Wisconsin Republicans attack fair elections

2020 and the future

Then Trump attacked them because they haven’t done enough to overturn the election.

The GOP war on drop boxes continues and continues to lose in court. This time in Wisconsin. https://t.co/SFqdghHBFb
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) June 27, 2021

“This is not a partisan effort,” announces partisan former judge just introduced at state GOP convention to oversee partisan effort to undermine fair election https://t.co/UtPpQr4L8j
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) June 26, 2021

Important detail here: The Wisconsin legislators traveled to Arizona on the dime of Voices and Votes, an OAN-linked nonprofit. A conservative channel is bringing Rs to Phoenix on the hopes that they’ll go home and give the channel more to cover. https://t.co/02J5efBNNn
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 15, 2021

An exhaustive search has found that more than 99.999% of all Wisconsin ballots cast in the 2020 election were legit. Don't fall for the Big Lie. https://t.co/Jivv0MXqVb
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) May 21, 2021

Trump tried to attack a top Wisconsin state lawmaker. But instead of leading to chaos and censure, there were signs Trump's comments were dismissed with a roll of the eyes. https://t.co/4ITmr7kplO
— POLITICO (@politico) June 29, 2021

This Wisconsin Republican’s letter to Trump is high art https://t.co/I4MSCkDaRK
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) June 29, 2021

More from @reidepstein’s coverage. https://t.co/KXUw9vqxJg
— Jonathan Zittrain (@zittrain) June 29, 2021

Update on companies who donate to Republicans who voted to overturn the election

This explanation from @Toyota about why they've given to 37 members of Congress who voted to overturn the election was taken word-for-word from a memo issued by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in March. https://t.co/VXnjFOr2RY https://t.co/nxtMioMQLJ
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 27, 2021

Without accountability for the January 6th insurrection, we can’t just “get over it.” So here are the corporations whose PAC donations have benefited Sedition Caucus members since the insurrection: https://t.co/m8SuVAFrT5
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) June 26, 2021

These are the top corporate PAC donors to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election. pic.twitter.com/CTgNXg8YIz
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) June 25, 2021

1. The @NRSC is chaired by @SenRickScott, who voted to overturn the election

Scott is using the @NRSC to legitimize & amplify Trump's lies about the election

But corporations, including those who pledged not to donate to Republican objectors, are still contributing to the @NRSC
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 18, 2021

NEW: Boeing quietly ended its post-insurrection pause on political contributions, and immediately maxed out to members of the sedition caucus. Me @thedailybeast https://t.co/10ID1WhVLY
— Roger Sollenberger found true love, suckers (@SollenbergerRC) June 14, 2021

If you're angry about Toyota, here's why you should also be angry about Cigna https://t.co/m8SuVAFrT5
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) June 28, 2021

Michigan Republicans find no voter fraud

This won’t sit well with Trump or his cult. Maybe they’ll storm the Michigan state house again. The bad news is Republicans want to use the unfounded claims to make it harder to vote.

Michigan Republican legislators issued a report finding no widespread fraud and Biden won. The only “audit” Republicans will accept is the one showing Trump won https://t.co/EeuLWjhMjF
— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) July 14, 2021

Michigan Senate GOP leader Mike Shirkey, last week, defending election report that found no evidence of fraud: “The effort by those who are echoing Trump’s scenarios, I just think that they’re, frankly they’re actually destroying the fabric of our nation, and it’s a bit shameful”
— Jonathan Oosting (@jonathanoosting) July 6, 2021

Wow. “A long-awaited report on the 2020 election from a GOP-controlled Michigan Senate committee recommended that Democratic AG Dana Nessel consider investigating individuals who pushed false claims ‘to raise money or publicity for their own ends.’” 1/ https://t.co/pNcCipVtl0
— Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) July 3, 2021

A report from a Republican-led Michigan State Senate committee debunks false claims about the 2020 election perpetuated by Trump allies in Michigan and other states. https://t.co/074z7yaTPn
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 23, 2021

