The day after the insurrection, Harrington said on Newsmax that “equal justice under the law” means that people should be prosecuted not only “if you’re storming the Capitol and destroying property” but “if you’re destroying votes that were legally cast for our president” – though there is no evidence that legal votes for Trump were destroyed. In a Newsmax interview that night, she falsely claimed that Pennsylvania had 200,000 more votes cast than actual voters, though that assertion, which came from Republican lawmakers who misinterpreted official data, had already been debunked by the state. On January 6, both before and after the Capitol insurrection, Harrington issued her warnings against allowing “communists” to “steal” the election. On January 3, after she left her RNC job in December, Harrington tweeted that “the fraud is OVERWHELMING” and favorably quoted a false Trump allegation about an election worker supposedly stuffing ballot boxes in Georgia. On December 24, after both of those developments, she tweeted simply and wrongly: “TRUMP WON.” Harrington, like Trump, did not stop lying about the election even after the Electoral College affirmed Biden’s victory and the Supreme Court rejected a challenge that sought to overturn the result. She has falsely claimed, among other things, that Georgia counted tens of thousands of votes from underage voters and that Philadelphia blocked Trump poll watchers to “ stuff the ballot box.”
But from November onward, many of her assertions about what happened in particular places Trump lost have been objectively untrue. Harrington has sometimes made the debatable argument that state elections officials made unconstitutional pandemic-era changes to their policies in her Wednesday statement to CNN, she repeated her argument that secretaries of state had acted unconstitutionally. Increased voter participation is, obviously, not evidence that something nefarious occurred – and turnout was up around the country, not just in Democratic strongholds.
HARDWOOD SOLITAIRE II 2.02 SERIAL NUMBER SERIES
On November 10, Harrington posted a series of tweets in which she made a nonsensical argument that Biden getting more votes in some staunchly Democratic urban counties than Hillary Clinton did in 2016 was itself suggestive of fraud. Harrington’s Twitter posts were no more factual than her comments out loud. Harrington was even more inaccurate in a Texas radio interview on November 11, this time declaring that counting every “legal vote” would show that Trump not only won the election but won in “a landslide.” She also said there was evidence of “systemic” fraud, though that was not true then and is not true now. (A candidate’s crowd sizes d o not necessarily predict their vote totals even when a pandemic is not occurring, and Biden’s campaign team shrunk his events for the purpose of social distancing.) And Harrington baselessly suggested it was suspicious that Biden won states in which Trump had early leads in the public vote totals, though Trump had those illusory leads only because many of the votes had not yet been counted. In the same interview, Harrington baselessly insisted that Biden could not have earned 81 million “real votes” because he had small crowds at his campaign events. “President Trump won this election,” Harrington falsely declared in a California television interview on November 8 – the day after television networks projected that Biden had won. Harrington made numerous false claims about the election while working for the RNC in November. On the day of the Capitol insurrection in January, Harrington falsely insisted that the election was being stolen by “communists.” And less than a week after the insurrection, she falsely claimed that “the real insurrection” occurred during “vote dumps” the morning after Election Day.Īsked for comment for this article, Harrington responded Wednesday by denouncing CNN and arguing again that the election was marred by “numerous anomalies.” Harrington said in a Tuesday statement that it is the honor of her life to represent Trump “and to stand for the truth.” But she has been repeatedly and egregiously untruthful about what happened in the election in which Trump was defeated by Joe Biden – falsely declaring over and over that Trump was the legitimate winner and that the election was stolen from him. Trump, himself an unrelenting pusher of those lies, announced Tuesday that he had hired former Republican National Committee spokeswoman Liz Harrington to replace departing spokesman Jason Miller.
Former President Donald Trump’s new chief spokeswoman has been a serial promoter of lies about the 2020 election.
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