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Politics
Heather Digby Parton

GOP election chicanery quietly picks up

All of the American media was atwitter on Thursday afternoon from rumors that CNN was going to release a bombshell report about North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for Governor. It turned out to be a gross and salacious story about his porn habits and comments calling himself a "Black Nazi." It was reported during the day that the Trump campaign wanted him to drop out, presumably because they suspected Robinson was already dragging down the ticket, but he refused. There was a midnight deadline to (possibly) remove him from the ballot, so that seems to be that.

North Carolina is very close, according to the polls, as are all the swing states. And while this possible help for Trump landed in the Trump campaign's lap at the last moment, in other states they are working overtime to subvert the vote and contest the election results if they don't go Trump's way. Ground zero for those plans is Georgia, one of the states, along with North Carolina and Pennsylvania, considered a must-win for Donald Trump assuming he manages to hold on to all the other states he won in 2020. Georgia election deniers have been working behind the scenes for the past year laying their plans.

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