The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election

[Ghost Bear]

The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election

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This is the inside story of the conspiracy to save the 2020 election, based on access to the group’s inner workings, never-before-seen documents and interviews with dozens of those involved from across the political spectrum. It is the story of an unprecedented, creative and determined campaign whose success also reveals how close the nation came to disaster. “Every attempt to interfere with the proper outcome of the election was defeated,” says Ian Bassin, co-founder of Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan rule-of-law advocacy group. “But it’s massively important for the country to understand that it didn’t happen accidentally. The system didn’t work magically. Democracy is not self-executing.”

That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.

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Excerpted, read the entire article here: https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/


My comment: Here it is, in their own words, how the leftists arranged to "steer" the election to the outcome they wanted, the defeat of Donald Trump.  If you thought it was a grand conspiracy by the "powers that be", you were right, and they are proud of it.

[BassWrangler]

This Time Magazine article is generating a huge amount of posts on conservative Twitter. Many people are stunned that they actually published this. It basically says they rigged the election - via slanted media, and last-minute election rule changes - in order to ensure that Trump didn't win.

[skeeter]

Not so. Why there’s no proof. It was all thrown out of court, donchya know. Oh sure, there was some fraud - there always is - but not enough to swing the election. No sir.

[Ghost Bear]

This Time Magazine article is generating a huge amount of posts on conservative Twitter. Many people are stunned that they actually published this. It basically says they rigged the election - via slanted media, and last-minute election rule changes - in order to ensure that Trump didn't win.

Exactly. In their minds they were "defeating evil", and they are proud of the work they did. They want to be praised for it. They don't seem to understand that what they did was both evil and perhaps unlawful. If we had an honest Justice Department, this would all demand investigation.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Jess 🇺🇸
@jessiprincey

They just openly said they purposely manipulated the election to oppose President Trump’s assault on democracy.



6:20 AM · Feb 5, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/jessiprincey/status/1357650283258609664

[Right_in_Virginia]

FTA

Election night began with many Democrats despairing. Trump was running ahead of pre-election polling, winning Florida, Ohio and Texas easily and keeping Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania too close to call. But Podhorzer was unperturbed when I spoke to him that night: the returns were exactly in line with his modeling. He had been warning for weeks that Trump voters’ turnout was surging. As the numbers dribbled out, he could tell that as long as all the votes were counted, Trump would lose.

The liberal alliance gathered for an 11 p.m. Zoom call. Hundreds joined; many were freaking out. “It was really important for me and the team in that moment to help ground people in what we had already known was true,” says Angela Peoples, director for the Democracy Defense Coalition. Podhorzer presented data to show the group that victory was in hand.

While he was talking, Fox News surprised everyone by calling Arizona for Biden. The public-awareness campaign had worked: TV anchors were bending over backward to counsel caution and frame the vote count accurately. The question then became what to do next.

The conversation that followed was a difficult one, led by the activists charged with the protest strategy. “We wanted to be mindful of when was the right time to call for moving masses of people into the street,” Peoples says. As much as they were eager to mount a show of strength, mobilizing immediately could backfire and put people at risk. Protests that devolved into violent clashes would give Trump a pretext to send in federal agents or troops as he had over the summer. And rather than elevate Trump’s complaints by continuing to fight him, the alliance wanted to send the message that the people had spoken.

So the word went out: stand down. Protect the Results announced that it would “not be activating the entire national mobilization network today, but remains ready to activate if necessary.” On Twitter, outraged progressives wondered what was going on. Why wasn’t anyone trying to stop Trump’s coup? Where were all the protests?

[Right_in_Virginia]

FTA

In Podhorzer’s presentations, winning the vote was only the first step to winning the election. After that came winning the count, winning the certification, winning the Electoral College and winning the transition–steps that are normally formalities but that he knew Trump would see as opportunities for disruption. Nowhere would that be more evident than in Michigan, where Trump’s pressure on local Republicans came perilously close to working–and where liberal and conservative pro-democracy forces joined to counter it.

It was around 10 p.m. on election night in Detroit when a flurry of texts lit up the phone of Art Reyes III. A busload of Republican election observers had arrived at the TCF Center, where votes were being tallied. They were crowding the vote-counting tables, refusing to wear masks, heckling the mostly Black workers. Reyes, a Flint native who leads We the People Michigan, was expecting this. For months, conservative groups had been sowing suspicion about urban vote fraud. “The language was, ‘They’re going to steal the election; there will be fraud in Detroit,’ long before any vote was cast,” Reyes says.

