WASHINGTON — Minimizing what happened on Jan. 6 — sometimes even sympathizing with those who were arrested.
And now alleging election fraud and irregularities before a single ballot has been officially counted — in a state (California) where voters for President Joe Biden outnumber those for former President Donald Trump by 2-to-1.
“Republican Larry Elder appealed on Monday to his supporters to use an online form to report fraud, which claimed it had ‘detected fraud’ in the ‘results’ of the California recall election ‘resulting in Governor Gavin Newsom being reinstated as governor,’” NBC’s Alex Seitz-Wald writes.
“The only problem: On Monday when the link was live on Elder’s campaign site, the election hadn’t even happened yet.”
This is today’s Republican Party after Trump’s presidency.
INBOX: Donald Trump explicitly and falsely claims that the California recall is rigged pic.twitter.com/4yGHd2C8GS
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) September 13, 2021