The United States has an important election date this Tuesday for its democratic future. The midterm elections are approaching and the former president has many options for placing his pawns in key states to get the White House back in 2024
The United States is likely to play in the polls for democracy next Tuesday. Or at least that’s what President Joe Biden thinks. In 2020, a few righteous men leading the election in a handful of states — Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada and Arizona — saved their victory “in extremis.” This Tuesday, Donald Trump’s supporters, who still deny their defeat, are striving to replace them all and prepare a red carpet so that their beloved leader can return to the White House in 2024.
It will be the second round of what happened just two years ago, when the United States came close to a coup d’état. Donald Trump, his attorney Michael Cohen, warned when he was honest with Congress, would not accept “a peaceful transition.” There are people who hear the conversation and others who record it. Brad Raffensperger did it on January 2, 2021. When the White House summoned him for a phone call with the president, the Georgia Secretary of State was able to envision the matter. Since voting the state’s election results in favor of Joe Biden, the 68-year-old Republican official had received all sorts of pressure and threats from members of his own party, often Trump messengers. The recording would be his life insurance policy.
Before long he needed it. The next day, Trump took to his Twitter account to accuse him of “unwillingness or inability to answer his questions” about the alleged electoral fraud he believes had been committed in Georgia. Rather than deny it, Raffensperger made public the conversation in which the president threatened to “undergo a criminal investigation” if he didn’t find the 11,780 votes he needed to defeat Biden. “We can’t let that happen to you,” you hear him say. It was his voice, but also his style of cryptic sentences in which he says without saying, like the bosses of the mafia.
That call changed the course of history. Raffensperger was not a hero of the opposition. The year before, Democratic nominee for governor Stacey Abrams had accused him of removing 300,000 African American voters from the census, and the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials had sued him for failing to follow the instructions for voting by mail. printed in Spanish. . However, in both politics and life, there are boundaries that he did not want to cross, even if his president and candidate asked him to.
The recording served as the basis for the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump and the criminal investigation pending before a Georgia grand jury. Without it, it wouldn’t have been possible to prove that the president and his acolytes spent nearly two months pressuring election officials in four key states—Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada and Arizona—all with results so tight that a minor twist give him the upper hand, the victory he longed for. The same “hinge” states that every four years is the key to deciding the presidency and that next Tuesday will decide who their new secretaries of state are, an obscure and bureaucratic position that oversees the electoral processes.
Maggie Toulouse de Oliver, who holds that position in New Mexico, received so many threats in 2020 that she had to move home that year and spend Christmas protecting her family. “It was totally unprecedented and absolutely terrifying,” he said.
After losing each of the 63 lawsuits he filed in six states, some at the hands of judges he himself appointed, Donald Trump had no choice but to convince Vice President Mike Pence to challenge the results during the certification of the elections held. by Congress on January 6, or launch their hordes against the Capitol. “Mike Pence has let us down,” he tweeted that day as thousands of people swarmed against lawmakers like Vikings and shouted “Hang Mike Pence!” shouted. If that uprising failed, it was because the military leadership decided to send the National Guard to save the Capitol, against the passive message coming from the White House.
Since leaving the mansion by helicopter on January 20, 2021, Donald Trump has not stopped planning his return to power. A handful of men who brought the truth to the party changed the course of history and stopped a slow-motion coup. He will not face as much resistance before the next presidential election in 2024, where he will “probably have to appear so that the country can be safe, successful and glorious again,” he said. He has retaliated against the ten embattled Republicans who voted against him in that “impeachment” — only one has managed to beat the rival who placed him in the primaries — and this Tuesday he plans to consolidate the purge. The point is to deploy all the pawns on the board to control the king when the time comes.
In addition to the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate, 36 governors, 30 attorneys general, 27 secretaries of state and some ten thousand minor positions are on the ballots across the country. In other words, the positions that will oversee the presidential election in 2024. A report from the think tank Brookings Institution has identified 345 deniers who have included in their campaign what it calls “The Big Lie” that Trump has been robbed of the election. “If elected, they will have a lot to say about how elections will be held in their states in the future,” he warns.