Trump supporters seek to disrupt the vote count at Detroit’s TCF Center on Nov. 4
Trump supporters seek to disrupt the vote count at Detroit’s TCF Center on Nov. 4 Elaine Cromie—Getty Images
He made his way to the arena and sent word to his network. Within 45 minutes, dozens of reinforcements had arrived. As they entered the arena to provide a counterweight to the GOP observers inside, Reyes took down their cell-phone numbers and added them to a massive text chain. Racial-justice activists from Detroit Will Breathe worked alongside suburban women from Fems for Dems and local elected officials. Reyes left at 3 a.m., handing the text chain over to a disability activist.

As they mapped out the steps in the election-certification process, activists settled on a strategy of foregrounding the people’s right to decide, demanding their voices be heard and calling attention to the racial implications of disenfranchising Black Detroiters. They flooded the Wayne County canvassing board’s Nov. 17 certification meeting with on-message testimony; despite a Trump tweet, the Republican board members certified Detroit’s votes.

Election boards were one pressure point; another was GOP-controlled legislatures, who Trump believed could declare the election void and appoint their own electors. And so the President invited the GOP leaders of the Michigan legislature, House Speaker Lee Chatfield and Senate majority leader Mike Shirkey, to Washington on Nov. 20.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Reading this article is like reading The Screwtape Letters:  How to Steal an Election

The democracy defenders launched a full-court press. Protect Democracy’s local contacts researched the lawmakers’ personal and political motives. Issue One ran television ads in Lansing. The Chamber’s Bradley kept close tabs on the process. Wamp, the former Republican Congressman, called his former colleague Mike Rogers, who wrote an op-ed for the Detroit newspapers urging officials to honor the will of the voters.

Three former Michigan governors–Republicans John Engler and Rick Snyder and Democrat Jennifer Granholm–jointly called for Michigan’s electoral votes to be cast free of pressure from the White House. Engler, a former head of the Business Roundtable, made phone calls to influential donors and fellow GOP elder statesmen who could press the lawmakers privately.

[Ghost Bear]

From the end of the article:

As I was reporting this article in November and December, I heard different claims about who should get the credit for thwarting Trump’s plot. Liberals argued the role of bottom-up people power shouldn’t be overlooked, particularly the contributions of people of color and local grassroots activists. Others stressed the heroism of GOP officials like Van Langevelde and Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger, who stood up to Trump at considerable cost. The truth is that neither likely could have succeeded without the other. “It’s astounding how close we came, how fragile all this really is,” says Timmer, the former Michigan GOP chair. “It’s like when Wile E. Coyote runs off the cliff–if you don’t look down, you don’t fall. Our democracy only survives if we all believe and don’t look down.”

Emphasis is mine. The swamp is bipartisan, and it will all work together regardless of party to fight against anyone who threatens the swamp.

[Right_in_Virginia]

TIME Mag: “Trump Was Right. There WAS A Conspiracy”… “Well-Funded Cabal, Powerful People Changing Laws, Steering Media And Controlling The Flow Of Information.”
National Pulse, Feb 5, 2021

The article even confirms both The National Pulse’s reporting on former Obama lawyer Ian Bassin, as well as Revolver.news’s assertion of the involvement of Norm Eisen in what amounted to a major admission of a globalist set up to leverage the coronavirus, mail-in voting, and corporate interest to oust President Trump from office.

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In other words, now the constituent parts are trying to claim credit, and along they way, they’ve said the quiet part out loud.


More: https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis/time-mag-trump-was-right-there-was-a-conspiracy-well-funded-cabal-powerful-people-changing-laws-steering-media-and-controlling-the-flow-of-information/

[Right_in_Virginia]

From the end of the article:

Emphasis is mine. The swamp is bipartisan, and it will all work together regardless of party to fight against anyone who threatens the swamp.

It's clear Republicans were complicit in this plot, as well.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec

This is a confession

TIME
@TIME   Â· 7h

The secret history of the shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election
https://ti.me/2NZBUbg

9:59 AM · Feb 5, 2021·Twitter Web App

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1357705362565181446

[Right_in_Virginia]

Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec

If you read the Time Mag piece what they actually admit is that a group of organizations planned to change our voting system and rules even before COVID19 hit

Remember, even Fauci said in-person voting would be fine in 2020


12:50 PM · Feb 5, 2021·Twitter Web App

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1357748329610944519

[libertybele]

Exactly. In their minds they were "defeating evil", and they are proud of the work they did. They want to be praised for it. They don't seem to understand that what they did was both evil and perhaps unlawful. If we had an honest Justice Department, this would all demand investigation.

