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MAGA goes into overdrive due to election interference

MAGA goes into overdrive due to election interference

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Early voting has begun in most states and Election Day is just five days away. There are patriotic flags hanging in the library; people put little American flags in their planters; and criminals, con artists, and the Republican candidate for president are all getting into the spirit of the season by launching their campaign of election disruption and interference.

On his Truth Social account, Donald Trump posted that Pennsylvania — perhaps the most critical state this cycle — is witnessing cheating “at massive levels rarely seen before.”

It’s easy to read this as a simple expression of panic: perhaps Trump has received bad news from his team and is busy sowing division in anticipation of an expected loss in the state. But Trump doesn’t just claim fraud when he loses. In 2016, angry that he had lost the popular vote, Trump claimed he had overcome widespread voter fraud to win the presidency. Even him launched a committee on the orders of an executive body to investigate the alleged fraud. It dissolved without finding anything.

The Trump campaign, the RNC and Senate candidate Dave McCormick has filed a lawsuit against Bucks County, a Philadelphia suburb that often serves as a bellwether in presidential elections, following reports that some residents were turned away at early polling places. County officials claimed this was simply a “miscommunication” and voters complied.