Tag: election fraud

Many of the articles that have appeared in the last few days comparing the two elections make a common point: that Rutherford B. Hayes and the Republican Party made a deal with Democrats that compromised African American civil rights in the South in exchange for the presidency. This is often used to argue against the creation of an Electoral Commission today since it resulted in such a “corrupt bargain” in 1876.

On Wednesday, Rubio paired up with U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-NJ, to write President Donald Trump, urging him to “once again denounce Nicolás Maduro as the illegitimate President of Venezuela and to recognize the National Assembly as the country’s only remaining democratic institution.”