The election fraud brigade forming at the Republican National Committee is going to look pretty silly should President Joe Biden secure a second Election Day victory in November, a political analyst argued Monday.
Washington Post columnist Philip Bump issued a tongue-in-cheek analysis of the RNC's claim that they'll have 100,000 people monitoring poll sites when former President Donald Trump faces off against Biden for the second time.
"Good luck," Bump wrote. "Should Biden win again, each of them will be in the relatively awkward position."
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Bump argues the election monitors will likely find themselves forced to admit what another pro-Trump poll-watcher named Larry Stange had to admit after the 2020 election — he had seen no evidence of voter fraud.
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"People like Stange — encouraged by the Trump campaign to show up at polling places to uproot it — ended up seeing nothing but the normal, dull machinations of an orderly voting process," Bump writes.
That didn't stop Trump and his allies from claiming the election had been rigged against him and mounting a months-long campaign that saw slates of fake electors trying to certify his victory and an historic attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump now faces criminal charges in Georgia and Washington D.C. linked to those events.
Bump on Monday ridiculed the RNC for literally doubling down on a plan that failed in 2020.
"Trump and his allies have attempted to argue that Democrats cheated and fraud occurred, but they rarely note that this purportedly occurred even after they'd pushed their supporters to go and monitor polling places," he writes.
"The campaign claimed to have 50,000 people ready to keep an eye on things — but zero of those 50,000 spotted the alleged rampant fraud on which Trump blames his loss."
