Las Vegas — Mindy Robinson has spent 4 years telling her lots of of hundreds of followers on-line that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. However simply days away from the 2024 vote, she has a singular new tactic to show it’s getting stolen once more: Not casting her poll in any respect.
“I am not voting, I wish to see if [my ballot] will get counted whereas I did not do something,” Robinson, who desperately desires Trump to win, tells WIRED at a Las Vegas restaurant on Saturday morning. “I wish to see it magically present up as counted. It’s the one fucking factor I can do at this level.”
Simply miles away, JD Vance and Donald Trump Jr had been on the Whitney Recreation Heart, the place they urged their supporters to get out and vote.
As Tuesday’s vote looms, the well-funded and profitable election denial motion that sprung up after former president Donald Trump misplaced the 2020 election is already calling foul, pushing conspiracies about immigrants voting and harassing election employees.
The weekend forward of the election, Robinson and hundreds of others like her are difficult election officers and spreading conspiracy theories on-line and in individual. Proper-wing election observers are already at polling websites and voting tabulation facilities; this weekend, election officers in Shasta County, California walked off the job due to the aggressive conduct of election observers.
These election deniers have spent years constructing and shopping for an alternate actuality offered by far-right teams which have been working across the clock to activate and prepare them. The teams are well-connected: The Election Integrity Community is run by former Trump adviser Cleta Mitchell, and True the Vote, a Texas-based group, was cofounded by election denial famous person Catherine Engelbrecht who has labored on dropbox monitoring and voter roll purge initiatives across the nation for greater than a decade. Election observers have additionally been educated in on-line calls by pro-Trump teams like Turning Level USA and the marketing campaign’s personal TrumpForce47.
Over livestreams and in conferences across the US, these teams have ready hundreds of activists for this very second.
For the reason that 2020 presidential election, Robinson has develop into one thing of a star in MAGA world. She calls Laura Loomer a pal and says Roger Stone telephones her to get the lowdown on breaking information. She has over 400,000 followers on X and her personal present—known as Conspiracy Truths—on the America Occurs Community, a platform she based along with her enterprise companion Vem Miller, who was not too long ago arrested at a Trump rally in possession of a shotgun and a handgun. There are few conspiracy theories Robinson, an actress with over 150 credit to her identify on IMDB, doesn’t take pleasure in: Along with believing the 2020 election was stolen, she additionally thinks most main faculty shootings are perpetrated by disaster actors, that shadowy organizations are implementing digital currencies to regulate the inhabitants, that COVID was launched as a bioweapon, that COVID vaccines are untested and kill individuals, that January 6 was an inside job. She even believes the moon touchdown didn’t occur.
