In New Hampshire, Senator Jeff Sessions backs up Donald Trump's loser cry of 'rigged election'

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In New Hampshire, Senator Jeff Sessions backs up Donald Trump's loser cry of 'rigged election'

Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III has signed onto Donald Trump’s continuing campaign ploy, claiming that the president election is being “rigged.” Yahoo News National Correspondent Holly Bailey was on hand covering the Trump rally today in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and tweeting what she was hearing. Senator Sessions preceded Rudi Giuliani on stage, saying at one point, “They are attempting to rig this election.”

Great. A U.S. senator had added his voice to the growing Trumptanic chorus in support of the Republican presidential nominee’s inflammatory claims that he won’t win only because the election is rigged. It’s not that the majority of voters finds Trump’s ideas and behavior tiresome, repulsive, hateful, and scary. Nah. The only way the Democrats can win, according to this line of “reasoning” is by cheating. Conspiracy theories about how this will be achieved abound on Twitter and darker places on the internet.

Since August, Trump has been saying, and Sessions has been hinting, the election might be stolen. But this time the neo-Confederate senator from Alabama said it outright in support of a candidate who just said in that same Portsmouth rally that Hillary Clinton must have been on some kind of drug during the second debate, and that both she and he should be tested before the third debate next Wednesday.

The incitement is clear. If an election is rigged, then there is no reason to accept the results. It should be overturned. And while most of the Trumplodytes who respond to such framing are mere armchair fanatics, it only takes a violent few here and there to wreak havoc. Not even close to being capable of a coup, certainly, but still a menace to people whom they target as being the root of what they consider America’s decline: people of color, uppity women, lesbians and gays, Muslims, and furriners who don’t speak good ‘murican.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/15/1582854/-In-New-Hampshire-Senator-Jeff-Sessions-backs-up-Donald-Trump-s-loser-cry-of-rigged-election

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I've just one question for anybody spouting that: How?

[spanone]

2. a sitting U.S. Senator saying this is beyond the pale. shameful.

[Raven]

3. The chances of rigging an election in NH are slim to none because

the election is run by local people. Here is how it works in towns: the voters list is kept by people in each community known as the "Keepers of the Checklist". They are elected by their communities. The election itself is run by the Town Moderator who is also elected. The local Board of Selectmen is required to be present throughout the election and to certify the security of the ballots at the end of the voting. Everybody knows everybody....nobody is going to get away with anything. Now, maybe things are a little different in the large cities but there aren't many of them up here. So New Hampshire is NOT going to be rigged and I hope we crush this cockroach big time!

[MrScorpio]

4. I'm surprised that Beauregard didn't melt, being that far away from his precious Dixie

He's probably going to need an emergency mint julep transfusion once he scurried back down south.

[spanone]

5. he doesn't do the 'southern stereotype' any favors, eh?

the southern redneck

p.s. i live in tennessee

[MrScorpio]

7. Actually he reminds me of a plantation owner

One of those refined southern dandies with soft hands, who have never spent an entire day under the sun in their lives.

[spanone]

8. actual name: Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III

probably IS a plantation owner.

[MrScorpio]

9. He's definitely no toothless yokel

[LisaL]

6. Well, if its rigged, why don't Trump supporters just stay home?

[heaven05]

10. people like this

and those who voted him into his position are hoping their trumpenahole-fuhrer will help the South rise again or at the least, when their fuhrer loses, pave a way for the racial/culture-erthnic/class war that they want to happen and has wanted to happen every since the Civil and Voting Rights Acts of 64-65. Talk about sore losers.
If they do start some shit, may their god rest theirv evil souls.

[Zorro]

11. He needs to be censured by the Senate

[spanone]

13. i agree 100%.

[Egnever]

12. Jeff sessions is batshit crazy

No surprise he signs on to this kind of nonsense.