From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. And I'm Bob Garfield.

As votes are counted and recounted in Florida, Georgia, and elsewhere, we face a great crisis in this country.

That crisis is disguises.

Speaking to the Daily Caller, he said, quote, the Republicans don't win, and that's because of potentially illegal votes.

When people get in line that have absolutely no right to vote and they go around in circle,

sometimes they go to their car, put on a different hat, put on a different shirt, come in and vote again.

Yes, Donald Trump, who's been lying about rampant voter fraud since before his own 2016

victory, asserts that Democrats appeared at the polls in costume to cast multiple fraudulent

votes.

This is where the media like to use the phrase...

Without evidence.

The president offered actually no evidence to back up his claim and keeping them honest that's probably because there isn't any. There is no evidence. The prison offered actually no evidence to back up his claim

and keep it am honest, that's probably because there isn't any.

There is no evidence of fraud, no proof of sabotage of any kind.

Yes, without evidence, without plausibility, but not without effect.

In his constant, totally made-up allegations of voter fraud, which his own

presidential commission imploded trying to even make a case for, Trump has successfully created

a trope, a standard accusation for explaining any electoral challenge. The growing drama over the

midterms as Florida Governor Rick Scott files a bombshell lawsuit accusing Democrats of trying to steal the election.

The Kemp team has dismissed these lawsuits as trivial, and they say the Democrats are simply trying to steal the election through the court system.

Oddly, the leader so far in the vote count for Georgia's governorship, Brian Kemp, doesn't mention his systematic suppression

of likely Democratic voters before the election in his then role as Georgia's Secretary of State.

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