New York – Donald Trump has spent months laying the groundwork to challenge the results of the 2024 election if he loses, just as he did four years ago.
At rally after rally, he urges his supporters to achieve a victory “too big to block,” telling them the only way he can lose is if the Democrats cheat . He has again refused to say whether he will accept the decisions win or lose. And he has said that fraud is already underway, citing unproven claims or wild theories with no basis in reality.
“The only thing that stops us is fraud. “It’s the only thing stopping us,” he said Thursday night at an event in Arizona.
In 2020, Trump prematurely declared himself the winner of the White House. He launched a legal and political effort to reverse his loss to Democrat Joe Biden, which culminated in the attack on the Capitol by his followers on January 6, 2021.
Democrats fear he will do the same this year before the results are announced. On Friday in Dearborn, Michigan, he did not respond to a question about those concerns from Democrats, instead attacking Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump has made election fraud the centerpiece of his 2024 campaign, issuing feverish warnings about fraud as he vows to retaliate against people he sees as obstructionists. his way.
This year, he has a sophisticated “election integrity” operation, built by his campaign team and the Republican National Committee, which has already filed more than 130 lawsuits and to register more than 230,000 trained volunteers for use as observers and poll workers in the country on election day.
Here’s a look at Trump’s strategy to cast doubt in this year’s election and the facts behind each claim.
Non-citizens vote
USAGE: Trump has claimed, without evidence, that Democrats have allowed millions of immigrants to enter the country illegally so they can register to vote. In an interview with Newsmax in September, Trump said that these efforts were already underway.
“They work overtime trying to register people, illegally, to vote in the election,” he said. “They work overtime to register and register people, many of the -one people you see crossing the border. What is their original thought because why else would they want to destroy our country?”
THE INFORMATION: The process for new people to become citizens takes several years, and only citizens can legally vote in federal elections. Isolated cases of non-citizens caught trying to vote, such as a Chinese University student in Michigan who was arrested for allegedly casting an illegal vote, are not reveal a larger conspiracy.
Research has shown that it is extremely rare for non-citizens to register and vote illegally, and it usually happens by mistake.
USAGE: Trump has pointed to Democratic efforts to get votes from Americans living abroad as another opportunity for fraud. He has said that they are “preparing for CHEAT” and that they want to “undermine the TRUE vote of our beautiful military and their families.”
THE INFORMATION: The former president himself has been campaigning to persuade Americans abroad to vote, promising to end the so-called “double taxation” of people who often pay the taxes of the both in the country where they live and with the US government.
Ominous warnings
USAGE: Trump has begun to indicate that Harris may have access to some type of classified information about the outcome of a race that has not yet been decided.
Since the vice president took a day off from the campaign to do interviews with Telemundo and NBC, he has repeatedly said, “Maybe she knows something that we don’t.”
In Michigan last weekend, he suggested there would be no way Harris would campaign with Beyoncé, one of the biggest stars in the world, if the race was as close as the polls are. suggestive opinion.
“Number one, they cheat like hell. So maybe they know something that we don’t, right?” said. “Maybe they know something that we don’t, I don’t know. Why the hell would she celebrate when her down? Maybe, I never thought about it, maybe she knows something we don’t. But we’re not going to let that happen.”
THE INFORMATION: There is no evidence to prove a Democratic conspiracy. In fact, Trump teased about his own interior design at a rally in New York’s Madison Square Garden when he looked at House Speaker Mike Johnson and spoke of “a little mystery” between them.
Johnson, before becoming speaker of the House, oversaw the writing of a widely criticized report that sought to reverse Trump’s 2020 loss and made some of the theories wildest betrayal to explain his loss.
When asked about Trump’s reference to a “little secret,” Johnson issued a statement that included the following: “By definition, a secret should not be shared, and it is not I expect to share this one.” (He later told an audience that the secret must be related to “one of our methods of getting people out to vote,” according to The Hill. candidates).
Fraud in Pennsylvania
USAGE: In recent days, Trump has directed his anger at Pennsylvania, a state that both campaigns consider crucial, and where he has said fraud is already underway. .
Earlier this week, they said that York County, Pennsylvania, had received “thousands of voter registration forms and mail ballot applications from a group of third parties.” He also singled out Lancaster County, which he said was “caught with 2,600 fraudulent ballots and forms, all written by the same person.” “Really bad stuff.”
At a campaign event in Allentown on Tuesday, the former president said: “They’ve already started cheating in Lancaster. They are deceived. We caught them by 2,600 votes. No, we surprised them. 2,600 votes. Think about this, think about this. And every vote was written by the same person. “
THE INFORMATION: In Lancaster, county district attorney Heather Adams, a Republican-elect, said poll workers raised concerns about two sets of voter registration applications because of what she described as multiple similarities. Authorities are currently examining around 2,500 forms in total.
To be clear, Lancaster examines voter registration applications, not “votes.” Lancaster officials said some forms contained false names, suspicious handwriting, questionable signatures, incorrect addresses or other problematic details, but did not say they were all written by the same person.
Yorkshire General Manager Greg Monskie confirmed this week that his county is reviewing suspicious forms. County Commissioner Julie Wheeler released a statement saying the voter registration forms and mail-in ballot applications were part of a “large shipment containing thousands of election-related materials” received by the county elections office from a third party organization.
State officials say tracking and checking the applications, not the votes, is proof that the system is working as intended.
Risks of litigation
USAGE: Trump has threatened dire consequences for those who engage in what he considers “unconscionable behavior.”
In a post on social media mockingly referring to “the rampant deceit and deception by the Democrats in the 2020 Presidential Election,” he warned, “When I win, these people will go RIGHT be prosecuted to the maximum extent permitted by law, which may include a lengthy prison sentence.”
The posts continue, threatening “those who engage in unscrupulous behavior,” including election officials, lawyers and donors, who, he says, “are sought out, apprehended and prosecuted at levels, sadly, never seen before in our country.”
THE INFORMATION: Judges, election officials and even Trump’s own attorney general, William Barr, have said there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election.
If re-elected, Trump has vowed to go after rivals he considers “domestic enemies,” and has even said he would appoint a special prosecutor to prosecute Mr. Biden . That is more than a theoretical threat, since, when he was president, the magnate pushed again for investigations of those he saw as his political enemies.
While the Department of Justice is controlled to prevent political influence, Trump could appoint leaders to allow the opening of cases if he requests it.
2024-11-03 18:07:00
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