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GOP Senator Slammed For Saying Voter Fraud Claims Are True Because His Constituents 'Believe' Them

GOP Senator Slammed For Saying Voter Fraud Claims Are True Because His Constituents 'Believe' Them
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Missouri Senator Josh Hawley insisted that President Trump's voter fraud conspiracy theories must be true in a senate hearing this past Wednesday. While interviewing recently fired cybersecurity official who made clear that there was absolutely no evidence of widespread voter fraud, Hawley responded that there was evidence; the opinions of his constituents.

A video can be seen below.


He began by saying:

"I'm from the state of Missouri. Yesterday I was talking with some of the constituents back home, a group of about 30 people. Every single one of them, every one of them told me that they felt they had been disenfranchised, that their votes didn't matter, that the election had been rigged."

"These are normal, reasonable people. these are not crazy people, these are reasonable people that, by the way, have been involved in politics, that have won, they've lost, they've seen it all."

Then he began to act as if this was evidence in and of itself of widespread voter fraud, and not simply evidence of the President disseminating misinformation.

"They are normal folks living normal lives who firmly believe that they have been disenfranchised, and to listen to the mainstream press and quite a few voices in this building to tell them after four years of nonstop Russia 'hoax,' it was a hoax. The whole Russia nonsense was based on, we now know, lies from a Russian spy, the Steele dossier was based on a Russian spy."

"After four years of that, being told that the last election was fake and that Donald Trump wasn't really elected and that Russia intervened, now these same people are being told, you need to sit down and shut up. if you have concerns about cybersecurity, you're a nutcase, you should shut up."

And finally he closed by saying:

"Well, I'll tell you what, 74 million Americans are not going to shut up, and telling them that their views don't matter, their concerns do not matter, and that they should just be quiet, is not a recipe for success in this country. It's not a recipe for the unity that I hear now the other side is so interested in."

Of course feelings are not facts. And just because a segment of those who voted for President Trump have been fed misinformation from the President's own Twitter account, and have come to believe that the election was stolen, that is not evidence that it was.

The catch-22 of the argument was perfectly elucidated in this tweet:

Some pointed out that Americans have always been prone to belief in fact-free assumptions.

One person pointed out that by Hawley's own logic, this would in fact make what he referred to as the 'Russia hoax', true.

Others pointed their finger at the obvious reason why so many Trump supporters feel like the election has been stolen.

President-elect Biden is going to have his work cut out for him.

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