How right-wing disinformation is fueling conspiracy theories about the 2024 election
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🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's been more than three years since baseless claims about a rigged 2020 election inspired an attack on the U.S. Capitol, |
| 0:07.0 | but the lies have not stopped. |
| 0:09.0 | Laura Biron Lopez is here with more. |
| 0:11.0 | Laura. |
| 0:12.0 | Thanks, Jeff. |
| 0:12.9 | Before and after the 2020 election, |
| 0:14.9 | Donald Trump repeatedly so doubt about the legitimacy |
| 0:18.1 | of the US election system. |
| 0:19.9 | Now, less than five months to go before November, he's doing it again. |
| 0:24.2 | Here he is in the swing state of Wisconsin this week. |
| 0:27.2 | The radical left Democrats rigged the presidential election in 2020, |
| 0:31.8 | and we're not going to let them rig the presidential election in |
| 0:35.8 | 2024 and every time we're not going to let him do it. |
| 0:44.0 | And much like last time the former president has help from right-wing media. |
| 0:48.0 | What is up the damn sleeve to drag that body back into the White House? |
| 0:52.0 | What's the dog that's not barking? |
| 0:54.8 | And then let's say by some weird miraculous chance |
| 0:57.9 | that we didn't see coming, |
| 0:59.6 | given that Trump is ahead has a 66% chance of winning. |
| 1:03.3 | Looks like he's going to get the electoral count. |
| 1:06.6 | And he, Joe still wins. |
| 1:08.4 | Well, then what do you do after you win? |
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