Democrats are once again laying the groundwork to reject the results of the November elections in case they lose, and they are trotting out the same old playbook to do it.
MSNBC analyst Claire McCaskill posted a video of a line to vote in Georgia, claiming it was proof of voter suppression. Democrats think they can win one or both of Georgia’s Senate seats this year, and so they are trotting out the same complaints of voter suppression from when Stacey Abrams lost Georgia’s governor race in 2018. But it wasn’t true then, and it’s not true now.
This is a picture of voter suppression. Why do Americans have to wait in lines this long? This is the line in Suwannee Georgia today to vote. pic.twitter.com/rHl4Gr5kEi
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) October 12, 2020
The line McCaskill’s 70-second video shows was in Gwinnett County, Georgia. According to Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman, the county has “nine advance voting centers open 9-12 hours a day, including weekends,” from Oct. 12 to Oct. 30.
The reason the line is so long is because Monday was the first day of in-person early voting in Georgia, and, according to Georgia’s secretary of state, over 125,000 people voted. That would be a 41% increase over the first day of in-person voting in Georgia in 2018. Apparently, Republicans in Georgia are quite bad at suppressing votes: Their alleged 2018 suppression efforts coincided with 1.4 million more votes being cast than in the 2014 governor’s race.
Democrats have been preparing their excuses ever since they refused to accept the results of the 2016 presidential election. Democrats have claimed that Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination is so the Supreme Court can gift the 2020 election to Donald Trump if it is in dispute. Joe Biden has said that he can’t lose unless there is “chicanery” at the polls. Hillary Clinton is still wandering the countryside, blaming the Facebook memes from Russia for her loss.
The election can never be legitimate if Democrats lose, according to Democrats. The hysteria about Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the election has never applied to Democrats, who have, since 2016, decided the Electoral College must go, the Senate must be loaded with two more Democratic senators from Washington, D.C., and the Supreme Court must be packed with more Democrat-appointed justices because Republicans have nominated too many of them.
Georgia is, once again, not suppressing voters. There is no widespread chicanery at the polls. This is just another example in the long list of Democrats preparing excuses for possible losses because they are convinced that the Democratic Party can never lose a legitimately close election.
