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GOP Nominee Compares ‘Big Rig’ 2020 Election to 9/11

August 25, 2022 at 12:15 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Kim Crockett (R), who is running for Minnesota Secretary of State, said changing the rules around voting following the 2020 “big rig” was “our 9/11,” invoking the terrorist attacks when discussing proposed changes to election laws in the aftermath of former President Donald Trump’s loss, CNN reports.

Said Crockett: “They’re resurrecting a really vicious, powerful architecture in Washington, DC, to take over our election laws. And that’s the avenue to their permanent power, because they really don’t think we’re capable of governing ourselves at the local level is state level and they wanna be in charge. And they wanna be in charge permanently.”

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