Trump's 2020 election lies are even worrying Marjorie Taylor Greene
Greene is doing the once-unthinkable: departing from the Trump line.
By Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC Opinion Columnist
Former President Donald Trump’s agenda to propagate the lie that the 2020 election was rigged against him has become an all-consuming obsession — and it reached a new high last week when he threatened to lead a Republican election boycott if the GOP is insufficiently attentive to it.
There are now some indicators that Trump’s strategy could backfire at the polls in 2022 and 2024, indicators substantial enough that even one of his staunchest allies, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., is openly freaking out and taking a different line from him on election strategy.
According to a report Sunday in The New York Times, Greene recently commissioned an informal internal survey that found that “roughly 10 percent of Republican voters expressed a serious lack of confidence in the security of Georgia’s elections, with 4 percent saying they did not think elections were secure in Georgia and would not vote in future elections, and 6 percent saying they were unsure whether their votes would be counted.”
That’s potentially a worrying number for Republican elected officials, and a sign of how Trump’s 2020 disinformation fixation could corrode future turnout for the GOP. Ten percent of a party’s voters suggesting they don’t know whether voting is meaningful or are so mistrustful that they intend to shun the voting booth is a huge number — if similar numbers exist in battleground states and competitive districts across the country, that could spell disaster for Republicans.
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Tuesday, October 19th 2021 at 8:05PM
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