Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 25

The Trump team and Fox News alleged dead voters. Most cases were either debunked or actually involved Republicans.

President Donald Trump and those around him threw a multitude of voter-fraud conspiracy theories at the wall after the 2020 election. And few were as pervasive as the idea that people rose from the dead to help defeat Trump’s reelection bid.

Unlike many of the often-nebulous claims, these ones carried the benefit of often having been rather specific — citing actual dead people, by name, who supposedly voted. This made them actually verifiable.

Nearly a year later, those specific claims have provided a case study in — and a microcosm of — just how ridiculous this whole exercise was.

The specific dead people cited by Trump and his allies have, in most cases, proved to not actually have been cases of dead people’s identities used fraudulently to vote. And in several other cases, in which a dead person was actually recorded as voting, the culprit has been identified: not a systemic effort to inflate vote totals for President Biden, but rather a Republican.

Worth reading the whole thing, since they go through each alleged case of voter fraud supposedly involving dead people, and the outcomes to their investigations.

This is from a few weeks ago but quite relevant: 40% of Democratic voters in Arizona now disapprove of Kyrsten Sinema

46% of Arizona Democrats approved of Sinema’s job performance in the third quarter of 2021, down 21 points from the first quarter.

Sinema’s McCain-style maverick posture has not helped her standing with independent voters in her state, but it has improved her reputation with Arizona Republicans, who are now split almost evenly on her job performance.

At least the Republicans, for once, see what's going on.

Hopefully this serves as a warning for any democrat that follows her path.