The assertion from Chris LaCivita at a Politico event is notable given former President Donald Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election.
It did work the first time. The Brooks Brothers’ Riots secured the presidency for George Bush Jr.
During the J6 riots, Congress was being evacuated within minutes of the rioters storming the capital. Had a bunch of Senators gotten pinned down in an office, they wouldn’t have been able to ratify Biden hours later from a secure location and Trump’s friends in the state legislatures and the courts would have enjoyed more room to reverse the election results.
Won’t work the second time either because literally everyone will be ready and prepared for that
Journalists were predicting the J6 riot days before it actually happened. My wife signed up for Telegram the day before because she was curious about all the reports, and got to watch events play out in real time from the perspective of live-streamers. The Capital Police either fumbled the ball because of raw incompetence or deliberately understaffed the venue to enable rioters to raid the building. In either case, nothing has changed to suggest they can’t do that shit again.
That’s assuming the Republicans don’t go back to the more tried-and-true method of a GOP governor in a purple state using the pretext of a riot in a blue district to stop counting votes while the Republican has the lead. This is almost what happened in Georgia and Arizona. It could easily happen again.
No, “Hanging Chad”, and the idiocy to preserve norms and just concede instead of challenging the election results in Florida and other states is how GBJ got into office.
Abruptly ending the counting was a predicate for all of that.
Remember that Trump had a 150,000 vote lead when he tried to shut down the recount in Pennsylvania. And that state ended up +80,000 for Biden. Florida came down to just above 400 votes before the riot shut down the ballot counting process.
327 votes, actually, but that just makes your point stronger. If they hadn’t stopped the recount with a riot (and also a friendly Florida AG and friendly US Supreme Court), there’s no such thing as President George W Bush.
Didn’t work the first time. Won’t work the second time either because literally everyone will be ready and prepared for that, unlike last time.
It did work the first time. The Brooks Brothers’ Riots secured the presidency for George Bush Jr.
During the J6 riots, Congress was being evacuated within minutes of the rioters storming the capital. Had a bunch of Senators gotten pinned down in an office, they wouldn’t have been able to ratify Biden hours later from a secure location and Trump’s friends in the state legislatures and the courts would have enjoyed more room to reverse the election results.
Journalists were predicting the J6 riot days before it actually happened. My wife signed up for Telegram the day before because she was curious about all the reports, and got to watch events play out in real time from the perspective of live-streamers. The Capital Police either fumbled the ball because of raw incompetence or deliberately understaffed the venue to enable rioters to raid the building. In either case, nothing has changed to suggest they can’t do that shit again.
That’s assuming the Republicans don’t go back to the more tried-and-true method of a GOP governor in a purple state using the pretext of a riot in a blue district to stop counting votes while the Republican has the lead. This is almost what happened in Georgia and Arizona. It could easily happen again.
No, “Hanging Chad”, and the idiocy to preserve norms and just concede instead of challenging the election results in Florida and other states is how GBJ got into office.
Abruptly ending the counting was a predicate for all of that.
Remember that Trump had a 150,000 vote lead when he tried to shut down the recount in Pennsylvania. And that state ended up +80,000 for Biden. Florida came down to just above 400 votes before the riot shut down the ballot counting process.
327 votes, actually, but that just makes your point stronger. If they hadn’t stopped the recount with a riot (and also a friendly Florida AG and friendly US Supreme Court), there’s no such thing as President George W Bush.
Gore’s campaign didn’t have to reject Jesse Jackson’s people who were protesting on their behalf like they did, but they did at least challenge the results by litigating them all the way up to the supreme court. Of course, the problem is that the supreme court sucks.