It's 100% true. Trump controls the party. That doesn't mean that everyone who calls themselves a republican loves Trump, but it means that anyone who wants to hold office must bow down to Trump.
That's no more true of Trump than Obama. It isn't Trump that's feared it is the 20-30% of GOP voters who are pretty hard core supporters for him. I've said numerous times that if he cares about "his country" as much as his supporters think then he will step to the background and help build the party around someone else who doesn't have his baggage. DeSantis maybe. Tim Scott maybe better.
Can you link the AJC report?....just out of curiosity.
Probably not. It was published in actual ink in the late 1990's. I should have clipped it but didn't. It has remained in my memory because it was pretty flagrant... and reported by such a blatantly liberal paper. They did have a focus on corruption in ATL city politics around that time as well. The concern was likely more along the lines of cheating for city candidates.
I asked a couple of times earlier....
Can anyone name one republican who has remained respected and popular within the republican party who stands up to Trump?
Depends on what Republicans you are talking about. I have immense respect for Pence for simply saying I do not have the facts to do what you are asking me to do. Justin Amash is pretty much persona non grata in the GOP but I would vote for him in a minute if he ran as a Libertarian although I have some fairly sharp disagreements with him starting with Middle East policy. I wouldn't put a stamp on Nikki Haley yet.
I'll toss that one back at you... can you name any Dem who even had the character to stand up to the Clintons, Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, Biden, etc much less pay the price for it? You could say the good Senator Manchin from WV but then you have to look at his voters. They are trending red in a hurry. The Dems have abandoned coal workers which are still a powerful constituency in his state. IOW's... he's a functional Republican.
Plus, it's asinine to question the validity of the 2020 election without questioning the validity of every election.
Well, Heritage has a fairly large data base of REAL election issues.
But you are still wrong. We have not had widespread mail in ballots prior to the last election. New voting and vote counting technologies were brought on line. Vote harvesting has never been as easy or apparently as widespread. They even legalized it in CA... they literally legalized cheating.
And yes, there was very, very suspicious actions at vote counting centers in key states.
I'm not saying it can be proven. In fact, I'm specifically saying that it cannot be proven. And that is the sum total of the problem. The laws and monitoring need to catch up with the systems and technology. You would think that everyone would agree with that idea... but the Dems are pouring their full resources into stopping it. There is the myth that voters are being disenfranchised... but outside of that... there's just the likelihood that they know it would cost them a lot of votes.
The difference between you and me is if the labels were reversed... I would still oppose vote fraud and support measures to prevent it from happening. You would be a zealot for tighter voting laws if it cost Dems votes.
