The Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election

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This is the inside story of the conspiracy to save the 2020 election, based on access to the group’s inner workings, never-before-seen documents and interviews with dozens of those involved from across the political spectrum. It is the story of an unprecedented, creative and determined campaign whose success also reveals how close the nation came to disaster. “Every attempt to interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated,” says Ian Bassin, co-founder of Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan rule-of-law advocacy group. “But it’s massively important for the country to understand that it didn’t happen accidentally. The system didn’t work magically. Democracy is not self-executing.”

That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.

Source: https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/?amp=true

Quite an interesting read...

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05 Feb 2021, 9:10 am

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"Every attempt to interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated", says Ian Bassin, co-founder of Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan rule-of-law advocacy group.

Nice quote; accurate, too!

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06 Feb 2021, 6:27 pm

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The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election

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A weird thing happened right after the Nov. 3 election: nothing.

The nation was braced for chaos. Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country. Right-wing militias were girding for battle. In a poll before Election Day, 75% of Americans voiced concern about violence.

Instead, an eerie quiet descended.

https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

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06 Feb 2021, 10:00 pm

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"Every attempt to interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated", says Ian Bassin, co-founder of Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan rule-of-law advocacy group.

Nice quote; accurate, too!

And yet, had the positions been reversed with Mr Trump winning, and a story about a "well-funded cabal of powerful people" such as this was reported on as "not rigging the election; they were fortifying it" by "working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information", I wonder how many people currently "applauding" these actions would have been vehemntly opposed to them?

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07 Feb 2021, 9:06 pm

So, are you saying Trump would have won had it not been for this conspiracy between organized labor and corporations?

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08 Feb 2021, 6:35 am

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So, are you saying Trump would have won had it not been for this conspiracy between organized labor and corporations?

I don't like Trump.

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08 Feb 2021, 6:40 am

Trump lost....by 7 million votes.

No election rigging could offset those results.

Even in the tightly-contested state races.

Trump wanted Georgia election officials to “come up with” phantom votes. He knew he lost in Georgia.

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08 Feb 2021, 10:05 am

So they are basically acknowledging the fact that they committed voter fraud. America is over.

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08 Feb 2021, 10:23 am

Brictoria wrote:

Fnord wrote:

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"Every attempt to interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated", says Ian Bassin, co-founder of Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan rule-of-law advocacy group.

Nice quote; accurate, too!

And yet, had the positions been reversed with Mr. Trump winning...

Irrelevant hypothetical argument.

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08 Feb 2021, 10:25 am

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So they are basically acknowledging the fact that they committed voter fraud. America is over.

One may suspect that this is what you wish.

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08 Feb 2021, 5:36 pm

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So they are basically acknowledging the fact that they committed voter fraud. America is over.

Having an organized strategy isn't voter fraud. And even without it, I believe Trump's days in office were numbered, anyhow.

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08 Feb 2021, 5:38 pm

I can't state strongly enough how much I disagree with this. I believe the election was stolen, the impeachment trial is a farce meant to keep Trump from ever holding office again, and that the Democrats are going to have a lot to answer for when this is all said and done.

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08 Feb 2021, 5:44 pm

NightMuse wrote:

I can't state strongly enough how much I disagree with this.

You have the right to your own opinion, just as everyone else does to theirs.

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I believe the election was stolen

Belief proves nothing

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the impeachment trial is a farce

Only if Mr. Trump is acquitted.

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meant to keep Trump from ever holding office again

One can only hope so.

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the Democrats are going to have a lot to answer for when this is all said and done.

To whom do you believe they will answer?

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08 Feb 2021, 5:46 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:

Mr Reynholm wrote:

So they are basically acknowledging the fact that they committed voter fraud. America is over.

Having an organized strategy isn't voter fraud. And even without it, I believe Trump's days in office were numbered, anyhow.

YOUR belief was born out by the results of a fair and honest election.

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08 Feb 2021, 5:51 pm

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Just how was the election stolen? Biden got more electoral votes than Trump, not to mention more popular votes.
Sure, the impeachment trial is meant to keep Trump from ever holding office again, but that's what happens to a sitting President when he riles up a mob of fanatics to storm the capitol in order to reverse the outcome of the election. Actions have consequences.
Why would the Democrats have to answer to anything? For winning an election? For punishing a former President for an obvious criminal act?

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08 Feb 2021, 5:53 pm

Fnord wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

Mr Reynholm wrote:

So they are basically acknowledging the fact that they committed voter fraud. America is over.

Having an organized strategy isn't voter fraud. And even without it, I believe Trump's days in office were numbered, anyhow.

YOUR belief was born out by the results of a fair and honest election.

Thank you!

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