Out-of-state consultant who recruited Catalina Lauf in 2019, and teamed her with Anna Paulina Luna and other Millennial women returns to Illinois for 2022 primary
Fresh off of her consulting gig resulting in the election of Glenn Youngkin as governor of Virginia, Jeff Roe’s Axiom Strategies Vice President and General Consultant Kristin Davison returns to Illinois to help Jesse Sullivan’s (R, Petersburg) gubernatorial campaign.
From POLITICO Illinois Playbook:
“FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: Kristin Davison, who most recently worked on the GOP governor’s race in Virginia, has joined Illinois Republican Jesse Sullivan’s gubernatorial campaign. Davison was senior strategist for Glenn Youngkin, who defeated Terry McAuliffe to take the Virginia governor’s mansion, handing Democrats a stinging loss. Along with Davison, Poolhouse media agency, which also worked with Youngkin’s campaign, is on Sullivan’s team, too.”
McHenry County voters have seen Kristin Davison’s handiwork in Illinois before, as recent as the 2020 election cycle when she was the general consultant for then IL-14 Republican candidate Catalina Lauf (R, Woodstock).
Davison also organized in December of 2019. the short-lived “Stop The Squad” slate uniting Lauf with Anna Paulina Luna (R, FL-13), Lisa Song Sutton (R, NV-04) and others, covered on McHenry County Blog nearly two years ago.
As many local Republican activists are aware, Axiom Strategies was trying to recruit young, attractive minority women to seek election to Congress for the 2020 election cycle, and Stop the Squad slate was a result of this recruitment effort.
Only two of the original Stop the Squad slate members won their respective Republican nominations, and none won election to Congress last year.
During the height of the IL-14 2020 Republican primary campaign, Davison even took a Twitter shot at me:
I enjoyed the laugh back in February of 2020 as to date, I have not received payment from anyone, and the Lauf campaign of IL-14 ended up finishing 3rd in the 7-way primary.
Outside of Virginia, the last time my path crossed with Davison was in the 2020 FL-19 Republican primary, where she was the spokesperson for Casey Askar, who finished 3rd in the 9-way Republican primary that year after putting $3 million of his own money to finish behind now Congressman Byron Donalds (R, FL-19).
Here is Davison’s bio, taken from Maverick PAC
A recipient of the 2019 American Association of Political Consultants’ “40 Under 40″ Award and one of Business Insider’s “Top 2022 Gen Z Campaign Operatives to Watch,” Kristin Davison is known to push candidates and campaigns to work harder, grow outside their comfort zones, and advance to the next level. She has over a decade of campaign and policy experience, from local mayoral races to national presidential campaigns, from the White House to the British House of Commons.
Davison studied political science, but the foundation of her education came during her time as Chief of Staff for former Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush, Karl Rove, where she worked with statewide, national, and international campaigns, political groups, Fox News, and the Wall Street Journal. She also led the research, editing, and marketing of the two national best-selling books, “Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight” and “The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters.”
Davison has worked on statewide campaigns and issue initiatives across the country, including Sen. Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential primary campaign and Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt’s winning 2016 re-election campaign. She joined Axiom Strategies as a vice president in 2019, and during the 2020 cycle, helped recruit more Republican women to run for office than any year previously, electing two new Republican women to Congress. Currently she is working to get Glenn Youngkin elected the next governor of Virginia this November, as well as with a number of stellar 2022 Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, governor, and U.S. Congress.
It will be interesting to see if Davison can help Sullivan’s campaign. Given his campaign had over $10 million at its disposal, he could afford to attract the help of Pennsylvania-based Davison, fresh off the big Youngkin win, to Illinois where he is looking to catch Republican front runner Darren Bailey (R, Xenia).
Will it help? Only time will tell.
Do Any of you know what a Rotary Phone is?
becareful when your calling a pot Black…
I welcome her.
She’s not competent to run a yard sale.
If you think for 1 minute Youngkin is not a RINO you are misinformed.
He worships the CCP and worked 25 yrs at Carlysle Group.
Anybody this woman is pushing gets a no vote.
If she is joining RINO Davison’s campaign that decision has already been made just like with Bailey, a career politician on the government dole for his “family” business.
