Christmas has come and gone, but this week the specter of elections past and ghost of elections future will haunt Washington.
One year ago this Thursday, thousands of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and interrupted the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election victory, denying America the peaceful transfer of power that is a hallmark of healthy, functioning democracies.
On that fraught anniversary, President Biden and his predecessor will lay out dueling visions of what the insurrection means for American politics – even as Congress pursues its investigation into the violence and Trump’s role in it, and the former president’s loyalists whitewash the worst attack on the U.S. electoral system and his role in inspiring it.
Biden and Vice President Harris will make remarks Thursday morning from National Statuary Hall in the Capitol, according to a knowledgeable source. Trump will speak from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida around 5 p.m., his office announced last week.
This isn’t some shrug-your-shoulders-and-roll-your-eyes partisan circus. How Americans understand Trump’s months-long, falsehood-fueled campaign to overturn the 2020 election, ultimately calling on supporters to march on the Capitol a year ago, remains a clear and present force shaping U.S. politics.
That includes, as I wrote in a piece that published this weekend, this year's midterm contests. The same false GOP claims of voter fraud in 2020 that fueled the insurrection...
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