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Help Meyer’s Opponent

Meijer’s brave profile earned him the animosity of Trump supporters and the first challenge from John Gibbs, a former Trump administration official and 2020 election denier.

It is Gibbs who has the tacit help of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The DCCC is the organization tasked with the difficult task of maintaining control of the Democratic House of Representatives.

Instead of buying ads for Democrats across the country, the group poured more than $300,000 into ads focused on Gibbs’ relationship with Trump. The ad seems designed to help Gibbs along with Trump voters, rather than hurt him.

Gambling in November

The gamble, of course, is that these right-wing candidates could win elections this year, when the Democrats are less active and the Republicans are looking to win the House.

If we’ve learned anything from Trump’s volatile political career, which shocked even himself with his 2016 Electoral College victory, it’s that if two people turn out to vote in November, whoever wins It means you can.

Where else are Democrats supporting far-right Republicans?

This is a recipe that is repeated not only at Meyer’s race, but at many races around the country.

With varying degrees of success, it has helped in the California House elections. Gubernatorial elections in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Colorado and Maryland. Colorado race for the US Senate.

How is help displayed?

In Illinois and Colorado, Democratic Party money was used to attack moderates in the Republican primary, rather than to provoke far-right candidates.

The Democratic-backed Republican candidate lost in Colorado but won in Illinois and Maryland.

Has this been done before?

“On the other hand, moving down the list of issues, there was not a ten-cent value difference between the three leading candidates on how they would have voted if they were senators,” McCa said. “In the long run, antagonizing Todd Aiken has made it more likely that Missourians will no longer be represented by someone with extreme views,” Skill argued.

Missing from all these examples is the underlying theme of electoral denialism, which Democrats say they are fighting, and which has shaken the very notion of democracy in the United States.

everything is fair

It’s also true that if Republicans win a majority in the House with Meyer’s help in the November midterm elections, the House’s further investigation on Jan. 6 will be over.

The goal is to control the house

Meijer singled out Rep. Elaine Luria of Virginia when she complained that Democrats on the House Jan. 6 committee should be kept out of the primary. Luria has worked with Meyer on foreign policy matters, but she said it’s not her job to decide what the DCCC does in the primary.

“Spare me…”

Merica has also spoken with a number of Democrats who have been openly critical of the strategy.

And Meyer, a Republican, was quoted as saying that Democrats, who allege obvious hypocrisy and claim to defend democracy, are “shameless” in supporting candidates who refuse to vote.

“Spare that bullshit,” Meyer said, according to Merika. I’m just there.”

If the Democrats manage to retain control of the House by a vote or two, these pragmatic political efforts will be hailed as wise politics. If they don’t, the Democrats will be responsible for getting more people who will oppose the election into office.

Election Skepticism Becomes Hyperlocal

Key line: And as proponents of election skepticism push their theories into the more obscure corners of American democracy, state election officials are now scrambling to meet new challenges. It warns that the pervasiveness of these isolated pockets of resistance to the performance of usual ceremonial electoral functions, such as the authentication of , could lead to disruption in future elections.

“This destabilization is in the weeds,” said Colorado Secretary of State Jenna Griswold. “This is one of many signs that democracy is in code red.”