We'll see.
Millions of GOP voters are primed to distrust the midterm election results. But Democrats need to be honest about the consequences of their actions after the 2016 election.
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November 7, 2022
"Trump’s mendacity is arguably the
Second Big Lie. Four years earlier, the
Hillary Clintoncampaign and leading Democrats refused to acknowledge the outcome of the 2016 election, by claiming Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. These actions, while certainly not as dramatic or as immediately damaging as the events leading to Jan. 6 (and today), helped bring us to our current situation.
“He lost the election and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf,”
ex-President Jimmy Carter said in 2019, continuing to deny Trump’s victory three years after the election.
“He knows he’s an illegitimate president,” said
Clinton, also three years later. She repeated this sentiment in 2020, telling The Atlantic the election “was not on the level,” and again when
she called Trump’s win illegitimate. She
piled on to this by saying, “You can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you,” clearly referring to how she saw her 2016 campaign."