In an apparent bid to open the door for Vice President Kamala Harris to claim victory, members of communist influence organizations sought to proactively refute any possible victories by past president Donald Trump and portrayed his supporters as aggressive.
According to David Becker, the leader of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, which distributed million in” Zuckbucks” to election authorities in 2020,” there is a lot of investment by supporters of President Trump that suggests that his success is inevitable.” ” If he loses the election, or views that he’s losing, you can imagine the horror that is going to be felt by his adherents, and how that’s going to get leveraged by grifters to try to rage them, to try to inspire them to murder”.
The conference, which happened Wednesday, was suitably called” Red, White, and Coup“. It featured Becker, Nora Benavidez, senior counsel for the Free Press ( which supports censorship and was founded by a socialist ), Heidi Beirich, cofounder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism ( which smears conservative groups ), and Damon Hewitt, president of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ( which wages lawfare against conservatives ).  ,
In an attempt to determine the narrative and prepare the ground for Harris ‘ say to win and reduce dissent, panelists suggested a potential Trump victory as illegitimate and that his supporters and those with concerns for election integrity were “extremists” with a possible for violence.
Discrediting a Trump Victory
Becker compared two possible scenarios: one where Harris appears to succeed and Trump tries to reverse the results, and the other where Trump early claims triumph on election night. In either case, Becker suggested a Trump win state would be illegal.
Becker implied Trump may attempt to reverse the results if Harris is allegedly winning on election day. Becker suggested there is a” surprise plan for the loser” — apparently meaning Trump—” to steal the election and take business” . ,
” The losing candidate may try to make a different effect and may desperately try to take control in a failed effort that will most likely lead to crime,” Becker said. ” There might be a program. It might be attempted. It’s going to refuse. The scaffolding are in area”.
Becker characterized the state of the current campaign for election integrity as “designed to preclude claims that an election was afterwards stolen.” Also, he said he was not worried.  ,
” This approach is going to enjoy out”, Becker said. ” The districts will acknowledge. The states may confirm. The governors did investigate. The delegates will meet, and Congress may count the vote, the political vote, the electoral vote, as they were cast”.
Left-wing election organizations like the Campaign Legal Center have been pushing to make authorities rubber-stamp poll results as a “ministerial” work, taking away their choice even if results are wary.  ,
Becker predicted that there will likely be a delay in seeing results, during which time Americans wo n’t know who actually prevailed.
Becker said that the applicant who believes they are losing may attempt to propagate disinformation using that short window of time, the period between when the polls close and when the media is call the contest.
He blamed this “disinformation” — or speech disapproved by those in power — on Trump, his supporters, and foreign adversaries.
” What we’re also seeing is a steady stream of disinformation about the process, a lot of it originating from overseas”, Becker said. ” A lot of it ] comes from the allies of former president Trump,” the statement read.
He claimed that Russia is intervening in Trump’s favor, which is in line with the left’s obsession with Trump and Russia in the wake of the collusion investigation.
” Russia is very clearly intervening on the side of Donald Trump right now,” Becker said. However, even if Trump wins, they will all work toward disinformation that will cause enrage and potential violence in those who backed the losing candidate.
Becker said that any chaotic events after the election” will have been caused” and called for accountability.
” There will be people who are accountable for them, and we should hold them accountable for having caused that,” Becker said. We should n’t release those who are causing the chaos or dividing their duties for doing that.
Targeting Supporters of Election Integrity
” How do we root out unacceptable, bigoted, misogynistic values”? asked Free Press ‘ Nora Benavidez. Democracies, whether they are new, older, stronger, or more resilient, are at risk of these kinds of attacks on normatically unacceptable values.
Heidi Beirich, of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, smeared election integrity advocates like Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who chairs the Election Integrity Network, as “election deniers” who have “fused into corners of white supremacy and anti-government movements”.
There are, there are dozens of these, according to Cleta Mitchell and other groups that are involved in election denial, whether it’s a group like True the Vote or Mike Lindell has an offensive institute. They have really fused into corners of white supremacy and anti-government movements”, Beirich said. ” Their activities could be extremely disruptive post-Election Day, whether it’s frivolous type stuff in the courts, narrative building, disinformation campaigns”.
She also attempted to connect Mitchell to a group called” Constitutional Sheriffs,” which claims militias might obstruct unconstitutional government action.
” They believe … they can insert themselves into election issues, ballot centers — I’m just using those examples”, Beirich said. ” They have become very, very close to election-denying organizations like Cleta Mitchell’s, and there has been talk already prior to the election about bringing the militias into areas along with the sheriffs where they’re not happy with certification, counting, and so on”.
Mitchell claimed that this is a “pack of lies” and that The Federalist is a “pack of lies.” She claimed that she has never spoken with a white supremacy group in her life and has never spoken with a sheriff outside of her own county, so Beirich must have misinterpreted her with someone else.
” Everything this lunatic said is false”, Mitchell said. ” I have no idea what she’s talking about. And neither does she”.
Mitchell said her group, the Election Integrity Network, instructs poll observers and volunteers” to be right and polite”.
” All we ask is that election officials follow the law, that they conduct the election in a transparent manner ( as required by law ), and that they accurately count the votes,” Mitchell said. ” That’s pretty radical stuff, do n’t you think”?
Beirich stoked fears that groups like the Proud Boys and” white supremacists” would interfere in elections, and Becker cast “red counties” as potentially violent.
” I’m worried about all the small counties, maybe even the deeply red counties, where there are activists who believe these lies that they’ve been fed for four years and may be incited to anger and violence”, Becker said.
Damon Hewitt, of the Lawyers ‘ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, explained his group’s work to “destabilize” organizations it deems “hate groups”.
” Our litigation — and now multiple lawsuits — against these types of hate groups, or groups that espouse hate, I should say, is to both delegitimize their ideology, but frankly, also to destabilize the organizations”, Hewitt. Destabilizations do occur in some ways. In the upcoming months, it’s unlikely that you’ll see any particular actors performing on D.C. streets. That’s in part because they’re either in prison, or because they’re banned from the district”.
According to Mitchell, “electoral integrity advocates are not the purveyors of hate.”
” The people on that call are the extremists”, Mitchell said. ” These left-wing crazies are off their rockers”.
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Logan Washburn is a staff writer who writes about election ethics. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo’s editorial assistant, and has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller. Logan was born and raised in rural Michigan, but he is primarily from Central Oregon.
