In two Upper Midwest battleground states, Election 2020 never ended. Republicans in Wisconsin and Michigan remain mired in election denial and divided over what to do about it. The question is: Will it hurt their prospects in November’s midterm elections?
Donald Trump lost Wisconsin to Joe Biden by about 21,000 votes, and Trump has claimed ever since without presenting evidence that the election was riddled with irregularities and therefore stolen. The Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau, an agency of the state legislature, previously examined the results of the 2020 presidential election and found nothing that would have changed the outcome, although it made recommendations to improve election procedures.
Then-President Trump’s Justice Department in late 2020 found no evidence of widespread electoral fraud that would have changed the electoral college result.
Last week in Wisconsin, Republican House Speaker Robin Vos extended the taxpayer-funded contract of former state Supreme Court justice Michael Gableman, who has been leading, controversially, a review of the 2020 results. Vos’s decision to extend Gableman’s contract (the former justice agreed to a salary reduction) came shortly after Trump issued a thinly veiled threat of backing primary challengers to those Republicans who got in Gableman’s way, language seen as aimed directly at Vos.
This was not the first time Trump has tried to pressure Vos to investigate the election in Wisconsin, and it was not the first time...
A video shows the Green Party celebrating an election win in a foreign language. False. This video was posted before the election. It is a Bengali language campaign video posted by the Green Party ...