Election Denial: A Roundtable

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Denying the outcome of elections has become alarmingly popular these days. In one corner, Democrats are claiming that gerrymandering has made our elections illegitimate, that the Senate is anti-Democratic and so is the Supreme Court. The White House Press Secretary has claimed that Trump stole the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton. In the other corner, a majority or close to a majority of Republicans (depending on what polls you look at) believe that Trump was cheated out of a fair election in 2020. Here’s how the Texas GOP put it last month: “We hold that acting President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States.” Today, a roundtable about how worried we should be about the state—and future—of American democracy. With guests: Jonah Goldberg (founder of The Dispatch and author of Suicide of the West); Jeremy Peters (New York Times reporter and author of Insurgency) and Kristen Soltis Anderson (pollster and author of The Selfie Vote). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.5	So for fact sake, search the economist.
0:30.2	This is
0:33.0	honestly.
0:35.7	All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by
0:40.6	a bold and radical left Democrats, which is what they're doing, and stolen by the fake news media.
0:47.0	That's what they've done and what they're doing.
0:50.0	We will never give up. We will never concede. It doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's theft
0:55.7	involved. Ever since the attack on the Capitol on January 6th of last year.
1:02.8	I'm going to protect the Constitution
1:07.0	of the United States against enemies,
1:08.8	foreign and domestic.
1:11.4	I've struggled with how to think about that day.
1:13.2	Mm what what happened to you?
1:18.4	I got mazed and what happened you were trying to go inside the capital?
1:22.2	Yeah I made it like a foot inside and they pushed me out and they maced me.
1:26.0	Specifically with how seriously to take the stop the steel movement?
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