"Over 230 Republican candidates have cast doubt on the 2024 election"

By Clara Ence Morse, Derek Hawkins and Carson TerBush
October 23, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. EDT

Nearly half of Republican candidates for Congress or top state offices have used
social media to cast doubt on the integrity of the 2024 election, according to a
Washington Post analysis, highlighting a pervasive effort within the GOP to
undermine public trust in the vote ahead of Nov. 5.

From Nov. 9, 2022, to Oct. 11, at least 236 Republican candidates posted or
amplified a range of falsehoods or misinformation about election malfeasance.
Many candidates baselessly accused Democrats of trying to sway the election
through former president Donald Trump’s court cases or by registering
noncitizens to vote. Others falsely likened Vice President Kamala Harris’s
nomination to a “coup” or promoted misinformation about voter fraud.

Of the 48 percent of Republican candidates who have promoted false or misleading
information about the 2024 election, about two out of three referenced
noncitizen voting in connection with 2024 election fraud, about half referenced
Trump’s legal troubles, and almost a quarter discussed Harris’s nomination as a
coup, undemocratic or disrespectful to the will of primary voters.

The rhetoric, which often parrots Trump’s election-related falsehoods, could
help lay the groundwork for Republicans to challenge any election outcome they
dislike by alleging the results are tainted or fraudulent.

“Even after the horrific sights of January 6, endorsing Trump’s baseless claims
about election fraud had become a litmus test for any Republican who hopes to
secure political seats,” said Yotam Ophir, an expert on political misinformation
at the University at Buffalo. “Leaders cannot govern if the public fails to
agree on the importance of facts and evidence, and by endorsing Trump’s election
falsehoods, Republicans are breaking away from the values and norms of
democracy, without which it cannot survive.”

Polling shows that most Americans trust their local and state officials to run
fair and reliable elections. But Republican messaging that challenges the
legitimacy of elections appears to have resonated with the GOP base [the
goddamned fucking deplorables], a considerable portion of which wrongly believes
that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election because of voter fraud.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2024/elections-doubts-2024-republicans/

Every word — every last fucking word — that Republiscums/QAnon say about
election integrity is a lie. It is Republiscums/QAnon, *only*, who are trying to
destroy the integrity of the election. The Republiscums/QAnon are waging all-out
war on American democracy (*yes*, we are a democracy, as all educated persons
understand the word to mean). Republiscums/QAnon intend to establish a white
"Christian" nationalist dictatorship. When Trump told "Christians" they wouldn't
need to vote again, this is what he meant: no more elections.

Republiscums/QAnon are immoral anti-Constitution anti-American traitors — *all*
of them.