The Lincoln Project’s Stuart Stevens, a former campaign strategist for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential run, suggests Republicans could “burn down” voting centers to disenfranchise black voters.
Stevens was a guest on “Chris Jansing Reports” on Tuesday, where he told the panel that Trump supporters could try to “violently disrupt” the vote count in predominantly black cities on Election Day.
He claims disputes over voting results in the last election focused on cities that had a “high percentage of African-American voters” and then presents a scenario in which the Trump campaign believes they are in a losing position because of those locations are.
“And I think what’s really the fear here is: Get into the mindset that the Trump campaign really doesn’t believe they can win, either in the popular vote or in the Electoral College. Check out this campaign. That doesn’t make any sense.” “He’s not trying to win voters,” Stevens said.
“What they want is they want to win from election night to the inauguration. And if they can go in and forcefully disrupt these counting centers, how will states be able to certify elections? “They’re burning down a county center in Arizona,” he complained. “How does the governor certify this election?”
“Then what world will we end up in?” And I think we really have to expect that.”
Unhinged: The Lincoln Project @stuartpstevens says: “We must expect” Republicans to “burn down” vote centers in cities where black voters are concentrated to prevent them from being counted pic.twitter.com/nhlZb0t1jk
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 15, 2024
The fact that Jansing and the other panelists didn’t look at Stevens in confusion says everything you need to know about this group. No, Republicans will not treat voting centers the way the left treats pro-life pregnancy centers afterward Roe v. Wade.
You must like that MSNBC describes its guest as a former chief strategist for Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign. It allows them to tout his supposed credentials as a Republican Party insider, thereby providing viewers with supposed evidence that there is some truth to his analysis.
Narrator: There is no truth to his analysis.
Not to mention that it’s obviously an exaggeration of his role. In fact, Stevens is so irrelevant in the Republican Party the Romney campaign didn’t like him. He was widely seen as the loser who helped Romney become a loser.
The reality is that he is a broken shell, beaten and battered by Trump so much that the only companies that take him seriously anymore are MSNBC and the retreaders at the Lincoln Project. As a result, he tends to say silly things that serve as red meat to the left.
“Republicans will burn down voting centers to prevent black votes from being counted” certainly falls into this category.
As did comments last September that democracy will be destroyed if Trump wins and that the 2024 election will be “the last election we can recognize as an American election.”
Stevens has referred to Trump as a “monster” and suggested that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who challenged him in the GOP primary, was actually “worse than Trump.”
He described the two as “a threat to what it truly means to be an American.”
Totally reasonable.
