Since Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, a vocal subset of his supporters have been shouting online about the specter of voter fraud.
“Shoutout to you all for keeping this election from being stolen this year, you are all heroes!“
Speaking to the Times, Cleta Mitchell—an Oklahoma politician turned Trump activist—said the movement’s “election integrity warriors” “kept a lot of the serious things that happened in 2020 from happening again.”.
What they think happened in 2020 is that widespread-yet-ambiguous fraud at the polls allowed Democrats to “steal” the election from Trump and hand it to Joe Biden.
“As soon as it started to look like Trump was going to win, the election denialism went very, very quiet,” Welton Chang, whose company—Pyrra Technologies—monitors alt social networks, told the Times.
These appear to have come from Russia, and don’t seem to be of huge concern to the “election integrity” activists.
If anything, some appear to be blaming the hoax on Democrats, allegedly another installment in the plot to disqualify Trump. »
