The Trump cult will never accept the Arizona results

Their phony audit showed Biden won but they won’t ever give up. They won’t accept the truth.

In the wake of the Arizona audit's humiliating defeat, its most devoted fans have turned on the audit's organizers, accusing them of being part of the deep state. https://t.co/ydzIyyKyut
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) September 29, 2021

.⁦@danbalz⁩ on the “but our voters want it” defense >

“Those doubts exist largely bc he has told the falsehood over and over,others around him have done the same,and many others in the party have not stood up to him, preferring to look the other way https://t.co/wLEw7haseI
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) September 26, 2021

Yes, the Arizona "audit" imploded on Trump. But people are missing a big part of the story: Its "findings" continue to push the lie that the 2020 outcome was dubious, and Republicans are gearing up to use this to fake-justify voter suppression. My latest:https://t.co/yParsuFUVM
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 24, 2021

Coming soon: after failed “audit,” AZ GOP Chair Kelli Ward told us she wants a “full canvass” of the 2020 prez election for Maricopa County AND the entire state of Arizona pic.twitter.com/KcEOxj1uq5
— Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) September 26, 2021

Staggering. He straight up lies to their faces and they cheer. https://t.co/mwmR8OQjie
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 26, 2021

As one does… https://t.co/cVwndaIc2M
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) September 24, 2021

And these claims are now being amplified by right-wing media outlets/personalities who have been eager to sow doubt about the results of the election. https://t.co/kc5F8oszcc
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) September 24, 2021

The news media has effectively endorsed the GOP's misinformation campaign to overturn the election by unquestioningly adopting the right-wing language "audit" and "review," granting legitimacy in describing the racist and fraudulent effort to discredit nonwhite votes for Biden pic.twitter.com/7xctmG1pen
— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) September 24, 2021

Trump, in November: “If we can audit the total votes cast, we will easily win Arizona.”

Trump, in July: “When the real numbers are released, people will be shocked…[the margin will be] extraordinarily big and highly determinative.”

Trump now: https://t.co/mxLAUlakfG
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) September 24, 2021

NEW: Here’s round two of our #FactCheck on several of the claims Cyber Ninjas identified as the most serious in their report: 🧵
— Maricopa County (@maricopacounty) September 24, 2021

Feature not a bug of this sham "audit" process: "Election experts pointed to the corrosive effect of the decision to stage a partisan review of the election results, w/ copycat versions in other states and further eroding trust in democratic institutions." https://t.co/raGjc5bruw
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) September 24, 2021

This statement has been deleted from Trump’s website. What will he now say about the “highly respected auditors” who spent months going over Arizona’s ballots only to conclude Biden’s victory was actually slightly larger than the official result? https://t.co/9P6jXIDNfz
— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) September 24, 2021

Update on companies who donate to the Sedition Caucus

Over $10 million donated to members who chose not to certify the results of the 2020 election. https://t.co/x7g7m3X8bH
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) September 25, 2021

You can’t have it both ways GM: either keep your word and refuse to fund seditionists, or don’t and be recognized as willing to discard democracy for profit. https://t.co/wbgOq8c8se
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) August 22, 2021

From @TheBulwark: Meet the companies that broke their promise to stop funding members of the sedition caucus. https://t.co/ipEbsY3ROr
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 29, 2021

Pennsylvania Republicans phony investigation of the 2020 election

Most Republicans will never admit Biden won.

Ehhh, what privacy protection is there for all this highly sensitive personal identification data? Is anyone even thinking about this!? https://t.co/WCuUKFGSze
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) September 14, 2021

Republican state senator kicks off audit push in Pennsylvania https://t.co/m5j5k34PQk
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 10, 2021

A Pennsylvania Republican claimed to officials in York County, PA last year that he had a list of dead people who'd voted in the 2020 election. If true, that would've been major voter fraud.

