They Insisted the 2020 Election Was Tainted. Their 2022 Primary Wins? Not So Much.

[Nevilledog]

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Citizens for Ethics
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If you claim the election your party lost was tainted by voter fraud, but the won you win is fine, could that possibly indicate that your cries of fraud were simply motivated by partisanship?
Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama, a candidate for the Senate, said he didn’t worry much about election fraud in G.O.P. primaries.
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They Insisted the 2020 Election Was Tainted. Their 2022 Primary Wins? Not So Much.
Republicans are accepting their primary victories with little concern about the voter fraud they once falsely claimed caused Donald J. Trump’s loss.
11:00 AM · Jun 1, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/us/politics/republicans-voter-fraud-claims-2022.html

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This spring, when Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama was fighting to win over conservatives in his campaign for Senate, he ran a television ad that boasted, “On Jan. 6, I proudly stood with President Trump in the fight against voter fraud.”

But when Mr. Brooks placed second in Alabama’s Republican primary last week, leaving him in a runoff, he said he was not concerned about fraud in his election.

“If it’s a close race and you’re talking about a five- or 10-vote difference, well, then, it becomes a greater concern,” he said of his primary results. “But I’ve got more important fish to fry. And so, at some point, you have to hope that the election system is going to be honest.”

Mr. Brooks was one of 147 Republican members of Congress who voted on Jan. 6, 2021, to object to the results of the 2020 presidential election. Hundreds more Republican state legislators across the country took similar action in their own capitals. President Biden’s victory, they said, was corrupted by either outright fraud or pandemic-related changes to voting.

Now, many of those Republicans are accepting the results of their primaries without complaint. Already this year, 55 of the lawmakers who objected in 2020 have run in competitive primaries, contests conducted largely under the same rules and regulations as those in 2020. None have raised doubts about vote counts. No conspiracy theories about mail ballots have surfaced. And no one has called for a “forensic audit” or further investigations of the 2022 primary results.

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[Jerry2144]

1. The election was tainted

In that pretty much every R on every ticket could be called a taint.