Ahead of the November 8 mid-term elections, Republican candidates are embracing the idea that Donald Trump has been robbed of his 2020 presidential victory.
Many are also spreading distrust of the count in the upcoming elections. Here all the seats in the House of Representatives, one third of the seats in the Senate, governorates and politically elected positions in 39 states must be filled.
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According to the AFP news agency, the Brookings think tank did the tally of the “chosen deniers” who are running for the 567 seats in Congress and the key positions in the states to be filled. As many as 43 percent, or 249 of Republican candidates, say Joe Biden did not win the election two years ago.
Repeated accusations of electoral fraud
No one has been able to present evidence that Donald Trump was scammed for his election victory two years ago. But the idea of massive election fraud has been the cornerstone of Trump’s repeated allegations over the past two years. The former president gave his official support to more than 200 Republican candidates in the mid-term elections. A prerequisite for being backed by Trump has been for candidates to embrace the idea of ”The Big Lie”.
– Joining “The Big Lie” has become a major theme for many Republicans in the nomination process. How these candidates will face an electoral defeat in the by-election, asks former Senate cabinet chief Mark Bayer AFP.
He believes that American democracy has not come under greater pressure since World War II.
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Democracies are dissolving from within
Sociologist Barbara Wejnert points out that, according to international studies, democracies are not dissolved by the revolution or the military coup.
– They’re disintegrating from within. This could happen to American democracy if election deniers win the seats they are fighting for and Donald Trump is elected president in 2024, says Wejnert, who teaches at the University of Buffalo.
Candidates who join “The Big Lie” are not isolated from the extreme wing. Many can be seen as centrist candidates in the middle of the political spectrum.
Forge of thought Brookings estimates that nearly 60 percent of the 249 candidates who deny the election could win the seat they are running for. In 39 states, the offices of governor, attorney general and chief executive are awaiting election on November 8. It is these offices that organize and control elections in the federal states.
Trump continues with blows aimed at the current president of the United States:
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I had to tell the primary
The Republican state governors of Torrance, New Mexico have done everything possible to convince voters that the midterm elections will be free of fraud. They struggle with that.
They accepted the manual counting of the votes and encouraged the public and representatives of the administration to be present during the testing of the meters. But with little success. according to AP news agency a good number of voters will not accept the election result regardless of the outcome.
– Confidence that votes are counted correctly is simply not there, says Ryan Schwebach, who heads the all-Republican electoral council made up of three county state administrators.
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Don’t trust counting machines
The results of the primary elections, in which Democrats and Republicans voted for their candidates in the midterm elections, were hotly contested. Dominion counting machines are used in New Mexico. Donald Trump’s lawyers said the machines were designed so that former dictator Hugo Chávez would win the election in Venezuela. Counting machines have been the favorite subject of conspiracy theories that have not been proven by American law.
Anger spilled over at a meeting where the Torrance County administration declared the election results certain and correct. “Cowards”, “traitors” and “regular knights” were shouted from the hall.
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State administrators have taken entirely new paths to restore confidence in election results. They recently conducted a new manual tally for the June 7 primary and demanded that it be conducted by experienced election operators.
37-year-old car salesman Brady Ness doesn’t trust automatic vote counting. He demands that all elections be counted by hand.
– Even though there are Democrats and people I don’t like among those that matter, I trust the result of a hand that matters more than if the votes are counted by a machine, Ness tells Ap.
Last week the results came from the hand count in Torrance. The result showed slight deviations from the machine count in June, but not enough to replace some candidates.
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