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Michigan Sec. Of State: Trump's Tweets Were Attempt To Cause Doubt In Election Process | MSNBC
A basic manipulation tactic of Trump’s and the GOP, is to accuse your opponent of the exact thing that you are doing, so when you get caught doing that thing yourself, it doesn’t seem that drastic. Republicans know that when everyone votes they lose. The Repub party may not have the numbers, but they most certainly have the money. A large majority of money from Big Business and billion dollar corporations is funneled to Repub candidates. This money is used to buy republican politicians for the purpose of giving corporations control over our government.
In 2019, the NC Republican operative at the center of an absentee ballot fraud scheme that led the state to order a rerun of a congressional election was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice. The operative, Leslie McCrae Dowless, was charged with three felony counts of obstruction of justice, two counts of conspiring to commit obstruction of justice and two counts of possession of absentee ballots.
Allegations that operatives working for Dowless illegally collected, and sometimes filled in, absentee ballots on behalf of Republican Mark Harris’ campaign emerged shortly after the Nov. 6 election. They caused the state to hold off certifying Harris’ apparent narrow victory over Democrat Dan McCready.
During 4 days hearings, the state Board of Elections heard evidence of a well-funded and well-organized campaign to tip the election for the state’s 9th District in the U.S. House of Representatives, which stretches southeast from Charlotte.
Ballot fraud is extremely rare. But when this case was uncovered in a congressional race in 2018, orchestrated by Republicans, Trump and other republicans looked the other way.
The election fraud committed in NC was the largest case in modern American history. Republican Mark Harris, hired a felon, Leslie McCrae Dowless, who promised to deliver unbelievable absentee ballot margins, as he had done in past elections. Dowless hired workers who went to voters’ doorsteps in poor, rural Bladen County, N.C., and “helped” them request, fill out and turn in their ballots. That help included forging signatures and filling in vote choices, and possibly even discarding ballots. The operation mostly targeted black voters. It also appeared the county elections board may have also leaked early vote totals to Republicans.
Altogether, it was an egregious attack on our democracy, in an election where the margin was only 905 votes. Voters on both sides of the aisle were horrified. But not the Republican Party. When evidence of fraud emerged in the party’s primary, it’s state director, Dallas Woodhouse, turned a blind eye; later, when evidence emerged in the general-election race, he backed Mark Harris, in a lawsuit to be seated in Congress without an investigation 😲 while attacking the bipartisan state elections board and blaming Dems for the fraud. 😲
It turned out that even the local U.S. attorney, who was appointed by Trump, had failed to act on warnings by the state elections board that Dowless had stolen votes in a different race two years before. Instead, the attorney’s office went on a fishing expedition for fraud committed by immigrants, under the guidance of Jeff Sessions.
Trump and the GOP love to claim that voters commit fraud, even though it almost never happens, BUT, when one of their own was caught committing the worst case of voter fraud in modern history, they weren’t concerned at all. Just one more page from the Republican Party’s dirty elections playbook.
Liam Larby my wife has worked many elections in our county and it really opened my eyes to how distorted the parties have made this process. Especially in wi.
Ivanka Trump had NEW polling counting ballot machines made & went through China to Grant her a pantent in 2019 only for the Trump family to sell these polling machines to each state that are obviously rigged machines to favor the republican partisan base only. Yet her father Donald is mad for people opting to vote by mail. Gee I wonder why he is so mad, it is common sense more than ever now. Trump even mentioned if voting by mail occurs, Republicans have no chance.
Well with the obvious cheating partisan rigged machines is his only chance as he could not have legal voting if his life depended on it. Americans had voted on to have mail by voting legal in America and the majority of Americans opted for this to be approved into law and it was. Trump himself has been voting with Melanie by mail for years including this year recently but he is saying it is illegal. If that is the case, both him and Melanie already committed crimes already in that area. So since the mail in ballots will stop these rigged polling machines that Ivanka now has a patent for and since Americans need to protect themselves and familes from this deadly virus, let’s take care of both things at the same time and simply vote by mail to have a fair vote and one that does not bring on health issues and or deaths. *Please let all your friends and families know to do mail in voting before the November 3rd, 2020 presidential elections* . Please read the link below the shows Ivanka was approved by China for the new American polling machines. Yet Trump is threating to hold back stimulus checks after his misleading lies after his knowledge of the spread of the virus that caused over 95 thousand deaths and growing as well as distruction of the economy. Why make threats to innocent people? It is common sense why Trump is so mad today with his 36% support base. Enjoy you read on the voting ballot approval patent on the below link. How Ironic it occured just this past November 2019 as well. 🤔
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-ivanka-idUSKCN1NB0TL
You need schooling girl and also you need to be deprogrammed. Those really bad Demorats, really hurt you real bad.
