GOP candidates add a repulsive new twist to Trump's big lie

[Nevilledog]

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Greg Sargent
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This is just repulsive:

Numerous GOP candidates for Senate are not only campaigning on Trump's big lie. They're also going out of their way to emphasize invented vote fraud *in urban centers.*

I've documented a bunch of examples in this new piece:

washingtonpost.com
Opinion | GOP candidates add a repulsive new twist to Trump’s big lie
The lies about 2020 take another dark and destructive turn.
8:52 AM · Feb 8, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/08/republicans-2020-election-lie-johnson-mandel/

No paywall
https://archive.fo/qS68y

It’s hardly surprising to hear that Republican Senate candidates are campaigning on the “big lie” that the 2020 election was riddled with fraud. This has become so routine that it’s no longer treated as newsworthy, which further normalizes it, a terrible development that we should resist.

But at least four of these candidates have added an even more repulsive twist: In inventing widespread fraud in 2020, they go out of their way to emphasize that it took place primarily in urban centers.

What is it about urban centers that might make this lie attractive to GOP candidates?

In addition to its obvious racial implications, Republicans trafficking in this are following a path blazed by Donald Trump. Fake GOP claims of voter fraud to justify voter suppression are an old story, of course. But Trump added his own toxic ingredients to the stew: a more explicit focus on cities, to create a pretext for express efforts to overturn election losses.

So it’s hardly a coincidence that Senate candidates adopting this line are among the most devoted Trump sycophants in the GOP.

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[Cracklin Charlie]

1. Is that Johnson of Wisconsin?

They need to stop paying him. He is not working for the United States.

[Nevilledog]

2. It is.

[arthritisR_US]

4. If their lips are moving we know they're lying!

[RAB910]

5. "urban" "minority"

a racist dog whistle