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1 verified report published on November 14, 2021.
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The through-line on November 14 was simple: Trump’s fraud fantasy kept running into Republican officeholders who still knew what a certified election looks like. That produced the most damaging kind of screwup for him — not just bad optics, but evidence that his own party’s machinery was beginning to treat the lie as a liability. When your argument requires calling your fellow Republicans traitors for saying the votes were counted correctly, the problem is no longer the counting. It’s you.
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Trump kept attacking Republican election officials who had already rejected broad claims of 2020 election fraud, including Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Michigan officials who said the state's results were accurate and secure earlier in 2021.