Fux Noise has been setting up a State Big Lie should GOP lose California recall race

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

More recent polling indicates that California Gov. Gavin Newsom may survive the GOP recall and block the ascendance of a know-nothing radio show host who once served as a mentor to a young Stephen Miller. No matter what the polling says, the fact is that Larry Elder poses an existential threat to the state (and nation), and Californians must get out and vote no on recall.

Right-wing propagandists are also acting—but not necessarily to get out the vote. Media Matters reports that Fox News has already deployed a State Big Lie, telling its viewers that if Newsom defeats the GOP recall, it’s because Democrats cheated. Within a roughly two-week period, several Fox News personalities and guests, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, “painted a lurid picture of vast election fraud in California.”

Some claimants tried to be slick, like Fox News Primetime rotating host and former MTV Real World San Francisco contestant Rachel Campos-Duffy. Media Matters reported that while she brought up supposed voter fraud during an interview with Elder this week, it was to merely say that he was the one who had supposedly been concerned about it. Elder had no specific examples when prompted—of course, he didn’t—but it didn’t really matter. Campos-Duffy talked about it, Elder talked about it, it doesn’t matter if the claims are bullshit, the job got done.

Meanwhile, others were not so slick. Media Matters reports that Fox Nation host Tomi Lahren claimed on Outnumbered that “[t]he only thing that will save Gavin Newsom is voter fraud,” and that “it's going to have big consequences not only for that state but for upcoming elections.” Oh, so not only is there a State Big Lie, but they’re going to use it to further Future Big Lies. “It's not just Tami—baseless allegations of cheating and voter fraud are all across Fox News' discussions of the CA recall, laying the conspiratorial groundwork to allege it was stolen if it doesn't go their way,” tweeted Media Matters’ Lis Power.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/9/8/2051027/-Fox-News-has-been-setting-up-a-State-Big-Lie-should-GOP-lose-California-recall-race

The GOP is now the party of lame ass excuses.

[onecaliberal]

1. That stupid bullshit might fly in pockets around here but not statewide.

[2naSalit]

2. Of course they are.

It's what they do.

[kimbutgar]

4. The only way the American Tailban wins is they steal, lie and cheat in elections

They know Gavin Newsom is not going to be recalled just like they know President Biden won fair and square. But the American Taliban party has enough sheep to believe the bullshit they spout in their lying media to cast doubt. My question back to them “if f Newsom won with 60% of the vote in 2018 was that bogus also?”

[MFM008]

5. They know

They are going to lose.