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Politics
Heather Digby Parton

Trump's Big Lie is coming for the GOP

I wish I understood what all these longshot Republicans running for president hope to get out of it. It can't be that they actually believe they are going to win. We know that Donald Trump will never accept that he lost so he will proclaim that the winner stole it from him and many of his followers will believe him so they'll stay home, handing the election to Joe Biden. Remember, Trump initially claimed that Ted Cruz stole the Iowa caucuses in 2016. After first conceding the race he turned around and tweeted:

"Ted Cruz didn't win Iowa, he illegally stole it. That is why all of the polls were so wrong any why he got more votes than anticipated. Bad!" 

He eventually removed the word "illegally" but then followed it up with:

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