President Donald Trump is reportedly planning on delivering a speech to further his debunked claim that the 2020 elections was fraudulent — and a former Republican predicts this will “backfire” on him.
“I think this is all going to backfire very badly on President Trump, and I'm watching Sen. Ossoff just masterfully responded to those questions,” George Conway, co-founder of the anti-Trump Republican group The Lincoln Project, told MS NOW’s Katy Tur on Tuesday. Conway was referring to an impromptu press conference in which Ossoff, a Georgia Democrat, addressed the leaks that Trump will incorrectly say his Senate election in 2020 was stolen.
“It made me think of the Trump weave,” Conway said. “Remember how Trump used to talk about it, how he'd do the weave, weaving Hannibal Lecter in with sharks and electric boats and hurricanes and whatnot? Ossoff did a very interesting, tight and logical weave. He wove the racism with the election denialism, specifically in Georgia, but he did something much broader — something that really applies nationwide that Democrats need to copy — which is he wove the president's mendacity and corruption together with the wellbeing of the American people.”
Conway added, “This man is lying to stay in office, and as he's lying to stay in office, he's making billions of dollars off the presidency. And meanwhile, the cost of your life has become unaffordable. That's precisely the weave that [former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor] Orbán did in Hungary to win the elections against his opponent, and it's absolutely exactly what the Democrats have to do in 2026.”
Conway is not the only conservative who warns that Trump’s attempt to spread the Big Lie will hurt him. Right-wing podcaster Erick Erickson, a Trump supporter, warned on Monday that doing so would help Ossoff’s cause.
“Jon Ossoff is running for re-election this year in Georgia and the President is rumored to be making an in-kind contribution to Ossoff's campaign,” Erickson wrote on X on Monday. Also on Monday, a journalist and policy consultant both broke down why Trump’s upcoming attempts to blame Georgia’s Senate elections were rigged and that their results should be reversed are inherently irrational.
“If this is true it just shows that Trump is becoming more and more authoritarian, but the stupid kind of authoritarian who can’t even mask regime lies in a convincing way and so it’s obvious to everyone that he is terrified of his opponents (Ossof [sic] is a viable presidential candidate for Dems, one with more appeal than Vance) and also the average voter, which is why he keeps shamelessly pushing the SAVE America Act,” journalist Pedro L. Gonzalez wrote.
Similarly policy consultant Adam Cochran wrote a lengthy analysis in which he addressed concerns that Trump would succeed in overturning the 2020 election.
“Doesn’t work like that,” Cochran said. “First off, there was no fraud, but you seized the ballots and the paper back ups to make sure no one could question it.”
He continued, “Second, the Constitution has no way to nullify a swearing in. Only peer expulsion. Third, this sudden ‘announcement’ is when Trump is down by two senators and desperate to pass a bill. Lastly, Trump had 64 court cases to try and litigate the election, including in Georgia. No case turned up any evidence, including after an audit of these ballots.”
Cochran finished, “Trump’s own lawyers and advocates then admitted to making up the conspiracy about this county, and were charged for it. Part of the court evidence included their own email records of coming up with the plot.”
In February, conservative columnist George F. Will wrote that Trump’s loss to then-former Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 election is beyond any reasonable doubt.
“Someone should read to him ‘Lost, Not Stolen,’ a 2022 report by eight conservatives (two former Republican senators, three former federal appellate judges, a former Republican solicitor general, and two Republican election law specialists),” Will explained in The Washington Post. “They examined all 187 counts in the 64 court challenges filed in multiple states by Trump and his supporters. Twenty cases were dismissed before hearings on their merits, 14 were voluntarily dismissed by Trump and his supporters before hearings. Of the 30 that reached hearings on the merits, Trump’s side prevailed in only one, Pennsylvania, involving far too few votes to change the state’s result.”
Will concluded, “Trump’s batting average? .016. In Arizona, the most exhaustively scrutinized state, a private firm selected by Trump’s advocates confirmed Trump’s loss, finding 99 additional Biden votes and 261 fewer Trump votes.”
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