My AJC colleague Mark Niesse, who has covered voting issues since long before the 2000 election, recently wrote a story headlined: “Election confidence rises among Georgia Republicans after Trump’s win.”
Republicans, until recently a suspicious lot, are nearly unanimous – 98% – in believing the 2024 election was on the up-and-up, according to a University of Georgia survey.
It was a “Yeah, duh” moment, akin to a headline saying: “Georgia Bulldog fans now think refs are fair after UGA win.”
For the past four years, a sizable chunk of Republicans say they knew that the scheming Dems and rigged voting machines defeated their guy, just like Bulldog fans are certain of efforts afoot to sink UGA coach Kirby Smart and his team.
After losing in 2020, then-president Donald Trump and his faithful unleashed a torrent of conspiracies that in football parlance would be called “flooding the zone.” But instead of flooding it with receivers, Team Trump did it with taurus excretus.