Dear @SenateDems and @HouseDemocrats:You’re losing the narrative by fighting lies w/ misleading half truths. It is time to stand again for real election integrity. It is the only way. Reintroduce the #SAFEAct requiring robust manual election audits 4 ALL federal races in 2022. 1/
2/ Be LOUD this time. @RonWyden should never have been the only one to discuss election-security concerns publicly. He had it right. The rest of you did not. Level with the American public bc you will continue springing leaks if u try to stop GOP lies w/ half truths.
3/ They will find your half truths and expose them, and it will make YOU look shady and suspicious. Just do the right thing. Stand for truth. It is the only way out. TY.
🔥The polling data that Manafort shared with Kilimnik integrated Tony Fabrizio’s polling data with Cambridge Analytica’s. When Manafort handed over the data, he expected Trump to win PA even though the rest of the campaign did not. Why?! By @emptywheel 1/ emptywheel.net/2021/05/24/foo…
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3/ President Obama won [Luzerne County, Pennsylvania] twice, but it surged in the other direction for Trump, & he won it by 20 points, building up such a margin in this one county that it was 60 % of his victory margin for the state of PA.” Sourced thread. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1072005…
TFG is a monster. He taught his supporters to weaponize lawsuits & other official processes to wear down their perceived enemies. The Republican party BLOCKED pre-election efforts to secure the election w/ robust manual audits for all federal races. Why won’t Ds mention that?! 1/
Other than those who follow me on Twitter (or Wyden), almost no one knew about the #SAFEAct & what was in it (a ban on internet connectivity & mandatory robust manual audits for all federal races in 2020.) This messaging failure allowed TFG to play victim. IMO. 1/
The Democrats are still messing up by not reintroducing the #SAFEAct or another standalone bill just focused on audits in 2022. Seriously. That Bill might even get some Republican support. Worst case, if they oppose it, you use that to show they are insincere about integrity. 2/
Maybe I’m wrong. But this is my strong opinion on strategy. I am not equating Ds with Rs. Rs are rotten to the core. I worry Ds are not good enough negotiators or messagers to defeat them. 3/
Although you would never know it to hear Trump and his allies scream about Dominion, it was ES&S, America’s largest voting machine vendor, that deservedly received criticism in recent years for a whole lot of scandals. 1/
2/ ES&S has donated $30k to the Republican State Legislative Committee since 2013, as I wrote here. nybooks.com/daily/2018/11/…
3/ ES&S used lobbyists to make illegal secret donations to the decision makers in Philadelphia who then chose to replace Philadelphia’s old system with a controversial new system from ES&S. (As I wrote here - first reported by others) nybooks.com/daily/2019/12/…
Once upon a time in a country called America, a power-hungry political party called the GOP enjoyed about fifteen years of poll-defying victories after ensuring that America’s election system made it impossible to prove fraud. 1/
2/ They got away w/ it bc Democrats almost always conceded without a fight and because anyone who suspected fraud was called “tin foil” since they couldn’t prove it.
3/ America’s 2020 election flipped this situation on its head.
Before the Big Lie most experts agreed that US election audits are mostly theatre. I interviewed America’s foremost auditing expert right b4 the election. (see post 2) Ds are fighting lies w/ lies. Truth is our audit laws suck. It’s why we needed the #SAFEAct which Rs blocked. 1/
2/ THIS is the painful truth about most US election audits. Mostly they are theatre. It only became controversial to say this bc of Trump’s Big Lie. But it’s true. It’s why we needed the #SAFEAct, which the GOP blocked. Democrats must reintroduce it NOW.👇 nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/…