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After he won the New Hampshire Republican primary Tuesday night, former President Donald Trump complained about his main GOP rival, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, about immigration, inflation, and his likely opponent in November, President Joe Biden.

One thing he didn’t complain about: Voter fraud in the election he had just won.

That continues a pattern for Trump as he steamrolls through the GOP presidential primary and toward an increasingly likely November rematch with Biden. While Trump generally refrains from claiming voter fraud in elections he wins, he spends plenty of time laying the groundwork to cry fraud should he lose an upcoming vote. He’s already been doing that with an eye toward November’s general election.

“They used COVID to cheat. And they did a lot of other things, too. We’re not going to let that happen,” Trump said of Democrats in his Tuesday night speech to supporters in New Hampshire. “You can never forget history, because if you forget, you never, you never recover from it. And you repeat.”

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 67 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Did anyone expect him to do anything else?

Also-

They used COVID to cheat.

I know everything he says is word salad, but what?

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Shitty reference to so many states implementing wider mail-in voting?

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

wider use of mail-in voting is the best thing to come out of covid.

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I feel it is a close second to people generally backing the fuck off in public places.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

early in the pandemic, i was going into walmart becuase there was something I couldn't find elsewhere and was sick of giving amazon money. any how, it was like 60 degrees. a beautiful day, I'm walking in without a jacket and some old boomer-type starts harranging me about how I'm going to catch a cold if i don't put on a coat.

So I apologized and faked a sneeze. She practically fled. and I swear that was the fastest I've ever gotten in and out of a walmart before. as an introvert... there were some positives to the pandemic.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

yeah but that was not long lasting.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

To me, it seems quite obvious that he meant this.

He does say a lot of unintelligible things, but this one makes sense to my ears and is very consistent with earlier claims all the way back to 2020.

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

I guess because COVID killed a bunch of Republicans that refused to take the vaccine?

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Something to do with Covfefe

[–] tiltinjammy@lemmy.org 1 points 9 months ago

Mad scientists, complete with lightning in the background while cackling fiendishly, "invented" a virus to trick world wide quarantine measures into false activation. Simultaneously making the head of the largest state look like a fool.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

He's got a point. Republican politicians killed a fair amount of their loyal constituents via misinformation. I'm sure that had to have made a dent.

They should probably also blame democrats for the number of insurrectionists that Trump sent to the capitol who hopefully will be excluded from voting for the rest of their lives.