Republicans bring back fake electors in battlegrounds

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

37% : After Trump lost the 2020 election, he hoped his vice president, Mike Pence, would claim unprecedented power to count the votes cast by the false electors from states where Joe Biden won the popular vote.
35% : Unless Trump wins outright, his maneuvering has set the stage for a potentially protracted and perilous transfer of power.
33% : But the reemergence of these Republicans demonstrates the power that election denialism continues to hold in a Republican Party led by Trump, who routinely foments false claims of voter fraud -- and has deployed some of those same false claims to raise doubts about the 2024 election.
32% : Many others involved in the false elector scheme have said the same -- they thought their votes were placeholders in the event Trump prevailed in one of his many post-election lawsuits to reverse the outcome, not pawns for a controversy involving Pence.
30% : Voyles recently resurfaced as a defense witness in the bar discipline proceedings for Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who Trump nearly installed as attorney general to help effectuate his plans in 2020.
29% : Of the 93 Republicans designated as prospective presidential electors for Trump from the seven battleground states, eight are facing felony charges for signing false Electoral College certificates in 2020, according to a POLITICO analysis.
26% : "This year, Trump has continued to claim he can only lose the election if it is stolen from him, despite no evidence of fraud.
22% : But both parties have taken a more active role in ensuring that only true loyalists hold the positions since Trump's 2016 victory, which was followed by a far-left effort to pressure electors to reject Trump.
18% : There's little reason to believe that Trump or his allies would attempt to reenact the false elector scheme, given the prolonged criminal proceedings against the fake electors and the maturation of the "Stop the Steal" movement.
17% : "Tarkanian, who has been outspoken about her opposition to Trump, said she wasn't surprised to learn about the returning fake electors "because just looking at Nevada, you actually have party leadership that is filled with grifters," she said.

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