Too Big To Rig?
2024 could be the year for Republicans or it could be ‘here we go again.’
Why am I getting a sense of deja vu?
Republicans are giddy with every Biden stumble, literally and figuratively, while Donald Trump cashes in on his Truth Social SPAC and swats down partisan prosecutors.1 Meanwhile, polls show the former President ahead in swing states like AZ, GA, MI, NV, NC & PA.2
What could go wrong?
Well, you know…it’s the issue that dare not speak its name. No, not abortion or climate change. They are way down on the list of concerns by average Americans watching their country collapse under the weight of inflation, crime, illegal immigration and a ‘woke’ assault on traditional values.
No, ballot integrity is rearing its ugly head once again. Ask Ronna McDaniel, who was banned from NBC for saying elections should be ‘fair.’
Notwithstanding that ‘election deniers’ such as Georgia’s Stacey Abrams or the Democrats who tried to stop the certification of Ohio’s electors in 2005 grace the media airwaves at every turn, suggesting there was a little hanky panky in 2020 gets you banned from the networks as quick as you can say RFK, Jr.
Which, naturally, means there was.
Those of you who’ve read Party Animal, The Truth About President Trump, Power Politics & the Partisan Press know exactly what I’m talking about:
Incumbent Presidents who gain votes—in Trump’s case, ten million—don’t lose reelections, at least not since 1892. Over the last half century, the same has held true for dominating your party’s primaries or winning the bellwether states of Ohio and Florida. There are two ways of looking at the election of 2020. We either witnessed the most astounding and unusual election in American history, or our nation’s extremely lax voting laws have finally caught up with us."
Fast forward to this year and guess who’s dominating the GOP primaries?