Las Vegas – Mindy Robinson has spent four years telling her hundreds of thousands of online followers that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. But with the 2024 vote just days away, she has a unique new tactic to show she’s being stolen again: not casting her vote at all.
“I’m not going to vote, I want to see if (my ballot) is counted while I didn’t do anything,” Robinson, who desperately wants Trump to win, told WIRED at a Las Vegas restaurant Saturday morning. “I want to see it magically appear as counted. “It’s the only thing I can do right now.”
A few miles away, JD Vance and Donald Trump Jr were at the Whitney Recreation Center, where He urged his followers to get out and vote..
As Tuesday’s vote approaches, the lucrative and well-funded voter denial movement that emerged after former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election is already being called disgusting, fueling conspiracies about immigrant voting and harass election workers.
The weekend before the election, Robinson and thousands of people like her are challenging election officials and spreading conspiracy theories online and in person. Right-wing election observers are already at voting centers and vote tabulation centers; this weekend, election officials in Shasta County, California left work due to the aggressive behavior of election observers.
These election deniers have spent years building and buying an alternative reality sold by far-right groups who have been working day and night to activate and empower them. The groups are well connected: Election Integrity Network is run by former Trump adviser Cleta Mitchell, and True the Vote, a Texas-based group, was co-founded by election denial superstar Catherine Engelbrecht, who has worked on monitoring of Dropbox and in initiatives to purge voter lists. throughout the country for more than a decade. Poll watchers have also been trained on online calls by pro-Trump groups such as Turning Point USA and the campaign’s own TrumpForce47.
Through livestreams and conferences across the United States, these groups have prepared thousands of activists for this very moment.
Since the 2020 presidential election, Robinson has become something of a celebrity in the MAGA world. She calls Laura Loomer a friend and says Roger Stone is calling to get the latest news. He has more than 400,000 followers on X and his own show, called Conspiracy Truths, on America Happens Network, a platform he founded with his business partner Vem Miller, who was recently arrested at a Trump rally in possession of a shotgun and a pistol. There are few conspiracy theories that Robinson, an actress with more than 150 credits to her name on IMDB, doesn’t indulge: In addition to believing that the 2020 election was stolen, she also believes that most major school shootings are perpetrated by crisis actors, who are dark. organizations are deploying digital currencies to control the population, that COVID was released as a bioweapon, that COVID vaccines are untested and kill people, that January 6 was an inside job. He even believes that the moon landing did not happen.