Once more, Trump demands “election integrity.” He employed the same ruse in 2020 and 2016.

There are so many aspects of this election that are unpredictable. Making this call is simple.It adheres to a pattern. Trump will warn of impending fraud while lying about previous elections. He and the RNC will provide a barrage of legal challenges that read less like persuasive legal arguments and more like attempts to spread lies.

Will the Trump trial affect the electorate?I questioned Trump’s backers about their concerns regarding the Stormy Daniels trial.And since Pennsylvania is where I was covering Trump’s campaign, let’s go back to the months leading up to the 2016 election.

During the final three months leading up to the 2016 election, Trump asserted during rallies in Pennsylvania’s suburbs and exurban areas that voter fraud in Philadelphia may ruin his chances of winning the state.

As an illustration, he cited the fact that, as the Republican nominee for president in 2012, U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney failed to receive a single vote in 50 of the 1,687 voting divisions in Philadelphia.

After a little investigation, such assertion was disproven.
In 2016, the head of the Republican Party of Philadelphia informed me that Romney’s lack of votes in the heavily Democratic neighborhoods, where the majority of people are Black and supported then-President Barack Obama, in 2012 was not surprising.
In an attempt to overturn Pennsylvania’s election code’s requirements for poll watchers, Trump and the RNC hurried to ask a federal judge to consider the unfounded allegation of voting fraud, ignoring the clear context. The Republican-controlled state legislature had chosen not to make that adjustment, according to the judge in that case, a former state attorney general.In 2016, the Republican Party referred to that as “a blow to openness and transparency” in the electoral process. Since the point wasn’t the context. Everything that mattered was spreading the word about purported voter fraud.