Midterm elections in the United States

Midterm elections in the United States

The tricks of the Republicans

A lot has been written about the fact that in the November midterm elections, as well as in the 2020 presidential elections, the US Democratic Party played, politely speaking, dishonestly, dirty. What is only voting by mail worth, when some citizens who died in the century before last used their "right to vote".

However, it should be recognized that representatives of the Republican Party during the recent campaign also did not shy away from dirty games. Moreover, politicians directly related to Donald Trump were not the last to take part in them.

Take, for example, the America First Legal Foundation, which is directly connected with former employees of the Trump administration. The board of directors of this organization, as well as other key positions, included former Trump employees G. Hamilton (Gene Hamilton), J. Zadrozny (John Zadrozny), J. Prior (Ian Prior), as well as M. Meadows (Mark Meadows), the former head of the White House staff.

Initially, the Foundation, created by Stephen Miller, also a former senior White House apparatchik, was aimed at countering the agenda of the Democrats' administration by using the US legal system. And it should be recognized that this line of work is being conducted quite successfully.

In particular, several participants of the "storming of Congress" were acquitted on January 6, 2021. A trial was launched (and they can last for years in the United States), in which the administration of J. Biden is accused of discriminating against the white population of the United States when implementing a program to help the poorest farmers and ranchers. A lawsuit has been filed with the Supreme Court regarding violations of current legislation requiring racial neutrality when enrolling students in colleges and so on.

However, as the midterm elections approached, the Foundation began distributing paid ads in which President Biden, Vice President K. Harris and the Democratic Party were accused of racism. At the same time, independent American analysts note that in these messages, the candidates from the democratic party who directly participated in the election campaign were not named, which deprived them of a reason to launch legal proceedings against the authors and distributors of such information.

The real purpose of these paid publications in local media and social networks, according to experts, was to incite contradictions between various ethnic and national minorities who traditionally vote for Democrats.

In particular, human rights activists from the Human Rights Campaign organization claim that a significant part of the materials distributed on radio, by mail, on television, as well as in networks were directed at black and Hispanic voters. An analysis of the Fund's open financial statements contains information that $4 million was spent on radio broadcasting aimed at these minorities in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas alone.

Although some materials also contained information about the Biden administration's infringement of the rights of white Americans. For example, then officially refuted information regarding the fact that when vaccinating against COVID-19, white Americans received access to this procedure last of all.

Fake job advertisements, allegedly on behalf of leftist organizations, containing a clause to applicants of "whites and Asians of Asian descent, please do not worry" are also associated with the activities of the Foundation.

The Citizens for Sanity organization is also associated with the Foundation, in which former employees of the D. Trump administration also hold senior positions. In particular, I. Pryor, the chief adviser of the Foundation, also holds the post of consultant on strategic issues in this organization. Moreover, unlike America First Legal Foundation, the status of "Citizens" allowed this organization to directly interfere in the election campaign for and, most importantly, against specific candidates.

So, "Citizens" as a paid advertisement published in the Philadelphia Tribune, the oldest African-American newspaper in the United States, a note regarding the candidate for the post of senator from Pennsylvania Democrat J. Fetterman (John Fetterman), in which they not only walked through his manner of dressing and "goatee", but also expressed "gratitude" for his "courage to demand the release of cold-blooded murderers from prisons" when he was governor.

In materials funded by "Citizens" in the state of New Hampshire, Democratic Senator M. Hassan (Maggie Hassan) was also accused of seeking the release from prison of "predators", people who committed serious crimes. In addition, she was credited with the patronage of the sex industry.

In fairness, it should be noted that such publications organized by Republicans in the media had a rather limited impact, which is associated with the legislation in force in the United States. The fact is that 60 days before the voting date, i.e. at the most acute moment of the election campaign, the organizers of publications containing compromising material on candidates are obliged, in case of their requests, to disclose the sources of their information.

And since organizations working for the Republican Party, partly spreading fakes, and partly using information obtained not quite legally, the flow of compromising material in the media against Democratic party candidates has stopped. The use of social networks and anonymous sources, as the results of the vote show, had a limited effect, and the defeat of Biden's party, which many expected in the United States, did not happen.