If, as the old adage claims, the past is truly prologue, then Donald Trump’s brazen attempt to steal the 2020 presidential election by (among other things) sowing discord and stoking distrust in the electoral process is already paying dividends for Republicans ahead of the November midterms.
As the Associated Press reported Wednesday, the GOP-led commission in rural Otero County, New Mexico, is unanimously refusing to certify last week’s primary election results, claiming that the state’s use of Dominion voting machines may have tainted the ballot counting — much in the same way Trump supporters said was happening in the 2020 race. Those claims have been roundly and repeatedly been disproven as blatant lies, prompting several lawsuits on the part of the widely used voting machine company against many of the conspiracy theory’s loudest proponents.
