An op-ed opinion, by A. Bruce Crawley, for use by Al DIA, SCOOP USA MEDIA, and THE PHILADELPHIA SUNDAY SUN
Like many of you, perhaps, I sat transfixed in front of my TV set on Presidential Election night as local and national polling sites closed on the evening of November 5.
I had fully anticipated that the growing Kamala Harris Campaign momentum and her consistently improving favorability ratings, which we had all been witnessing up to Election Day, would finally lead us to the transformative election of the country’s first female president.
That candidate, Kamala Harris, also happens to be Black and, by most accounts, was the single most qualified and experienced candidate for the nation’s highest office in U.S. history.
That being the case, we “true American believers” Black, Brown, White, Red, and Yellow-were also confident that U.S. voters, regardless of their own backgrounds, were finding it extremely difficult to ignore the stark differences between what the two campaigns were offering, and felt that they would, in the majority, make the right choices.
On the one hand, the Harris/Walz ticket offered the commitment to fight for improved economic, housing, and healthcare access for American families; for a similar commitment to control the runaway increases in prices charged for their families’ food purchases; in addition, Candidate Harris made emphatic commitments to conclusive efforts to comprehensively protect women’s reproductive rights, to defend the critical needs for the uninterrupted availability to Social Security and Medicare benefits, for deserving seniors; and for the passage of fair and appropriate legal immigration policies, for the U.S.
Importantly, Harris also pledged to fight the egregious, RNC-inspired, “mass deportation” plans, designed to be especially targeted at Black and Brown immigrants.”
By sharp contrast, on the other hand, the Trump/Vance ticket offered voters a darker, diametrically opposed vision for the country’s future. That future, they promised, would be one filled with vengeful threats against opposing individuals and organizations and one that would put the families of all working- and middle-class voters at even deeper social, health-related, and economic risk.
As the TV reporters and chart makers, throughout the evening, continued to announce the right-leaning, state-by-state voting results, most of us became increasingly disappointed, deeply confused, and, then, highly suspicious about what we were being told.
We were finding it hard to believe what seemed to be a surprisingly strong pattern of Republican “victories” that was being reported to us, hour by hour.
At the same time, we were finding it difficult to understand how America’s voters could decide to cast their precious ballots so “overwhelmingly” against the interests of their own communities, their children, and their increasingly needy seniors.
How could they, in good conscience, we wondered, even those who were die-hard Republicans, join in supporting the Donald Trump campaign platform, which so clearly prioritized the needs of the very wealthy, the private equity funds, and their investors, their ROI-seeking campaign donors and price-gouging, large corporate interests, over the justifiable needs of the average American family?
The more I thought, personally, about that incongruity, the more I began to believe that those “pro-RNC votes” for president and for contested Senatorial and House seats, state by state. may not have actually been cast–AT ALL, especially in such “decisive numbers” as broadcast media pundits had so breathlessly been informing us throughout the evening.
In fact, driven by that question, I began to reflect, once again, upon the Associated Press disclosures over recent months, which described an ongoing RNC corruption of our country’s longstanding electoral protocols, which had created a set of circumstances that now have been systematically, and insidiously, designed to make it extremely difficult for any non-RNC-endorsed candidate to win, legitimately, in the honest pursuit of any future national elected office.
In that regard, please find below excerpts from April 22, 2024, AP online disclosures, drawn from its solid, investigative journalism research, that reveal, among other key findings, that, since 2020, Donald J.Trump and the RNC have expanded their nefarious political activities, substantially, moving from a simple “election interference focus” to one designed to enable a comprehensive, “systematic subversion” of the entire vote-counting process, state-by-state.
Prominently included in the details of the AP’s report on how the U.S. electoral system had been undermined were the following observations: The RNC “filed election-related lawsuits in nearly half the states. Recent lawsuits over voter roll maintenance in Michigan and Nevada are part of a larger strategy targeting various aspects of voting and election administration.”
Among the most salient quotes we’ve excerpted from the AP’s findings were the following:
“…the (RNC’s) legal maneuvering is expected to play an increasingly significant role for the party as Election Day in November approaches. The lawsuits are useful for campaign messaging (and for fundraising)…”
“…The RNC is actively deploying an army of lawyers to make it harder for Americans’ ballots to be counted.”
“Voter ID rules, mail ballots, and voter roll maintenance are among the RNC’s litigation targets…the latest is a lawsuit this month alleging that Michigan has failed to keep its voter rolls up to date.”
“…opponents of the lawsuit have said it relies on unsubstantiated data and runs the risk of purging legitimate voters.”
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