Given their history of orchestrating coordinated attacks against Republican election officials, legacy media’s targeting of Republican Donald Palmer earlier this month came as no surprise.
A Trump-appointed member of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a bipartisan governmental body charged with providing guidelines and “information on election administration,” Palmer evoked the ire of left-wing “journalists” for attending a private February conference co-hosted by the Heritage Foundation, Honest Elections Project, and the Public Interest Legal Foundation. The event, which focused on different aspects of election integrity, featured numerous speakers, including prominent election integrity advocates and GOP congressional staffers. Several Republican secretaries of state also attended the conference.
While The Guardian and Documented — two leftist media outlets — falsely accused the participating groups of spreading “election denial lies and advocat[ing] for restrictions on voting rights,” other corporate press venues have directed their malicious attacks at Palmer. In an April 14 article published by States Newsroom, democracy reporter Zachary Roth attempted to gin up controversy over Palmer’s decision to attend the February conference by quoting predictably critical, so-called “election experts” to give the impression that Palmer violated EAC protocol.
One of these quoted “experts” is Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a highly-partisan Democrat who’s refused to remove thousands of dead registrants from her state’s voter rolls. As if she were a leftist teacher scolding a student for “improper” pronoun use, Benson lamented how “[e]lection professionals across the spectrum are deeply disappointed” in Palmer’s decision to attend the conference. She also baselessly
