“How else can Joe win, without election interference?” asks Roy Schimelpfenig in his monthly letter (“Democrats are desperate,” Our Readers’ Views, Jan. 19). Well, Joe Biden has already beaten Trump once, without election interference.
Schimelpfenig is right that election interference is a problem. But he’s looking in the wrong places for it.
Trump’s Jan. 2, 2021, telephone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asking him to find enough additional votes for Trump to reverse the vote of Georgia’s electorate is a classic case of election interference.
Had Obama or Biden made such a call, Republicans would, rightly, call him out for it and insist that he be prosecuted. But since Trump made the call, silence.
Across the country Republicans have engaged in numerous attempts to enact voter-suppression laws, another classic case of election interference. Seems like it is Republicans, not Democrats, who are desperate, and think that they can’t win a free and fair election without interference.
