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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Moira Donegan

Trump’s claims about California vote-rigging are a grim preview of November

Donald Trump in a dark suit and blue tie gestures while speaking in the Oval Office
‘Trump only claims “fraud” in elections where he doesn’t like the result.’ Photograph: Aaron Schwartz/Pool/Aaron Schwartz - Pool/CNP/Shutterstock

By now, it is an event as regular and predictable as the tides: a Democrat wins an election, and Donald Trump says that that election was rigged. There does not need to be any evidence for this; indeed, there never is. Trump will say it anyway.

He rallies the rightwing media ecosystem to spread the lie; he convinces his followers to believe it. That this, by now, is a repetitive spectacle, devoid of suspense, does not mean that it is not dangerous.

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