.speechboy71: Here's where Republicans have been much more successful — and where concern should be far greater — for 2024.
MSNBC / Getty Images“Donald Trump came closer than anyone thought he could to toppling a free election a year ago,” or solast week in The Atlantic in a piece perfectly pitched to the growing belief among Democrats that the former president, in 2024, will succeed in doing what he failed to do last year.
Even before the unimaginable chaos of Jan. 6, such scenarios, bandied around frequently by Democrats, seemed far-fetched— largely because they were. Ithat “to steal the election, Trump would have to rely on an extraordinary confluence of events — dominoes lined up one after another and falling in precise order.” If one domino is out of place, the whole effort would fall apart.
The same goes for GOP governors and secretaries of state, including Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger in Georgia. The federal courts, even judges appointed by Trump, weren’t interested in carrying out the president’s wishes, either. More than five dozen judges rejected the president’s pre- and post-election legal gambits. The president’s hand-picked attorney general, William Barr, and officials at the Department of Justice also refused to help.
First, America does not have one presidential election decided by popular vote; it has 50 individual ones, which makes the challenge of stealing an election much greater. Trump may also be stymied by a collective action problem: namely, which GOP official will want to go first in subverting the will of the electorate? Will anyone want to step forward unless they are fully confident that the others will also take the dive?
Those fearful of a stolen 2024 election also point to new state laws that seek to give greater power to state legislatures and governors than nonpartisan election officials. However, few of these laws have actually passed. According to the
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