{"id":44036,"date":"2020-08-17T02:37:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T02:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44036"},"modified":"2020-08-17T02:37:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T02:37:56","slug":"rigged-election-yeah-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44036","title":{"rendered":"Rigged election? Yeah, maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23riggedelection%20%23voterfraud%20%23corruptelection&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/straight-ticket-voting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41572\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/straight-ticket-voting-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/straight-ticket-voting-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/straight-ticket-voting-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/straight-ticket-voting.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think I have figured out how the 2020 election is going to be &#8220;rigged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has launched what might become a self-fulfilling prophecy with his incessant yammering about how the election will be the &#8220;most corrupt in history.&#8221; The corruption well might come from Trump his own self.<\/p>\n<p>He is seeking to withhold funds for the Postal Service to prevent the USPS from conducting mail-in voting. He contends that mail-in voting is inherently corrupt; he makes that accusation without a scintilla of evidence, quite naturally.<\/p>\n<p>So he wants to suppress the vote. He wants to discourage Americans from voting, even as many of us fear being infected by the coronavirus pandemic that is killing about 1,000 Americans each day.<\/p>\n<p>Trump wants to deny Americans the right to vote? That, I submit, is corruption at its worst.<\/p>\n<p>So, what Trump is proposing is to taint the voting process, to produce the &#8220;most corrupt election in American history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is that what Donald Trump would call <em>a promise kept?<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23riggedelection%20%23voterfraud%20%23corruptelection&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I have figured out how the 2020 election is going to be &#8220;rigged.&#8221; Donald Trump has launched what might become a self-fulfilling prophecy with his incessant yammering about how the election will be the &#8220;most corrupt in history.&#8221; The corruption well might come from Trump his own self. 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