The Myth of the Socialist Left
The ‘Democrats are Socialists’ trope has been a GOP talking point for decades. But who’s really more extreme?
During an appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos last weekend, Jason Miller, Trump campaign advisor, deadbeat dad, and all-around sleazy guy, made this comment:
And one final thing, George. If you speak with many smart Democrats, they believe that President Trump will be ahead on election night, probably getting 280 electoral, somewhere in that range.
And then they’re going to try to steal it back after the election. We believe that we will be over 290 electoral votes on election night. So no matter what they try to do, what kind of hi-jinks or lawsuits or whatever kind of nonsense, they try to pull off, we’re still going to have enough electoral votes to get President Trump reelected.
Why a veteran journalist like Stephanopoulos failed to push back on the ‘Democrats will try to steal the election’ talking point is a mystery. For months, we’ve known that Trump wants to invalidate as many legitimate votes — in the right localities — as possible. But Jason Miller’s use of the ABC platform to spread misinformation notwithstanding, he revealed Team Trump’s game.
Republicans intend to challenge mailed ballots arriving after Election Day as a pretext to challenging all mailed ballots. The Trump campaign hopes to halt the entire mail-in count by claiming ballot-commingling them with pre-Election Day mailed ballots. At the same time, their lawyers plan legal arguments up the judicial chain, hoping for a SCOTUS decision in their favor.