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Trump, acolytes are working to turn Republicans against elections (and succeeding)

The Rachel Maddow Show

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The Republican Party's Operating Principle - Election Results Don't Count

Blake Masters: Why does Trump want all Republican candidates, at every level, to insist that elections are for suckers? And that election results don't count. The reason he wants this is so, this idea that elections shouldn't be the way we do things anymore, becomes the rallying cry in the operating principle of the Republican Party. There's 67 counties in Pennsylvania; 50 out of those 67 counties have left office since the last election because of threats and intimidation. In Nevada, there's 17 counties. Elections supervisors in 10 of the 17 counties in the state have left already or announced they are leaving. They're having randos just personally rifle through the ballots and see what they might come up

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