If you read our twice-weekly “Evangelical Roundup” feature, you have heard about conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza’s “Big Lie” movie titled 2000 Mules. The movie premiered at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Over at the conservative website The Bulwark, Amanda Carpenter offers a...
2020 Election
“First off, let me be very clear tonight, the election in 2020 was rigged and stolen”
This is how Trump-endorsed Georgia gubernatorial candidate David Perdue started his Sunday night debate with current Georgia governor Brian Kemp. Here is Brittany Gibson at Politico: David Perdue made his intentions clear right out of the gate: In his opening...
The Big Lie and tribalism
Over at The Atlantic, Sarah Longwell writes: “For many of Trump’s voters, the belief that the election was stolen is not a fully formed thought. It’s more of an attitude, or a tribal pose.” Here is a taste of her...
January 6 Committee: Trump was told multiple times by multiple sources that there was no voter fraud in 2020
But he kept saying it anyway. Here is The Washington Post: A data expert for former president Donald Trump’s campaign told him bluntly not long after polls closed in November 2020 that he was definitely going to lose his campaign...
January 6 Committee makes a case for criminal charges against Trump
Here we go: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol said on Wednesday that there was enough evidence to conclude that former President Donald J. Trump and some of his allies might have conspired to commit...
Blowout counties
Over at Sabatos’ Crystal Ball, Rhodes Cook talks about “blowout presidential counties” with Jon Karl of ABC News and Rep. Rho Khanna (D-CA). Here are the takeaways: “More than 20% of the nation’s counties gave 80% or more of its...
Trump needs to face the facts. He lost.
Recently Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, a Trump supporter, said that the former president needs to stop wasting our time with claims that he won the 2020 election. But Trump won’t let it go. As Peter Wehner writes in The...
Trump was planning to use the military to seize voting machines following the 2020 election
Politico got access to some of the materials from the National Archives that were recently turned over to the January 6, 2021 House of Representative select committee. Among the papers was a Trump executive order directing the Department of Defense...
Ivy leaguers who are trying to destroy American democracy
What do Josh Hawley, Steve Mnuchin, Ben Carson, Wilbur Ross, Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Mike Pompeo, Ted Cruz, Elise Stefanik, and Kayleigh McEnany have in common? They all have degrees from Ivy League institutions and they are all, in one...
Associated Press: There was no voter fraud in the 2020 election
The AP examined “every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states.” Here is a taste of Christina Cassiday’s piece: An Associated Press review of every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by...
The 2022 Georgia governor’s race is heating-up
Remember Brian Kemp’s 2018 campaign ad for Georgia governor?. If not, watch it here: Kemp defeated Stacy Abrams in a very close and controversial general election in November 2018. In April 2020, Kemp issued a stay-at-home order after learning for...
Did Trump try to kill Biden?
The title of Tim Miller’s piece at The Bulwark is provocative, but worth considering. Here is a taste: Of all the insane moments from 2020, this one still stands out: The former president of the United States knowingly and intentionally...
Former Liberty University fellow and Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis helped plan the attempted undoing of the 2020 election
Ellis was a former fellow at Liberty University’s Falkirk Center (now Standing for Freedom Center). Here is a taste of Libby Cathey’s piece at ABC News: In a memo not made public until now, then-White House Chief of Staff Mark...
Biden wins Arizona…again.
According to “Cyber Ninjas,” the Florida firm hired by Trump supporters to conduct the Maricopa County audit, Joe Biden won the state by ninety-nine more votes than we originally thought he did. Here is The Washington Post; A Republican-commissioned review...
Sidney Powell goes on the show of a 7 Mountain Dominionist and says Democrats murdered people in Georgia to cover up stealing the 2020 election
Andrew Wommack is a Seven Mountain Dominionist. He believes that Christians must gain control of the seven spheres of cultural influence: Business, Government, Media, Arts and Entertainment, Education, Family, and Religion. When Christians control these spheres, Jesus Christ will return....
Against all odds, the 2020 election was a success
Here is Sam Levine at The Guardian: A few months after every federal election, a little-known federal agency called the US Election Assistance Commission (EAC) releases a trove of data it collects from all 50 states on what happened in...
What happened on January 6 was an attempted coup
Here is Ruth Marcus at The Washington Post: I try not to be alarmist, but it is difficult to read the latest accounts and not be alarmed. The drip-drip-drip evolution of this story has served to mask how serious the...
Election fraud “expert” testifies at Texas State Senate hearing. Quotes 2 Peter 1:10 on “election.”
Watch: The woman speaking in this video is Dr. Laura Pressley. She is testifying on election fraud before the Texas State Senate Committee on State Affairs. You can watch her entire testimony at the 12:28:20 mark of this video. What...
How long can Eric Metaxas continue to defend Mike Lindell?
I am guessing until the money dries up. But that’s just a guess. Did you see Lindell’s recent interview with CNN? This would be hilarious if so many Americans, especially evangelical Christians, didn’t believe it. Watch: “It’s proof of nothing.”...
Pennsylvania counties will not comply with state senator Doug Mastriano’s audit request
We covered this here. Sara Murray has the story at CNN: A Pennsylvania Republican’s effort to launch a ballot audit of the 2020 results in the Keystone State has hit a roadblock after three counties declined to hand over their election materials...