Was able to take hold, is because decades, lawmakers, particularly republicans, have used this idea of protecting against fraud, fraud that has never existed, never been proven, in order to make voting more difficult. to pass laws with everything from stripping voter s names from polls, from requiring i. d. requirements where we know that it s more difficult for black people, brown people, poor people to get them, and they tend to vote democratic. that s been happening for a long time. you have the stripping of the voting rights act where it happened even more. that was the kindling. where donald trump s big lies was able to set a fire. and really lead to this. so it s a slow build up. and that s why it s so much harder to fight back against now. in the months leading up to this fateful day at four seasons total landscaping, the trump campaign was trump was throwing out different reasons why he would eventually lose. once it became clear to him, i