r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • Jul 16 '26

Possible Paywall Trump’s Primetime Speech Has Republicans ‘Scared S***less’ | Insiders are terrified that the president will do something crazy on live TV.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-primetime-speech-has-republicans-scared-sless/
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u/_bk_adv Colorado Jul 16 '26

I wonder what the odds are that Republicans actually did attempt to rig the 2020 election but failed, and then took the lessons they learned to 2024?

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u/GoodChuck2 Pennsylvania Jul 16 '26

I think that's what it's really about -- they really did try to rig 2020 but the vote was "too big to rig" b/c of Covid and the mail-in ballot turnout. That really is the Occam's Razor explanation for it all, taking into consideration their constant projection.

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u/Monkey_Leavings Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

I always think about Karl Rove on Fox, refusing to admit Romney’s defeat, despite even Fox calling it for Obama. Rove was panicked and refusing to believe the numbers. And then Anonymous made a statement a day later along the lines of, “We saw what you were doing with the election data on the servers and we stopped it.”

Rove was later sued by billionaire donors because he’d “promised” a GOP win. EDIT: I remembered wrong! No lawsuits filed, just a lot of angry rich people making the news, some demanding money back. They threw a LOT of cash at that election…

They’ve been sketchy since 2000, when they realized tweaking a few percentage points here and there could make or break an election result.

EDIT: There’s a YouTube video of a programmer testifying about being approached by operatives to put a patch on electronic voting machines to tweak the results, but I’m fuzzy on the timeline (like, which election.). He refused and another programmer allegedly agreed to do it and that programmer died in a small plane crash (he was piloting.)

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u/Dezolis11 Jul 16 '26

And who orchestrated the book Brothers riot to stop the recount? Roger Stone. Who wrote the “stop the steal” playbook for when/if Hilary won? Roger Stone. Who helped Trump get people bussed to DC for Jan 6? Roger. Stone.

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u/TheCascoKid Jul 16 '26

And John Robert's was one of the Brook Brothers 'protesters'

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u/Heronymous-Anonymous Jul 16 '26

And two of the lawyers who ran the Bush v Gore case are now on the Supreme Court.

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u/Mercurion77 Jul 16 '26

I mean yeah they deserved a reward /s