We’ll have to wait for November to see who the cheat machines choose as the next person to run our state.
Funny she worked with Karl Rove. Learned from the best how to be the best RINO she can be.
When people say Gen Z operative I think of an actual Gen Z person, not someone who worked for the W administration and not someone who just works *with* Gen Z candidates. This lady is a millennial or maybe even a Gen X. I could see her being give or take a few years around 40. The oldest Gen Z are pushing 25 next year. Sullivan, who looks younger than her, is an older millennial at 37 but not quite on the cusp or considered a “xenial,” and Lauf is on the younger side of millennials but maybe not quite on the Gen Z cusp (demographers may eventually dub the cusp people zenials), and Casey Askar is Gen X. Rubio is Gen X. George W Bush is a boomer. Karl Rove is a boomer. Youngkin is probably Gen X. Roy Blunt is a boomer. So even saying she works *for* Gen Z candidates is inaccurate.
Let’s not give her too much credit for Youngkin’s win. You have to look at the circumstances and the opponent. It was more of a backlash against Democrats than anything. Look at her record in the primaries. That would be more relevant since Sullivan has to win the primary first and Bailey is far and away the front runner. Does she have more losses than wins? What is her record in Illinois?
Sullivan is a stiff candidate. When he speaks it seems super-phony and rehearsed. He also seems guarded about his intentions and real beliefs in interviews. It will be interesting to see what his campaign does in the primary. He can vastly outspend his competition. He has more money than all of them combined. He’ll need to blow through a good chunk of that ~11 million too since he’s coming from behind, nobody knows him, and other candidates are already established. But WHAT will his message be?
People close to him have got to be thinking about going for the “I’m the most electable guy” narrative but it’s an art to craft that message well in a partisan primary and not offend conservative voters. I bet his people are secretly thinking, “You stupid idiots, if you pick Darren Bailey you’re going to lose to Pritzker by double digits” but they can’t come right out and say that. Is it possible Sullivan will just ignore his primary opponents and focus on Pritzker? Is it possible he won’t talk about himself that much since doing so is invitation to criticism? He has the money to go that route, and if he’s the one blasting the most anti-Pritzker ads then maybe people will make the connection between opposing Pritzker and his campaign. Sullivan is the only candidate with enough money to be able to get pollwatchers and lawyers into Crook County, so he might mention that too.
It seems like Bailey already has a lock on it. His support downstate is strong and those people appear to be sticky supporters. They LOVE that Bailey challenged Pritzker over the mask issue. In the Chicago area, the vote will be divided between a bunch of people. Sullivan will need to expropriate almost all of Rabine and Schimpf’s supporters and decidedly win among the undecided people. Bailey has a *floor* of 30 and probably more like 40 percent in my opinion.
LOL Correcting. This is how the winner will already be chosen in IL and has been for decades. Campaigning has nothing to do with it unless we solve the root cause of IL decades long problem with politicians. It’s one of the tools they (both R’s and D’s) use to keep power. Those ES&S machines and clerks that cover up the cheating being used in McHenry and other counties in IL are corrupt.
The proof is out there if you bothered to look. Has Joe Tirio done some fact finding?
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There are 5 types of Phantom Voters.
1) Traditional fraud – Person doesn’t exist, yet someone created a fake identity.
2) Split Person into multiple voters using same first and last name; diluting your vote. Bobby Smith, Bob Smith, Rob Smith, Robert Smith across county or State lines
3) Moved out of or intra State – they are in voter registration files in different counties and/or states, voting from multiple locations across county / State lines.
a. It might be very difficult to catch if voter registration files are withheld or have limited viewability across county lines.
4) Children or other family members are registered at a family house but are not actually living there.
a. In some cases, they are children off to college, in extreme cases, the parents knew their children had moved out of the home and they still received and possibly voted their ballot; they knowingly committed voter crimes on behalf of their political party.
5) Dead Voter – Identity of someone who died voted across county lines in a different part of the State or the Coroner doesn’t file the paperwork in a “timely manner”, helping his friend the county clerk out. A good way to find out which clerk / coroner might be involved in this fraud is to focus on the ones that have held office across election cycles or for over a decade.
a. In many cases, the “coroner” stays within the same family; look for family relationships of coroners through time.
