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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 6003575" data-attributes="member: 12952">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/31/politics/maga-activists-preparing-undermine-election-if-trump-loses[/URL]<h3>‘January 6th is going to be pretty fun’: How MAGA activists are preparing to undermine the election if Trump loses </h3>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Federal law enforcement officials are also ringing alarm bells. A <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/03/politics/domestic-extremists-election-threat-dhs-fbi-bulletin/index.html" target="_blank">bulletin</a> put out earlier this month by the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Intelligence warned that extremist rhetoric about the election could motivate people to “engage in violence, as we saw during the 2020 election cycle.”&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Marc Harris, a former investigator for the House select committee that investigated <a href="https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/06/us/capitol-riot-paths-to-insurrection/" target="_blank">January 6, 2021</a>, told CNN he’s concerned that the tactics to undermine the election have evolved since 2020, even with the safeguards put into place since then.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; “Those looking to overturn the election are way ahead of where they were in 2020,” said Harris. “But on the flip side, the pro-democracy defenders are also more prepared. How that shakes out is not clear to me.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 6003575, member: 12952"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/31/politics/maga-activists-preparing-undermine-election-if-trump-loses[/URL] [HEADING=2]‘January 6th is going to be pretty fun’: How MAGA activists are preparing to undermine the election if Trump loses [/HEADING] Federal law enforcement officials are also ringing alarm bells.[B] [/B]A [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/03/politics/domestic-extremists-election-threat-dhs-fbi-bulletin/index.html']bulletin[/URL] put out earlier this month by the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Intelligence warned that extremist rhetoric about the election could motivate people to “engage in violence, as we saw during the 2020 election cycle.” Marc Harris, a former investigator for the House select committee that investigated [URL='https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/06/us/capitol-riot-paths-to-insurrection/']January 6, 2021[/URL], told CNN he’s concerned that the tactics to undermine the election have evolved since 2020, even with the safeguards put into place since then. “Those looking to overturn the election are way ahead of where they were in 2020,” said Harris. “But on the flip side, the pro-democracy defenders are also more prepared. How that shakes out is not clear to me.” [/QUOTE]

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