How Republicans cheat

When they can't win elections honestly, they resort to lying, cheating, and stealing

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Republicans got absolutely hammered in the 2018 midterms. Democrats picked up 40 seats in the House, extirpated the GOP from former Republican strongholds like Orange County in California, flipped seven governorships, and took control of seven state legislatures.

This shellacking has brought one of the signature Republican political tactics into stark outline: cheating.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.