Republicans alarmed by corrosive effect on GOP voters of TFG's relentless attack on U.S. elections
Congressional Republicans worst-case scenario for 2022 is that Donald Trump's cultists—who tend to be lower-propensity voters—stay home while Trump's dominance of the party turns off higher propensity GOP voters who can't stand him.
The possibility that the first part of that equation could come to fruition showed up recently in the ruby-red district of one of Trump's most fervent supporters: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. According to The New York Times, Greene was shocked by the results of an internal poll of her district in which "roughly 10 percent of Republican voters expressed a serious lack of confidence in the security of Georgia’s elections." That included 4% who were discouraged enough to forecast that they wouldn't vote in future elections and 6% who expressed doubts about whether their votes would be counted.
Gee, maybe if you turn your party into a cult and the cult leader tells everybody the whole system is a sham, then some of the cultists might divest from the system.
"The possibility that roughly 10 percent of Republicans would sit out any election or question whether their votes would be accurately counted — even in a solidly red district like the one held by Ms. Taylor Greene — was something Republican strategists said they found alarming," writes the Times' Jeremy Peters.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/19/2058934/-Republicans-fret-Trump-will-blow-up-their-2022-strategy-after-Trump-promises-to-do-exactly-that
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