What are the Trumpist secretaries of state going to do?
"Will they just certify him as the winner of their state’s elections, no matter what the votes actually were? Will Republican-controlled legislatures in places such as Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina and Wisconsin simply hand him their electoral votes? And if so, how will the challenges fare with the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority?"
This is the nightmare scenario -- and the reason Republicans are spending millions of dollars on Secretary of State races this cycle. Now is the time to ensure pro-voter, pro-democracy Democratic Secretary of State candidates have the resources to win and preside over the election in 2024.
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-- Manju Bangalore, PCCC organizer
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