Rachel's warning

[Cyrano]

Last week, and again last night, Rachel reported that Trump and the MAGAs are not counting on winning the presidency. They are focused on stealing it.

In many states, the positions of electors, (the people who certify votes in each county of a state), are now filled by MAGAs. If Harris/Walz win, these electors will not certify them, which will throw the election into chaos in many states. Theoretically, thie election could end up being decided by the congress, or the courts. And if the courts get involved, you just know it will end up in the SCOTUS. We saw a Supreme Court appoint a president in 2000, (George W. Bush), by stopping the vote recount in Florida. Do you really have to guess what our current Supreme Court would do?

Democrats are aware of this, but it must become general knowledge. Everyone needs to know what they're up to. Widespread knowledge will help stop their plan.

I believe that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are going to win this election in a blowout. And a Democratic House and Senate will ride to power along with them.

But stay aware, and tell everyone you know, about the Republican plot to steal this election. Widespread public awareness is a powerful weapon that can be used to stop them.

On Edit: Click below for the video of the segment of her show on which she discusses this issue.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-pro-trump-administrators-are-already-in-place-to-subvert-the-2024-election-216510533698

[Irish_Dem]

1. The more of a blue landslide, the harder for the GOP to steal it.

[Tbone421]

2. Can anyone explain.....

Can anyone explain what exactly happens with all of the other things on the ballot if Republicans try stalling or refusing to certify the votes? Can they do this for the presidential election without impacting all of the other races on the same ballot? If the other ballot items are impacted, what exactly happens?

[AZSkiffyGeek]

6. In Arizona there was one county that tried it

The supervisors were arrested and the ballots were certified. I believe they wouldn't have counted the ballots at all had they not been certified, and that would've tipped a couple races to the Democrats.
Right now the important swing states are Dem. controlled, and the counties that are threatening to not certify are all red counties. This cannot be terribly well thought out.
Also remember that the TFG courts almost unanimously rejected 60-odd challenges from TFG - including the same SCOTUS.

[Cyrano]

7. Don't know, but I've edited the OP to add the

segment of her show in which she discusses the issue. Go up to the OP and click on the link.

[Tbone421]

10. Thank you, I saw the show last night.

[BoRaGard]

3. The Bible warns against thievery. repubes don't care.

If it takes sins and crimes, the repubes will do it.

As they demonstrate repeatedly, repubes are weirdly immoral, but love to claim that they are "holier than thou,"

Americans won't swallow that crap

[travelingthrulife]

9. They are on a mission for God

So the end justifies the means. Their God is very weak apparently and needs a lot of help.

[Zoomie1986]

14. You have a problem here

Jacob steals the birthright of his twin brother through an extremely dodgy subterfuge.

Rachel stole images of God from her own father, without punishment.

The deity told the Jews in Egypt to 'borrow' and 'spoil' from the Egyptians for the Exodus. It's a common trick for criminals to 'borrow' something and then leave town to avoid paying for what they take. It's exactly the same thing as stealing.

The deity told tthe Benjamites to kidnap (steal) and rape the women of Shiloh to force them into marriage.

At least two of the Gospels discuss Jesus having some minions acquire a donkey that doesn't belong to any of them.Two of the four accounts (Matthew and Luke) are suspiciously silent on whether or not they ever got the consent to do so.

So the guy in the sky seems not to mind too much about stealing when his flock need something they can't otherwise get. I mean, if it's okay for Jacob and Rachel and even Jesus himself to do it, then why would you think the Republicans wouldn't consider it okay for them to do it, too?

[keepthemhonestO]

4. Right

Hopefully this will become common knowledge like project 2025 quickly got around. I hope there are enough safeguards in place to override their attempts.

[Dennis Donovan]

5. We have Marc Elias!

The greatest election lawyer going! What was he, 59 for 59 in 2020?

They can try their shenanigans, but he's a bulldog in court!

[Cyrano]

13. He was a guest on her show last night.

I've added a link to the OP of the segment of her show that covers this issue, and in which she interviews him.

[JCMach1]

8. This strategy requires it to be 1 or 2 states close...

Of course some will try it anyway just out of bitterness (GA???).

I totally believe them when they say shite like they did.

[no_hypocrisy]

11. TSF could win only one state and I believe SCOTUS would give him the

keys to the WH.

[eppur_se_muova]

12. If a state fails to certify its results in time, is it recorded as "not voting" when the Electoral College meets ??

I really don't know. The EC is a mystery to most of us.

I hope so -- if the voters of a state see their votes didn't count because of election deniers, the MAGAts may finally get the violent reaction they've been trying to provoke -- only they'll be on the receiving end of it !

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. I am nervous. Rachel did a great job explaining the risk

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Truth teller Rachel #Maddow delivers a sobering warning: when Trump named & thanked 3 GA election board members at his rally - he’s telling them exactly what he wants them to do: block the certification of the election, because if a county doesn’t certify the election, its state can’t certify the election, preventing the vote count & potentially throwing the decision to the Supreme Court or the GOP controlled House - that are both in Trump’s pocket. Another coup in plain sight.