But it wasn't true. The voters were alive. Very alive.https://t.co/zbBMpgL5Bb
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 4, 2021

NEW: In latest bow to Trump, GOP lawmakers in Pennsylvania plan to launch hearings on 2020 vote
By @eliseviebeck https://t.co/jKB0wkOY25
— Lisa Rein (@Reinlwapo) August 24, 2021

HARRISBURG, Pa. (@AP) — A Republican-majority county board in rural northern Pennsylvania on Tuesday accused a state senator of creating “unnecessary chaos” in pushing for a detailed review of how the county collected and counted votes in Trump’s reelection defeat last year.
— Marc Levy (@timelywriter) August 10, 2021

The state of the effort to undo Biden’s victory, a sixth of the way into his presidency https://t.co/o0EOqz9c6Q
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) September 16, 2021

Trump voters and online searches for Ivermectin

from the article:

“The states with the most search interest in ivermectin are also ones that voted heavily for Trump in 2020. The six states that have searched for ivermectin the most in the past 90 days supported Trump by an average 27-point margin.”

The states where searches for information about ivermectin are most common have three overlapping things characteristics: recent surges, pro-Trump 2020 votes and low vax rates. https://t.co/QlfPfP4inw
— Philip Bump (@pbump) September 7, 2021

I don’t think Covid cost Trump the election

I don’t think it’s at all clear that Covid helped Biden on net.

As @davidshor explained on the Weeds, it certainly *appeared* to help him because the most covid-cautious people were also answering surveys more. https://t.co/GB8sHr9b5P
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 6, 2021

For example, here's an article from June 2020 that shows that 49% strongly disapproved of Trump's performance. I'm sure that is based on much more than just Covid.https://t.co/5dmtbekX0U
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) September 7, 2021

Update on Texas Republicans – election law and “audit” plan

Texas audit proposed by GOP would miss minor but real errors. https://t.co/XBLle05Jsl
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) August 3, 2021

“‘If Texas is going to focus on the blue counties, that's probably the wrong thing to do,’ said Michael McDonald, …who led the team that found the Texas discrepancies. They should look at all the counties because there's something broken w/ this system.’” https://t.co/HJnll4wW5p
— Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) August 3, 2021

Republican in a state Trump won now seeking to audit counties where Biden votes were clusteredhttps://t.co/s9KqPn7p9w
— Allan Smith (@akarl_smith) July 21, 2021

A hidden provision regarding mail voting in the Texas Republicans' voting restrictions might disenfranchise more than 100,000 Texas voters. https://t.co/Pppgtqmoxl
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 28, 2021

There's a certain red state turning blue where we @vest_team found numerous discrepancies between local election officials' precinct data and certified election results. The issue appears to be data entry errors into the SoS election reporting system https://t.co/4hlnnsJhfO
— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) July 22, 2021

Big money behind the Big Lie

Jane Meyer has great insights into how dark money is used in American politics and this write up on how dark money groups are fighting the right to vote is fantastic. https://t.co/z8UTPn8WVY
— Nathan "M"🎈 Maynes (@nathanmaynes) August 2, 2021

Update on the phony Arizona 2020 election “audit”

There’s no fraud but the Trump cult will never give up. This will never end.

This is already getting results: Facebook tells me they have removed all the groups spreading disinformation about the Arizona audit named in the report. https://t.co/IhWQGzseDf
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) August 5, 2021

When audit leader Doug Logan falsely claimed there was no clear record of 74k mail-in ballots going out to voters, he already had records proving those votes were valid https://t.co/X07uWtNYP8
— Jeremy Duda (@jeremyduda) August 3, 2021

.⁦@SykesCharlie⁩ on AZ GOP pol's call for jailing county officials:

"weapons-grade nutbaggery, but something disturbing is happening on the right.

