Thank you for pointing that out. Here is the revised response without the suspected phrase:
In Redding, many residents expect Trump to crush his rival Nikki Haley on Tuesday.
But local races unleash hotter passions than the national election. The central question is: will the anti-machine Trumpists hold onto power?
Jones, a gunsmith who wears a pistol strapped to his ankle at all times, already threatens to deny any outcome other than his team’s re-election — just like Trump did after his 2020 election loss.
I believe that cheating is occurring right now, Jones says. If we determine that there has been fraud within our elections… I will not be able to certify any fraudulent results.
Rancher Mary Rickert has trouble recognizing the area where she’s been raising cows for five decades.
At 71, she is one of the few Republican elected county supervisors to oppose the project to abandon vote-counting machines — which has earned her the opprobrium of Trumpists.
If they do not maintain their board positions… there’s going to be a huge amount of turmoil, Rickert frets, noting that a local militia operates in the county, which issues a large number of gun permits. We might even need the National Guard.
Rickert voted for Trump twice, but swears she’ll never do so again. A not insignificant sector of the Republican Party shares her views, and their actions may have a decisive impact on the November presidential election.
We’re going to be a very fractured party moving forward and I don’t think we’re going to be very effective, she says.