Actually that’s what the Democrats do David.
Nice Projection tho bro 😉✌️
Joe’s phonecall is a typical this for that bribe 🙄
https://youtu.be/aJNs2i7dT-w
I’ve read DJT is afraid of women. Use a moustache to pretend that reason has no gender.
What is this babble, is Nazi Nancy biting your tongue?
@Doug Butler Nancy is a city in france
Rogue was a hero in the Star Wars storyline. You go, girl. You are a hero.
The Michigan Secretary of State not only knows her job & is doing her job to represent all citizens of their state; She’s doing it with a sense of humor. Well done😉
Susan Gunn
Absolutely powerless and totally ineffective , but well done, bravo 👏
@Brian Smith You’re a moron. Trump doesn’t know how anything works, but you still entrust all that blind faith in him. As he said, “I love the uneducated.” Tag, Brian, you’re it. Have a Clorox Cocktail.🍸 Cheers!
Not to be rude or abrupt, but she also looks good doing it,. With all respect
Shes a Leftist cheat
@DL Haye That’s all I see trump supporters say.
“Fake blah blah”
“Cheating blah blah”
No actual reasons, just parroting trump.
Kinda weak really.
Donald Trumps Paranoid misogynistic attitude on full display.
@Brian Smith You poor delusional deplorable, you have a severe case of B.T.L.M.D. ‘’Believing Trumps Lies Mental Disorder’’
The Cure for that condition? A Frontal Lobotomy.
But that won’t work on You, you have to have a functioning Brain that you pathetically lack.
@Brian Smith TDS – Trump Delusional Syndrome; the mistaken notion by halfwits that Trump is even remotely competent LMFAO.
Another day and another 1000+ Americans dead while he tweets.
Yeah makes ya sick.
A few thousand actually died from other causes as well don’t forget them while you are at it.
Every Life Matters ✌️
Guess they are Trump’s Fault too right?
@Alan aka FANG I see you’re part of OrangeFace’s SS.
@Barry I am just a citizen of the earth who believes in facts and the truth Barry, what do you believe in?
@Alan aka FANG NOT Orangeface!
So he can mail his vote to Florida but people in Michigan can’t? Hypocrite
@ryan boughton 👍👍😄
Connie Hahn for individuals who hate trump sure do know a lot about him you must worship trump and his family 7 days a week to know all that🤣
@Mr Fruitjuice Good luck with that. His supporters thought by him not taking a salary, he was doing it for the American people. He didn’t take a salary to keep his taxes hidden.
There is a difference in absentee for certain exceptions than making our Elections at polling places WITH ID now Mail in Votes! Ignorance is no excuse for this dog piling on fake facts.
Those mail in ballots should help us cheat and defeat the Orange Haired Rasputin. Then we can keep more people on plantation.
no wonder his children agree with him or they would be cut out of the will ” that’s it I a am withdrawing funding to your future ” lol
The only fraudulent voting is when the Russians tamper with the voting machines like Diebold to convert votes for the Democrat to votes fro Trump. The Russians cannot mess with mail-in voting so Trump is fighting hard to prevent it, cause he knows he will lose big time in a fair election.
@Mike Laing weed has what to do with mail voting?
I think if Putin flipped WY against Cheney with an obvious trail it would be evidence the results of the election are false and he’s not leaving. No way would WY vote Blue. It’s too small to worry about. WY officials might help…if it means 4 more years.
Plus all this challenge will be after trump defaults on the debt during the next ceiling hike, in Oct to pay China back for Covid-19… thus destroying the dollar as a global reserve…and the second wave.
The Socialist always cheat during elections. Everyone knows this.
@greg j You’re missing the point of mail-in ballots.
Make no mistake about it, Trump and the GOP wants to take away your right to vote..
Every dem vote is worthless to em
You are right on that 👍 IAM so glad that I live in PEI
That’s what you do when you KNOW when you are going to lose. Treason is punishable by death or at least a lifetime sentence
I think people in United States they should too late
Trump is a “Clear and Present Danger” to US Lives and Liberty
@Soren Ingram I couldn’t have put it better myself
Trump’s going to win AGAIN and Looney-Tune MSNBC groupies will be Screaming at the Sky AGAIN
😁😁😁😁
@Barry Sutton not a chance, you are tapped
He is a danger to the whole world to.
