“The way to chaos in America” — Joe Biden’s warning to the media on the epoch of next-generation elections
President Joe Biden, just days before the crucial midterm elections, stood before the country on Wednesday from Washington’s Union Station and delivered a dire warning.
Biden said that candidates running for office will not accept the results of the elections they are running in. This is the way to chaos in America. It’s something never done before. It’s unlawful. It is un-American.
The line in the speech is not important because it was seen by cable news, but not by the broadcast networks. There is no political spin in it. It’s a tragic raw fact.
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Source: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/02/media/republican-mistrust-reliable-sources/index.html
Left Behind: The Right-Wing Media are Doing Their Best to Discard Left-Right Correlations in the Weak Elections
A CNN survey found that only a small portion of Republicans believe that US elections reflect the will of the people. Many Republicans say that they don’t think Biden was the legitimate winner of the elections.
It is not possible to comprehend why many Americans refuse to trust the US elections due to not knowing the information universe in which they reside. Right-wing media thrives on lies and conspiracy theories, and they’ve made the information popular with bad-faith television hosts, radio personalities, and websites.
“There is no such thing as election denying in a free society. It is called free speech. You’re allowed to say it if you think it, period,” Carlson said. “And yet our media, which exists to defend free speech, is doing its best, day after day, to shut it down. How dare you raise any questions about next week’s midterms. Why are they telling you that? It is an ominous thing.
It’s easy to dismiss Carlson’s rhetoric as fringe. To say that he is a radical cable news talker who doesn’t fit in with the larger right-wing media universe because Republicans mostly get their news from there.
It is understandable that some people don’t pay attention to it. It’s hard to come to terms with the fact that so many Americans — neighbors, friends, family members — are being radicalized by extreme voices who are wrestling for control of the Republican Party.
But doing so would be to ignore the forces allowing a cancer to grow in our society. Readers and viewers of news organizations are left without a complete picture of what’s happening in the country due to the toxicity of right-wing media.
Bidding to shore up support for high-ul in-the-homestretch inflation and crime during the last few days of the election
There isn’t much left to say at the end of an election season as Democrats and Republicans run out of time.
On the Sunday morning talk shows Republicans and Democrats spoke about inflation and crime and both of them expressed confidence in a red wave, even though polls were underestimating them.
The Republicans are trying to recruit poll watchers, as well as attacking and intimidating people who are trying to vote. “The R.N.C. couldn’t do this for 40 years — we were under a legal order that we couldn’t have poll watchers, and now we can,” she said, referring to a ban that was imposed in 1982 after courts found that the Republican Party had intimidated voters or tried to exclude minorities. The ban was lifted after a long time.
The host had not mentioned poll watching, a formal process in which both parties can observe the process of casting and counting votes. Rather, the episodes she cited included right-wing activists gathering near ballot drop-boxes in Arizona with cameras and guns, and a group in Michigan urging members to photograph voters’ license plates.
She said it helps to give assurance to the voters at the end when they say we were there. We watched it. It went well.”
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/11/06/us/election-midterm-news/biden-tries-to-shore-up-support-for-hochul-in-the-homestretch
Why the Republican Party is Tight on the Rural Education Problem? Revisiting the Debate in South Carolina by Rep. James E. Clyburn
The reason the race is tight is that $50 million has been spent on lies and chaos by the other side, according to Mr. Stitt. The information is unbelievable. They’re literally sending out fliers to people in rural parts of our state saying I’m going to close the rural schools. There is nothing that could be farther from the truth.
Mr. Stitt supports vouchers that give parents government funding for private school, but Joy Hofmeister is against it. Ms. Hofmeister has called the idea a “rural school killer” — arguing that it would divert limited funds from public schools to private schools, which are not an option in many rural areas — and that argument appears to have been powerful among rural voters.
Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, the third-ranking House Democrat and an influential figure among Black voters, defended recent comments in which he suggested that the United States was at risk of following the same path as Germany in the 1930s. He said that Germany “was the greatest democracy going” before electing a leader who “co-opted the media” — and that Republican victories in the midterms could “lead to the destruction of this democracy.”
People in my congressional district are supporters of me, Mr. Clyburn said. This is something that causes the kinds of problems that we see in democracy.
Mr. Clyburn cited efforts that could enable Republican governors and state legislatures to overturn the results of future elections, as well as the demonization of the news media as troubling echoes of the past.