"ideas unthinkable moments ago are being normalized

"drift toward authoritarianism accelerating" https://t.co/vw4XpbNZFf
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 4, 2021

It's now par for the course in this authoritarian movement to threaten to imprison officials for doing their official duty and correctly upholding the integrity of Trump's loss. Large swaths of this party have abandoned democracy entirely and are embracing unchecked lawlessness. https://t.co/SiLjvEIMS6
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) August 3, 2021

Politico has fully adopted Republicans' bad-faith language that the sham efforts to undermine the election results in Arizona and other states are "audits," a term that grants legitimacy and credibility to bad actors whose only goal is to convince people the election was fake pic.twitter.com/9wdsL9Wby3
— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) August 3, 2021

GOP Maricopa Co official nails it in this (typically) great story: "It’s not about Arizona. We’re literally pawns in this. This is a national effort to delegitimize the election system.” If “AZ can question this & show that Trump won,” the game will move on to CO, GA, PA, MI, VA" https://t.co/gRRoPbT04L
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 2, 2021

Totally normal reaction from a Trump-supporting member of the Arizona Senate. pic.twitter.com/v4i8LYRNAv
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) August 2, 2021

Maricopa County defies latest subpoena request from Arizona state Senate seeking to expand 2020 ballot review https://t.co/BS0XRamYYj
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 3, 2021

JUST IN ⁦@dominionvoting⁩ CEO to Arizona Senate GOP subpoena: Your law doesn’t apply to us. pic.twitter.com/5gc5JVT1Pc
— Brahm Resnik (@brahmresnik) August 2, 2021

I think this sums it up nicely: https://t.co/gHFZAXElVc
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) August 2, 2021

As ballot counting in Arizona ends, turmoil and revelation of funding by Trump backers cast doubt on conclusions of "forensic audit" of the 2020 election. https://t.co/7Ppnv2IWsh
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 1, 2021

Controversial Arizona ballot review pulls in more than $5.7 million in private donations, organizers say https://t.co/Rqp6EQjikk
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 29, 2021

Debunking here: https://t.co/pUvlwFEhTs. In short, once more, these were in-person early votes the Cyber Ninjas man wrongly described as mystery mail-in votes. https://t.co/RPQlsULUhK
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 24, 2021

The Arizona audit is, theoretically, supposed to be overseen by members of the Arizona Senate. Well, today, the Senate liaison was BLOCKED from entering the fair grounds where the sham exercise is taking place https://t.co/EYIMuV5DbT
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) July 24, 2021

The fairgrounds building where the ballots are being reviewed is leaking. The audit team says the ballots are protected. https://t.co/DTmJMmo6IL
— Jen Fifield (@JenAFifield) July 23, 2021

Update on phony claims of election fraud in Georgia

Will the 2020 election ever be over? Will the Republicans ever accept it if they lose a future presidential election?

What they’re doing based on non-existent fraud is wrong and dangerous.

"There is no chance that I would sign this letter or anything remotely like this," Richard Donoghue wrote back to Jeffrey Clark w/ acting AG Rosen cced on the email, later adding, "…from where I stand, this is not even within the realm of possibility."https://t.co/LDgkm7S9hh
— Alex Mallin (@alex_mallin) August 3, 2021

Georgia Republicans inch closer to a takeover of elections in state's largest county https://t.co/XaeI4PUtBZ
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 31, 2021

Republicans lawmakers in Georgia have requested a performance review of the top election official in Fulton County, the first step in a possible takeover of the heavily Democratic county’s electoral process by the Republican-led legislature. https://t.co/RhfQF8byOj
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) July 30, 2021

New reports show that Trump’s efforts to overturn the election were worse than we knew

🚨 New York Times: “President Donald J. Trump pressed top Justice Department officials late last year to declare that the election was corrupt… so that he and his allies in Congress could use the assertion to try to overturn the results.” https://t.co/SLqqFb38xk
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 30, 2021

It’s becoming clearer why AG Barr resigned in December. With this reporting about Trump’s daily calls to Rosen, DOJ’s decision that executive privilege does not protect conversations about election fraud takes on added significance. Issue the subpoena! https://t.co/JcpYv4R4Z9
— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) July 30, 2021

Former President Trump called acting AG Rosen almost daily to pressure the DOJ to investigate false claims of voter fraud last year, the Washington Post reports.https://t.co/1AxN301M9K
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 30, 2021

Here are Richard Donoghue's damning (for Trump) notes on the 12/27/20 call. Donoghue was a Trump administration political appointee then serving as a top aide to Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, https://t.co/GvXW1Qrf90
— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) July 30, 2021