The goal of the cabal was to flood the system with “Real Ballots” that were generated as a result of these “phantom voters” in the voter registration rolls.
Real Ballots are very difficult to counterfeit, so coming up with a way to get the government to issue this voting currency was essential to pulling off this fraud.
This Fraud would have been very difficult to effectuate if it wasn’t for the mail in ballot push that was so heavily fought for and implemented by the communists (the UniParty) within the Republican Party (RINO’s) and the Democrat Party.
Step 1) Inflate the Voter Registration Rolls with Phantom Voters that don’t exist and motivate everyone to register, or automatically register as many as possible, counting on most not actually voting.
Step 2) Mail out “Real Ballots” to Voter Mules at locations that have a disproportionate amount of registrations. (New Construction sites, Nursing Homes, Apartment Buildings, Government Buildings, PO Boxes, etc.)
Step 3) Mail Back “Real Ballots” and have them separated from the envelopes. Don’t enter these “Real Ballots” cast votes onto the “Phantom Voter” Files, but rather assign them to “Real People” that didn’t vote. Assign a very Real Ballot to a Non-Voter. This is still illegal as someone who exercised their Right NOT to Vote is still afforded the same rights as someone who did vote.
Step 4) If you run out of “Real People” that didn’t Vote, because the real people that “own that spot” show up to vote, tell them they already voted and give them a provisional ballot.
Step 5) If the cabal still can’t make the numbers work, start flipping votes by using an algorithm that calls on names in the voter registration files that are the inverse of real people’s names. (For example, Bob Jones is also registered as Jones Bob, etc). Countless voting records show this insane relationship, and these fictitious voters are created to “tag” how to flip votes if necessary.
Step 6) Destroy entire classes of Last Names across a particular precinct or county.
Say there is a family that would vote 70% Party A and 30% Party B in the past and now votes 30% Party A and 70% Party B, or a 100% swing. Just delete all of the votes that were cast for both Party A and Party B by “Last Name”. This is very quick and efficient and makes it easy to manage a targeted outcome since millions of voters are involved.
Step 7) Last line of defense. The U Voters that are created across every type of voter, age, and across all precincts is deployed to “assassinate” a real vote if the numbers still can’t work with all of these other measures. Since voters do not get a “receipt” that they can reference in the final “Voter Tape” of every Vote that was cast, there is no way to ensure their vote wasn’t later “assassinated” to make the final precinct totals work.
LOL Correcting. This is how the winner will already be chosen in IL and has been for decades. Campaigning has nothing to do with it unless we solve the root cause of IL decades long problem with politicians It’s one of the tools they (both R’s and D’s)used to keep power. Those ES&S machines being used in McHenry and other counties in IL are corrupt.
The proof is out there if you bothered to look.
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There are 5 types of Phantom Voters.
1) Traditional fraud – Person doesn’t exist, yet someone created a fake identity.
2) Split Person into multiple voters using same first and last name; diluting your vote. Bobby Piton, Bob Piton, Rob Piton, Robert Piton across county or State lines
3) Moved out of or intra State – they are in voter registration files in different counties and/or states, voting from multiple locations across county / State lines.
a. It might be very difficult to catch if voter registration files are withheld or have limited viewability across county lines.
4) Children or other family members are registered at a family house but are not actually living there.
a. In some cases, they are children off to college, in extreme cases, the parents knew their children had moved out of the home and they still received and possibly voted their ballot; they knowingly committed voter crimes on behalf of their political party.
5) Dead Voter – Identity of someone who died voted across county lines in a different part of the State or the Coroner doesn’t file the paperwork in a “timely manner”, helping his friend the county clerk out. A good way to find out which clerk / coroner might be involved in this fraud is to focus on the ones that have held office across election cycles or for over a decade.
a. In many cases, the “coroner” stays within the same family; look for family relationships of coroners through time.
The goal of the cabal was to flood the system with “Real Ballots” that were generated as a result of these “phantom voters” in the voter registration rolls.