In Arizona, where in 2020 Democratic Secretary of State Kattie Hobs, under pressure from the Republican Senate, conducted an audit “that was more intended to validate conspiracy theories than to count the votes,” the polls give Mark a single point winner. Finchen, a Trump supporter who not only denies Biden’s victory but believes he should be “enrolled” and vows to oppose any future Democratic wins he deems “fraudulent.”
He will be joined on the GOP ticket by governor candidate Kari Lake, another Trump denier who is even reportedly his presidential partner, and Blake Masters, who just outranked incumbent Senator Mark Kelly, a famously married ex-astronaut, with Congressman. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head by a madman in 2011.
No one could say that Masters is not a good minion, but the boss is looking for faithful ones. On his website, he describes himself as “Christian, husband, father, gun owner and businessman”. He is believed to be “the real MAGA candidate from Arizona”, with the border fence in the background and the Make America Great Again Trump hat. “I continue to believe that if we had had free and fair elections, President Trump would be in the Oval Office today,” he said in his televised debate with Senator Kelly. Only, under pressure from the moderator, he admitted that he had personally seen no evidence that the vote counting was wrong.
As soon as he left the set, he received a disturbing phone call from Donald Trump congratulating him on his performance. And some advice: “If you want to cross the finish line you have to be stronger at that point. There are a lot of complaints about this, learn from Kari,” he advised, referring to the typical denier aspiring governor of Arizona. “When they ask her ‘How is your family?'” she replies, ‘The elections have been stolen and manipulated.'” The call features in the documentary filmed by Fox host Tucker Carlson, a far-right television star who megaphone to Trump so that no one misses the message that he has won the election twice and if he wins the election will win again.
In Michigan, her candidate, Kristina Karamo, accuses current Democratic Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson, of being funded by “authoritarianism” that seeks to “corrupt the electoral systems of the major electoral states to control the United States.” And in Nevada, Trump’s candidate for Secretary of State Jim Marchant asks at his rallies whether “does anyone really believe that Joe Biden was legitimately elected?” And no, of course nobody raises their hand. The ‘Big Lie’ has shaken confidence in American democracy, which has its most crucial appointment this Tuesday.
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The masked men are armed to the teeth, wearing tactical combat gear and having their license plates covered. In any other country on the American continent they would have been paramilitaries, but in the US states of Arizona, Nevada, Michigan or Pennsylvania they call themselves ‘urn letter keepers’.
They are placed a short distance from where voters arrive to hand in their ballots in advance, in accordance with state law. They point their guns at them, watch closely what they do and take pictures of their license plates to verify their identities. “All videos and photos of possible vote fraud will be posted online, along with photos of prosecutors, sheriffs and other authorities not investigating or charging vote fraud,” the letter the Democratic Party received in Arizona threatened and signed. by an anonymous group called ‘Ben Sent Us’ (Ben sent us). There’s more: “We will find your homes, your profiles on social networks and your photos to put them on the web as well,” threatens another group called the “Indivisible Tucson Action Alliance.”
Thanks to a conspiracy documentary called “2,000 Mules,” Trump fans are convinced that 2,000 “mules” across the country were filling ballot boxes with fake votes for Joe Biden. Like the Democrats, they are concerned about the future of democracy in America. Only they believe they must take up arms to defend it. They are the same groups that patrol the border to prevent the “invasion” of immigrants, those who fill the basement with food and weapons to defend themselves in case the federal government or the UN comes for them, and those who kill their hosts. fed the hordes who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 to defend Trump’s alleged victory.
Judge Michael Liburdi, appointed by the former president, has ruled that they are protected by the first constitutional amendment, but the Justice Department has warned that freedom of expression does not allow intimidation of voters. With that support, a subdistrict court has forced them to stay 84 meters from those mailboxes. From there, they photograph the license plates and inform the “Constitutional Sheriffs”, who have joined their cause. Democracy is at stake, they all say.
Source: La Verdad
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