Philip Bump: “Consider what Scalise is doing. He’s intentionally trying not to say that Biden won fairly because that position is anathema to the loudest part of his party’s base. And to avoid saying that, he’s seizing not upon unproven claims of fraud but a similarly inflated assertion that states made it too easy to vote. He doesn’t allege that this led to more fraud or anything along those lines, though others have; he’s simply claiming that because states made it easier to vote, that was the equivalent of an illegitimate Biden win or an election being stolen.”
“Because legal voters cast votes in a manner that their states have authorized.”
“In case Scalise wasn’t sufficiently obvious in suggesting that the election was stolen not through fraud but through votes he didn’t like, he made it more clear. He wanted to try to loop criticism of Georgia’s new voter law into his argument, drawing Fox News viewers to his side by condemning those who’d attacked Georgia’s law. After all, he said, the law was simply ‘cleaning up some of the mess’ from the election.”
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