The Right is Still Pushing Election Denial — and Pillows
WIRED Politics Lab
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4.2 • 244 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The election denial movement lives on, thanks in part to the efforts of well-funded and well-organized far-right activists. Today on the show, CNN correspondent Donie O’Sullivan joins Wired Politics Lab to talk about his forthcoming documentary examining election deniers’ new tactics, and what happens after the November vote.
Leah Feiger is @LeahFeiger. David Gilbert is @DaithaiGilbert. Donie O’Sullivan is @Donie. Write to us at [email protected]. Be sure to subscribe to the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter here.
Mentioned this week:
Election Deniers Are Ramping Up Efforts to Disenfranchise Voters by David Gilbert
MisinfoNation: The Trump Faithful by Donie O’Sullivan
Inside the Election Denial Groups Planning to Disrupt November by David Gilbert.
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| 0:24.5 | I'm Leah Feiger, the senior politics editor at Wired. |
| 0:27.9 | The election denial movement lives on, so much so that according to a Washington Post |
| 0:32.7 | and University of Maryland poll from late last year, more than a third of the United States |
| 0:37.3 | still believes |
| 0:38.2 | that President Joe Biden actually lost the 2020 election. Now, in 2024, many far-right |
| 0:44.9 | activist groups are working hard to get former President Donald Trump back into the Oval Office. |
| 0:50.3 | They're better organized and better funded, and they're already priming their followers to believe conspiracies ahead of the election. |
| 0:57.3 | Joining me from Cork, Ireland, to talk about how election deniers are organizing is Wired Senior Reporter David Gilbert. |
| 1:03.8 | Hey, David. |
| 1:04.5 | Hey, Leah. Good to be here. |
| 1:06.3 | And in his debut appearance on Wired Politics Lab, CNN's senior correspondent Donie O'Sullivan joins me in the studio today. |
| 1:14.0 | Donie has a new documentary about election deniers coming out. |
| 1:17.1 | It's called Misinfoanation Part 2, Patriots, Pillows, and Paper Ballot. |
| 1:21.3 | It premieres August 11th on The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper on CNN. |
| 1:25.4 | Donie, thank you so much for coming in. |
| 1:27.3 | Thank you very much for having me. |
| 1:29.2 | So excited. |
| 1:29.9 | Thank you for connecting from Quark, Davis. |
| 1:32.6 | Good of you. |
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