Reuters released a report last week that might have been overlooked in the holiday season lull. Its reporters collected more than 850 threatening messages left for election workers in 16 states in the wake of the 2020 elections. Two hundred of the messages were categorized by Reuters as “wishing death” on the person receiving the message.
“Watch your back,” one read. “I KNOW WHERE YOU SLEEP, I SEE YOU SLEEPING. BE AFRAID, BE VERRY AFRAID. I hope you die.”
I have not said what the trigger for the threats and vituperation was, but you already know. “Virtually all expressed support for former President Donald Trump,” Reuters said of the messages, “or echoed his debunked contention that the election was stolen.”
“The Texas secretary of state’s office has released the first batch of results from its review into the 2020 general election,” it reported, “finding few issues despite repeated, unsubstantiated claims by GOP leaders casting doubts on the integrity of the electoral system.”
You may not have been aware that Texas was conducting a review of its votes. After all, Trump won the state, and his and his allies’ claims of fraud have been almost entirely centered on states where he lost, as though the “grand conspiracy” of Democratic interference worked flawlessly in states he lost narrowly and didn’t exist in ones where he barely succeeded. But there’s political capital to be earned from repeating Trump’s false claims about fraud, even in red states, so an investigation was...
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