The radically different treatment Republicans receive when contesting poorly administered elections intensified this week when Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel charged 16 Republican electors in her state for participating in what she deemed a "False electors scheme." Defendants, all 55 years or older, each face eight various conspiracy and forgery felony counts that carry a sentence of five to 14 years in prison each.
Attacks on the Trump electors in Michigan, a state where election fraud was reported in both 2020 and 2022, come from the same party and its institutional allies that formally objected to every GOP presidential certification this century and shamelessly attempted to turn electors against their political enemy Trump in 2016.
Articles demanding state electors "Prevent an irresponsible demagogue from taking office" and overrule Americans to install Hillary Clinton as president popped up in the pages of The Atlantic, The Washington Post, the Daily Beast, Vox, and Time.
Propaganda press puppets such as MSNBC's Chris Hayes, WaPo's EJ Dionne, and NYT's Paul Krugman added their two cents about why electors should act on their open disdain for a Trump presidency on Twitter and on TV. Jennifer Palmieri, the communications director for the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign who later bragged about her role in meddling with the 2016 election by spreading the Russia collusion hoax, also joined in on the dogpile.
Clinton's top political adviser John Podesta urged a foreign intervention intelligence briefing for electors prior to their vote, hoping that news about Russia would fuel the campaign's efforts to question the legitimacy of Trump's victory.
Video ads of celebrities pleading and pressuring electors to "Prevent an unfit candidate from becoming president" by voting against Trump also circulated.
"There were contingent Republican electors named consistent with legal precedent to preserve the still ongoing legal challenges to the validity of Georgia's certified vote," my colleague Margot Cleveland explained in May when corporate media tried to smear Republican electors in the Peach State.
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