Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson ruled against every single one of Lake’s claims and noted in his decision that none of Lake’s witnesses could point to any intentional misconduct or evidence of a single vote that was changed.
The same right-wing forces in Arizona that backed Trump’s failed coup and his stolen election narrative are inciting violence against election officials more than a week after all but one of the major races has been decided.
Garland’s move comes in the context of the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives just 22 months after the Republican Party and its current leaders backed Trump’s attempted coup of January 6.
In a video released on her Twitter account Thursday, Lake, a potential vice presidential candidate for Trump, vowed to pursue legal actions to “correct the many wrongs” from a “broken election system.”
Among the police state policies Trump pledged to carry out if elected were the “removal of the illegal alien criminals,” the death penalty for drug dealers, and the dispatch of National Guard troops to states and cities whose elected leaders failed to crack down on “the total breakdown of law and order.”
The indeterminate outcome has already led to back-biting within both capitalist parties.
Trump’s fate remains uncertain. All indications are that he intends to fight any attempt to dethrone him from within the GOP. But one thing is certain: the Republicans and the Democrats will lurch further to the right in the aftermath of the elections.
Two days after a US midterm election that registered massive popular dissatisfaction with both big business parties and the entire political system, a federal judge in Texas struck down the partial student debt relief program President Joe Biden had announced in August.
In recent days, Sanders has directly intervened to oppose peace negotiations and demand “war until victory” for Ukraine, increasing the danger of a nuclear holocaust.
