The Drudge Report used to be a place to get stories on the day's top events. Matt Drudge, the owner of the site, always threw in some bizarre stuff as well, but if the basic news was available quickly. Then came this election season, and Drudge seems to have lost his connection with reality. He's gone all in for Donald Trump, and the truth be damned. Right now, Drudge has as his big headline that the head of the Republican National Committee just came out in support of "voterless elections." What the RNC chairman actually said was that the rules for each state have been known for at least a year and that those rules have to be observed by the candidates. That means that the delegates get selected by conventions in certain states and the candidates have to work to organize their forces in those conventions if they hope to win the delegates to the national convention from those states.
The biggest example of that sort of state is Colorado where Ted Cruz won essentially all the delegates. Fully 67,000 Colorado Republicans came out to the local conventions that began the selection process. That's more people than voted in many of the other states. Instead of voting for a candidate, however, Colorado voters chose a slate of delegates committed to specific candidates.
Drudge calls that process a "voterless" election. In other words, Drudge is just telling lies because it goes along with the dishonest narrative being pushed by Donald Trump. All of America realizes that Trump cannot stand to lose, and yet he lost big in Colorado (and Wyoming and North Dakota etc.). In order to deal with the loss, Trump has come up with his dishonest narrative about the elections. When Drudge buys into that story, which Drudge must know is false, he switches his site from news to propaganda. Maybe it's time to boycott the Drudge Report.
The biggest example of that sort of state is Colorado where Ted Cruz won essentially all the delegates. Fully 67,000 Colorado Republicans came out to the local conventions that began the selection process. That's more people than voted in many of the other states. Instead of voting for a candidate, however, Colorado voters chose a slate of delegates committed to specific candidates.
Drudge calls that process a "voterless" election. In other words, Drudge is just telling lies because it goes along with the dishonest narrative being pushed by Donald Trump. All of America realizes that Trump cannot stand to lose, and yet he lost big in Colorado (and Wyoming and North Dakota etc.). In order to deal with the loss, Trump has come up with his dishonest narrative about the elections. When Drudge buys into that story, which Drudge must know is false, he switches his site from news to propaganda. Maybe it's time to boycott the Drudge Report.
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