Cheney’s Little Big Lie: Voter Suppression
During an Axios interview, Rep. Rep. Liz Cheney’s refused to link Republican efforts to pass hundreds of restrictive voter suppression laws to Trump’s false claims of election fraud. This is the little Big Lie circulated by Republican leaders who are counting on racist lies and voter suppression to win back Congress in 2022. After decades of do anything to win election politics, lying to the American people is now firmly baked into the DNA of the GOP.
By Martin Pengelly
The Republican pariah Liz Cheney has repeatedly refused to admit a link between Donald Trump’s lies about voter fraud and restrictive voting laws being introduced in Republican states, telling an interviewer on Sunday night she will “never understand the resistance to voter ID”.
Because of their disproportionate impact on minority voters – many of whom vote Democratic – Democrats including Joe Biden have compared such laws to Jim Crow segregation in southern states from the civil war to the civil rights era.
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