Four years ago, Krugman claimed the election was "rigged" by a number of entities, including "state governments that did all they could to prevent nonwhite Americans from voting," "Russian intelligence," then-FBI Director James Comey, and "the media obsession with Hillary Clinton’s emails." … [Read more...] about NYT’s Krugman says GOP ‘can’t handle’ 2020 election results after declaring 2016 election was ‘rigged’
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McConnell blasts Dems for accepting Biden win after questioning validity of 2016 election
“Let’s not have any lectures, no lectures, about how the president should immediately, cheerfully accept preliminary election results from the same characters who just spent four years refusing to accept the validity of the last election and who insinuated that this one would be illegitimate too if they lost again – only if they lost,” McConnell claimed during a speech on the Senate floor Monday. … [Read more...] about McConnell blasts Dems for accepting Biden win after questioning validity of 2016 election
Andrew McCarthy: Hillary Clinton — not Trump — colluded with Russians in effort to win 2016 election
In that first revelation, via letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ratcliffe explained that, because our spy agencies have very effective foreign-intelligence-gathering methods, they were able to “obtain insight” into a Russian intelligence analysis that concluded Clinton orchestrated the damaging political narrative. … [Read more...] about Andrew McCarthy: Hillary Clinton — not Trump — colluded with Russians in effort to win 2016 election
HuffPost reporter: Trump hasn’t held to anti-establishment ideas from 2016
On Hill.TV’s “Rising” on Wednesday, Marans cited a FiveThirtyEight poll from 2016 , which showed that a lower percentage of voters saw Trump as “conservative” than any of his immediate Republican White House predecessors. … [Read more...] about HuffPost reporter: Trump hasn’t held to anti-establishment ideas from 2016
President of the United States Demands to ‘Overturn’ Election
There was never any question that President Trump would reject an election defeat. He rejected the outcome of the 2016 Iowa primary and called for a revote because Ted Cruz won. He rejected the outcome of the 2012 election because Barack Obama won after it appeared (prematurely and erroneously) that Mitt Romney would win the popular vote. He rejected the outcome of the 2016 election because Hillary Clinton did win the popular vote, and he even established a commission to investigate his spurious claims. … [Read more...] about President of the United States Demands to ‘Overturn’ Election