Tag Archives: election deniers

The Washington Post reports: The meme, plastered across online platforms such as Twitter and the fast-growing messaging app Telegram, may be unintelligible to anyone not steeped in the misinformation and fearmongering fueled by reports of smeared ballots in Arizona’s Maricopa County during the state’s August primary. But it illustrates how misinformation is operating in 2022. The message recycles key narratives …

Axios reports: “You should have a recount, you should have a canvass and it will go to the courts and then everybody should accept the results, that’s what it should be,” McDaniel said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “I’m also not going to say if there are problems, we shouldn’t be able to address that. If [there are] …

The Hill reports: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Thursday failed to confirm that he will accept the 2022 midterm election results, alleging that Democrats might attempt to cheat in this year’s contest. During interactions with the press on Thursday, a reporter asked the incumbent if he would concede if the vote count showed that he lost. Johnson responded: “I sure …

Vice News reports: “We received a very alarming report over the past week about a precinct chair of the Travis County Republican Party, knocking on people’s doors, accusing them of illegally voting by mail, even though the people we spoke with were clearly eligible to vote by mail,” Christina Beeler, a voting rights staff attorney with the civil rights group, …

“It was always a lie. The whole thing was always a lie. And it was a lie meant to rile people up. I’ve talked about this ad nauseam, it really made me angry. “Cause I’m like, the promises you’re making that you’re gonna challenge the electoral college and overturn the election, there’s not even a process for you to do …

Josh Israel reports at American Independent: Before and after the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump lied about the integrity of the process, baselessly claiming widespread voter fraud was the only reason for President Joe Biden’s victory. Now several Republican Senate nominees are using the same playbook to cast doubt on the 2022 midterms. In an American Bridge 21st Century-flagged …

Axios reports: President Biden on Wednesday evening is set to deliver a speech at Union Station in the Capitol Hill neighborhood on democracy, where he will make clear what’s at stake in the midterm elections. “You can expect to hear from him this evening … there is a lot at stake including democracy and that everyone has a role in …

ProPublica reports: In the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, more than 100 major companies pledged to suspend political giving to the members of Congress who voted to invalidate Joe Biden’s presidential victory. Since then, many have resumed funding this group of lawmakers, often with little to no explanation. ProPublica wanted to gauge corporate America’s …