Republican Cries Against Voter Fraud Go Mostly Quiet After Scheme Tied to Party
For the past few years the Republican penchant for imagining bus loads of illegal immigrants voting in every election has been in the news because Republicans have elected many extremist yo yo’s who actually believe the myth that started in the 60’s and act on it (e.g. Trump, Kobach.) It’s been part and parcel of GOP mythos for decades that without bus loads of Mexicans and dead people voting that John (the CATHOLIC!) F. (son of a SOCIALIST!) Kennedy would never have been elected.
I remember my dad teasing my Grandfather about this bullshit just to watch him get mad. Carried forward to modern day it’s become the excuse - whenever the public is popularly against something that Republicans want to do, it’s not the real public but instead the imaginary public of their illegal immigrant subverted democracy paranoia that disagrees with the GOP’s “More guns!” philosophy, tax breaks for bankers, or money for big pharma scheming. ‘Cause real americans always agree with GOP strategy am I right?
Lately however the real voter fraud has been theirs - when Kobach investigated in Kansas, he found only a handful GOP voters who voted twice on each side of the state line, and now there’s this IOKIYAR moment:
RALEIGH, N.C. — Republican politicians across the country have for years railed against the threat of voter fraud. Some have made unproven claims about how rampant it has become in order to pass voter ID laws and open sweeping investigations. The sanctity of the vote, they have said, must be protected at all costs.
But when a hard-fought congressional election in North Carolina — in which a Republican candidate appeared to narrowly beat his Democratic opponent — was overturned this week because of election fraud by a Republican political operative, the party was measured, and largely muted, in its response.
The state party chairman, Robin Hayes, issued a statement after officials ordered a new election calling the affair “a tremendously difficult situation for all involved.” National Republicans have been mostly mum. President Trump, who has made election fraud one of the hallmarks of his administration, was quiet on Twitter, although on Friday, facing reporters at the Oval Office, he condemned fraud — “all of it, and that includes North Carolina.”