The 2024 presidential election is tomorrow and Trump and his MAGA Republican cronies across the country are doubling down on their violent rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and lies about our election processes to lay the groundwork for their second attempt at a coup if they lose.
SHOT: CNN: Trump says he ‘shouldn’t have left’ the White House as he closes campaign with increasingly dark message. Donald Trump, who said in Pennsylvania on Sunday that he regrets leaving the White House in 2021, is ending the 2024 campaign the way he began it — dishing out a stew of violent, disparaging rhetoric and repeated warnings that he will not accept defeat if it comes… The former president’s newest round of threats caps off a campaign with one of the darkest, most menacing closing messages in modern American history. In the last few weeks alone, Trump has doubled down on a pledge to use the military to combat the civilian “enemy within” and mused — in the guise of arguing he was the pro-peace candidate — about how former Rep. Liz Cheney, one of his loudest conservative Republican critics, would fare with guns “trained on her face” in a war zone.
CHASER: POLITICO: Republicans bring back fake electors in battlegrounds. “But the reemergence of these Republicans demonstrates the power that election denialism continues to hold in a Republican Party led by Trump, who routinely foments false claims of voter fraud — and has deployed some of those same false claims to raise doubts about the 2024 election. Rather than being punished or shunted aside for their role in an attempt to overturn a democratic election, they’ve been elevated. The GOP has rewarded those accused of felony crimes with a return to the coveted position they stand accused of abusing four years ago. Despite the sweeping losses election deniers have suffered at the ballot box, rejection of the last presidential outcome continues to be a mainstream belief among GOP leaders within the states. A significant share of these electors come from within the official state party apparatuses, including party chairs from Georgia, Nevada and Arizona.”