Marc Elias: ‘Donald Trump’s Plan for Elections Is to Make It Harder for You to Vote and Easier for Him to Cheat’

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ELIAS: "Yeah. So it combines the two elements of trumpism. The first is blind loyalty to Donald Trump and the second is election denialism. I mean, one of the big lies of this era is obviously lies Donald Trump tells about voting. But one of the other lies is that somehow Donald Trump and the Republicans care about voter fraud. They don’t care about voter fraud. Like, oftentimes our response is voter fraud is vanishingly rare, which is true. There’s no evidence that elections are affected by voter fraud, that voter suppression is much more serious. True. But one of the things we have to also be clear about is what you just saw, which is that Donald Trump’s plan for elections is to make it harder for you to vote and easier for him to cheat. And so if Donald Trump had a choice between a completely free and fair election that Republicans lost, or a election that he could rig the rules and, and, and cheat"