Real Ballots are very difficult to counterfeit, so coming up with a way to get the government to issue this voting currency was essential to pulling off this fraud.
This Fraud would have been very difficult to effectuate if it wasn’t for the mail in ballot push that was so heavily fought for and implemented by the communists (the UniParty) within the Republican Party (RINO’s) and the Democrat Party.
Step 1) Inflate the Voter Registration Rolls with Phantom Voters that don’t exist and motivate everyone to register, or automatically register as many as possible, counting on most not actually voting.
Step 2) Mail out “Real Ballots” to Voter Mules at locations that have a disproportionate amount of registrations. (New Construction sites, Nursing Homes, Apartment Buildings, Government Buildings, PO Boxes, etc.)
Step 3) Mail Back “Real Ballots” and have them separated from the envelopes. Don’t enter these “Real Ballots” cast votes onto the “Phantom Voter” Files, but rather assign them to “Real People” that didn’t vote. Assign a very Real Ballot to a Non-Voter. This is still illegal as someone who exercised their Right NOT to Vote is still afforded the same rights as someone who did vote.
Step 4) If you run out of “Real People” that didn’t Vote, because the real people that “own that spot” show up to vote, tell them they already voted and give them a provisional ballot.
Step 5) If the cabal still can’t make the numbers work, start flipping votes by using an algorithm that calls on names in the voter registration files that are the inverse of real people’s names. (For example, Bob Jones is also registered as Jones Bob, etc). Countless voting records show this insane relationship, and these fictitious voters are created to “tag” how to flip votes if necessary.
Step 6) Destroy entire classes of Last Names across a particular precinct or county.
Say there is a family that would vote 70% Party A and 30% Party B in the past and now votes 30% Party A and 70% Party B, or a 100% swing. Just delete all of the votes that were cast for both Party A and Party B by “Last Name”. This is very quick and efficient and makes it easy to manage a targeted outcome since millions of voters are involved.
Step 7) Last line of defense. The U Voters that are created across every type of voter, age, and across all precincts is deployed to “assassinate” a real vote if the numbers still can’t work with all of these other measures. Since voters do not get a “receipt” that they can reference in the final “Voter Tape” of every Vote that was cast, there is no way to ensure their vote wasn’t later “assassinated” to make the final precinct totals work.
Here we go again with the derailment.
“Any election that doesn’t go my way is fraud! Any election that goes my way is real!”
That’s what you sound like when you start bringing up “the cabal” when I point out that Bailey is the front runner in the GOP primary.
This is obvious to everybody except for you.
Remember that the topic here is a Republican primary, but I’ll respond to your post in detail.
Most people can skip to the last line.
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With all the things you say, couldn’t someone check for those things?
Is there any proof of widespread voter fraud happening in McHenry County other than you listing theoretical ways it could happen?
For example, somebody could cast a vote as a dead person if the name has not been removed.
From what I hear, there is a backlog of dead voters.
That is a major issue, I agree and have brought it up before too, but do you have any instances where a dead person actually did vote in this county?
I’m not talking about Cook County now. You always hound Joe Tirio as if he is concealing tons of fraud.
So show the proof or tell us how we can expose fraud. (To be clear, I’m not defending Tirio for not cleaning up the roll — it should be cleaned up in principle, but that doesn’t mean dead people are voting and am asking you for proof.)
This could happen or that could happen yeah but is it happening??
You could stand outside and light sparklers.
You could cook a chicken pot pie. Are you doing that?
It can’t be that hard to figure out. Can’t people check a precinct or a few precincts and then go through the names?
Find out if any of the people died before voting?
You don’t have to be sherlock holmes to figure this stuff out especially if you already know how the fraud COULD happen, and yet you are showing us absolutely nothing.
Is anybody talking about doing an audit in Illinois?
If so, do you have a link to some fundraiser?
If proving fraud is so important to you and you are so sure it occurred in McHenry County, why not put your money where your mouth is?
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“2) Split Person into multiple voters using same first and last name; diluting your vote. Bobby Piton, Bob Piton, Rob Piton, Robert Piton across county or State lines”
When you go an SoS office for something concerning records or to change license or voter registration, they look at your driver’s license or birth certificate or some form (usually multiple forms) of identification proving you are who you say you are.
