Are We In Denial About the End of Election Denialism?
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 16 November 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Nearly four hundred election deniers ran in the midterms, and not only did the highest-profile among them lose their races, they even willingly conceded. Does this mean that Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” movement has run out of political steam? Or is it merely shapeshifting for a new era? Rachel Monroe, who has been reporting from conspiracy-ridden Maricopa County, Arizona, and Sue Halpern, who has written extensively about the fragility of our voting machines, join Tyler Foggatt to discuss the challenges of building public trust in our elections.
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| 0:56.0 | I'm Tyler Foggett, a senior editor at The New Yorker. |
| 0:59.8 | Nearly 400 election deniers or skeptics were running in the midterms, and not only did many of them lose, but they willingly acknowledged it. |
| 1:07.2 | So, is the Stop the Steel era finally over? |
| 1:10.8 | Two of my colleagues, Sue Halpern and Rachel Monroe, have thought a lot about election security and about election conspiracy theories. |
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| 1:22.6 | So President Biden recently referred to the midterm elections as a good day for democracy. |
| 1:28.3 | And I'm wondering whether both of you would agree with that statement, given how many of the more high-profile election deniers lost. |
| 1:35.5 | This is Sue, and I would say yes. I'm feeling pretty good about it. |
| 1:40.0 | I was completely concerned about the Secretary of State races, which I had been covering, because it's not just that they want to revive 2020. |
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