MAGA no longer using 'cooked-up' claims to steal elections (opens in new tab)

“These days, Donald Trump reflexively denounces any election result he dislikes as stolen and fraudulent,” wrote The Bulwark’s Andrew Egger on Wednesday. “But it doesn’t always catch on. In April, Republicans seemed faintly embarrassed by his claim that Virginia’s redistricting referendum had been a ‘rigged election’ and ‘crooked victory’ after Democrats executed a phony ‘mail-in ballot drop’; few wanted to defend it on the merits, and the president let the matter drop.”Yet in contrast to tho...