Meet the top Democrat election lawyer, Marc Elias who became a central figure in both the Russia collusion hoax, which cast doubt on Trump’s victory in 2016 and the effort to upend the nation’s voting laws in unprecedented ways, which cast doubt on Biden’s victory in 2020.
Back in the 2016 presidential election, a broad swath of Democratic voters, surrogates, and lawmakers denied the legitimacy of the outcome, arguing Trump’s victory was rigged.
Democrats claim that Russia interfered and hacked voting machines, anything to discredit the President.
And in the 2020 presidential election, a number of shady events and voting practices came to light that de-legitimized (rightfully, in this case) the election. Elias played a central role both in the efforts to de-legitimize President Trump’s win in 2016 and to push for shady voting practices in 2020.
Just the News reported:
“The legal mastermind probably most responsible for the leftist push to subvert our democracy, overturn elections, and destroy election integrity is Marc E. Elias,” wrote John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky in their 2021 book “Our Broken Elections.” He “has grown astoundingly wealthy representing Democratic candidates, political action committees, and party organizations” and “seems to have a monopoly on the Democratic political machine.”
Elias served as the campaign general counsel of Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2016, he was also a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm.
According to the outlet, he is the one who the opposition research to slander President Trump, and therefore he is one of the people responsible for the fake Steele Dossier.
Back in 2020, Elias is once again central to de-legitimizing the election:
Elias “doubled down” on his efforts in 2016 and “filed numerous lawsuits in 2020 to change election rules at the last moment, targeting the basic security protocols that states have in place to protect the security of the election process,” said von Spakovsky, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and manager of its election law reform initiative.
100 Percent Fed Up noted:
Elias and Perkins Coie pushed hard in their challenge of states’ voting laws, allowing for shady practices by railing against voter ID laws and witness requirements for absentee ballots. Laws that keep elections fair and legitimate.
He and his cohort pushed hard to eliminate these laws and allow for voting anarchy across the nation, using the courts wherever possible to suspend voting ID requirements and other such safeguards to allow for a more easily stolen election. This was an unprecedented attack on our election system which resulted in an impossible scenario for those wanting to ensure that ballots cast were legitimate.
In this way, Elias not only undermined both sides’ belief in the integrity of our elections, but he undermined that integrity itself by pushing for shady and illegitimate voting practices.
As Democrats questioned the legitimacy of the 2016 election, Republicans questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
And each time, Elias was at the center of the controversy, pushing the Russia collusion narrative in 2016 and four years later helping to enable what critics have characterized as election chicanery.
Sources: 100percentfedup, Just the News