That's been a problem for a very long time.  We have a corrupt DOJ led by corrupt AG's, that was very obvious during the Obama administration. Sessions and Barr ARE part of this corruption.  There of course was never any Russian collusion, Trump should have NEVER been impeached the first time and this election was nothing more than a way to get rid of Trump orchestrated by both parties.  Get rid of Trump and silence the voices of millions.

This is exactly why I dropped my affiliation with the Republican party and why I cannot vote for those within the Republican party.

As our country continues to unlawfully be transformed into a socialist/marxist entity I am hoping that the Blue Dog Democrats of yesteryear will help us Conservatives as well as disgruntled Independents build and renew a Constitutional government. 

[Bigun]

Reading this article is like reading The Screwtape Letters:  How to Steal an Election

  It absolutely is!

[LMAO]

 Interesting article.

If ultimately it turns out to be true that the election was stolen from Donald Trump, I don’t care what anybody feels about ANY candidate. This is very bad. It reaffirms the belief of those who do believe that the election was stolen and it undermines future elections

[Bigun]

From the end of the article:

Emphasis is mine. The swamp is bipartisan, and it will all work together regardless of party to fight against anyone who threatens the swamp.

Absolutely! And I have been telling anyone who would listen that very thing for years now!

[LMAO]

Absolutely! And I have been telling anyone who would listen that very thing for years now!

 Back when Donald Trump was elected, someone asked me if I believed he would clean up the corruption and drain the swamp in Washington DC.


 My reply was what I believe doesn’t matter. If those who benefit from the power structure of politics believe he might, they will react

[Bigun]

Back when Donald Trump was elected, someone asked me if I believed he would clean up the corruption and drain the swamp in Washington DC.


 My reply was what I believe doesn’t matter. If those who benefit from the power structure of politics believe he might, they will react

What I have repeatedly said from day one is that "anyone who thinks that draining the swamp will be either quick or painless is delusional".

But that does not mean that it should not be done. Not at all!

[Right_in_Virginia]

Tim Pool
@Timcast

They didn't rig the election they "fortified" it

Holy bleep I can't believe Time just ran this story

https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/

7:30 AM · Feb 5, 2021·Twitter for Android

https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1357667842527756292

[Right_in_Virginia]

Emerald Robinson
@EmeraldRobinson

The corporate media: "People who say there was a shadow campaign to rig the 2020 election are conspiracy theorists!"

Time Magazine: "Read our story on the shadow campaign to rig the 2020 election!"


9:47 AM · Feb 5, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1357702480881197056

[mountaineer]

Some Twitter comments:

Jillian Anderson  @Jillie_Alexis
Election officials were NEVER  forced to seek private funding.
State & local officials used Zuckerberg money to run elections in the urban areas of swing states. The potential impact of how this money dictated the outcome of the election isn’t shown here.
This article jumps around the timeline of events that took place which is misleading to readers.
It also omits the fact that Mark Zuckerberg was brought into this plan as early as November of 2019.
12:02 PM · Feb 5, 2021


Jack Posobiec  @JackPosobiec
If you read the Time Mag piece what they actually admit is that a group of organizations planned to change our voting system and rules even before COVID19 hit
Remember, even Fauci said in-person voting would be fine in 2020
12:50 PM · Feb 5, 2021·

ELIJAH SCHAFFER  @ElijahSchaffer
Time admits Democrats used manipulative tactics, borderline black mail of corporations, and deceptive propaganda campaigns that look like a "conspiracy" to rig the election
But because Dems prefer the word "fortified" instead of "rig" it's all good. WTF
They even call it a conspiracy and admit it looks bad, but because they say it isn't bad, we should stop questioning
Also, the woman behind the social media censorship of people questioning the tactics used in 2020 now works for the Biden administration. Not fishy at all
1:59 PM · Feb 5, 2021·

[Right_in_Virginia]

Candace Owens
@RealCandaceO

This is absolutely insane.

Time magazine is literally admitting that a secret cabal of powerful wealthy elite people and corporations hijacked our 2020 election by steering media coverage, influencing perceptions, and changing rules and laws.


11:20 AM · Feb 5, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1357725912708636672

[Right_in_Virginia]

BTTT

[Right_in_Virginia]

BiasedGirl
@BiasedGirl

The Secret Bipartisan Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election or Exhibit A if I’m on Trump’s defense team.

12:40 PM · Feb 5, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/BiasedGirl/status/1357745945224617985