Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) tied Republicans to Trump’s claims of a “rigged” election, criticizing what she described as a “long-running effort by Republicans to delegitimize Democratic voters, appointees and leaders,” in an editorial published Tuesday by the Washington Post.
“Trump’s argument didn’t spring from nowhere. It’s just one more symptom of a long-running effort by Republicans to delegitimize Democratic voters, appointees and leaders,” Warren wrote in the editorial.
She blamed Republican leadership for serving up “a steady diet of stories about imaginary cheating,” calling their tactic “the last refuge of the sore loser” and citing the infrequency with which voter fraud actually occurs in the United States.
“Republican leaders — and even Trump’s running mate — have tried to tiptoe out of the room when Trump makes ever-wilder claims of a rigged election,” Warren wrote. “But as much as these Republicans would like everyone to believe that this is a Trump-only problem, it’s not. For years, Republican leaders have pushed the lie that voter fraud is a huge issue.”
Warren condemned the tactic as one of “manufactured hysteria” used to “disproportionately suppress turnout by Democratic voters — especially blacks and Latinos.”
Warren cited Al Gore’s concession in the 2000 presidential election as an example that Trump would do well to keep in mind.
“Republican leaders seem increasingly concerned that when Trump loses, he won’t follow that example,” she wrote. “But Trump’s words and deeds are merely the latest — and loudest — examples in a long line of Republican tactics that are poisoning our political system.”
I think this is an issue where you are more effective by emphasizing the damage to America, rather than the damage to Democrats.
It speaks volumes about the idiocy of state and national GOP operations they’d let Curt Schilling anywhere near a nomination process. I hope he’s her opponent. What he’ll suffer will make Trump’s ass-kicking look like a stroll in the park.
Strategic thinking is not Kurt’s strong suit.
it isn’t Republicans being deligitimized… the damage is being done to America by victimizing Dems and potential Dems. simple logic that only a hard partisan would miss…
it is a sure bet that Schilling will ignorantly repeat the “Pocahontas” name-calling, as if he thinks a. it is effective and b. it is something new. Schilling is not the sharpest tack in the box and will only do what he is told to do/say. He should have his ass handed to him by Warren.