{"id":1620235,"date":"2022-08-23T11:46:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T15:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1620235"},"modified":"2022-08-23T11:46:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T15:46:51","slug":"leftists-smearing-vote-integrity-advocates-as-election-deniers-rejected-a-few-elections-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-smearing-vote-integrity-advocates-as-election-deniers-rejected-a-few-elections-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists Smearing Vote Integrity Advocates As \u2018Election Deniers\u2019 Rejected A Few Elections Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleftists-smearing-vote-integrity-advocates-as-election-deniers-rejected-a-few-elections-themselves%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1620235&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The talking points clearly went out among Democrats and their media allies to use the grammatically incompetent phrase \u201celection denier\u201d to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/22\/the-election-denier-smear-is-the-dumbest-rhetorical-device-in-modern-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">smear<\/a> any conservatives who express concerns about election security. <\/p>\n<p>The phrase doesn\u2019t logically work \u2014 no one is denying that an election happened, in contrast to people like \u201cHolocaust deniers\u201d who refuse to acknowledge that the Nazis\u2019 genocidal purge of Jews and other groups ever took place. But that fact aside, some of the loudest voices decrying \u201celection deniers\u201d have some personal experience in the refusing-to-accept-election-outcomes department.<\/p>\n<h2>Marc Elias<\/h2>\n<p>Former Clinton campaign lawyer Marc Elias <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/news\/a-constellation-of-anti-voting-groups-threaten-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chastised<\/a> the Republican Party for \u201coperating in the penumbra of the current stars of the election denier and voter suppression movement,\u201d criticizing a \u201cconstellation of well-funded, right-wing groups that \u2026 range from mere vote suppressors to full-on election deniers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also took to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marceelias\/status\/1543288397174919168\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a> to make the obviously false claim that \u201call election deniers are Republicans.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"409\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-277974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-13.png 604w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-13-300x203-1.png 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Elias\u2019s newfound blind faith in American elections is especially ironic, since he has a history of trying to undermine elections not just with words but with illicit actions. It was Elias who helped commission and pay for the debunked Steele dossier as part of the Clinton campaign\u2019s plot to sabotage then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016. Elias also \u201chelped orchestrate the effort to change hundreds of election laws and processes in the months leading up to the 2020 election in order to flood elections with tens of millions of mail-in ballots.\u201d Earlier this year, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/10\/federal-judge-eviscerates-russia-collusion-hoaxer-marc-elias-for-aiming-to-undermine-new-york-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">slapped down<\/a> by a Clinton-appointed district judge in New York for trying to undermine \u201cfree, open, rational elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Adam Schiff<\/h2>\n<p>California Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/d29a9c0369fd4a949341b68731e28e64\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> the Associated Press in 2017 that Russian interference \u201cunquestionably\u201d had \u201can influence on the election\u201d of Trump in 2016. He spent Trump\u2019s entire presidency insisting he <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/20\/adam-schiff-is-an-emblem-of-institutional-decline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">possessed<\/a> \u201cample evidence of collusion in plain sight\u201d between Trump and Russia, undermining the legitimacy of the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff himself even <a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2020\/01\/29\/adam-schiff-throws-the-ballot-box-under-the-bus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cast doubt<\/a> on the 2020 election, saying earlier that year that \u201cwe cannot be assured that the vote will be fairly won,\u201d and as such \u201cthe president\u2019s misconduct cannot be decided at the ballot box.\u201d Instead, Schiff attempted to subvert the voting process by impeaching the president.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, Schiff is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/repadamschiff\/status\/1504223483672236036?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lobbing<\/a> the \u201celection denier\u201d smear at his opponents \u2014 and bizarrely, in the same breath, fomenting concerns about how Republicans are \u201cworking to rig the next election.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"598\" height=\"409\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-277976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-14.png 598w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-14-300x205-1.png 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<h2>Max Boot<\/h2>\n<p>Max Boot of The Washington Post has criticized \u201celection deniers\u201d in columns as well as on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxBoot\/status\/1385579494476447745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a>. \u201cAt least 23 supporters of the \u2018big lie\u2019 \u2014 which holds that the 2020 election was stolen from former president Donald Trump \u2014 are running for secretary of state posts to oversee elections in 19 states,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/05\/11\/americans-in-denial-trump-threat-jan6-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in May. \u201cOther election deniers are joining election boards.