In a highly anticipated report, the Republican-led Michigan Senate Oversight Cmte. rebutted former President Trump's voter fraud claims, debunking claims of malfeasance in the state's election last fall and affirming that President Biden was victorious. https://t.co/r65ueDk2n0
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) June 23, 2021

Michigan Republicans did a point-by-point debunking of the false Trumpworld claims you might recall: thousands of dead people voting in Detroit! Dominion stealing votes in Antrim County! All nonsense, as was (or should have been) clear all along. https://t.co/QOnwqGMU4k
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 23, 2021

Opinion | Susan Del Percio: Michigan Republicans reject Trump's election claims but still act like they're true. https://t.co/0zONi4RmcC – @NBCNewsTHINK
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 28, 2021

Opinion | @BarbMcQuade: Trump’s disinformation campaign that the election was stolen from him continues to shape public policy. He has demonstrated that a lie, if repeated often enough, will be believed by many people. https://t.co/320yDKuReK
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 26, 2021

"It confirmed what over 250 audits, countless election officials, numerous court opinions and the majority of Michiganders also know to be true — that our election was secure, successful," MI Sec. of State Benson says about a new report by the state's GOP.https://t.co/pXdoUA2YB2
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 25, 2021

Michigan Republican Party co-chair Meshawn Maddock criticizes timing of Senate GOP panel report on seven-month investigation that found no evidence of widespread fraud in the state's 2020 election. Says Trump advisors "wanted a different approach from our legislature." pic.twitter.com/6hmGAtW1E6
— Jonathan Oosting (@jonathanoosting) June 25, 2021

The media’s ratings after Trump are down but the media still gives him too much attention

Here are tweets from Paul Farhi from the Washington Post and an email I sent him. (It’s similar to an email I sent to Ben White at Politico which I posted on the blog but was rejected by their email system.)

The media still gives Trump lots of coverage but ratings may be down because people have lost interest. Here’s a link to an article I linked to in the email.

Trump’s blog has staggeringly small audience – The Washington Post

–NYTimes: 78.8 million (-8.2/month, -37.3/year).
–WashPost: 75.0 million (-3.6/month, -25.0/year).
–BuzzFeed: 72.3 million (-2.0/month, -13.5/year).
–NBCNews: 71.4 million (-12.6/month, -29.3/year).
–CBSNews: 70.6 million (-3.2/month, -13.8/year). More…
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) June 23, 2021

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Most Americans don’t think Republican 2020 audits are valid

This won’t stop them from inventing fraud in Arizona and elsewhere. They will never accept the valid and results which showed that Trump lost. The audits are dangerous and will do lasting harm.

Most Americans reject the validity of the 2020 election audits, a poll shows https://t.co/eZfTCZ11hF
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 21, 2021

New Morning Consult/Politico poll finds that 51% of self-identified Republicans think “election reviews” will change the 2020 outcome.

(No they won’t. This is bananas. But it’s been egged on by Trump.) pic.twitter.com/NvHlSZak88
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 16, 2021

As more Republican-led states contemplate conducting an audit in the style of Arizona, new polling shows that a majority of Republicans believe the reviews will change the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election. https://t.co/GliboMNvye
— ABC Action News (@abcactionnews) June 19, 2021

The Trump cult will never admit Biden won

It’s not going to change. I bet red state textbooks say that the 2020 election was stolen.

