PRESS RELEASE Contact: [email protected]
For Immediate Release
Date: October 26, 2022
Washington, D.C. – Today, Defend Democracy Project released a new report, Beware The Election Denier Playbook. Before and after the 2020 election, Donald Trump established a playbook for denying and contesting election results despite overwhelming evidence that there was no fraud, all to undermine confidence in our elections and infringe on our right to choose who leads us. Trump-loving Republicans have taken his playbook, are following it play by play, page by page, and are using it to spread doubt and chaos through all future elections.
“After Donald Trump refused to accept the results of the 2020 election and incited a violent attack to overturn the election results, MAGA Republicans are following his Election Denier Playbook to a Tee,” said Defend Democracy Project Communications Director, Nicole Haley. “This new report sounds the alarm for next month’s midterm elections and every election to come. When MAGA Republicans lose an election they lie, disrupt and incite violence. Even with perfectly free and fair elections, MAGA Republicans will continue to spout false claims and sow more chaos, following in the footsteps of their wannabe leader, Donald Trump.”
Before the first votes were cast in this year’s midterms, Trump and his followers were already questioning methods of voting, refusing to commit to accepting the results, and training their supporters to discredit, harass, and threaten election officials.
After the election, they will ramp up their false claims of voter fraud and conspiracies of election fraud. They will refuse to concede when they lose, incite violence and racism, and break laws to overturn the results while filing baseless lawsuits to overturn the races they lose.
Trump has handpicked and championed election deniers all across the nation, and they have shown time and time again that they will stop at nothing to gain power in order to take away our most fundamental rights.
Read the full report here.
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