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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    10 months ago

    Did anyone expect him to do anything else?

    Also-

    They used COVID to cheat.

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

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      10 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.

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      10 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.