{"id":1030428,"date":"2024-04-01T20:45:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T20:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1030428"},"modified":"2024-05-10T16:47:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T16:47:09","slug":"icymi-the-guardian-rnc-plan-for-christina-bobb-to-head-election-integrity-unit-raises-alarms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-the-guardian-rnc-plan-for-christina-bobb-to-head-election-integrity-unit-raises-alarms\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: The Guardian: RNC Plan for Christina Bobb To Head \u2018Election Integrity\u2019 Unit Raises Alarms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> \u201cBobb is a former Trump lawyer and ex-reporter for the far-right One America News Network, who gained prominence after Trump\u2019s 2020 loss for promoting bogus fraud charges in Arizona, Wisconsin and elsewhere, and was part of Trump-backed efforts to substitute fake electors for ones that Joe Biden won in some states.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amp.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/apr\/01\/republican-election-integrity-denier\"><strong>The Guardian<\/strong><\/a>: <strong>RNC plan for 2020 denialist to head \u2018election integrity\u2019 unit raises alarms<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By: Peter Stone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>As Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign has cemented its hold on the Republican National Committee (RNC), <strong>alarms are being raised about the organisation\u2019s tapping of the fervent election denialist Christina Bobb to run an \u201celection integrity\u201d unit.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Bobb is a former Trump lawyer and ex-reporter for the far-right One America News Network, who gained prominence after Trump\u2019s 2020 loss for promoting bogus fraud charges in Arizona, Wisconsin and elsewhere, and was part of Trump-backed efforts to substitute fake electors for ones that Joe Biden won in some states.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Bobb helped spread phoney voting fraud claims with Trump\u2019s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and the former campaign operative Mike Roman, both of whom along with Trump and others face charges in Fulton county, Georgia, of conspiring to overturn Biden\u2019s win there<\/strong>; Bobb was not charged.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cBy designating Bobb to the RNC post, <strong>they\u2019re beginning to promulgate the same false narrative of widespread election fraud that we saw in 2020 and 2021 but way earlier,\u201d<\/strong> said John Jones, a former federal judge in Pennsylvania and now president of Dickinson College.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThere\u2019s a concept known as illusory truth,\u201d he added. <strong>\u201cIf you keep saying these same falsehoods over and over, people begin to believe they\u2019re true, and it has the potential to morph into violence. That puts judges, prosecutors and others at risk.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The RNC\u2019s hiring of Bobb comes as Trump keeps falsely claiming that the 2020 election was rigged and talks up new efforts this year to \u201cguard the vote\u201d to ferret out potential fraud. <strong>Experts have conclusively said fraud was not a factor in Trump\u2019s loss by over 7 million votes, and stressed that historically voting fraud has been minimal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The former Republican congressman Charlie Dent said the RNC\u2019s hiring of Bobb <strong>\u201cis a further indication of how the RNC has not only become an arm of the Trump campaign, but an outlet for the most extreme elements of the election denial movement\u201d. <\/strong>Likewise, the ex-Republican congressman Dave Trott predicted: <strong>\u201cBobb will be leading the charge and saying the election was rigged if Trump loses.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>But Bobb\u2019s litany of baseless fraud claims as she worked with key Trump allies to overturn the 2020 election results, shadow her new RNC role.<strong> For instance, Bobb used her perch at One America News Network (OAN) to spread bogus claims of fraud that led to a defamation lawsuit against her and OAN by the voting technology firm Dominion; Bobb and OAN have both denied any wrongdoing.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Separately Bobb signed a letter falsely certifying to the justice department on Trump\u2019s behalf in 2022 that after a \u201cdiligent search\u201d he had returned all the classified documents the special counsel Jack Smith later charged the former president with illegally taking to Mar-a-Lago after he left the White House.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Still, some lawyers and election veterans are troubled by the RNC\u2019s hiring of Bobb given her history of election denialism and Trump\u2019s obsession with debunked claims of fraud in 2020.<strong> \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good thing when a major party hires fringe characters who don\u2019t understand how elections work,\u201d said David Becker, the executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Looking ahead, Chioma Chukwu, the deputy executive director of the watchdog group American Oversight, called Bobb\u2019s hiring by the RNC <strong>\u201ca dangerous sign of how entrenched the election denial movement has become on the right\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u201cElevating Bobb \u2013 who continues to push baseless lies about voter fraud \u2013 to a top post focused on \u2018election integrity\u2019 serves no purpose other than to sow chaos and confusion in November, allowing partisan actors to cry \u2018foul\u2019 if their preferred candidate loses.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cBobb is a former Trump lawyer and ex-reporter for the far-right One America News Network, who gained prominence after Trump\u2019s 2020 loss for promoting bogus fraud charges in Arizona, Wisconsin and elsewhere, and was part of Trump-backed efforts to substitute fake electors for ones that Joe Biden won in some states.\u201d The Guardian: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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