As is usual, Donald Trump has us all mad about the window-dressing, when what we should be focused on is the substance.
What we should really be mad about, concerned about, ready to fight over, was buried in that interminably long Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden, which included a “comedian” denigrating Puerto Ricans and an imaginary watermelon-carving Black friend, another speaker calling Kamala Harris’s top staffers “pimps,” retired pro wrestler Hulk Hogan comparing Harris to the “Hawk Tuah” girl, and I’m just scratching the surface here with how disgusting that event was.
This was Trump, weaving, about what should have gotten our attention:
“I think with our little secret, we are gonna do really well with the House, right? Our little secret is having a big impact, he (Trump pointed to House Speaker Mike Johnson) and I have a little secret, we will tell you what it is when the race is over.”
What Trump is talking about here is not a “secret” at all.
We’re seeing it here up close and personal in Waynesboro, where the two Republican appointees to the electoral board have filed suit challenging the constitutionality of the vote count, and said in their court filing and in media interviews that they will not vote to certify the election absent a court order.
ICYMI
- Waynesboro: Hearing set for Tuesday in case challenging Nov. 5 vote certification
- Federal judge blocks Glenn Youngkin-Jason Miyares voter purge
- Waynesboro: Ground Zero for Republican efforts to steal the 2024 election?
- Northern Virginia poll watcher: Republicans aiming to block state vote certification
We have that as our starting point, and then our reporting from last week about efforts directed by the Republican National Committee to recruit and certify thousands of poll observers to deploy across the Commonwealth, the aim being to have the observers create a database of reports that can be used by Gov. Glenn Youngkin to justify not certifying Virginia’s 13 electoral votes, which are all but certain to go to Kamala Harris (+6.1 points in the FiveThirtyEight.com polling average).
Down in North Carolina, Republican legislators are discussing a plan to have the state legislature vote to give the Tar Heel State’s 16 electoral votes to Donald Trump no matter how the Nov. 5 vote goes.
You don’t need me to tell you that North Carolina is currently a toss-up between Harris and Trump.
And we need to wonder about what is being schemed in places like Nevada (toss-up, six electoral votes) and New Hampshire (+5.1 points for Harris, four electoral votes), both of which have Republican governors.
What’s going on here is, a candidate needs 270 certified electoral votes to be declared the winner, and if we don’t get anybody to 270, the election gets thrown to the House of Representatives, where each state delegation, no matter its size, gets one vote.
Republicans have a bare majority there, with control of 26 state delegations.
Donald Trump doesn’t need to win the popular vote, which he won’t, again, and he doesn’t even need to win the Electoral College, which he won’t, again.
Republicans just need Kamala Harris to fail to get 270 certified electoral votes.
Harris can get millions more popular votes, win majorities in states that should give her a convincing victory in the Electoral College, and none of that would matter.
That’s Trump’s “little secret” there.
It’s not about their side winning the election; they’re literally rigging it, and they’re talking out loud in public about it.
You should be mad about the blatant racism and fascism from that rally in Manhattan.
You’re going to need to be ready to fight like hell if they try to steal this election, which they’re telling you they’re going to do.
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Chris Graham
