CNN was seemingly engaged in some stochastic terrorism during Wednesday’s Inside Politics as host Dana Bash gave a platform to and promoted incendiary Democratic Party conspiracy theories claiming President Trump was going to steal the 2026 midterm elections. At no point did she try to poke holes in the idea, instead she praised Democrats for “sounding the alarm” and said Trump’s past claims of election rigging were the only “erroneous” ones.
Bash opened the segment by highlighting how Governors Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and JB Pritzker (D-IL) were “increasingly sounding the alarm that a free and fair election may not even happen.” She followed up with these two soundbites of the Governors making unsubstantiated and incendiary accusations:
NEWSOM: People actually think this guy is serious about having another election? You think he's joking about 2028? [Transition] I'm not calm and I'm not going to submit myself to niceties. Not when this guy is trying to wreck our God damn country.
PRITZKER: He'd like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly, take control of those elections. He'll just claim that there's some problem with an election, and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control.
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