Ivanka Trump had NEW polling counting ballot machines made & went through China to Grant her a pantent in 2019 only for the Trump family to sell these polling machines to each state that are obviously rigged machines to favor the republican partisan base only. Yet her father Donald is mad for people opting to vote by mail. Gee I wonder why he is so mad, it is common sense more than ever now. Trump even mentioned if voting by mail occurs, Republicans have no chance.
Well with the obvious cheating partisan rigged machines is his only chance as he could not have legal voting if his life depended on it. Americans had voted on to have mail by voting legal in America and the majority of Americans opted for this to be approved into law and it was. Trump himself has been voting with Melanie by mail for years including this year recently but he is saying it is illegal. If that is the case, both him and Melanie already committed crimes already in that area. So since the mail in ballots will stop these rigged polling machines that Ivanka now has a patent for and since Americans need to protect themselves and familes from this deadly virus, let’s take care of both things at the same time and simply vote by mail to have a fair vote and one that does not bring on health issues and or deaths. *Please let all your friends and families know to do mail in voting before the November 3rd, 2020 presidential elections* . Please read the link below the shows Ivanka was approved by China for the new American polling machines. Yet Trump is threating to hold back stimulus checks after his misleading lies after his knowledge of the spread of the virus that caused over 95 thousand deaths and growing as well as distruction of the economy. Why make threats to innocent people? It is common sense why Trump is so mad today with his 36% support base. Enjoy you read on the voting ballot approval patent on the below link. How Ironic it occured just this past November 2019 as well. 🤔
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-ivanka-idUSKCN1NB0TL
Trump is readying his excuses for when he loses, conditioning his followers to be triggered by the phrase “voter fraud”. The election and the lame-duck period afterward will not be pretty. I hope all Americans stay safe.
It’s odd tho, all the cases of voter / election fraud I’ve heard about are republican.. are they projecting again?
@Memento Mori Yup.
Yup. Exactly what he’s doing
The little B#@’s can kiss it!
If nothing else ,this may have been the ONLY thing he’s been thinking about since he got in!
Joceylyn Benson is one of strong Democrat women on Governor Whitmer’s team
Dattatreya517 he hates it! Team that with our AG..,🤣🤣🤣
Voting machines can be hacked. That’s why the repugnants object to voting by mail
I think you guys should have the right to vote by mail
Wrong! The Socialist PIGS always cheat during elections. Everyone knows that!
https://youtu.be/aJNs2i7dT-w
“If we had more people voting, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”
– Donald Trump
It’s not the voters concern to worry about the election process, just vote and realize you probably will do it by mail this time. In August start to look up how you vote by mail and request your ballot, don’t assume you will receive anything in the mail. Start early and be ready to jump through any hoop, lack of response, signature problem, etc. If you think the hoops are of political nature, make a note of who to vote against the next time you have a chance, state officials have web sights for comment let them know the how and why of your future votes.
Given the state of the Republican party right now, that should be a good reason to vote right now. VOTE BLUE.
Nancy M Ross
Yep vote the way you will feel in November 😂
@Nancy M Ross vote now , most democrats will be indicted before election day.
If the Republicans ever get 20% of the black vote the Democrats may never win again. Trump’s was at 24% a month ago.
Then Joe F’ed-up.. Now at 28% and rising. Good luck.
The only fake news is whatever comes out of trump’s mouth or twitter account.
Sure. MSNBC has such a really great track record on getting it right. LOL.
@Jinx Mim 🤣😂🤣but you think TRUMP does 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
@J. Noble right bro!
I don’t pay attention to him he’s a BULLY he’s just a snake
That’s his specialty: Threat, bullying, ignorant, arrogant and being stupid.
https://youtu.be/aJNs2i7dT-w
Trumps meddling in Michigan is going to cost him the state big time in November!
YEAH SURE IT IS. YOU TARDS WONT EVEN BE ABLE TO GET OUT AND VOTE. SO STFU ALREADY AND GO TO BED. THE MONTHS WILL PASS FASTER IF YOU JUST SLEEP, AND DO NOT POST ON HERE, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT.
https://youtu.be/aJNs2i7dT-w
Everyone DOES know they have a right to vote by mail.