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"593\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-277947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-11.png 593w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-11-281x300-1.png 281w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>But back in 2018, Boot wrote this headline, which sounds a lot like something that rhymes with \u201crejection pretrial\u201d: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/global-opinions\/trump-is-now-an-illegitimate-president\/2018\/08\/22\/d1c9271c-a613-11e8-97ce-cc9042272f07_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump is an illegitimate president whose election is tainted by fraud<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Jennifer Rubin<\/h2>\n<p>The Washington Post\u2019s resident fake conservative Jennifer Rubin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JRubinBlogger\/status\/1032334354998063104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shared<\/a> Boot\u2019s 2018 column with the caption \u201cTHIS.\u201d She also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JRubinBlogger\/status\/976215354019078146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>, back in 2018, that \u201cif Trump didn\u2019t have illegitimate\/illegal help he\u2019d have LOST.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"592\" height=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-277948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-12.png 592w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-12-300x106.png 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>More recently, however, Rubin has taken a break from her own election conspiracy theories to calling her opponents \u201celection deniers\u201d numerous times. Discontent to do simply that, she wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/08\/22\/election-deniers-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">column<\/a> titled \u201cHow to cover election deniers? Try calling them election liars\u201d because \u201celection deniers\u201d as a term \u201cunderplays the menace they pose.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Terry McAuliffe<\/h2>\n<p>Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who lost the state\u2019s most recent gubernatorial election to Republican Glenn Youngkin, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/terrymcauliffe\/status\/1453052328299356160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accused<\/a> Youngkin of \u201cbankrolling far-right election deniers\u201d in the final days of the campaign. But back in 2004, discussing the 2000 election of President George W. Bush, McAuliffe <a href=\"https:\/\/tennesseestar.com\/2021\/08\/01\/youngkin-campaign-slams-mcauliffe-for-questioning-results-of-2000-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> a crowd \u201cLet\u2019s go back to Florida. We actually won the last election, folks. They stole the last presidential election.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Stacey Abrams<\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s also Democrat Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who infamously has still <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/05\/election-denialism-turned-loser-stacey-abrams-into-a-multi-millionaire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">refused<\/a> to concede that she lost the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election. Abrams, however, had harsh words for those who held concerns about the execution of the 2020 election, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/morning-joe\/watch\/stacey-abrams-recounts-audits-are-schemes-designed-to-perpetuate-big-lie-and-insurrection-113169989724\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">calling<\/a> audit attempts \u201cschemes designed to perpetuate not only the big lie but more concerning to me, to perpetuate the insurrection.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Paul Krugman<\/h2>\n<p>New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote in a condescending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/07\/opinion\/republicans-election-lost.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">op-ed<\/a> titled \u201cRepublicans Can\u2019t Handle the Truth\u201d that \u201cyou really shouldn\u2019t be surprised by [Republicans\u2019] willingness to indulge malicious, democracy-endangering lies\u201d about the 2020 election. It was only six years ago, though, that Krugman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/07\/opinion\/how-to-rig-an-election.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> the 2016 presidential contest was \u201crigged\u201d by everyone from the Russians to Fox News to then-FBI Director James Comey. In January 2017, he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulkrugman\/status\/817787163660156928\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fretted<\/a>, \u201chow will this presidency ever be considered legitimate?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just as they have with the phrases \u201cRussian collusion\u201d or \u201cinsurrection\u201d or \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/06\/actual-democracy-and-4-other-things-the-left-called-a-threat-to-democracy-besides-jan-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">threat to democracy<\/a>,\u201d Democrats in media and politics alike are using \u201celection denier\u201d to slander their opponents into silence, no matter how often they themselves have voiced election skepticism. It\u2019s a brazenly hypocritical strategy and a stupid phrase, but if Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/liz-cheney-to-support-democrats-in-races-against-election-denying-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mindlessly regurgitate<\/a> it instead of pushing back, it\u2019ll work \u2014 and Democrats know it.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elle Reynolds is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. 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