Republican officials are finally ready to admit that U.S. elections are, in fact, secure — four years after they began falsely claiming the contrary and one week after the of them winning the polls. “Fraud and irregularities” have been “limited” this time, said the Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson speak during a press conference on Tuesday. The election was “free and fair” confirm Chairman of the House of Representatives Judiciary Jim Jordana prominent 2020 election denier and Ohio Republican, during a Sunday appearance on CNN.
Their confidence marks a marked difference from a week ago when the President was elected Donald Trump and his allies have warned of widespread, if entirely fictional, election fraud. Trump spent most of the campaign season declare that Democrats are trying to rig the vote against him, a natural extension of the violent election denial movement he seeded four years ago.
But those claims were mysteriously rescinded when Trump won—quite clearin some cases. Now, even his allies and surrogates are cheering for the security of America’s electoral system. “I’m pleased to report to you that because of all the attention we’ve placed on that issue and because of all the attention the American people have paid to this issue, I think we’ve been able to limit high level of fraud and irregularities,” Johnson said Tuesday. He especially praised the state legislatures for passing it new election law since 2020. Notably, many of the red government’s efforts to “secure” elections mainly serve make voting more difficult.
This doesn’t mean election denial is dead — just dormant until the next campaign season. Even this election has some skepticism and “just asking questions” going around. Some people who refuse to vote on the right have used it by Kamala Harris poor display, in comparison by Joe Biden four years ago, like add “proof” about differences in previous elections. On the left, some Harris supporters gave their support loser’s play that Trump pioneered for the first time in 2020. Meanwhile, Johnson continued to claim without evidence that undocumented immigrants voted in some states; Experts say that these cases voting by non-citizens very few and far between.
