.zeeshanaleem: California Republicans are already lying about why they lost the recall (just in case)
Trump told the right-wing media outlet Newsmax last week that the California recall is “probably rigged” in his latest attempt to spread election disinformation., MSNBC Opinion Columnist
Call it Stop the Steal, California edition: Former President Donald Trump and other leading conservatives are aggressively pushing the false narrative thatis rigged ahead of Tuesday’s special election to recall Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. The efforts show how Trump’s disinformation agenda surrounding the trustworthiness of elections is becoming more widely adopted and even institutionalized by the right almost a year after the 2020 elections. Now, California is serving as a worrying new testing ground for how the GOP might want to deploy new versions of election disinformation in the midterm elections.
In a political approach bordering on paradoxical, the GOP is using the specter of a sham election to encourage participation in the election.to use voter disenfranchisement as a tool for suppressing Democratic voter participation; now they're using the claim thatare the victims of disenfranchisement to try to whip their own base and cast doubt on Democratic victories.
On Tuesday, the polls will close for a special election in which Californians will vote on whether Newsom should be removed from office, and, if so, who should take his place. The recall effort was
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