Republican Party Chairwoman Attempts to Normalize Election Denialism
McDaniel affirms questioning results even after no widespread fraud ever found
Election denialism and Donald Trump's oft-repeated “Big Lie” that the 2020 was somehow stolen from him may not be playing very well, but the chairwoman of the Republican Party is still trying to normalize the idea of election denialism in the American mainstream.
Trump has claimed — falsely — that Joe Biden and other Democrats used massive fraud to deny him a second term in the White House for years.
Many Republicans ran on the issue of election denialism in the 2022 midterm elections — and lost.
That includes, notably, Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake who has continued to falsely insist that she won the governorship despite losing both to Democrat Katie Hobbs and a raft of lawsuits related to that election.
Regardless that it's not the winning issue that most Republicans have hoped that it could be, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) continues to insist that questioning the outcome of the 2020 election is a legitimate issue.
This, even after Trump's own attorney general has said that there was never any widespread fraud in the 2020 elections.
“I think saying there were problems with 2020 is very real. I don’t think that’s election denying,” Ronna McDaniel told interviewer Chris Wallace. “I mean, Chris, I am from Wayne County. We had a woman send a note saying, ‘I’m being told to back-date ballots.’ We had to look into that. That is deeply concerning.”
Home to the city of Detroit, results in Wayne County, Mich., have long been a right-wing conspiracy talking point after Biden was certified as the winner.
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