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Politics
Heather Digby Parton

Republicans are expanding the Big Lie

It may seem obvious that everyone in the country knows that Donald Trump tried to overturn the election results in 2020 because we all watched him do it live as it was happening. His campaign filed more than 60 lawsuits in various states — as was his right — none of which were found to be meritorious. His minions and accomplices in the Republican Party, both in Washington and around the country, actively tried to help him pressure election officials and persuade local officials to sign on as "alternate electors." I think you'd have to have been in a coma not to know that he aggressively tried to bully Mike Pence, his vice president, into refusing to count the electoral votes on January 6. 

Trump's famous Jan. 2 phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger was all over the news the very next day. Recall he very pointedly said:

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