Leaders of leftist influence groups sought to preemptively discredit potential claims of victory by former President Donald Trump and portrayed his supporters as violent in an apparent effort to pave the way for Vice President Kamala Harris to claim victory.

“There is a lot of investment by allies of President Trump to suggest that his victory is inevitable,” said David Becker, founder of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, which funneled millions in “Zuckbucks” to election officials in 2020. “If he loses the election, or perceives that he’s losing, you can imagine the shock that is going to be felt by his supporters, and how that’s going to be leveraged by grifters to try to anger them, to try to incite them to violence.”

The webinar, which happened Wednesday, was appropriately called “Red, White, and Coup.” It featured Becker; Nora Benavidez, senior counsel for the Free Press (which supports censorship and was founded by a socialist); Heidi Beirich, cofounder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (which smears conservative groups); and Damon Hewitt, president of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (which wages lawfare against conservatives). 

Panelists cast a potential Trump claim to victory as illegitimate and suggested his supporters and those with election integrity concerns are “extremists” with a potential for violence, in what appeared to be an attempt to predetermine the narrative and set the stage for Harris to claim victory and suppress dissent.

Discrediting a Trump Victory

Becker suggested two apparent scenarios: one

During the 2020 election, the swing state of Georgia was part of a larger trend of abnormally high requests for overseas ballots through a system riddled with potential loopholes and lack of safeguards. But this year, the number of overseas ballots requested in the state reflects a nearly 15 percent decline from what Georgia sent to overseas voters in 2020.

Since 1986, U.S. military members, their family members, and overseas citizens have been allowed to vote absentee under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizen Voting Act (UOCAVA).

During the 2020 election in Georgia, 28,454 UOCAVA ballots were transmitted by the state to voters who had requested them, according to a report from the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission (EAC). But that number has declined by nearly 15 percent in 2024, with only 24,172 UOCAVA ballot requests in Georgia during this cycle, according to data from the Secretary of State. For reference, in 2016 only 18,634 UOCAVA ballots were transmitted by the state.

Georgia is one of several states that permits a “U.S. citizen who has never resided in the U.S.” to vote, as long as they have “a parent or legal guardian that was last registered in Georgia,” according to the Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP). According to a 2023 fact sheet on UOCAVA voters from the EAC, the address where an overseas voter is registered may be “home to other registered voters,” and “election mail for a UOCAVA voter who no longer lives at that address” may still be sent to

Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance predicted the GOP ticket could win the “normal gay guy vote” because “they just wanted to be left the hell alone.”

Vance spoke about a movement that merely used to be about gay acceptance but has now morphed into a campaign for child access to transgender treatments. In July, the Republican Party amended the official platform to drop an explicit endorsement of traditional marriage.

“Now you have all this crazy stuff on top of it that they’re like, ‘No, no, no, we didn’t, we didn’t want to give pharmaceutical products to 9-year-olds who are transitioning their genders. We just wanted to be left the hell alone,’” Vance said.

“A lot of gay guys feel like the whole movement is homophobic, which is ironic,” Rogan said. “Because they think that there’s, people think there’s something wrong with being gay, so what you really are is a girl. And they think that a lot of this is being given, these thoughts are being given to gay kids. These kids will just grow up to be gay men.”

“It’s pharmaceutical conversion therapy, right?” Vance said.

“And it’s profitable,” Rogan added.

JD Vance: “I wouldn’t be surprised if me and Trump won just the normal gay guy vote, because again they just wanted to be left the hell alone, and now you have all this crazy stuff on top of it.” pic.twitter.com/BURah2ha1F

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) October 31, 2024

Vance and Rogan discussed how Americans