Perspective: Republicans aren’t ready for Trump-style “fraud” claims in GOP primaries
What the GOP may not realize, though, is how this new trend could easily backfire on the party — if candidates start falsely insisting that caucuses and primaries, as well as general elections, have been stolen from them.Already, the audits of last year’s election have been embarrassing to Republicans who see their folly. The Trump-inspired efforts have just as often added to Biden’s total as to Trump’s. Last month in Texas, Lt. Gov.
his first $25,000 reward for a tip on illegal voting — to a Democrat whose information led to the conviction of a Republican for voting twice for Trump.And they’ve been unanimous: There was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election, and no audit has found enough votes for either candidate to overturn a state, county or precinct. The projects have become taxpayer-funded laughingstocks.
That should, in a normal world, cause the allegations and audits to end. But 2021 remains no normal political world. So about two weeks ago, Trump, taking issue with the editorial page’s statement that Biden’s margin in Pennsylvania was too large for Trump to credibly contest. Just before this month’s elections in Virginia and New Jersey, Trump offered a prebuttal of the Virginia results and a nonexistent “.
It’s easy enough to predict that if Trump runs again in 2024, he might reject a defeat. Even if he doesn’t run, there’s a real danger that any Republican candidate who loses a future election — even a GOP primary — will insist that the contest was rigged. And the Trumpier the candidate, the likelier it is that they’ll cry fraud.Consider that favorite event of political operatives, the Iowa caucuses.
In 2012, Mitt Romney was declared the winner by a super-slim eight votes over Rick Santorum. After statewide canvassing, Santorum turned out to have won by 34 votes — a full 16 days later, too late for his campaign to build momentum from the result. Santorum was rightly angry, but he did not throw the entire process into chaos.
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