How 'Stop The Steal' Is Threatening Future Elections

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🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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New York Times journalist Charles Homans says scores of groups at the state and local levels, with the help of right wing media figures and activists, are taking aim at the electoral system.

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast comes from the New Bower Family Foundation, supporting
0:04.7	WHY Wise Fresh Air and its commitment to sharing ideas and encouraging meaningful conversation.
0:11.4	This is Fresh Air, I'm Terry Gross.
0:14.0	The movement to reinstate President Trump has gone far beyond him and now threatens
0:19.2	the future of American elections.
0:21.7	That's one of the takeaways of Sunday's New York Times magazine article, how stopped
0:26.0	the steel captured the American right by my guest Charles Homans.
0:30.2	He tracks how stopped the steel morphed into a movement geared toward future elections.
0:35.4	Homans says scores of groups at the state and local levels with the help of right wing
0:40.3	media figures and activists are taking aim at the electoral system.
0:44.9	He also tells the backstory of stopped the steel and traces its roots in the tea party
0:50.3	movement that started after President Obama's election.
0:53.1	Some tea party leaders were active in trying to overturn the 2020 election.
0:58.7	The stopped the steel movement didn't succeed in reinstating Trump, but it did succeed on
1:03.9	another level.
1:05.1	Homans cite polls showing that only about one fifth to one quarter of the Republican electorate
1:10.8	considers Biden's presidency legitimate.
1:14.2	Charles Homans is a New York Times reporter covering ideas and activism shaping domestic politics.
1:19.9	He's a former politics editor at the New York Times magazine.
1:24.2	Charles Homans welcome to fresh air.
1:26.5	Let's look at one example of a politician who kind of represents the continuity of stop
1:33.2	the steel into the future.
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