At 28, he was a fresh-faced, photogenic attorney, a two-term state representative seen by GOP shot callers in Washington as a conservative up-and-comer. Its time to stop this before it goes any farther. The afternoon newspaper, the Evansville Press, said the (unofficial) counting was done and now McIntyre was on top by 196. or redistributed. Secretary of state races are typically sleepy affairs, with lesser-known candidates who are dependent on their partys nominees for governor or Senate to carry them across the finish line. COVINGTON, La. 2023 Central City News. We dont want anyone hurt. Because on November 13, 2020, six days before the Central City News article came out, Lead Stories already did an analysis of voter fraud claims being made on the basis of New York Times data by a user named "PedeInspector" on a forum website. He would be a Supreme Court justice by the end of the month. Facebooks algorithm pushed Trumps false claim into millions more American homes. But that isnt what happened, he said. Local News Jan 17, 2023 / 11:06 AM EST. Youll see literal war in the House, he said in his office in an interview with NBC Nightly News. Now they were also a new sort of jaded. They said, These are your travel arrangements, he told me. He understandably had eyes on the coattails of Ronald Reagan. Arguments, in courtrooms and counting centers, in newspapers and on cable TV, swirled over different kinds of machines and absentee ballots and voter intent and disproportionate disenfranchisement within predominantly Black precincts and instance after instance of acts both sides pegged as baldly bad-faith. Theres absolutely nothing to be gained by cooperating with the Democrats at this point., In the interest of comity and good relations, it would have been far better, obviously, if McIntyre had won, Panetta said during the last House Administration Committee meeting about Indiana 8. I heard over and over again that the cry is count all the ballots, he said. Those Trump voters from the people who stormed the Capitol on January 6th to the folks who just quietly showed up at the polls and never mentioned anything political to neighbors, friends or relatives believed he was the best guy for the presidency. Millions spent on lobbyists, a billion spent on safeguards. Wyoming lawmakers propose ban on electric vehicle sales, White House charges GOP with hypocrisy on Trump, Biden, Launch footage shows how SpaceX recovers its rockets, Sinema and Manchin high-five at Davos over blocking filibuster reform, McConnell calls on Department of Justice to treat Trump and Biden equally, Matt Schlapp accused of sexual assault by Walker aide in lawsuit. Trump supporters storm the US Capitol: News and updates, The GOPs January 6 lies have reached a fever pitch, Trump campaign lawyer breaks with Trump over the Capitol insurrection, It looks like people are actually moving back to San Francisco (really), The sexual battery allegations against conservative power broker Matt Schlapp, explained. They had not been counted. Multiple rightwing media outlets, however, including 1,500 rightwing English-language radio stations, several hundred Spanish-language rightwing radio stations, and three rightwing television networks, picked up Trumps claim of a stolen election and echoed and amplified it as if it were true. The nation nearly exploded, wrote Monroe: The feeling of mutual hostility had been greatly intensified by party leaders, orators, and presses. The Stop the Steal, narrative has also been used as justification for making voting harder and rolling back access to voting across the country. The Republican said yes. People called it the Bloody Eighth because of its penchant for kicking out its members of Congress. ", "We had an election that was stolen from us," Trump said from the White House. I just knew in my heart that I had the vote counts on my desk, and I thought, Im not gonna wait on this.. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. But add one vote, as you can see in the last row, and the rounded numbers shift. People who worked in Indiana 8 in 1985 and then in the aftermath of the election of 2000 tracefrom one to the other and indeed to now an undeniable line not invariably straight, but never not there. Biden earned 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232, the same margin that Trump had when he beat. Now Republicans hold seven of the states nine House slots. He lost by 7 million actual votes and 74 electoral votes. We wanted to weep for what this had done to the sanctity of the traditions of the House. Marion S. Trikosko via the Library of Congress. In the last two elections he hasnt even had a primary. Because voters think the presidential election was stolen. "It was a landslide election and everyone knows it, especially the other. no, that's not true: the headline "new york times election report reveals 104,984 stolen votes in ga, 347,768 in pa" appeared in the central city news, a small louisiana newspaper, on november 19, 2020 (archived here) and it was based on faulty analysis of data containing rounded percentages that was used on the website of the new york times to [], The Haven Caf & General Store opened at 9500 Blackwater Road, Central, on Dec. 9, 2022. Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the nation's Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace on Sunday, claiming the recent election was stolen from him. Advertisement: President Trump leaves a Nov. 5,. Minutes later, he said he was "asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful.". Monroe wrote the Democrats charged that these returns [in those four states for Republican Hayes] were a product of fraud and dishonesty; that, in preparing them, the vote of whole precincts, parishes, and counties had been thrown out in order to secure Hayes electors [and] they did not represent the people of those States, but were themselves the product of fraud and corruption, and were kept in place only by what was called the moral influence of Federal bayonets.. Thomas, the one Republican, was livid. The issue is particularly animating campaigns for secretary of state the office that in many states oversees elections in electoral battlegrounds that narrowly backed Biden over Trump in 2020 and will be hotly contested again in the 2024 presidential election. The single biggest issue the issue that gets the most pull, the most respect, the biggest cheers is talking about the election fraud of 2020s presidential election, Trump said last week at a rally in Iowa, again pushing the lie that a second term was stolen from him and that Joe Biden is not the legitimate president. The conversations hiss with ill will. The higher-education center of Bloomington is no longer in the district, and many of the union Democrats in and around Evansville became Reagan Democrats and eventually Trump Republicans. THERE'S A POLITICAL DIMENSION TO THIS that affects all of us whether we go to New Orleans or not. Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat who is running for governor in 2022, believes there is an appetite for accountability that has elevated secretaries of state like her who have pushed back on GOP election lies. Twitter, asked by this news organization Monday about Geller's tweet claiming the election was stolen, said it would look into the matter. Stay peaceful!" All across the country, people begin pouring into the streets. Larry Halloran is a prominent and now retired elections attorney, but at the time he was the deputy executive director for the NRCC, and so he was called immediately to duty in Indiana 8. Trump on possible DeSantis challenge: 'We'll handle that the way I handle Did Biden just give Trump a get out of jail free card? Tuesday morning, all three faced a judge and were all. But thats not what he did. Otherwise, we may well be facing that terrible question that Trump true believers faced last year: what do we do? Democrats tend to forget that Donald Trump received about 10 million more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016. Please select all the ways you would like to hear from Lead Stories LLC: You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the link in the footer of our emails. Leon Panetta (top) led the panel, and he was joined by fellow Democrat Bill Clay and Republican Bill Thomas. (Carlson, in his monologue, wondered aloud why Babbitt, who he said looked pretty much like everyone else, would storm the building.). January 12, 2023 0 Comments, ByWoody Jenkins Editor Clerk of Court Doug Welborn swore in Central Mayor Wade Evans, Police Chief Roger Corcoran, and four members of the Central City Council in ceremonies Friday, Dec. 30, 2022, at Kristenwood conference center, 14025 Greenwell Springs Rd. They suggested they believed the outrage was somehow for show. Twitter's " civic integrity policy " says it will. Bart Everson via Wikimedia Commons, Coelho asked me to go in, said Jim Margolis, the former senior adviser to Barack Obama who back then was a twentysomething Democratic operative. The claim regained prominence in late December 2020 through a meme containing a photo of the newspaper front page (with the title cut off but still showing the headline "How Election Was Stolen") along with the words: Funny how the rest of the world gets different news than us. Just like it wasnt important to mention thatJustice Clarence Thomass wife worked on the Bush transition team before the Supreme Court shut down the recount in Florida and was busy accepting resumes from people who would serve in the Bush White House if her husband stopped the recount in Floridawhich he did. If 2000 was a singular precursor to the so-called Voting Wars, a singular precursor to 2000 was Indiana 8. They were corrupt, out of control and dangerous, Newt Gingrich said of Democrats when we talked last month. "As in the US, a central grievance of Brazil's far-right protesters was that the elections were somehow 'stolen' from them," one expert told Insider. Calling the Democrats thugs and slime, warning of anarchy and casting the House as a rotting carcass of democracy, Republicans at the Capitol stormed out as McCloskey was sworn in the first such walkout in 95 years. Millions turn to Vox to educate themselves, their family, and their friends about whats happening in the world around them, and to learn about things that spark their curiosity. AP Photo, It gave Newt credibility, said former Rep. Vin Weber of Minnesota. And it starts to matter, and matter a lot, not only who voted and how but who is doing the counting and why. inaccurate stories, videos or images going viral on the internet. Election was stolen Dec 20, 2020 Click here to sign up to receive each day's headlines via email For the past seven or eight years, I have been a voice for conservatives, in particular. But you cant sow distrust in our system. He is a writing fellow at the Independent Media Institute. Then the recount confirmed it. The 17-member executive committee of the [], ByWoody Jenkins Editor At 10 a.m. on Wed-nesday, Nov. 30, 2022, Central