In a couple of columns earlier this spring, I noted that the modern Democrat Party has willingly — gleefully, in fact — cast itself as the villain in this year’s election cycle. Everything about the Democrats’ actions sends up red flags to average Americans on this score.
But I probably should have remembered, as I do now, the excellent line from the great Michael Walsh.
Walsh, writing years ago at National Review under the pen name David Kahane, offered that the Democrats were a criminal organization masquerading as a political party.
That was patently, incontrovertibly true when he wrote it. It’s obviously, unavoidably true now.
You don’t need to go any further than the shambolic kangaroo-court trial going on in New York, in which Soros-funded District Attorney “Fat Alvin” Bragg is attempting to prosecute Donald Trump for activity that is not a crime in front of a left-wing activist judge, Juan Merchan, with clear, disqualifying conflicts — his daughter heads up a Chicago political fundraising firm that’s close to raising nine figures’ worth of campaign cash for Democrats like Adam Schiff. Fat Alvin’s case is being shepherded by a high Biden Justice Department official brought in as a ringer. Trump has been ordered not to make any of the above information known to the public, so now Republican political officials like Tommy Tuberville, J.D. Vance, and Mike Johnson are appearing at the courthouse to unload on Bragg, Merchan, and the Biden administration for the utter perversion of the legal system they’re unleashing on the public.
And why? Power.
The Democrats oppose efforts to stop illegal aliens from voting in our elections. Their defense is that those efforts are a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. Well, if that’s true, then it would seem that no harm would come of trying to restrict the franchise to those who are eligible for it, no?
No.
They also oppose efforts to mandate that someone who shows up to vote present an official identification card, like a passport or a driver’s license. Their argument to oppose voter ID is that it unduly burdens black people. Asked about that argument, the vast majority of black people rightly respond that they’re insulted at the idea that they’re too bereft and stupid to obtain one.
Everybody knows why Democrats oppose voter ID. It’s plain and obvious why. They aren’t fooling anyone — if they ever did. What’s interesting is that they don’t care whether their arguments are persuasive. Voter ID would make it harder to steal an election; therefore, they oppose it. Period.
And then there’s Nevada.
You’re aware that Donald Trump leads by as much as 13 points in the Silver State, are you not? Yep, it’s true:
[T]he new poll of six swing states shows that among likely voters surveyed in Nevada, former President Trump leads President Joe Biden by 13 percentage points: 51% to 38%.
That difference may hinge on favorability.
Those with a “net unfavorable” view of Biden — somewhat or very unfavorable — is 64%. It rises to 70% net unfavorable among Nevada’s large nonpartisan population.
Regarding Trump, Nevada registered voters have a 49% net unfavorable view, according to those who responded to the poll. Fifty-four percent of registered nonpartisan have a net unfavorable view — 16 percentage points lower than for Biden.
If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other third-party candidates are added to the mix, the difference stays approximately the same: Trump 14 points ahead of Biden if the vote were held today.
RFK Jr. would get 12% of Nevada’s votes, according to the survey.
If the numbers in that latest New York Times/Siena College poll hold — maybe they will, and maybe they won’t — there is nothing Team Biden can do to claim Nevada’s electoral votes. When 70 percent of the voters in a state hold an unfavorable view of an incumbent, that incumbent is screwed.
But even more screwed in Nevada, thanks to Biden and his party, is election integrity.
Democrats foisted a universal mail-in ballot regime in Nevada, and it’s worked quite well for them. They were able to win Nevada for Biden in 2020 and a pair of Senate seats they quite likely would not have won were a more conventional and accountable mode of electoral execution used there.
Did you know that in Nevada, they’ll count those mail-in ballots even if they come in as late as four days after the election? Keeping the vote-counting going that long, with mail-in ballots harvested by partisan operatives — particularly in a place like Las Vegas, where much of the population is transitory — is about as obvious a recipe for disaster as it’s possible to have.
The transitory population is a big deal here. When people are moving in and out of a state, particularly when it’s a lot of young, single people who tend to live in apartments, you’ll get a great deal of trash in the voter rolls — entries representing names of people who no longer live in a state or at an address. And Democrats never, ever clean the voter rolls.
Bring in mail-in balloting — particularly if it’s universal mail-in balloting, wherein all the names on the voter rolls are sent ballots — and you’ll get scads of ballots mailed to a single apartment mailbox. If five people have lived at that apartment over the last 10 years, you could easily have four or five ballots arriving in the mail. All it takes is one operative working that complex, and you could have 100 or more bad ballots to gather up, fill out, and send in.
Especially if they’ll be counted well after Election Day, because who knows how many fraudulent ballots might magically turn up in Democrat-run jurisdictions and simply added to the count? The Dems have an amazing track record of finding just enough of those ballots to eke out electoral victory.
That’s why the Republican Party has, in a fit of political competence, gone to court in Nevada in an effort to at least force an end to perpetual vote-counting.
Please forgive the horrendous facsimile of journalism in this AP story:
The Republican National Committee on Friday filed a federal lawsuit seeking to prevent Nevada from counting mail ballots received after Election Day, as the state’s law currently permits.
The law, passed by Democrats in 2021, permits the tallying of mail ballots received up to four days after Election Day, provided the envelopes are postmarked before the end of the day. The lawsuit says the provision also assumes that envelopes received three days after Election Day that don’t have a postmark indicating otherwise were posted in time.
Republicans contend this violates the U.S. Constitution’s requirement that there be a single day for Election Day.
“Nevada’s ballot receipt deadline clearly violates federal law and undermines election integrity in the state,” RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said in a statement. “Ballots received days after Election Day should not be counted.”
The lawsuit comes after Republicans sued to overturn laws permitting the tallying of ballots received after Election Day in Mississippi and North Dakota, and it’s the 83rd election-related suit filed by the party six months before Election Day. That’s a sign of both the increased pace of election-related litigation and the party’s focus on fighting over election rules after former President Donald Trump installed loyalists who have parroted his false claims about the 2020 election being stolen from him.
And then there is this laughable quote that the AP pulled out of Francisco Aguilar, the crook who serves as Nevada’s Democrat secretary of state: “I hope the RNC is putting as much time and energy into educating voters on how to participate in elections as they put into suing the state of Nevada.”
The argument is that people who mail in their ballots should have as much time to make a decision as do people who vote on Election Day. Of course, there’s an easy answer for that — go vote on Election Day.
Which somehow is beyond the power of the Democrats’ “voters” to do.
We know that elections in places like Nevada are no longer tests of the public will but, rather, contests for who can fill out and turn in the most pieces of paper marked with their candidates’ names. When the Democrats insult you with references to “our democracy,” bear in mind that this bastardized sham of the franchise is what they’re referring to.
They’re hell-bent on rigging the vote in Nevada.
The problem is that their man in the White House has done such an awful job of running the country, including ruining the private economy and flooding the country — and particularly states like Nevada — with illegal aliens, that rigging the vote has gotten much, much harder.
Perhaps the RNC will win the lawsuit and make it more difficult to harvest those fake ballots.
Or perhaps it won’t even matter, because enough real, live Nevadans will show up to defeat Team Biden and its cabal of crooked ballot-harvesting operatives.
We’ll see. But the more we see of these transparent attacks on electoral integrity, the harder it is for the Democrats to escape their well-deserved status as villains.
Because this is a criminal organization masquerading as a political party. Walsh was spot-on years ago, and he’s even more spot-on today.
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