Oh let’s just steal it
So now Republicans are just straight-up saying what the hell let’s decide everyone voted for Trump and give him the votes before they’re counted.
The newly elected chairman of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, Rep. Andy Harris, suggested that North Carolina’s Republican-controlled state Legislature should consider awarding the state’s electors to Donald Trump before all votes are counted, according to a video of his remarks posted on social media on Friday.
Citing North Carolina counties hit by Hurricane Helene where residents may have difficulty voting, Harris said during a Q&A at a Maryland county Republican Party dinner Thursday night that it “makes a lot of sense” for the state Legislature to convene a joint session to allocate the state’s electors on Election Day, Nov. 5.
From a certain point of view it does make a lot of sense. The trouble is, that point of view is that a criminal unqualified dangerous crazed fool should be president whether he got enough votes or not.
The Maryland GOP congressman was responding to remarks at the Talbot County Lincoln-Reagan Dinner made by a pro-Trump activist, Ivan Raiklin, who proposed to the audience that Trump and others should call on GOP-led state legislatures in multiple states, including North Carolina and swing states like Arizona and Georgia, to convene on Election Day and award their electoral votes to Trump.
Sure. Why not? Just skip that whole voting thing.
Harris played a role in the GOP’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. He attended a Dec. 21, 2020, White House meeting between Trump and House Republicans, where they strategized how to reverse the election results, according to the Jan. 6 committee.
In other words where they strategized how to steal the election.
I don’t think that it would be a good idea for those state legislatures to just award their electoral votes to Trump: in other words, to rig the count.
I know that there would be much agreement across the US that he is “a criminal unqualified dangerous crazed fool” (to quote OB.) But awarding him those votes would likely render him guilty as well of hypocrisy, and add that failing to the above list of Trumpian defects. Remember that he claimed the vote was rigged and his rightful victory stolen from him by those ruthless opponents of his in the last presidential election.
His mind be just too tiny to rise to the challenge of being “a criminal unqualified dangerous crazed and hypocritical fool”.
Fine, then let’s have the Biden administration award those votes to Harris and just do a fully justified coup given the circumstances. If the fix is in, why not just steal the election right back?