Critics are raising concerns about a “highly organized, well-funded, and experienced” campaign to cheat former President Donald Trump out of a primary win.
The campaign is being waged by Primary Pivot, a leftist group that’s been urging Democrat voters to switch their party affiliation so that they can vote in the GOP presidential primary elections.
“The organization’s rationale is simple …: If Trump poses an extraordinary threat to American democracy — as many liberals and left-leaning independents believe — then those same voters should embrace extraordinary methods to stop him,” according to Politico.
If you care about saving our democracy, we encourage you to publicly commit to voting in the Republican primary against Trump. It will encourage others to do the same. Be brave. Just state your name, what state you live in, and why. Photo optional. #VOTE #BewareTheUndeclared https://t.co/RF7272FCNt
— PrimaryPivot (@Primary_Pivot) December 4, 2023
The campaign’s results were most recently seen in New Hampshire, where Trump beat presidential candidate Nikki Haley by a much smaller margin of victory than expected.
But Haley didn’t perform well because of Republicans turning on Trump — she performed so well because Democrats switched their party status so they could vote in the GOP primary.
“New Hampshire secretary of state [said] more than 4,000 Democrats switched their party affiliation to undeclared or Republican” before this week’s election, NPR reported.
Critics like Brian Cates, formerly with The Epoch Times, believe with 100 percent certainty that Trump would have performed even better had it not been for Primary Pivot.
“If Primary Pivot hadn’t moved thousands of Democrats to undeclared status in preparation for last night’s primary, Trump beats NeoCon Nikki’s bony warmongering ass by more than 20 points,” he tweeted Wednesday.
I hope you all understand what @chiIIum is doing here.
There is a fanatical highly organized, well-funded, and experienced professional organization at work trying to stop Trump in the primaries by getting thousands and thousands of Democrats to change their party status to… https://t.co/XfkLMyzquh
— Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) January 24, 2024
In the same tweet, he described Primary Pivot as “a fanatical highly organized, well-funded, and experienced professional organization at work trying to stop Trump in the primaries by getting thousands and thousands of Democrats to change their party status to undeclared.”
He went on to accuse the organization of also trying to hurt Trump in the South Carolina primary election scheduled for next month.
“I guarantee you all these same people are now fanatically at work in South Carolina, moving thousands of Democrats in a highly organized and well-funded fashion into changing their party affiliation to undeclared,” he wrote.
“They are gaming the system to try to blunt and obscure and hide the true level of support that Trump has,” he added.
In another tweet posted Wednesday, he warned that the nefarious group’s goal isn’t to win outright but rather “to keep it close enough to steal.”
The goal isn’t to ‘win’.
Its to keep it close enough to steal. To ‘help’ pick our candidates for us.
How many smaller DOWN BALLOT RACES in the primaries are these Democrats coming in to VOTE FOR WHO GETS TO RUN IN NOVEMBER ‘helping’ the GOPe pick the ‘right’ candidates?
— Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) January 24, 2024
I’m sure they managed to shave off 8-9 points of Trump’s victory margin last night.
What if this was a down ballot race in the GOP primaries? How long have these ‘stealth’ Dems been ‘helping’ the GOP establishment pick the ‘right’ candidates to run in the general in November?
— Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) January 24, 2024
As for Haley, she’s been denying that her decent performance in New Hampshire was because of Democrat voters.
“Democrats can’t vote in the NH primary. They haven’t been able to change their registration for months,” she tweeted last week.
Look:
Another reason we need to move on from Trump: too many lies.
Democrats can’t vote in the NH primary. They haven’t been able to change their registration for months.
I was tougher on China and Russia than Trump ever was. He praised Xi a dozen times after China gave the world… pic.twitter.com/3EAdpMHwt5
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) January 19, 2024
But was she just ignorant of the facts or lying? The evidence suggests it was the latter.
The evidence includes a photo of Haley alongside Primary Pivot co-founder Robert Schwartz.
Look:
Uh oh Nikki. pic.twitter.com/F1avgnFxiU
— L (@SomeBitchIIKnow) January 24, 2024
Robert Schwartz:
Foreign affairs and public policy professional focused on authoritarian regimes and threats to democracy in Latin America. pic.twitter.com/t0ihqKy5LK
— hiiຖ໐iˢ (@chiIIum) January 24, 2024
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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