.MaddowBlog: Republican voters have been told not to trust election results. It's a campaign against democracy, and it's working painfully well.
To the extent that reality still has meaning, Trump's claims were, and are, baseless. He pointed to no evidence to substantiate the allegations because no such evidence exists. Literally no one has pointed to irregularities in Virginia's balloting.
But the point of the lies is not to alert the public to imagined flaws in an electoral system. Rather, the point is to preemptively delegitimize possible Democratic victories. For the former president, if Republicans fall short, it's necessarily proof that there was fraud. If Republicans win, it's proof that voters overcame a rigged system.
Either way, Trump wants the public to believe that our democracy is not to be trusted. Just as importantly, his efforts to undermine public confidence in our system appear to be working. NBC NewsTwo-thirds of all registered voters, 66 percent, say they are confident their vote will be counted accurately, down from 85 percent in October 2020. And 29 percent say they are not confident that their vote will be counted accurately in the future, compared to 11 percent who said the same a year ago.
The shift, of course, is driven largely by Republican voters who've fallen for the scam. A year ago, 84 percent of Republicans said they were confident in the vote count. Now, that number has plummeted to 41 percent. Meanwhile, only about one in five GOP voters believe President Joe Biden was elected legitimately — an utterly bonkers problem that's
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