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Author: wzambon ✶❂🐝 BRONZE
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Subject: Republicans Will Try to Steal 2026
Date: 10/07/25 11:11 AM
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One-third of Congress denied the 2020 election. Nearly all of them still hold office. In 2026, they might need to accept results that cost them power, but history says they likely won’t.

One hundred fifty-six election deniers hold congressional seats (States United Action, 2024a). The Republican National Committee has deployed over 100,000 “election integrity” volunteers and attorneys across battleground states (Republican National Committee, 2024). Donald Trump controls the pardon power. Meanwhile, Republicans have gerrymandered the system so thoroughly that Democrats could win the popular vote by five points and still lose the House.

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Factually, even if Democrats overcome that rigged system and flip the House anyway, the margins will be razor-thin. Three to five seats. Maybe less. Close enough to contest. Close enough to claim fraud. And this time, unlike 2020, Republicans have the institutional power to act on it.

Eighty-four fake electors signed fraudulent certificates in 2020 claiming Trump won seven states he lost. County officials refused to certify results in seventeen cases that year. By 2022, that number had jumped to twenty-two, a thirty percent increase in just one election cycle. Of 291 Republican candidates who denied or questioned 2020 results, 170 won their races in 2022. By 2024, the consolidation was complete. Thirty-one percent of the House. Twenty percent of the Senate. Twenty-three statewide officials with election oversight authority.

Then Trump won, with the help of voter disenfranchisement and gerrymandering. Republican confidence in election accuracy jumped. Harris conceded immediately. No Democratic denial, no calls for investigation, no claims of fraud. But Trump used his victory to expand control, issuing executive orders threatening to eliminate mail-in ballots and “bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.” Federal courts blocked the orders as unconstitutional, so if you have faith in Republicans willingness to abide by court orders, rather than gain power at all costs, then feel free to stop reading and trust that everything will be fine….. (more at link:

cmarmitage.substack.com - Republicans will try to steal

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