One of the most hilarious parts of Donald Trump and company’s plot to overturn the 2020 election, insomuch as there’s anything funny about a stunted man-child’s fascist attempt to burn democracy to the ground, was the elected officials who insisted the presidential results were invalid due to fraud but accepted their wins further down the ballot. A short, noncomprehensive list of such people included representatives Stephanie Bice, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Lauren Boebert and senators Roger Marshall, Tommy Tuberville, and Cindy Hyde-Smith, all of whom helped Trump further his baseless election-fraud claims while never once suggesting that the results of their own races were suspect. Now, with the 2022 midterms on the horizon, you might be wondering if Republicans will once again be trotting out the same claims of fraud for races that don’t turn out the way they want—while being all “nothing to see here!“ when things go their way. And the answer is yes, they undoubtedly will be, but before we get to that, let’s take a look at the incredible acts of hypocrisy and contortion that have been on display during the primary season.
In fact, as the Times points out, “noncitizens do not vote in federal elections in significant numbers, in Alabama or elsewhere,” whether they are ideologically aligned with one party or the other. Meanwhile, in the rare cases in which there have been recent “broad fraud schemes,” they’ve been undertaken by Republicans, like when the campaign of a GOP candidate in North Carolina financed an absentee ballot scam in 2018.
That Republicans would accept primary results in races against their own, in the absence of having a heathen, anti-American Democrat to blame, is in no way surprising, Trey Grayson, Kentucky’s former Republican secretary of state, told reporters Reid J. Epstein and Nick Corasaniti. “They’re thinking it’s a primary, it’s our side. We didn’t lose to somebody on the other side who is evil, who’s going to change policy more dramatically,” Grayson said. “There’s a tribal, ‘my side’s always right, your side is always wrong. We’re not stealing elections, your side is stealing elections.’”
Naturally, as Republicans have accepted their defeats without issue, those who’ve emerged victorious in primary races have not had a peep to say about the type of fraud they were screaming their heads off over when it came to Trump. In Pennsylvania, gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano—one of the ex-president’s biggest election-denial supporters—saw his victory as completely legit. Mastriano, who believes the state’s legislature has the authority to dismiss the will of voters and pick its own electors if the election is “compromised,” could help the GOP steal the 2024 presidential election.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/06/republicans-election-fraud-rules