Former Vice President Al Gore accused those who believe that former President Donald Trump was cheated out of the presidency in 2020 of pushing “AI,” or “artificial insanity.”
Gore slammed Trump and members of the GOP, a majority of whom he judged to be “so enthralled” by Trump that it’s preventing sympathetic Republicans from accepting the election results.
“The refusal of the former president to acknowledge that he lost by 7 million votes — it wasn’t close for God’s sake — and apparently a majority of his party is still so enthralled to him that they still believe that the American people did not make the judgment that they clearly made,” Gore said in an interview on CNN that aired Sunday. “This is very damaging to our democracy.”
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“I’m hoping that this craziness will fade over time,” Gore said in reference to the 2020 election ballot audit in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Gore alleged the GOP’s efforts to investigate the election results amounted to “artificial insanity.”
“We hear about AI standing for artificial intelligence. They’re putting another kind of AI out: artificial insanity,” Gore said. “They’re putting out messages that create an alternate reality, and people get into these echo chambers on the internet, and it’s all they hear, and they begin to believe the alternate reality.”
Former VP Al Gore: “We hear about A.I. standing for artificial intelligence. [Republicans] are putting another kind of A.I. out, artificial insanity. They’re putting out messages that create an alternate reality.” pic.twitter.com/looDt0YvYM
— The Hill (@thehill) June 27, 2021
Gore narrowly lost the 2000 presidential contest to former President George W. Bush. The results of that election remained unknown for weeks after Election Day due to a recount in Florida, where a narrow vote in favor of Bush determined the outcome.
Trump continues to insist that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against him in public statements and media appearances despite both federal and state election officials assuring the votes were secure.
The former president reiterated his claims in his first rally since leaving the White House on Saturday, saying his opponents used the COVID-19 pandemic to change voting rules in order to cheat.
“They used COVID in order to cheat. They used COVID in order to rig the election and in order to steal the election. They used COVID,” he said during the rally in Ohio, where he also praised election audit efforts. “That’s as simple as it gets.”
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Not all prominent state and national elected GOP officials have supported Trump’s assertions about the election. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, both Republicans, have been subjected to fierce criticism by Trump for not backing his assertions of fraud, and on Wednesday, the Republican-led Michigan Senate Oversight Committee released the findings of an investigation that revealed the 2020 election results were accurate in that state, one of several that Trump accused of having fraud.
In another high-profile break with Trump, former Attorney General William Barr reportedly called Trump’s fraud allegations “bulls***” in a private interview with ABC journalist Jonathan Karl.
