{"id":157379,"date":"2021-05-10T16:43:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T16:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=d1d53e002323036398a8a96043fd5638"},"modified":"2021-05-10T16:43:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T16:43:24","slug":"the-gop-continues-to-rally-around-trumpian-stop-the-steal-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/10\/the-gop-continues-to-rally-around-trumpian-stop-the-steal-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"The GOP Continues to Rally Around Trumpian \u201cStop the Steal\u201d Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"\"a<\/a>

Over the weekend, the Virginia Republican Party held its convention at which it was supposed to choose its candidates for the off-year election this fall. The three top candidates for governor have been described as “Trumpy, Trumpier and Trumpiest<\/a>,” so you can easily see where Virginia Republicans are positioning themselves in the GOP circular firing squad. In their zeal to model their allegiance to their Ultimate Leader, Republicans went out of their way to restrict the voting process to assure “the integrity” of the vote. According to<\/a> NBC News’<\/em> Alex Seitz-Wald it didn’t go very well:<\/p>\n

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At issue is a decision to quietly allow voters to participate in their complicated primary process<\/a> even if they left blank parts of the application, including required fields that asked for their state-issued voter ID number and a signature, according to documents and an audio recording of a call obtained exclusively by NBC News<\/em>. Republicans in the state say the nominating contest has been a logistical nightmare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Their own activists couldn’t traverse all of the GOP’s newly-imposed “voter integrity” verifications. Evidently, a whole bunch of people didn’t know how to do fill out the necessary paperwork so they left it whole portions blank which, under the new strict vote-counting rules the Republicans are pushing, should result in throwing out the ballot or registration form.<\/p>\n\n

The right-wing gubernatorial candidate who calls herself “Trump in heels,” (and is widely considered the Trumpiest of the lot) Amanda Chase is not standing for it. She wrote this to her supporters:<\/p>\n

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“DO NOT TRUST THE PARTY TO DELIVER ACCURATE RESULTS. Who should you go to for the proper results? Me and my campaign! My campaign will be monitoring the voting and data entry on election night. If they are accurate, we will tell you. If they are not, I will be prepared to sue in court to force a public count.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She means it:<\/p>\n

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Radical right-wing Virginia state senator Amanda Chase says that if she does not emerge from the GOP’s nominating convention today as the Republican candidate for governor, she’ll demand an audit of the vote. pic.twitter.com\/xSrxunOnlu<\/a><\/p>\n

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