The claims have gotten more outlandish. The silence -- even from former President Donald Trump's strongest supporters -- has become more conspicuous.
It should no longer be a surprise that, after he loses or his candidate loses an election, Trump amplifies false and easily discredited claims of fraud. He did it way back in 2012, when Mitt Romney lost but Trump didn't buy it, again in early 2016, when Sen. Ted Cruz beat him in the Iowa caucuses, and even after he won the presidency but lost the popular vote.
But unlike his false claims about the 2020 election, his most recent insinuations of voter fraud are being almost entirely ignored. That happened in Pennsylvania, where Trump-endorsed Mehmet Oz didn't follow Trump's advice to declare victory before all votes were counted in the Senate race and a recount is now proceeding with Oz still in the lead.
Now comes Georgia, where Trump-backed candidates were blown out in the highest-profile competitive primaries last week. Trump on Tuesday circulated a blog entry citing as "obvious fraud" the fact that Gov. Brian Kemp got nearly 74% of the vote in the GOP primary -- since "it doesn't happen" that candidates win in such lopsided fashion. (Actually, plenty of incumbents win primaries by that margin or more.)
Just about nobody is following Trump's lead on that. Former Sen. David Perdue conceded on election night -- "we trust the people of Georgia," he said -- and counties certified their vote counts without incident on Tuesday.
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