One of the top officials on former President Donald Trump’s campaign let slip during the Republican National Convention on Thursday that 2024 may bring another attempt by his side to contest the results. The result of a presidential election can be challenged and changed up until Inauguration Day, Trump campaign senior advisor Chris LaCivita suggested.
“It’s not over on Election Day. It’s over on Inauguration Day,” LaCivita told Politico’s Jonathan Martin during a Thursday interview at the RNC.
The statement came as Martin asked a question, saying, “One of the things that I’ve said is that, at this point, perhaps the Democrats can’t win the election any longer.”
LaCivita interrupted Martin.
“We don’t even think that way,” LaCivita said. “The way we’re structured, the way we are made … we grind every single day. I mean its not over until he puts his hand on the Bible and takes the oath. It’s not over til then. It’s not over on Election Day. It’s over on Inauguration Day. Cause I wouldn’t put anything past anybody.”
“What do you mean?” Martin asked.
“There is a well-documented report that talks about all of the efforts that the Democrats had in place in 2020 … about ways to prevent if Donald Trump had quote on quote won. So, like I said we plan for every worse case scenario. That way we are ready for it,” LaCivita said.
Listeners to the interview could be forgiven for hearing in LaCivita’s rhetoric echoes of the Stop The Steal movement, which culminated in former President Donald Trump’s efforts to convince then Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to certify the election results on Jan. 6, 2021.
It could also be understood as an attempt to normalize the events that took place before and after the 2020 election, and to prepare the country for what might happen if Trump does not win in November.
Truth should never be timeworn and it is no cliche to once again assert that, for Republicans (AKA authoritarians), every accusation is a confession.
It’s over when the states certify the results, on or about December 14, 2024.
Everything else is bullshit.
This sounds like a clear call for Biden to use official acts that have been granted immunity by the Supreme Court to prevent the unlawful disruption of the transition of power.
They need to assume that Trump will contest everything, say it was rigged, etc. and prepare for the worst. It will likely be violent, and if it is, the violence needs to be dealt with extremely harshly and suddenly. No escalation of appropriate measures. Mobs that form need to be met with severe and sudden responses.
2024 GOP: “We’re literally going to kill you.”
Press Corpse (sic): “So refreshing in politics to hear someone tell it like it is!”