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RELITIGATING 2020 — Trump continues to cling to his lie that the 2020 election was fraudulent — and is pushing the rest of the Republican Party to join him. “Sadly, the Election was Rigged, and without even going into detail, of which there is much, totally game changing,” Trump said in a statement on Saturday, where he called much of the federal judiciary “gutless” (including the Supreme Court), for not backing his bunk claims. “No wonder so much money is being raised on this issue, and law-abiding people have every right to do so!”
Trump was responding to a story from The New York Times, which reported that right-leaning groups were finding that the “center of gravity in the party,” as one strategist put it, was pushing new restrictions on voters’ access to the polls, many of which have been predicated on Trump’s lie. The drive “is now at the heart of the right’s strategy to keep donors and voters engaged as Mr. Trump fades from public view and leaves a void in the Republican Party that no other figure or issue has filled,” The New York Times’ Jeremy W. Peters wrote.
And while Trump may remain banned on Twitter, he has shown that he does not need it when it comes to his main focus of advancing his electoral fraud claims, and integrating them within the conservative movement at large. That includes everything from his CPAC speech last month, where so-called “election integrity” efforts were one of the major topics of discussion throughout the event.
Expect Republican candidates’ stance on Trump’s lies to be among the most prominent litmus tests in GOP primaries. Multiple Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidates have “election integrity” plans, and The Washington Post reported last month that just one of the six candidates had “directly said that [President Joe] Biden legitimately won the presidency.” In that vein: Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.), who was one of the objectors to the Electoral College, is expected to launch a primary challenge to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger this week, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Greg Bluestein reported. POLITICO’s Alex Isenstadt and I reported that Trump is expected to endorse Hice, who has also spread misinformation about elections in his own state by saying he didn’t believe Biden won Georgia’s 16 electoral votes.
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Trump continues to cling to his lie that the 2020 election was fraudulent — and is pushing the rest of the Republican Party to join him https://t.co/bOzlkGkevA pic.twitter.com/cosB2WLIzb
— POLITICO (@politico) March 22, 2021
The bogus election fraud claim will never go away so long as there is money to be made from it.
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