Calmes: Trump latest warning sign: Stacking election posts with Big Lie supporters (via latimesopinion)
Clearly, Trump wants to prevent such pro-democracy heroics from happening again if — when — he runs in 2024.Jackie Calmes brings a critical eye to the national political scene. She has decades of experience covering the White House and Congress.So he is now paying close attention to local and state races for offices that affect elections — and regularly issuing endorsements for candidates for local election administrator, state representative, secretary of state and state attorney general.
“We have people who don’t actually believe in our elections running to have control over them,” Joanna Lydgate told me. Lydgate is the co-founder and leader of a nonpartisan group, , which works with state and local officials to ensure fair elections and monitor threats. She said the actions — along with new vote-suppression laws in some states — could amount to “election hijacking.”by the Republican-controlled state Senate found no widespread fraud. Yet Trump continues to claim otherwise. Now, he’s trying to change the membership of bipartisan county canvassing boards, which certify each county’s votes.