While Democrats have stayed steady on the issue, Republican confidence in the vote has fallen dramatically as former President Trump spent much of the past year making baseless and false claims about fraud in the 2020 election, @NBCNews poll finds. https://t.co/32JC2dunlP
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 1, 2021

Why the red state push to restrict voting access & increase partisan meddling will continue unless Ds pass leg to stop it: In CNN poll "Among Republicans, 78% say that Biden did not win & 54% believe there is solid evidence of that, despite the fact that no such evidence exists"
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) September 15, 2021

Nine months into the Biden Presidency, 78% of Republicans still say Biden didn’t win the 2020 election. #BigLie https://t.co/1LmmRMsC2I
— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) September 15, 2021

New polls show just how far Republicans were willing to go to support then-President Donald Trump's unprecedented efforts to subvert the 2020 election https://t.co/IcYqa9bJQM
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 24, 2021

Analysis: After seven months of debunking, the false belief that Biden won because of fraud hasn’t budged https://t.co/Z2LaCXy4Kn
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 21, 2021

Do you believe Joe Biden won the 2020 election fair and square or due to voter fraud via new Monmouth poll just out:

Democrats:
90% fair and square
4% due to voter fraud

Republicans:
36% fair and square
57% due to voter fraud
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) June 21, 2021

A brand new Monmouth poll finds that 32% of registered voters believe the lie that Joe Biden won the 2020 election because of voter fraud — including 57% of Republicans and 38% of independents.

(61% say Biden won fair and square.)
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 21, 2021

.@MaddowBlog: The hope was that Republicans would accept Biden's presidency as post-election drama faded from view. That's clearly not what's happened. https://t.co/zFXfXEot53
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 21, 2021

New polls show just how far Republicans were willing to go to support then-President Donald Trump's unprecedented efforts to subvert the 2020 election https://t.co/XvvLdcP7qN
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 27, 2021

The phony Arizona audit

Do you really think the phony audit will find there was no fraud? They already decided there was fraud before they started. Other states are visiting them and this attempt to overturn the election is spreading. https://t.co/NaQPfdamt4
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) June 9, 2021

Legislators from SEVEN states have now visited the Arizona audit, or will today. Colorado state Rep. Ron Hanks was just on the floor, Virginia state Sen. Amanda Chase is coming by in a bit. "I’ll be bringing this information back to Virginia," she says.
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) June 10, 2021

The phony 2020 audit mania has spread to Wisconsin

Most Republicans will never accept the election results. I fear they will invent fraud to justify their phony audits.

A top Wisconsin GOP lawmaker is hiring retired police officers to investigate the 2020 election https://t.co/giFRjwNrzQ
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) May 27, 2021

Despite little evidence of fraud, Wisconsin Republican leader hires retired police to probe 2020 election https://t.co/3k2JlesYeY
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 27, 2021

If you spend enough time looking at state politics, the conversation in DC gets surreal. Wisconsin's GOP state assembly speaker is unilaterally giving some cops subpoena power to probe 2020 again, and mocking Ds for opposing it. https://t.co/op69ruS5AE
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) May 27, 2021

Dead voters for Trump

Two people are known to have voted for dead people in 2020.

One guy in PA voted for his dead mom.
One guy in CO is accused of murdering his wife, and then voting for her.

Both voted their dead relatives for Trump.

In summary, his statement is a total lie. pic.twitter.com/0GLsjSPura
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) May 27, 2021

Over half of Republicans believe Trump is President

How can you negotiate with people who have no concept of reality?

A new Ipsos poll shows more than half of Republican respondents agreeing with the (ludicrous) notion that left-wingers led the January 6 riot to "make Trump look bad." https://t.co/1hdmPdQcRi
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) May 24, 2021

In a new Ipsos poll, 54% of Republican respondents say the January 6 riot was "led by violent left-wing protesters trying to make Trump look bad."

Only 30% disagreed. 16% said they didn't know. https://t.co/j3qNCCVX0k
— Matthew Sheffield (@mattsheffield) May 22, 2021

IPSOS/Reuters Poll: 61% of Republicans believe the election was stolen from Donald Trump (just 28% disagree) and 53% of Republicans believe that Donald Trump is the true president right now.

These are dangerous numbers that are completely based on a lie.https://t.co/4NhXVdGphU
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) May 24, 2021