Donald Trump's fraud claims died in court, but the myth of stolen elections lives on
If anything, Donald Trump has given the movement to limit ballot access new momentum while becoming the singular, charismatic leader it never had.
New York Times
December 28, 2020 / 07:49 AM IST
President Donald Trump’s baseless and desperate claims of a stolen election over the last seven weeks — the most aggressive promotion of “voter fraud” in American history — failed to get any traction in courts across seven states, or come anywhere close to reversing the loss he suffered to Joe Biden.
But the effort has led to at least one unexpected and profoundly different result: A thorough debunking of the sorts of voter fraud claims that Republicans have used to roll back voting rights for the better part of the young century.