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rejecting the results of the election. Hillary Clinton had said Biden should “not concede no matter what,” and it increasingly seems that Donald Trump is now taking that advice. As of this print, he has still not conceded, and I suspect that although he will leave office, he may never formally concede. This will cause his base to increasingly distrust the results. Couple that fundamental fear of mistrust in the system with a doomed sense that Democrats may “steal” the election through fraudulent absentee ballots, and you have the makings of a big Democratic win... Republican voters are at risk of taking their ball and going home. It’s happened before – albeit in a Socialist, Latin American country. After the 2004 referendum that enable Socialist Hugo Chávez to remain in power (despite overwhelming polls indicating he was about to be voted out), the opposition – led by former Venezuelan presidential candidate, the Conservative Politician María Corina Machado – insisted the voting machines (made by Smartmatic) were rigged. As a result, many Venezuelan conservative voters boycotted future elections, enabling the late Hugo Chávez, and then Nicolás Maduro, to strengthen their hold on the country. The concern now is that discredited fears of tampering may disenfranchise and demotivate the Conservative base. Attorney Sidney Powell, who is no longer working with the Trump team, has alleged fraud similar to what took place in Venezuela
in 2004. And, unsurprisingly, Georgian Conservatives are reacting much like their Venezuelan counterparts – with many asking, “Why should we vote if our vote will not be counted?” This is why the integrity of the system, and the belief in the system, is so critical. Breitbart News reported last week that the president is urging Sidney Powell and Lin Wood to refrain from pushing an election boycott and to stop attacking Republican officials. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who is from Georgia, tweeted: Lin Wood and Sidney Powell are totally destructive. Their don’t-vote strategy will cripple America. And he’s right... At a “Stop the Steal” rally in Georgia earlier this month, attorneys Powell and Wood said the election process was so corrupt that no one should participate. “Why would you go back and vote in another rigged election for God’s sake? Fix it. You gotta fix it before we’ll do it again,” Wood exhorted the crowd. A Los Angeles Times reporter commented that “In decades covering politics, this is the first Don’t- Get-Out-The-Vote rally I’ve ever heard of.” Apparently, that reporter had never seen what happened to Venezuela.
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