The Real Reason Why the Lies and Violent Rhetoric Won’t Stop On Election Day

Former President Donald Trump has spent the last days of his 2024 campaign casting doubt on the U.S. election system, even taking the stage at a rally in Pennsylvania to say he “ shouldn’t have left ” the White House in 2020. The rhetoric and lies coming from the Trump campaign have also included a false narrative that non-U.S. citizens are voting illegally in large numbers , setting a stage to justify mass deportations or, if needed, declaring a stolen victory. To put it bluntly, there will likely be no simple resolution to the outcome of this election. Anne Applebaum , a staff writer for The Atlantic, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and co-host of the podcast Autocracy in America, joins host Kai Wright to discuss and dissect the ways the Trump campaign has laid the groundwork for distrust in the election results, no matter what they are. Plus, we hear from NBC News disinformation reporter Brandy Zadrozny about the spaces where these lies are spreading and how to weed through disinformation on Election Day and beyond. Tell us what you think. We're @noteswithkai on Instagram and X (Twitter) . Email us at notes@wnyc.org. Send us a voice message by recording yourself on your phone and emailing us, or record one here . Notes from America airs live on Sundays at 6 p.m. ET. The podcast episodes are lightly edited from our live broadcasts.

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The Real Reason Why the Lies and Violent Rhetoric Won’t Stop On Election Day is an episode from The United States of Anxiety by WNYC Studios.

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This episode was published on Nov 4, 2024.

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