Former Romney Strategist Warns Republicans Might ‘Burn Down’ Election Centers to Stop Black Votes
Stuart Stevens of the Lincoln Project, a former campaign strategist for Mitt Romney’s presidential run in 2012, suggests Republicans could “burn down” election centers in an effort to disenfranchise black voters.
Stevens was a guest of “Chris Jansing Reports” Tuesday, where he told the panel that Trump supporters might try to “violently disrupt” vote counts in predominantly black cities on Election Day.
He claims disputes over voting tallies in the previous election centered around cities that have a “high percentage of African-American voters,” then presents a scenario in which the Trump campaign thinks they are in a losing position because of those locations.
“And I think that what is really the fear here is – put yourself in the mindset that the Trump campaign really doesn’t think it can win, either the popular vote or the Electoral College. You look at this campaign. It makes no sense. He’s not trying to add voters,” Stevens said.
“What they want to do is they want to win the Election Night until the inauguration. And if they can go in and they can violently disrupt these counting centers, how will states be able to certify elections? You burn down a county center in Arizona,” he ranted. “How does the governor certify those elections?”
“What world do we end in then? And I think that we really have to anticipate that.”
Unhinged: The Lincoln Project’s @stuartpstevens says “we have to anticipate” Republicans “burning down” election centers in cities where black voters are concentrated so as to stop them from being counted pic.twitter.com/nhlZb0t1jk
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 15, 2024
The fact that Jansing and the other panelists didn’t look at Stevens with bewilderment says all you need to know about that group. No, Republicans aren’t going to treat election centers the way leftists treat pro-life pregnancy centers after Roe v. Wade.
Now, you’ve gotta love MSNBC labeling their guest as a former chief strategist for Mitt Romney’s ’12 campaign. It allows them to tout his alleged credentials as an insider with the Republican Party and thus provides viewers with supposed evidence that there is some truth to his analysis.
Narrator: There isn’t any truth to his analysis.
Not to mention, it is, of course, an exaggeration of his role. Stevens is so inconsequential in the Republican Party that even the Romney campaign didn’t like him. He was widely viewed as the loser who helped Romney become a loser.
The reality is that he is a broken shell, beaten and battered by Trump to the point that the only entities who take him seriously any longer are MSNBC and retreads at the Lincoln Project. As such, he’s prone to saying inane things that serve as red meat to leftists.
“Republicans are going to burn down election centers to stop black votes from being counted” certainly ranks in that category.
As do comments last September that if Trump wins, democracy will be destroyed, and the 2024 election will “be the last election that we can recognize as an American election.”
Stevens has referred to Trump as a “monster” and suggested Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who had challenged him in the GOP primary, was actually “worse than Trump.”
He has described the two as “a threat to what it means, really, to be an American.”
Totally sane.