62% of Republican voters express concern that the results of the November 8 midterm elections could be manipulated , according to a new USA Today/Suffolk University poll.
Meanwhile, 64 percent said that I would vote for a candidate who questioned the legitimacy of President Joe Biden’s election victory in 2020, confirming how former President Donald’s message has had an effect Trump on the baseless claim of electoral fraud.
This poll comes in the midst of a close race for control of the Senate, where the Democrats could lose the majority.
The falsehoods about the election of the 2020 launched by Trump not only led to the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, but has also affected confidence in the American electoral system.
Distrust in e he process is one of the issues that trumpists mention the most, who also talk about insecurity, repudiate the right to abortion, reject with all their hearts that there can be a definition of sex beyond the biblical one.
The MAGA Republicans met in the town of Feasterville-Trevose, in the state of Pennsylvania, at a rally of the Republican candidate for governor of this state, Doug Mastriano, sponsored by Trump.
“I’m here because Doug Mastriano is absolutely the best. I accidentally met Mastriano about three and a half years ago on Facebook, talking about these stupid lockdowns and the idiots who became the dictators who rule our state,” Larry Steinhouse told EFE.
As the rest of the participants, mostly retirees, Larry has traveled with his vehicle to the Hilltop Athletic country club, located at the end of a rural road lined with wooden houses, to support Mastriano, whom the polls place quite far behind. below his rival, Democrat Josh Shapiro.
But Larry’s car is not like the others. It is decorated in the colors of the American flag and has “Let’s go Brandon” written in large letters, an expression used by many Republicans to covertly insult President Biden.
He assures that he cannot say what he wants, that is why he joins the car: “Everything the world greets, some with five fingers, others with one”, adds Larry, who does not hesitate to assure that if his candidates do not win the elections he will go to the “country of Florida”.
Conspiracy theories and rights blocking
Army veteran Tom Gallagher trusts Mastriano to “restore integrity to elections”, because, as many trumpists maintain, in the past presidential elections “there was too much fraud”.
Tom also praises the Republican candidate who is a “pro-life” like him, because: “I cannot imagine killing a child in the womb, while it seems fine to them and they kill the child was also uterus”, he underlines.
Carol, a retiree whose main wish is for “law and order” to be restored, points out that “what is happening is very terrifying”.
“Never in my life have I been afraid to be alone, to go out alone, to go shopping alone in the United States, never in my life, and now I have it” she says.
And insecurity is practically the first and sometimes the the only issue highlighted by people willing to talk to the press. A few lend themselves, after some hesitation, to making statements that they know are often branded as extremist and radical by their opponents, journalists and independent analysts.
Like Dave, who confesses that his is a “personal vendetta” against the Democrats whom he blames for the closure of the her daughter’s beauty salon.
“If things go wrong, there can be civil unrest and that gives me a lot of money. (…) We need the Republicans to recover this country, because the Democratic leftists, not all of them, but the leftists are out of control and have to be corrected”, he ditches.
Against immigrants
During the thirty minutes of his speech, Mastriano, whose motto is “to walk again as free men”, condensed all the concerns, hatred and desires of his dedicated supporters.
Their rejection of what they call “illegal immigration”, of gender education in schools, of abortion, of cutting prison sentences, of putting a stop to fossil fuels, of taxes, of imposing a control of the possession of weapons or the revision of the American racist past, were reeled off by the Republican candidate before the applause of the assistants.
Mastriano reinforced the conviction that they are the moderates, the defenders of values, of the constitution, of science and democracy, against the “leftist democrats” who, according to him, want to corrupt all of society, starting with the smallest.
“Don’t let yourself be oppressed by these people. Don’t be ashamed of yourself. Remember who you are, you are an American and you know, we are on the side of truth, on the side of the constitution”, he said.
When it was time to talk about women, he gave the stage to his wife Rebecca, who began her speech by assuring that the Democrats “were wrong when they decided that they could not define what a woman is”.
“So we, as conservatives, carry the torch of women’s rights”, Rebecca pointed out, referring to rights also summarized in the motto of the group “Women in favor of Mastriano”, printed on one of the vehicles in the parking lot: “For the rights given by God, not those guaranteed by the Government”.
With each impassioned criticism of the Mastrianos and with each promise, such as the promise to bear arms or that Pennsylvania would stop sheltering undocumented immigrants, a cheer goes up, sometimes accompanied by a small tide of red towels given to the entrance of the event and that those present wave passionately in the air.
And after having listened to their candidate, prayed for his victory and sung the national anthem, some collect more political propaganda or buy campaign products before returning to their cars with the last gift, a Mastriano banner to place in the garden at the entrance of their houses.
With information from EFE
Army veteran Tom Gallagher trusts Mastriano to “restore integrity to elections”, because, as many trumpists maintain, in the past presidential elections “there was too much fraud”.
Tom also praises the Republican candidate who is a “pro-life” like him, because: “I cannot imagine killing a child in the womb, while it seems fine to them and they kill the child was also uterus”, he underlines.
Carol, a retiree whose main wish is for “law and order” to be restored, points out that “what is happening is very terrifying”.
“Never in my life have I been afraid to be alone, to go out alone, to go shopping alone in the United States, never in my life, and now I have it” she says.
And insecurity is practically the first and sometimes the the only issue highlighted by people willing to talk to the press. A few lend themselves, after some hesitation, to making statements that they know are often branded as extremist and radical by their opponents, journalists and independent analysts.
Like Dave, who confesses that his is a “personal vendetta” against the Democrats whom he blames for the closure of the her daughter’s beauty salon.
“If things go wrong, there can be civil unrest and that gives me a lot of money. (…) We need the Republicans to recover this country, because the Democratic leftists, not all of them, but the leftists are out of control and have to be corrected”, he ditches.
Against immigrants
During the thirty minutes of his speech, Mastriano, whose motto is “to walk again as free men”, condensed all the concerns, hatred and desires of his dedicated supporters.
Their rejection of what they call “illegal immigration”, of gender education in schools, of abortion, of cutting prison sentences, of putting a stop to fossil fuels, of taxes, of imposing a control of the possession of weapons or the revision of the American racist past, were reeled off by the Republican candidate before the applause of the assistants.
Mastriano reinforced the conviction that they are the moderates, the defenders of values, of the constitution, of science and democracy, against the “leftist democrats” who, according to him, want to corrupt all of society, starting with the smallest.
“Don’t let yourself be oppressed by these people. Don’t be ashamed of yourself. Remember who you are, you are an American and you know, we are on the side of truth, on the side of the constitution”, he said.
When it was time to talk about women, he gave the stage to his wife Rebecca, who began her speech by assuring that the Democrats “were wrong when they decided that they could not define what a woman is”.
“So we, as conservatives, carry the torch of women’s rights”, Rebecca pointed out, referring to rights also summarized in the motto of the group “Women in favor of Mastriano”, printed on one of the vehicles in the parking lot: “For the rights given by God, not those guaranteed by the Government”.
With each impassioned criticism of the Mastrianos and with each promise, such as the promise to bear arms or that Pennsylvania would stop sheltering undocumented immigrants, a cheer goes up, sometimes accompanied by a small tide of red towels given to the entrance of the event and that those present wave passionately in the air.
And after having listened to their candidate, prayed for his victory and sung the national anthem, some collect more political propaganda or buy campaign products before returning to their cars with the last gift, a Mastriano banner to place in the garden at the entrance of their houses.
With information from EFE