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The campaign is getting some outside help, as well. Jim Messina, who managed Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, has started a political action committeethat can raise unlimited sums of money and will also assist in courtroom efforts. Norm Eisen, special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee for Trump's first impeachment trial, is outside counsel to the group.
One casualty of contested election results is public confidence in the system, election experts warn. Voters come to feel democracy is broken and may react by either refusing to participate or lashing out in anger.
Trump has fed doubts about the trustworthiness of U.S. elections in both victory and defeat.
When he won in 2016, he claimed without basisthat he had lost the popular vote only because millions of people voted illegally for his opponent, Hillary Clinton. And when he lost in 2020, he argued the election was “rigged” in Biden’s favor.
Though he lost California by more than 5 million votes that year, Trump said recently that he would win the state if Jesus Christ or, alternatively, an honest mortal were counting the votes.
“Trump said if it wasn’t for rigging, he would have won California. That’s like me saying if it wasn’t for rigging, I’d be a supermodel,” Messina said.
In the years since Trump has advanced erroneous claims of voter fraud, the partisan divide over election integrity has deepened.A poll conducted last year found that only 22% of Republicans were highly confidentthat the votes in the 2024 presidential election would be counted accurately, compared with 71% of Democrats.
“We already have members of the public who are 100% convinced that there’s no way possible to have free and fair elections in Georgia,” said Ghazal, the Georgia election board member.
Many of Trump’s supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 did so in the mistaken belief that he was robbed of victory in 2020. The first rioter to breach the building, Michael Sparks, told the judge at a hearing last week that he believes “to this day” that the election was stolen from Trump. Sparks was sentenced to more than four years in prison.
Some election experts fear that Trump’s voters are apt to resort to violence again if he loses in November.
“I’m worried about the potential for chaos,” Levitt said. “For people who are told the election is stolen, taking to the streets is very natural when you believe you have no power to affect the outcome peaceably.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/democrats-grow-concerned-republicans-are-planting-seeds-legal-suits-ov-rcna168961
Liars trying to cheat again and media on their side