Trump Already Pushing Fake Election Fraud Claims As Early Voting Begins

Early voting has only been open in some areas of the country for a few days, but that hasn't stopped right wingers - including former president Donald Trump - from pushing baseless conspiracy theories about voter fraud. Trump recently shared a claim on Truth Social that "ballot stuffing" was taking place at ballot drop boxes, but there's ZERO evidence to support any of these claims that are circulating on Reddit. Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Early voting in a lot of areas around the country actually began this past week. And just as soon as early voting began, Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, started pushing their idiotic and completely evidence free conspiracy theories that Democrats are already trying to stuff ballot boxes. Now, the stuffing of the ballot boxes has become a bit of a hot issue for Republicans to push one because they can't prove any of it, but two, because of Danes de so's, uh, Roundly debunked movie, 2000 Mules. So what happened was, on the first day of early voting this week, literally on the first day you had a bunch of, uh, right wingers, uh, from the group, um, Clean Elections usa Me, uh, Melody Jennings is her name. She sent out a post on truth social that allegedly showed a picture of a ballot Dropbox and somebody putting ballots in it.

And she said, My dedicated Dropbox watching team cut this and send it up the chain. What do you see in this picture? Again, his picture picture is somebody putting, putting their ballots in a Dropbox. So, so that's what we saw. But then Donald Trump on truth social retweeted this, No, that's not called a re a retweet. He retried it to millions of followers. So on the first day of early voting here in the United States, Donald Trump was already out there pushing baseless conspiracy theories because that's what he does. Now, there is a reason, by the way, that Donald Trump does have a bit of a dog in the fight, if you wanna put it that way. Uh, with trying to claim already that Democrats are rigging the election. Trump's got a lot of candidates out there that he's endorsed and a lot of them not doing so well.

Right? People like JD Vance, Dr. Oz, Herschel Walker, Blake Masters, Doug Massiano, all of these Trump backed candidates have a very significant chance of losing their elections. Now, the polls in all of those races have tightened in recent weeks, but as of right now, the Democrat is still prevailing over the Trump backed candidate. So what Trump is doing is he's trying to lay the groundwork today for his losses next month. So that way when we do start to see all these Trump back candidates lose, lose, lose, lose lose, lose lose. Hopefully we see that, assuming we see it, he's gonna immediately go out there and point to pictures like the one this idiot sent out there and say, See, told you they stole it. They stuffed the ballots, they did all these crazy things. There's all these shenanigans. There's probably voting machine issues. None of it's gonna be true, but he's gonna use that once again to convince Republicans that he's not actually a loser, right? It's e everybody else working against him, the entire system's,

And he's just the poor little victim. His people did great. They had no problems at all, right? We haven't heard anything negative about Herschel Walker or Dr. Oz. No, no. Just beautiful, perfect campaigns. Nope, they're losers. And hopefully come November they will be actual losers. But even if they are, don't worry folks. Donald Trump always has that ace up his sleeves and that ace is voter fraud, trying to claim that what actually happened didn't happen because God forbid anybody in this country would vote against Donald Trump. That's just not happening. We've seen the polling data. We know these candidates are in trouble. They're not as, again, in as much trouble as they were a month ago, which sucks, but it's reality. But Trump is setting the stage for when he ultimately loses. And in the meantime, what's gonna happen is that groups like this, Clean Elections usa, they're gonna continue to send people out there and monitor drop boxes.

They're going to harass people possibly, and maybe not this group harassing people, but other Republican groups have said they're gonna be at ballot Dropboxes. Some of them have even said, uh, I think it's Arizona or Nevada. They're gonna be armed monitoring drop boxes. There's going to be harassment, there is going to be intimidation. So they're better, better be some police officers on the scene there to protect things.