nation is facing the most serious internal attacks on the frontal and institutional structures that define a democracy. since the pulitzer s were introduced a century ago. precisely to counteract problematic, authoritarian tendencies throughout the society. that warning was followed by the announcement of that year s pulitzer prize for national reporting which went to the washington post in new york times for quote, relentlessly reporting coverage in the public interest on russian interference in the 2016 election. and it s connections to the trump campaign, the president elect s transition team, and his eventual administration. that choice naturally drew the ire of then president donald trump, who did not stop complaining about the decision, even after he left the white house. it actually lead the pulitzer boards to open two separate independent investigations into the awarding of those prizes. this week, the pulitzer board announced the results of those investigations,
they don t. largely because the numbers work against republicans in maine. we are outnumbered 2 to 1, in democratic versus republican registration. what we saw happened at the time that i ran in 2002, and wet larry hogan did in 2014. it was to create a narrative that appealed to center right democrats, and independent voters who typically and traditionally voted democratic. it gave them a choice to consider. wet dan cox has done, abstention ubly, is by defeating kelly, has taken that choice away from those voters. the likelihood that they are going to, in the first instance, the first blush, vote for somebody who believes that joe biden was installed in the white house. it busts people to january 6th,