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A senior Georgia Republican and former target of Donald Trump has
delivered a damning analysis of the party’s attempts at restricting voting access, which he says was because GOP leaders “got scared” by defeat in 2020.
Geoff Duncan, the Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia, claimed in a
book published on Tuesday that Republicans were restricting turnout — and particularly in big swing states such as Florida, Georgia and Texas —
because they feared losing in future.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/geoff-duncan-gop-voting-laws-b1917235.html
The remarks, which were reported by The Washington Post on Wednesday, were published on the same day that Texas’s Republican governor Gregg Abbott signed a bill into law that restricts voting access, and according to campaigners, will disproportionately target Democratic voters.
Mr Duncan wrote in his book, called GOP 2.0: “Unfortunately, many held to
the theory that if more people vote, Republicans will lose, because they
got scared, GOP leaders became too focused on making voting more
difficult.”
“We had a clear motive and selfish aims,” the Republican, who announced in May that he will not seek re-election, wrote of the voting restrictions introduced in Florida, Georgia, Texas and around the country. “Nobody
thought GOP efforts were anything more than attempts to ensure more
Republicans won next time.”
Mr Duncan, as the Post reported, goes on to call out Republican leaders
for failing to conduct an analysis of why the party lost the House, the
Senate and the presidency in 2020.
“Duncan’s book can be read as the closest thing to an autopsy we’re likely
to get from any Republican who holds statewide office”, wrote James
Hohmann in the Washington Post. “As Duncan notes, the Republican nominee
has won the national popular vote just once since 1988, and Democrats last
year won Georgia’s electoral votes for the first time since 1992.”
The lieutenant governor told reporters in a recent interview that he would
not vote for former president Trump a second time, if he was to run for
office and secure the Republican nomination in 2024.
The two fell out in January after Mr Trump’s call with Georgia secretary
of state Brad Raffensperger was leaked, in which the former president
appeared to ask for the results to be falsified in his favour.
“Donald Trump lost that election because he missed a lay-up, and he blamed everybody in that stadium for missing that lay-up,” Mr Duncan, a former baseball player, told MSNBC on Wednesday. “We’ve got to take our medicine and move forward.
“I’m a conservative because of the policies. I think it’s the best way to govern and to run our businesses, to run our families, and our future,” he continued. “That’s why I’m a Republican. But we’ve got to move on from here”.
There has been intense speculation about the future of the Republican
party, with Mr Trump not ruling out another run for office — while
continuing to run a national fundraising campaign, and rallies. Republican lawmakers, meanwhile, have continued to run a Trump-line on Covid and
voting rights, as well as abortion.
### - because he's no longer running for office this dude can now 'afford'
to speak out, see?
and here he is telling the absolute truth of the matter, mainly because
that 'truth' is actually pretty 'effing obvious anyway!? (have certainly mentioned it on here before)
i.e., the demo's represent the majority see? the 80% majority! so the MORE people that vote is the MORE likelihood the demos will win every time!
thus it's always a mad scramble for the right-wing to devise crafty means
& ways to increase their vote while at the same time reducing the demo's 'ability' to vote; being a minority party THAT'S the way it's ALWAYS been:
they have no other option!
perforce to ever 'openly' do such a thing would be highly illegal heh; coz
that would be actively interfering with an election by clearly crooked + underhand means! totally illegal election engineering! and there's very
clear laws against shit like that??
and this is why - in spite of calling it 'democracy' - it's not 'actually'
a democracy unless 'everyone' gets to vote!
and while it might 'seem' like am just picking on america here, am not!
because exactly the same applies here in the uk as well, only here they
use different methods to reduce the majority vote! (i.e., they 'split' the majority vote here amongst several different parties, some of which have
even been rumoured to have been funded by the conservatives for that
express purpose lol)
well heh... how ELSE could a 'minority' party ever get INTO power
otherwise unless they lied, cheated, and cynically manipulated public
opinion hah!
which all seems pretty obvious really, n'cest pa? ;)
(imho, what the demo's in america have to do now, is find some way to make voting universally mandatory every time unless deliberately opting out
once it begins, and a super-computer used to track/verify every damn thing
with very stiff sentences for anyone caught fucking about... i mean, how
could 'anyone' ever have the bare faced cheek to disagree with having a
working genuine democracy?? smile, plus seeing as the gop have called
voting into question, they could do it on the basis of sorting out the
voting problems once and for all hehe...)
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