Police Chief Roger Corcoran had a city contractor install a surveillance camera on the right of way of Blackwater Road just a few feet from the property line of Life Tabernacle Club and overlooking the parsonage of Pastor Tony and Sister Shaye Spell. Nor is Fox the only media outlet or movement encouraging the lies. McIntyre was the winner. Up until this point, Indiana 8 could have been seen as not so different than any other close, contested election. And was this report published by a "European paper" because the rest of the world gets different news? ", "These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long," Trump tweeted. They note, Roger Stone claims he helped organize the so-called Brooks Brothers Riot, Scalias son worked for a law firm that was defending George W. Bush, Justice Clarence Thomass wife worked on the Bush transition team. Market data provided by Factset. This, a McCloskey aide told reporters at the time, rendered the recount essentially meaningless. Coelhos characterization was even more heated. McCloskey, 45, had gotten elected in 1982 with 52 percent of the vote. They have the arrogant power and they use it, Thomas said. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! That little bit of info was slipped into the seventeenth paragraph of the Times story so that it would attract as little attention as possible because the 9/11 attacks had happened just weeks earlier and journalists feared that burdening Americans with the plain truth that George W. Bush actually lost the election would further hurt a nation already in crisis. Latest News. Senator. Americans shouldnt stand for this!. The issue is particularly animating campaigns for secretary of state in electoral battlegrounds that narrowly backed Biden over Trump in 2020. That group of people, I just tell them, when they ask me, Im just, like, Look, yes, there might have been some issues because of Covid, and changing the rules at the last minute and all that but it went to court. Legal Statement. It contained rounded percentages for Trump and Biden and the total number of votes cast, and it was likely used to create graphical representations on the NYT website. Hes right about our relationship to them. Trumps own Justice Department as well as his former attorney general, William Barr, found no evidence of widespread fraud.Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, two-thirds of GOP voters and just over one-third of all voters, now believe the 2020 election was stolen. Five campaign finance complaints have been filed against five candidates, and a resident who posted. I left before polls closed and drove downtown to the Republicans party at a venue called The Foundry. Had we been attempting to exercise the raw power of a ruthless majority, I suppose we would have asked that the gentleman from Indiana, Mr. McCloskey, be seated on the basis of partial returns would have, because they could have, in other words, simply sworn him in right then and there. Learn more about Mailchimp's privacy practices here. The next two columns show the ratios rounded to the third decimal like in the Edison files PedeInspector used. personale i vor folosi tehnologii precum modulele cookie pentru a afia reclame i coninut personalizat, a msura performana reclamelor i coninutului, a genera statistici despre public i a dezvolta produse. Oregon has its fair share of candidates who questioned the 2020 election as well. During a Tuesday hearing on new restrictive election laws passed by state legislatures, Republican senators decried a . Different counties have different machines, different clerks, different customs. Many psychologists believe people filter ambiguous information through an ideological lens, preferring interpretations that favor their political affiliations. When Trump tells his supporters the election was stolen, what else are they to believe?Trump, Oxford University professor Adam IP Smith reminds us, was the first presidential nominee of a major party to make allegations of systemic fraud central to his campaign.Smith believes Trumps willful attacks on the electoral system tapped into the alienation felt by many Americans from their political institutions, and creeping sense that someone somewhere is manipulating the system to cheat the real people of their rightful rule.Trumps claim is persuasive to many because the idea was already part of their DNA. And I base this, Wright went on, upon facts and statements which I consider to be reliable. There would be plenty of time, hours and then days, weeks and then months, to debate the facts as well as their relative reliability. In Arizonas race for secretary of state, Trump has endorsed Mark Finchem, a state legislator who promoted a partisan review of Maricopa Countys election results that reaffirmed Bidens victory. Formerly enslaved African Americans were trying to turn out large numbers of voters for the Republican candidate, but there was also widespread Klan activity suppressing that Black vote. Carrie Kahn is NPR's International Correspondent based in Mexico City, Mexico. Not really. On Jan. 3, 1985, House Speaker Tip ONeill (left) started to swear in the members old and new, and House Majority Leader Jim Wright (right) spoke up to stop him. inaccurate stories, videos or images going viral on the internet. Rick McIntyre (bottom center), though, showed himself to be a formidable foe two years later. I try, he said, to promote confidence in our electoral process. 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