Ahead of the 2024 election cycle, RNC chair Ronna McDaniel reiterated Trump’s grievances with the nonpartisan commission and threatened to advise future GOP nominees against participating unless “significant reforms” are made.
Say this for the Republicans: They can hear the clock ticking. Though
Donald Trump has refused to move on from the 2020 election, his party quickly pivoted from attempting to overturn his loss last year to working to prevent any such loss from happening in future elections. With the 2022 midterms and the 2024 general in mind, the GOP has been on a monthslong sprint to enact restrictive voting laws in states across the country, among other dangerous, democracy-imperiling efforts to tilt the system in their favor. While the disenfranchisement campaign isn’t guaranteed to work, it raises the uneasy prospect of significant GOP gains next year and a whole host of unsavory possibilities that would arise from a majority led by
Trump’s staff mocked the so-called “Hannity ad,” according to a forthcoming 2020 election book, as the host claims he was “not involved that much” with the campaign.
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