You don’t just tell them your name is john timmy or jt or james thompson and they write down what you tell them.
And you can’t just go to every county clerk and make up a fictional address or say you live at a real address without showing them proof of that.
It sounds like you don’t know how it works…
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In regard to voting at college, I think it’s up to the student.
They can register at the residence of their college or keep their address at home.
As long as they aren’t voting in both counties, they’re not breaking the law.
At least that’s what the articles I’m reading say and that’s what officials have told me.
This could be checked too.
It would take a lot of checking and cross checking but it could be done, so where is the proof of it happening in McHenry County, JT?
It’s weird how there is all this theoretical fraud and widespread fraud according to you, yet you show zero fraud in McHenry County but you’re always ripping on Tirio for allegedly concealing it.
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I’ve brought up some security issues in terms of how quickly records get processed.
That came up in an article sometime within the last few months.
We have also discussed the issue of internet access.
I didn’t intend on this to be an argument about election processes and vote rigging since that’s not what the topic of the post is but here we are.
There are some clever people who could figure out how to cheat, I just don’t think it’s as widespread as you think.
I believe voter fraud to tip an election would happen in a few big metro areas that aren’t being closely watched by the minority party.
I don’t think there is widespread voter fraud in every county, including McHenry County.
I’ll change my mind if you show me evidence of it happening.
You see places like Atlanta or Milwaukee where they do things on camera that look illegal and corrupt.
There was a lot of funny business in 2020.
That’s not what I’m disputing.
I’m asking you for evidence of fraud in McHenry County since you regularly claim there was.
Not “Fraud could have happened” not “fraud might have happened.”
Around McHenry County, there’s a good likelihood that one or multiple judges are going to know the people voting especially if they live in the same precinct.
This county is more tight knit than you think. Obviously that is beginning to change, but that’s a different conversation.
As for mail in votes, they are checked by people at the clerk’s office. There is a process for that.
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“Step 6” We are talking about a primary here, JT. I don’t follow.
“Step 5” flipping votes.
How does that happen?
You realize there are physical ballots that can be counted?
You could just count the ballots and compare it to the numbers displayed and you’d see if the numbers were off.
Some of the stuff you’re saying doesn’t make much sense at all, JT.
There was another election in April.
Turnout was low and it would have been easier to detect voter fraud.
Did anybody do that?
Did anybody show fraud in McHenry County?
No, of course not.
Or did the “cabal” just suddenly stop rigging the election?
Which elections do they rig and which ones don’t they rig?
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The fact that elections sometimes do go the way you want and bad people are defeated contradicts your point that voting doesn’t matter and elections are hopelessly rigged.
Are they hopelessly rigged or not?
You seem unable to make up your mind.
How did Trump win in 2016?
Yet you think, what?
That if Gary Rabine loses it’s because the cabal is plotting against him and he can’t win, although Trump won in 2016?
There’s not a lot of consistency in your thought.
The election machines make it so the cabal wins, and campaigning doesn’t matter at all!
Oh, but also sometimes the good guys win… Huh??
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Voter fraud is real but I get the impression you don’t know much about the election process or have thought this stuff through, and you use that term to ignore the election results of anything that doesn’t go your way.
For example, when Darren Bailey wins, you’re going to blame it on voter fraud because you think the “cabal” wants Darren Bailey to win, as opposed to the more obvious answer that Republican primary voters like Darren Bailey.
If Sullivan wins, it wouldn’t be because he blitzed people with ads and then when they went to vote in a crowded primary he was one of the only people they recognized, it’s because of VOTER FRAUD!
This is just pathetic on your part, JT.
You can’t expect every election is going to go your way.
The fact that Bailey is not electable isn’t proof he’s being picked to eventually lose to Pritzker, and truth be told it’s unlikely that any Republican is going to defeat Pritzker because this is a solid blue state.
It’s just proof that the average Republican primary voter isn’t thinking about “electability.”
They’re thinking about who THEY like, which is natural.
Not everybody is “strategically” voting.
