Merkur Before the US election: Republicans and Trump are already working on the next election lie

Merkur Before the US election: Republicans and Trump are already working on the next election lie Article by Kilian Beck • 9 hours • 4 minutes reading time Danger for US democracy With fake news about postal voting or plans to ignore the will of the voters, the Trump Republicans want to undermine the result of the US election against Harris. Washington D.C. - Former US President Donald Trump and the Republicans have been working for weeks to avoid having to accept the result of the US election if Vice President Kamala Harris of the Democrats wins. The strategies range from lies about the alleged "stolen election" against US President Joe Biden in 2020, to fake news about postal voting, to plans to ignore the will of the voters altogether, reported the US broadcaster CNN in an overview of the debates of the US right on Friday (November 1st). Right-wing extremist militias are already calling for lynchings. "Go after them, now!" - Trump incites against Democrats in the swing state of Pennsylvania ahead of the US election The Democrats are "cheating" in the potentially decisive state of Pennsylvania, Trump recently wrote on his medium Truth Social. "Go after them, now!" the ex-president continued. This is "more of the same old story," said Democrat Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania, to the broadcaster. He rejected Trump's accusations. The Republicans claimed, among other things, that the state's Democratic government was manipulating the postal vote and deliberately excluding Trump's voters. According to the Reuters news agency, there was no credible evidence of manipulation of the US election in Pennsylvania on Thursday evening (October 31). US election 2020: Trump tried to manipulate the result in Georgia These accusations are indeed well known. They are Trump's main reason for not acknowledging his defeat in the 2020 US election against incumbent US President Joe Biden to this day. In 2020 and 2021, Trump first tried to convince the responsible Secretary of State for the state of Georgia to "find" enough votes for his victory. He has since been charged with this. When this attempt failed, Trump's then lawyer Rudy Giuliani tried to prove in various courts that Trump had won the election. According to the Washington Post, he failed every single time due to a lack of evidence. Trump's Republicans are suing in the swing state of Pennsylvania against the conduct of the US election For weeks, Republican organizations have been suing on Trump's behalf against almost every aspect of the US election. 130 complaints in 26 US states against the election process, affecting all aspects. From registration to the organization of voting to the question of who is allowed to vote at all, according to the AFP news agency, had already been submitted by Friday (November 1). Some of them, for example in the swing state of Pennsylvania, have already been rejected. Some have also been approved. On Wednesday (October 30), the Supreme Court, dominated by ultra-conservatives, approved the exclusion of at least 1,600 alleged foreigners from the election. US election 2020: The lie of the "stolen election" and the six deaths on January 6th After the defeat against Biden in 2020, the Republicans around Trump quickly spun the conspiracy narrative of the "stolen election", which is now an integral part of the world view of the radical to militant right in the USA. This narrative also drove the more than 2,000 Trump supporters, some of them militant, who stormed the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021 to prevent the US Congress from confirming the result of the US election. Six people died in the riots, which are considered the greatest attack on US democracy in recent times. If Trump loses: "Proud Boys" channels call for lynchings after the US election Violence researchers told the AFP that they have quiet hopes that the sometimes harsh sentences handed down to those responsible for storming the Capitol could have a deterrent effect. It is still possible that right-wing extremist militias will try to spread terror in Trump's name, the US think tank Global Project against Hate and Extremism recently warned. In particular, in channels of the "Proud Boys" militia, which played a key role in storming the Capitol, there has recently been a drastic increase in calls for the lynching of Democratic politicians. Trump himself has recently repeatedly spoken of wanting to fight the "enemy within", meaning leading Democrats, with military means if necessary.