Furlow vividly recalled his discomfort with a scene in which mostly white Republican challengers were confronting the mostly Black elections workers. Relaying an anecdote about controversy among Republican challengers in a vote counting room in Detroit, he made it a racial incident, using a surely objective choice as a source: Monday’s front-page story, “ Plan to Make Losing Look Like a Win,” by Jim Rutenberg and Nick Corasaniti, purported to outline a years-long conspiracy by the Trump camp to steal re-election if necessary.įour years after Rutenberg's infamous front-page shenanigans in August 2016 calling for the press to drop its façade of objectivity to destroy the Trump candidacy, he is back on the front page trying to suggest the president was the one trying to “bend reality.” Even so, such strategies have long been part of American politics and are not going away. Republicans have argued that measures like voter identification laws, purges of voter rolls and limits on mail ballots are necessary to combat fraud, but ballot fraud is so rare that the rules often accomplish little more than suppress legal turnout. And nobody expects party leaders to quickly abandon a strategy that has served its interests from North Carolina to Texas to North Dakota. Trump and the Republican Party’s increasingly authoritarian bent. Again, remember sentences like the one in bold below appear in a so-called news story: In Wines’ world, there is no such thing as vote fraud. “It was certainly true when Republicans believed that white working-class voters were Democrats. “Stereotypes die hard, and this Republican idea that if more people vote it benefits Democrats was at some level more true in the past,” said Norman Ornstein, a scholar of American politics and democracy at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute. And Republicans drew surprising support from Black and Latino voters - the very groups the party historically targeted with restrictive voting laws in state after state. Yet by its end, Americans had cast ballots at a rate not seen in a century. It was an election where Republican charges of fictitious voter fraud took center stage before, during and after the count, backed by a barrage of lawsuits intent on making it harder to cast or tally votes. New York Times reporter Michael Wines climbed back onto his liberal hobby horse - thuggish Republicans denying voting rights under the spurious excuse of fighting non-existent vote fraud - in “ Limit Votes? The Right May Need a New Tactic.”Ĭheck out this objective reporting from the lead paragraph:
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