That’s why “strategic” voting usually doesn’t work.
Normal people find it to be sleazy.
They vote for who they like.
In fact, one of the quickest ways you can make someone dig their heels in is if you tell them “don’t you know so and so has no chance of winning?”
There is no Darren Bailey-Jesse Sullivan alliance.
The DEEP STATE CABAL is not rooting for Darren Bailey and if he loses to Pritzker it will be due to people in the Chicago area not relating to a guy who sounds like he is from Alabama.
Some times there are simple explanations for things, JT.
People who talk like you never explain how come Democrats still lose most county seats in McHenry County, and most legislative races, and lose the congressional races within the county, and lose the presidential race within the county, and lose the senate race in the county, yet the elections are all rigged!
If a Democrat wins, you say it’s fraud.
If a Republican wins, it’s not talked about. lol
You’re still unable to prove widespread fraud within the county.
We have a story about a guy who didn’t change his address when he moved to Wisconsin and cast a ballot in McHenry County.
Not to take away from him not following the law on changing his address, but did he even double vote?
That’s the gayest election fraud I can think of, to not even vote twice but just vote in the house you used to live at.
The article wasn’t clear about that and if anything gave the impression he did not double vote.
And other than that example, what else do we have?
If there is voter fraud going on in Illinois, it’s happening mostly in Crook County but Darren Bailey is going to win because of the counties OUTSIDE of Crook County that he carries.
His victory is not going to be due to Chicago, it’s going to be despite it.
He’s going to win downstate massively in rural counties with low populations that could be easily checked for fraud, yet I don’t suspect people will be finding some plot to crown Darren Bailey the winner because that’s a bunch of psycho schizo babble…
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It’s not that your post is bad.
There’s some good information in there and it highlights a lot of vulnerabilities, but some of the stuff doesn’t make sense and is irrelevant to Darren Bailey eventually winning the Republican primary.
It isn’t establishment types or RINOs that want Bailey to win either — which is another thing you refuse to accept.
You are just coping and laying the groundwork for saying “it’s rigged” when Bailey wins.
And when Democrats win elections in Cook County, rather than saying, “Yeah, there are a lot of liberals and black people there” your conclusion is “it must be because of the voter fraud.”
You’re incapable of admitting that Republicans lose elections and that specific Republicans who you are voting for lose elections.
You’re incapable of admitting that there are stupid people who vote and that democracy itself (including representative government) is actually a bad system and that people make bad choices.
People elect bad people.
TL;DR voter fraud is real but not every winner of every election is the winner because of voter fraud.
You smacktalk Tirio all the time but the burden of proof is really on you to prove there is widespread voter fraud in McHenry County.
So far you have shown little to no concrete evidence of voter fraud in McHenry County despite having 13 months to do so.
Thirteen months, JT, and still all you have is “There could have been voter fraud!”
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I guess the biggest issue I have with your post is the idea that a cabal gives a damn about a Republican primary in Illinois.
Terrific discussion in comments, Correcting and JT!
There is something you are leaving out (or if it was said, I missed it).
Glenn Youngkin in Virginia did NOT have to win a primary for the Republican nomination.
Youngkin won the nomination in a ranked-choice Republican convention, with the delegates casting their ranked-choice votes and Youngkin did not receive a ranked-choice majority of the vote until the 6th round.
Put another way, Davison did not have to guide him to win a winner-take-all primary like we have in Illinois, albeit Illinois is an open primary state.
Over on Capitol Fax where this article from McHenry County Blog was picked up, the discussion in comments went immediately to Jesse Sullivan’s “stolen valor” given the purposeful confusion of his “serving” in Afghanistan when he was a DoD civilian worker accompanying troops in that theater.
Davison’s record, when she was a campaign spokesperson (spox) in FL-19 last year, was not particularly stellar.
Please, continue the great exchange.
Wow! So like if Trump runs and wins again, it’ll be because the cabal wants him in, therefore we can’t trust him, and it will have proven to have been a fake election!
Huh!
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Oh no!
What if Trump winning the FIRST time was due to the cabal!?!
OMG!
He even told us during his first campaign that the election was rigged!
He should have refused to serve on principle alone.